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If you flick through the television programs in the afternoon, you can't miss him: “Cash for Rares” icon Horst Lichter.
He has been running the junk show on ZDF since 2013.
How did the chef get there?
Nettesheim – Every junk fan knows him: the fun-loving ZDF presenter Horst Lichter, who has been in front of the camera for the successful format “Bares für Rares” for over ten years.
The Westphalian is actually a trained chef, but then made it through detours to the public broadcaster as a presenter and entertainer for various cooking and junk formats.
Today it is impossible to imagine the television landscape without the likeable mustachioed man.
Two strokes and a heart attack at 28: Horst Lichter's difficult past
Horst Lichter was born on January 15, 1962 in Nettesheim.
As a teenager, today's presenter began training to be a chef.
After several positions in various restaurants, he hung up his cooking apron and worked in a brown coal factory.
Lichter worked hard and that had serious consequences: At the age of 28, the cult presenter suffered two strokes and a heart attack.
The motorcycle lover decided to turn his life around from now on.
After his health blows, the trained chef returned to the catering industry.
In 1990, Horst Lichter opened a restaurant in his hometown where he brought together everything the presenter loved: food, motorcycles, bric-a-brac and antiques.
The restaurant, which he renamed the “Oldiethek” in 1995, quickly gained popularity.
Horst Lichter's TV awards
Won:
2019 – German Television Award (Best Factual Entertainment for “Bares für Rares”)
2019 – Romy (Show/Entertainment)
2018 – Goldene Kamera (Best Docutainment Format for “Bares für Rares”)
2014 – Goldene Kamera (Best TV Chef )
Nominated:
2017 – German Television Prize (Best Factual Entertainment for “Bares für Rares”)
2018 – Adolf Grimme Prize (“Bares für Rares”)
Horst Lichter's beginnings on television as a TV chef
Horst Lichter has always spoken with passion to and for an audience.
In his free time he played in small theaters and occasionally made it onto television for various contributions.
Between 2005 and 2012 he was a regular visitor to “Kerner cooks” and “Lanz cooks”.
He was also a guest on “ZDF TV Garden” several times.
To this day, Horst Lichter can be seen regularly as a presenter and TV chef: for example in the ZDF program “Lafer!
Lights!
Delicious!” (from 2006 to 2017).
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Today it is impossible to imagine the TV landscape without “Cash for Rares” icon Horst Lichter © Frank Hempel/ZDF
Lichter was also a presenter and jury member in “The Kitchen Battle” (2008).
In the summer of 2013, the popular figure directed “Germany’s Big Grill Show” alongside Mirjam Weichselbraun and Johann Lafer and “The Big Grill Show” the following summer.
The entertainer also received his own series of travel reports.
In “Horst Lichter is looking for happiness”, the motorcycle lover toured Europe on his bike, starting with the Norway report in 2017.
Junk lover Horst Lichter has been presenter for “Bares für Rares” since 2013
In 2013, Horst Lichter landed his longest TV job to date: as the presenter for the junk show “Bares für Rares”.
The ZDF format runs in the station's afternoon program and is still very successful today.
The associated evening show “Cash for Rares - Germany's largest junk show” has been produced by ZDF since 2017 - also with Lichter as the presenter.
The highlight of the evening show: prominent junk owners are invited to the primetime version to sell their possessions to the experts.
Sources used:
ZDF press portal, ruhr24.de