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Doppelganger agency: No Scholz double found yet
Unique so far: no doppelganger has yet been found for Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD). Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa Pool/dpa
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An agency has been looking for a double for Chancellor Olaf Scholz for months – in vain. One candidate sounded good, but had a flaw that couldn’t be overlooked.
Olaf Scholz, desperately wanted: According to its own statements, a double agency from Mülheim an der Ruhr has still not found a double for the no longer quite new Chancellor.
It’s a mystery for agent Jochen Florstedt: he’s been looking for people who look like Scholz since the federal elections in autumn 2021. But for months he has not found anyone who meets his criteria of a good doppelganger of the SPD politician, as he tells the German Press Agency.
Since 1998, Florstedt and his agency Doppelgänger have been mediating with film, television and companies nationwide – with success, as he says. But the agent cannot explain the current Scholz problem. After all, Olaf Scholz looks like a million other bald men. “V-shaped eyebrows, the head goes up a bit at the back and the mischievous look” – these are the characteristics of the German Chancellor. And yet, with more than 50 applications, there was not one candidate who could combine all of this.
15 centimeters and 30 kilograms too much
Whereby Florstedt actually drew hope from an application photo. The applicant met many requirements. During a later phone call, however, it turned out that the man was 15 centimeters taller and 30 kilograms heavier than Scholz. “I can’t do that,” says Florstedt. The agent claims to be very critical: everything has to be right, from eyes and mouth to build and size.
However, the double agent does not only have problems in the search for a doppelganger of the Federal Chancellor. He has not received a single application since the federal elections to fill the rest of the cabinet with politicians such as Christian Lindner (FDP) or Annalena Baerbock (Greens). Florstedt is certain that there are thousands of people who could fit optically. Normally, addresses of applicants reached him regularly.
Florstedt suspects that many people are afraid of appearing as politician doubles. So many nasty comments would be made on social media. However, Jochen Florstedt does not give up hope of finding a suitable Scholz double.