Nova Meierhenrich and her partner Brian: You “share a very great passion”

“If you are ready to give up an old path, you will be surprised where life leads you,” says actress and moderator Nova Meierhenrich (51). In the spot-on-news interview on her new book “Lebenschlenker” (Allegria, 13.03.), In which she writes about her unfulfilled desire to have children, she adds: “I would not have got to know my partner for two years. He would have been ignored by me because no place in my life would have been for him.” Last autumn she made her love for the Danish chef Brian Bojsen, who is known from the ZDF program “Die Küchenschlacht”.

What the two connects and what she takes from the time she tried in which she tried to make her dream of being a mother also reveals in an interview about “life Schlenker”. In the book, she describes the process of her desire to have children in detail, from the selection of the donation seed to the appointments in two different clinics in Denmark. She also speaks in the book about psychological and physical stress on the treatment or attacking questions about the desire to have children and solo nutship, which should “help, inform and encourage others”.

Nova Meierhenrich: Definitely. Today women in Germany are allowed to go this way. That was not the case when I started. I had to go abroad. It is a great achievement that a woman in Germany can decide today that she wants to become a mother alone and find a doctor who treats and accompanies her. The constant travel, being abroad, the travel expenses, that was a lot of additional stress. Depending on the ultrasound, I had to be in Copenhagen within 24 hours and leave everything standing and lying down. This is now no longer necessary for women. Unfortunately, we are still not so far that the health insurance company pays the treatment for solo mothers. So we still have a bit away, but we are much further than ten years ago.

Meierhenrich: It should be an Instagram channel to exchange information about the topic, talk about it, share stories. I have no great expectations. I just want it to talk to each other about it.

Meierhenrich: At the moment it fails a bit because of the personnel because I’m all alone. Let’s see if I can do the next regatta in the summer. But of course everyone continues to run the projects in the background. I am currently in close exchange with the UKE in Hamburg. We have been in the process of implementing a very large project for a year.

Meierhenrich: Yes! When my friend is traveling professionally and we are alone, things like cleaning are not possible because he attacks every household appliance. Even if I take it in my allotment garden, I don’t get anything. He loves brooms and the like and never lets go. Charly is just someone who doesn’t give you away from the side. This is very cute and I also love it over everything, but the dog was a surprise. My friend wished him, I had no say, he was suddenly there.

Meierhenrich: He himself is outdoor chef and specializes in outdoor events. Therefore, we share a very great passion, namely for nature, for the rough Scandinavia. He also had a motorhome in recent years, now we only have mine. For example, we have already driven up to the Lofoten up to the north. I can sleep with him on a mattress in the trunk of a car as well as in the five-star hotel. That is two worlds and both are possible and that’s totally beautiful.

Meierhenrich: Brian opened a new restaurant in HafenCity in Hamburg in summer. Of course, this takes a lot of time with him, especially since it has been fully booked since it opened. It is really beautiful on an old houseboat from 1902, in the middle of HafenCity, between all these modern buildings, with a view to the Elbphilharmonie. Then he still makes traveling around the world. We were all January in Swedish-Lapland with guests for whom we organized tours. I also help in the restaurant, take care of everything in the background and do everything out of cooking, so you shouldn’t let me go. He does that much better.

Meierhenrich: The realization is very important to me, and that is also what I want to pass on: you have to let go of old things to welcome new ones in your life. When a door goes, a new one opens. This is a stupid saying that you don’t want to hear in a crisis. But it is so. It goes on. If you are ready to give up an old path, you will be surprised where life leads you. I would not have met my partner, I would have met him for two years. He would have been ignored by me because there was no place in my life for him.

I learned to get involved in the moment, which is part of the happiness of life for me. I continue to make plans, but I do not keep it so stiff that there is no space for nothing on the right and left. And for me, luck also means being able to pass on my experiences. If you can share experiences, impressions and emotions with someone, I think it’s great. You always don’t know what some things are good for at any point and where they lead you. But I would have been a really great mother, I know that.

Meierhenrich: When the topic of the book is complete, I hope that I will arrive a bit in everyday life again and that I can work a lot in my job again. Last year I took a break to write and I was abroad for four months and worked as a coach on the set of a large international film production. This year I would like to go back to the camera. But these are things that you can’t plan. I can only wish them and hope that beautiful projects cross my way.