[2] He also hosted the show Mittendrin (1987–95), narrated the film Gordos Reise ans Ende der Welt [de] (2007)[3] and provided the German voice for the computer game character Gary Gadget.

His first appearance was a short sketch in the popular German children's show Die Sendung mit der Maus, where a raw egg was dropped onto his bald head, with him making a funny commentary about it.

His show persona always wore characteristic blue dungarees and lived in a wooden building site cabin in fictitious Bärstadt ("Beartown").

He also authored Vertonen: Der Ton zu den Bildern ("Set to music: The Soundtrack to the Images") (1987), a book on post-recording of soundtracks for films and slideshows, and Lieber Momme: Wunderliche Briefe ("Beloved Momme: Strange Letters") (1989), a book made up of letters he wrote to his young son from hospital, where Peter Lustig stayed many times throughout the 1980s due to lung cancer surgery.

[8] In addition to winning numerous prizes, including two of the renowned Adolf-Grimme-Preis for Löwenzahn, Lustig was granted the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his effort for education in 2004.