“Manta Manta – Second Part” allegations: Lauterbach supports his friend Schweiger

After Til Schweiger (59) recently commented in “Stern” on the allegations that arose during the filming of the film “Manta Manta – Second Part”, Heiner Lauterbach (70) has now also spoken out there. He criticizes how his fellow actor and friend is reported – and that the good sides of a person also have to be taken into account.

Lauterbach, with whom he worked on “Zweiohrküken” and “Lieber Kurt” among others, is one of his best friends. He also discussed with him whether an interview with the magazine was okay: “I thought it wouldn’t hurt if someone who liked him spoke to the media.”

Lauterbach describes Schweiger as caring

“You portray him exclusively negatively. In order to judge a person, ultimately to judge him, you must not ignore his good sides,” Lauterbach continues and asks why “all the good that he does” is not reported on . According to him, Schweiger is “generous as a boss like hardly anyone in the industry.” The actor and director is “caring and empathetic towards his employees”. When he worked with Schweiger, he was “always nice, extremely committed and focused.”

Schweiger was accused of abusing power and alcohol on the set of the film “Manta Manta – Second Part” in the spring. When asked whether he was a “tyrant”: “The accusation hit me hard. Nobody needs to be afraid of me. I’m a friendly person.”

self-importance and justice

“We all use our tone wrong, don’t we?” Lauterbach now asks. However, Schweiger always apologized when that was the case: “At least when there was something to apologize for.” According to Lauterbach, success makes you “a little self-aggrandizing, blinds your own perspective a little. You have to constantly readjust yourself. But Til and I know that and do that too. We are both justice fanatics.”

“I’m a person who makes mistakes. I’m not perfect. There are situations where I freak out, I’m impatient. But I also apologize for that,” Schweiger also recently explained. He learned in therapy that he should no longer lose control: “I’ll soon be 60. I don’t want to waste any more time now, I want to become a better person.”

An external report commissioned by the responsible film studio Constantin Film had painted a mixed picture of the alleged “climate of fear” on the set. Although a large proportion of those surveyed stated that the mood on the film set was between “very good” and “okay”, a “not insignificant number” also rated the working atmosphere as “poor” or “rather moderate”.