Palfrader was born in
Vienna, of partly
South Tyrolean origin (on his father's side, who hailed from
St. Vigil). Originally, he was the owner of a café in Vienna's
Josefstadt district. His career in entertainment started when he was discovered by an agency in
Germany, where he was working for TV station
SAT 1. In Austria, he initially worked for local radio station Wien 1, before being employed by national broadcaster
ORF. There he has mainly done
comedy shows, the most popular being
echt fett, a
hidden camera prank show (based on British format
Trigger Happy TV), and
Wir sind Kaiser (
We are Emperor), a political satire where the
Austrian monarchy is restored. There, Palfrader plays the
"Emperor Robert Heinrich" based on the
Emperors of Austria. On the theatre stage, he has been playing at Vienna's Rabenhof-Theater and at the city's
Volkstheater, in plays by
Ödön von Horvath and
Ferenc Molnar. ==References==