Julia Komp  Julia Komp (born 7 April 1989) is a German chef and in 2016, at age 27, became the youngest German female chef to be awarded a Michelin star. She is chief chef at in Kerpen. Komp grew up in Overath, and graduated as an intern student at Schloss Lerbach under , who was awarded three Michelin stars. She trained as a cook in the restaurant Zur Tant in Cologne's Porz district, where she took a position in the TÜV Rheinland executive lounge. Before her move to Kerpen, she was sous chef in the restaurant "La Poêle d’O*r" in Cologne. In addition to appearances in the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln production "Daheim + unterwegs" (at Home + on the road), she has been a juror in the show "Die Küchenschlacht" for 2018.