Johann Lafer
Johann Lafer ( born September 27, 1957 in St. Stefan im Rosental, Styria ) is an Austrian chef, TV chef, entrepreneur and non-fiction author. A wide audience is Lafer mainly through cooking shows like Himmel un earth, feasting on good German or Lafer! Lights! Yummy! become known and his numerous cookbooks. Johann Lafer is married to the hotel manageress Silvia Buchholz Lafer since 1990 and has two children.
- 3.1 television
- 3.2 Radio
Career and professional commitment
Lafer, son of a farmer family, completed his training as a chef between 1973 and 1976 in the brewery restaurant Gosser Brau in Graz. After passing the final examination with honors, he completed military service in the Austrian army. His first engagement in Germany led him in 1977 to the Berlin Hotel Schweizer Hof. From 1979 he was engaged in cattle Josef Hauser's Restaurant Le Canard in Hamburg. His baking skills he demonstrated as a pastry chef at the Hotel Schweizer Stuben in Wertheim. His culinary career began in 1981 he continued in Munich Restaurant Aubergine by Eckart Witzigmann. He took over the post of chief pastry chefs and wrote several books Funny man.
From 1982 he worked for the Parisian pastry chef Gaston Boulanger and Lenôtre. In May 1983, he was head chef at Restaurant Le Val d'Or his future wife Silvia Buchholz in Guldental whose kitchen was already awarded with a Michelin star as a successor of a French colleague. Lafer could lift the culinary quality of the restaurant even further, before taking over the general management of the Le Val d'Or by him in 1988, a second star was awarded by the Michelin guide. In 1994, the ground lease for the nearby " current castle " in the Hunsrück village of Stromberg, on the hitherto a rustic tourist restaurant had been operated, has been reassigned, the couple Lafer took over the castle. After unexpectedly consuming renovation and restoration measures that could be funded only through a guarantee from the state of Rhineland -Palatinate, ultimately, the restaurant Le Val d'Or of Guldental was transferred to the current castle in December 1994.
Parallel to the restaurant " Le Val d'Or ," the rustic Turmstube as a second restaurant and the classy current Castle Hotel opened on the current castle. In nearby Guldental he taught at the premises of the former " Le Val d' Or" a cooking school with the name " Table d'Or " one. In the same building is its television and photographic studio, turned and made in the next productions for foreign clients also own cooking shows Lafer.
Since 2011, Lafer is committed to a healthy and sustainable school meals in the project "food @ ucation " as operator of the school canteen in high school the Roman Fort, Bad Kreuznach. Scientific support is the project of the University of Fulda as part of a promotion by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research; Lafer is since the winter semester 2009/2010 also lecturer at the University of Fulda in the Department of Nutritional Sciences.
About the Internet and also the food retail Johann Lafer also sells under its name as a brand name delicatessen products such as salts, oils or funds that he has become the part itself. The exploits of Johann Lafer achieved in 2009 with about 80 employees a total turnover of around 10 million euros.
Awards
Currently the restaurants Johann Lafer
Currently, the " Le Val d' Or" is distinguished among other things, a Michelin star and 16 Gault Millau points. Lafer's second restaurant in the tower room of the current castle, the "Bistro d' Or", was evaluated by 14 Gault Millau points.
Media appearances
TV
Johann Lafer occurred early after taking over the kitchen line at Le Val d'Or for the first time as a TV chef on. This took place on 28 July 1984, when he prepared a raspberry Charlotte in the southwest radio broadcast " glass box ". As a result, he was present in a wide variety of programs. So it was between 1993 and 2006 in addition to Ulrike Neradt moderator of the Merry Vineyard. In addition, he prepared regularly in the show Lanz cooks! front of an audience with other television chefs Five -course menus. The program was set at 28 December 2012. On 30 November 2006 launched in SWR his cooking show L as Lafer, the successor mission to the set after ten years series " Himmel un Earth".
Since December 2006 he has Saturdays on ZDF in the cooking show " Lafer! Lights! Yummy " to see! Where he cooks together with Horst Lichter and two celebrities. On 8 November 2007 Lafer entered into the VOX program " The Koch Arena " against five winners from the cooking show The Perfect Dinner, winning 3 out of 5 courses. Since 2008 he has presented in alternation with other TV chefs the ZDF program " The kitchen battle".
Radio
The radio station SWR3 held at irregular intervals along with Johann Lafer an " interactive barbecue ". At that a celebrity is invited each of which may help when grilling. The audience can view on the website of the radio station in advance and invite the largest by his own admission interactive barbecue and mitgrillen front of the radio at the ingredients and preparation list. Host of the show has always been Kristian Thees.
Prominent Mitgriller were previously on 16 May 2007 Barbara Schöneberg and Andreas Müller; on 1 May 2008 Lucy Diakovska; on May 1, 2009 Simone Thomalla; on August 22, 2009 Sven Ottke; on December 4, 2009 Matthias Steiner and Inge Posmyk; 13 May 2010 Jürgen Drews; on 1 May 2011 Reiner Calmund, 8 April 2012 Mirja Boes and on October 3, 2012 Maite Kelly. At 1, 2013 supported Lafer Sonya Kraus.
Heli gourmet
Lafer's greatest passion is, next to the cooking, fly a helicopter: "Fly to me means freedom and pleasure alike. Only when I 'm in the air, I feel an inner and deep satisfaction with myself then right again, the balance between body, mind and soul. This opens up a whole new dimension to me. Here I do not think constantly about how I could cook a steak maybe even more sophisticated. "
2002 Johann Lafer put the exam as a helicopter pilot and founded the company " Johann Lafer Heli Gourmet GmbH & Co. KG ", flying over the Rhine Valley, coupled with a gourmet menu offering.