Bijan Djir Sarai, 45, the new FDP general secretary, is reminded of the war in his native Iran on New Year’s Eve. “At a New Year’s Eve party, around high school, a friend told me I shouldn’t drink so much because it obviously doesn’t suit me,” he told Time Online. “Only the alcohol didn’t make me nauseous, it was the sound of the firecrackers and the rockets. Those sounds brought back my memories of the war with full force.” His first turn of the year in Germany was even worse, when he was still a child. “No one prepared me for that noise. To this day I can’t find anything nice about it.” Djir-Sarai fled Iran to Germany at the age of eleven. On April 23, 2022, he was elected Secretary General of the FDP.
Jasna Fritzi Bauer, 33, Swiss actress, finds sex scenes unpleasant. When recording some intimate scenes, she felt “insanely uncomfortable,” she said emotion-Magazine. “Sex scenes are really an absurd situation. Do I want to play sex like I have it at home? No!” Bauer said. She thought she “could cover up this discomfort with extra super self-confidence”. But she didn’t have that self-confidence. The Swiss actress wishes she had the courage to break with clichés in the film industry.
Jurgen Drews, 77, pop singer, does not let an illness spoil the tour. “I have it under control because I can still walk quite well,” he said picture-Newspaper. “My legs still carry me. Sometimes I shuffle a bit, but I’m not in pain.” Drews suffers from peripheral polyneuropathy, an incurable nerve disease that severely limits the movement of his legs. Since the end of April, Drews has been touring through Germany with other Schlager artists and has performed in Stuttgart, Leipzig and Cologne, among other places.
Cathy Hummels, 34, influencer, feels recovered. “I’m doing very well at the moment,” she said Augsburg General. Two years ago she wrote a book about her depression. “I’ve learned a lot from my past, so I’m good at protecting myself in terms of my mental health,” she said. When times are tough, exercise like yoga, Pilates, and barre training help her. “And it helps me to pay attention to my breathing. Sometimes I have to be alone. Then I can collect myself very well.”