Marie Kondo, 38, bestselling author and expert in decluttering in style, has given up when it comes to neatness. Since the birth of her third son, she no longer cleans up as purposefully and pedantically as she used to, she reports Washington Post. “My house is messy,” Kondo said at the launch of her new book. Until recently, she was “a professional cleaner”. “I kind of gave that up, and that’s a good thing. Because now I realize that it’s important for me to enjoy the time at home with my children.”
Sebastian Krumbiegel56, singer of the band The princes, called on the actors in the Monday demonstrations to take a stand for democracy and human rights. “I’m convinced – also with the experience from 1989 – that we can do a lot together,” said the frontman of the band from Leipzig. According to Krumbiegel, participants in the so-called Monday walks represent racist and discriminatory views, not basic democratic values. Together with clubs, parties, organizations and companies, Krumbiegel called for a demonstration on January 30, the day the National Socialists seized power in 1933. The ring along Leipzig’s city center is to be made to glow with illuminated white umbrellas – a sign against old and new Nazis.
Cloud Hegenbarth, 42, actress (“Toni, male, midwife”), has a new passion with her three-year-old son Avi: jigsaw puzzles. “I can switch off completely meditatively. Now I always sit over the same airport puzzle, but it doesn’t bother me at all.” After the first year after giving birth was very difficult for her, she is doing well now and can finally sleep better again. Hegenbarth had this a few months ago mirror reported how much she had suffered from lack of sleep in the first year after the birth of her son.
Ernie & Bert, television legends, once again duly celebrated the 50th birthday of “Sesame Street” in the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg: the two friends sang songs from “Sesame Street” together with children and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra at the “Concert instead of School” event series. Of course, Grobi, the Cookie Monster, and other dolls from the popular children’s show could not be missing. “Sesame Street” started on US television in 1969, and in January 1973 the series ran for the first time as a dubbed version with German voices.