Barbara Schoeneberger, 48, presenter, already knew as a child how to captivate people. As a student, she tied annoying adults on the bus to the bars with the scarf, she told the German Press Agency. “One of our funniest jokes,” she says. “And with great success.” The reason was when the old people complained about the loud students on the bus. Overall, however, she felt very obedient and well-behaved. “My parents didn’t have much stress with me.” Her children are also rather peaceful, said Schöneberger. “They dream more of playing pranks.” Eggs were recently thrown at a house in the neighborhood, she admitted. “I guess mine was there too. But do you want a kid who sits at the table at home all day reading Harry Potter?”
Pierce Brosnan, 69, Irish actor, hunts polluters instead of gangsters. In a video, he and his son Paris, 21, promote the safe disposal of waste. “Plastic is forever, it’s time to find clever ways to manage it,” Brosnan said. The video is part of a publicity campaign for the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm environmental conventions. Signatories, including Germany, have banned the export of plastic waste to countries that cannot properly dispose of the material. Brosnan and his son are urging viewers in countries that have not yet signed up to put pressure on their governments.
Caroline Kebekus, 42, comedian, feels limited as a woman in nightlife. “It starts with us having to think about how to get there and back safely before the party,” she said while recording the “Carolin Kebekus Show”. In the club, women made sure to always be nice when they were rebuffed, so that the situation didn’t escalate. It is also advisable to always keep an eye on your glass so that no one pours knockout drops into it. A worrying new trend is “needle spiking,” in which party drugs are injected into the body unnoticed. “Women have completely internalized all of these rules of conduct and precautionary measures,” said Kebekus. “We all know that it is our responsibility to behave in such a way that nothing happens to us.”
Natalie Portman, 41, Israeli-American actress, lets her children influence her choice of roles. “I feel like this is the phase of my career where I’m really trying to impress my kids,” the Oscar winner told the magazine Variety. Eleven-year-old Aleph and five-year-old Amalia encouraged her to star in the new Thor movie. Both kids were so excited “when they could visit me on set and see me dressed up in a cape,” Portman explained. “That made it really cool.” For the “Thor” shoot, the children would have liked to have done without their mother’s presence at home for once. “It’s very rare that my children say: Please go to work!”