Klöckner, Pilawa and the fascination for celebrity couples. The situation in the morning

Good morning, dear readers!

Juhu! The summer hole has a new filling! This time it is not an escaped Anakonda or a Kaiman in the quarry lake. As of today, a new pair of celebrity is adorned with the clasts’ cover: Julia Klöckner, Bundestag president and thus the most powerful woman in the Republic, and Jörg Pilawa-perhaps not the most powerful, but one of the most famous TV moderators in Germany.

The news that the 52-year-old and the 59-year-old are a couple hit on Monday like a flash out of the blue and surprised many. When I looked at the headline: “Hui!”. I would have preferred to find out about your love at a Coldplay concert. But well, you can’t have everything.

First of all: love falls where it wants! You can look forward to “Klöcklawa”, “Pilöckner” or “J & J” or not, be up to you. Basically, it is nice when two people find each other. Because with some love does not fail at all.

Klöckner and Pilawa are lined up in the ranks of prominent political pairs: Ex-Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) and actress Natalia Wörner were together, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the singer Carla Bruni also made headlines, and the Sylt wedding of ex-financial minister Christian Lindner (FDP) and television reporter Franca Lehfeldt caused a sensation.

But all of these couples shares a fate: as much as they want to protect their privacy, the gossip press will do everything they can to provide lurid headlines and intimate pictures. And it is worth it for you, because stories about luxury-lentified people are interested in-including me, even if I don’t like to give it-especially when it gets dirty. Social media act like a catalyst.

Why is that? The simplest answer: it is a form of entertainment and probably also escapism. That is why the news of Klöckner and Pilawa caused so much vertebrae. Perhaps it is also because we have a stir, consider them as role models or ideals because they not only love each other, but also rich, beautiful and successful.

Maybe it is also the opposite. We are all, whether we admit it or not, predicted voyeuristic somewhere. When the high -gloss image of the rich and beautiful cracks gets. We tear the Mäuler when a CEO is caught with its affair at a Coldplay concert by the stadium camera. Or when Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sánchez get caught in a dirty litigation with her brother. Do we not treat such people to such people? Do we delight their failure and feel better? Is it just pure entertainment when rich and beautiful go into the trenches of a rose war? Or is it identification with the suffering and the feelings that celebrities also go through? It is probably a mixture of everything.

Despite all the sensation, we should not forget: there are real people behind all the glamor and fame. They love, argue, cry, hate and reconcile – like all of us. When VIPs separate, this is often a painful turning point, especially for children. Greetings “Brangelina”!

Julia Klöckner and Jörg Pilawa will be in the boulevard focus in the coming weeks and months. That is the downside of the celebrity being. Ultimately, however, their relationship is a private matter, and we should respect that. In any case, I wish you the luck you are looking for – far from the curious looks. After all, they would not want their love life to become a public topic. Or?

Germany’s goal of gaining 80 percent of electricity from renewable energies by 2030 is divided by citizens. According to a Forsa survey for the star My 32 percent of Germans, the country relies too strongly on renewable energies. The attitude varies depending on the region, age and party preference. Read more about this here:

A summer full of visits to the outdoor pool, ice cream, sunscreen, airy clothes and grill evenings. And after work, the apero lane goes to the restaurant terrace. What a wonderful summer that would be! So far, summer in Germany has been rather reserved. But according to the motto “better late than ever!” Bring the midsummer to Germany this week! Time to get the fans and parasols out of the basement! Because the sun is already beaming today: “Especially in the southern half, the sun often laughs from a cloudless sky all day. To the north, on the other hand, individual cloud fields are also on the move,” says meteorologist Nico Bauer from the German Weather Service. The temperatures climb to 25 to 32 degrees by the afternoon.

In the coming days it will be even hotter: on Wednesday the heat will spread further to the northeast. In many regions, the values rise to sweaty 31 to 38 degrees. On Thursday, there will be individual, sometimes violent thunderstorms with heavy rain on Thursday. The peak values are again 30 to 38 degrees.

Here in Tokyo, where my morning | Stern office is located, such temperatures have been everyday life for weeks. When the sun is shining, it becomes brutal – every welding pore opens. But the Japanese have developed a few gadgets against the summer heat that may also be able to help with them in Germany:

Perhaps one or the other tip will help you survive the hot week. And despite the heat: enjoy the summer days! Who knows how long they will stay.

The Rigshospitalet, the largest hospital in Denmark, has set up its own department for LGBTQ+personnel and multi-parents. This department offers specialized midwifery care for expectant parents in non-traditional family constellations. The midwives are trained to advise with care, consideration and understanding. The establishment of the department follows a long -standing claim of the midwives of the hospital, the reported. They wanted to create an offer that meets the special needs of LGBTQ+personnel and multi-parents families.

The department is intended to serve as a safe place where families are looked after throughout the pregnancy in a prejudice -free environment. You can address all questions and concerns there openly. The offer is already very interested in rainbow families and families with several parents.

In the middle of the need in Gaza, an aid organization is gaining more and more influence. Your mission is controversial – and often fatal. My colleagues Leonie Scheuble, Fabian and Huber and Malak Tantesh about the minutes of an order that could only go wrong:

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