People: Klaas: Joko is more than my best friend

Entertainer Klaas Heufer-Umlauf (41) does not refer to his colleague Joko Winterscheidt (46) as his best friend. “We don’t say” best friends “because that would be too little,” explained Klaas in a “Stern” interview. “It is a connection that has grown over so many years that it feels rather familiar. I am grateful to him for a lot.”

He owed Joko thanks “that he took over certain things that I could not or did not want.” If it gets really embarrassing, Joko is on hand. “Then he puts my hand on my shoulder, looks at me fatherly and says:” I do this for us. “When it comes to putting french fries in the nose and singing” My Heart will go on “, he knows: Now I have to take over.”

The right moment for farewell is “mostly in the middle of success”

A large cut in the common career was the end of the TV series “Circus Halligalli”, said Klaas. “We both knew: that was. Not in a negative sense, but we felt that the time for this type of broadcast was over. It was like a pubescent phase, a bit like abeige. At some point the jacket becomes too tight, the lightness gives way to further development.”

The memory of the 41-year-old of this time: “We sat in my kitchen and decided together.” Pro Sieben was surprised because the show was very successful at the time. “But it was the right decision – and an investment in our relationship. We did not go separate paths, on the contrary: we made a project three.”

Many television people obviously find it difficult to find the right moment to say goodbye, “because the right moment is usually in the middle of success. And success rarely feels goodbye,” said the entertainer. Instead, success gives you the feeling that things go on. “But before you show yourself it, you stand with skateboard and over -turned cap in front of a youth that has long moved – and ask: What is going, people?”