Whenever you see the nest on TV - and it is damn hard to get by - you think you can see a being from a long past time.As a smoking industrial slot stood for prosperity and carefree future.When you still called hunger "coal steam" and fought with tons of butter and cream.When men still called Werner, Karlheinz or Horst.
Horst Lichter, so his full (brand) name, bears an impressive Kaiser Wilhelm Schnurrbart, whose tips artfully turn up on each side a good five centimeters-very old fashioned, but obvious.This magnificent beard, which makes his carrier timelessly old, is his external unique selling point.But what would the beard be without the nest?
The multi -talent from a small Eifel community
At least it can be assumed that the Horst was there at first, for 70, 80 years.However, it is only 60 years when this Horst Lichter on 15.January 1962 in the middle of the economic miracle years in the Eifel community of Nettersheim saw the light of day.Apparently this corner is a fertile biotope for illustrious personalities: The universal scholar Heinrich Cornelius (1486-1535) comes from here, as is the former DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach (71).Hape Kerkelings (57) fictional chot chuns Horst Schlämmer also drove his mischief there.
Horst Lichter was and is professionally a chef, author, moderator.Or you can choose the universal name: Entertainer.It is not uncommon to hear the opinion that volumes for the decline of German television that someone like lights could get through such a TV career.But that doesn't do justice to the man.In truth, he presents his gentle, Rhenish being with a soft dialect, for which his audience loves him so much.Other TV sizes that have learned their job from PIKE do not do that.
Laborers on the jubilee
"It is not a shame if you call Horst Lichter the friendliest man on German television," writes the daily newspaper "Stuttgarter Nachrichten".The Bergmannsohn seems to be "the personified counter -draft to the uninhibited elbow society": "One who does not constantly perceive the other as a competition."
The finest column of the German press, the "grazing light" of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" (SZ), comes to the conclusion that "the dazzling job title 'television chef' accepts a shell in the case of such a boy".For lights it was like "as if you would say about Willy Brandt, he would be remembered by people because he was a good guitar player".Lights Life, the SZ believes, is a "high adventure railway and deep adventure railway that would have to be built up in Phantasialand near Cologne".
Health problems bring the turn
He grew up in a family of workers in Braunkohlerevier in the Rhineland, does a three -year cooking apprenticeship after the secondary school because he thinks that people are most tolerated when eating together at the table together.
He marries at 19, buys a house - and comes into financial needs.The money he earns as a cook is not enough in the back and front.He now works like his father in a briquette factory and, incidentally after work, five days a week on a junkyard.During this time, he also suffers a first severe stroke of fate: the first daughter dies from sudden child death at just six months.
When Horst Lichter 26 is, he suffers a stroke.Like him, among other things, in the SAT.1-show "Dinnerparty-The Late Night Talk", he collapses again two years later with a brain in combination with a heart attack.He decides to change his life radically.
His passion for collecting and cooking
Lights announces in the briquette factory and works again as a cook.In a former dance hall and old car workshop, he opens the "Oldiethek".In the restaurant, he lives out his passion for collecting and cooking equally equally.He cooks his guests in a Tohuwabohu of antiques and junk.There is no card, eating what lights can best: Unadulcated home cooking.
Business is running brilliantly, because Horst Lichter has an expensive hobby: he collects old motorcycles and cars.At times there is an Austin Healey, a Jaguar E-Type, an ancient Opel GT in his garages.He himself says that he had up to 100 cars.Once, he tells the "car, engine, sport", he was sneaking through a valley of the Eifel with his then Ferrari 330 at walking pace so that nobody is annoyed by the striking sound of the twelve cylinder."But one day an old Eifel farmer asked me: 'Can the net or do you want net?'That was the starting sign for me then."
At some point he has to find that he is totally over -indebted."I had a million euro lousy [...] That was a sum that scared me, "says Horst Lichter in" Dinnerparty-The Late Night Talk ".His today's (third) wife Nada saved him at the time.She works as a waiter in Lichter's "Oldiethek" and scratched her entire savings so that he could pay off his debts.
The media become aware
When the "Oldiethek" is becoming more and more developed into a cult restaurant in the 20 years until its closure in 2010, the media will become aware of Horst Lichter, the WDR turns a first contribution - and discovers its entertainment talent.Then the post goes off: Lights become ZDF-Koch, first every Friday in Johannes B.Kerners (57) "Kochshow", then in the successor sent "Lanz cooks!"
From 2006 he moderated the ZDF program "Lafer! Lights! Lichter!" At his side of the star chef Johann Lafer (64), he works with the "kitchen battle" and at "But please with cream".For the WDR he is on "Lichter's Schnitzel hunt" (seven seasons with 29 episodes so far), for ZDF he stands at the grill ("Germany's biggest grill show"), after all, he also ends up, also on ZDF, a mega success asModerator of "Bares for Rares" (eight seasons since 2013, over 1300 episodes, market share approx..25 percent).Lights are awarded the Golden Camera 2018 and the German Television Prize 2019.
Film in his biography
On top of that.He also writes, not just cookbooks.2014 appears "here I am human: stories that tell about life", in the same year "Whoever steals here dies: Horst Lichter's stories of a thousand and a life".In 2016 the book "No time for assholes" will be published, in which lights writes about a serious topic: his mother Margret's cancer.
He describes how he returns to his parents' house in Rommerskirchen to accompany his dying mother in her last months.Two fundamentally different characters meet: the Barsche mother, who made a deprived life very modest but hard -loving - and the cheerful son.She says: "Be not a dreamer, Horst, don't always see the good where there is nothing good!"He: "If I don't do that, what else is there to see, mother?"You: "The reality!"
The book is filmed with the "original title" no time for assholes "and sent to Primetime from ZDF last Sunday.Horst Lichter is played in the melodrama by actor Oliver Stokowski (59).Lichter says in "Bild": "I would never play myself.The whole film would no longer be credible.Actor is a trained profession.I can do nonsense, but not actors.Not everyone who can entertain five people around the campfire with a guitar gives a concert."
Lights of life formula
Stokowski convincingly plays a Horst Lichter who likes the original itself.A man who is grateful for what I had to be angry with what I would miss.If I get a heart attack in bed tonight and will not get up tomorrow, I would say: 'Thank you for this great life.'"(Lights to" Bild ").
And he plays a man who has found a formula for his life that everyone can do, even in times when the term "good man" is considered devaluation: "Give what you would like to have.Everyone wants courtesy, friendliness and respect.Only then do you have the right to request it.If you have that as a livelihood, not much can go wrong."
