Johann Lafer (born September 27, 1957, in

Sankt Stefan im Rosental Sankt Stefan im Rosental is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the Austrian state of Styria. People * Johann Lafer Johann Lafer (born September 27, 1957, in Sankt Stefan im Rosental, Styria, Austria) is an Austrian che ...

Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...

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) is an Austrian

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living in

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. Johann Lafer became well known through his TV

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show and his numerous cookbooks. His television show is self-produced. He was a regular guest of the television host

Markus Lanz Markus Lanz (born 16 March 1969) is a German-Italian television presenter based in Germany. Early life Lanz is a member of the German-speaking majority in the Italian province of South Tyrol. He grew up in Geiselsberg, a village located 1,3 ...

, in whose show he regularly prepared meals in front of an audience. He lives with his wife Silvia and two children Jennifer and Jonathan in a little village called

Guldental Guldental is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach (district), Bad Kreuznach Districts of Germany, district in Rhineland-Pal ...

. He also operates a cooking school in

. Lafer acts as a pilot in his Helicopter dining program.

Achievements

* In 1997 Johann was named "Chef of the Year" by "Gault Millau" * In 2006 he was given a star by "

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". * Produces his own cooking show on television.Johann Lafer - Biography
/ref> *Started a pilot project for healthy eating in schools (food@ucation) *Runs his cooking school in Guldental

References

External links

Homepage
of Johann Lafer (in German)

(in German)
Lafer! Lichter! Lecker! (TV Show)

Johann Lafer Infos
(in German) 1957 births Living people Austrian chefs German chefs German television chefs Austrian expatriates in Germany ZDF people {{Germany-bio-stub