Helene Fischer, 38, pop singer, used the corona pandemic as a creative break – and thereby possibly prevented burnout. “Thank God I got the curve,” she said in an interview on Swiss television SRF. “When you, as an artist, no longer really feel any emotions, when you find everything just exhausting, you have to be honest with yourself and step on the brakes.” That sounds “almost a bit like burnout,” said moderator Urs Gredig, to which Fischer replied: “I was probably on the verge of it.” Despite all the horror it brought to the world, she was able to use the pandemic as a creative break and worked a lot on her music.
Kate Winslet, 47, British actress (“The Reader”), does not want her children to photograph clouds for Instagram. “My kids don’t have social media and they never have,” said the Oscar winner, who has sons, 9 and 18, and a 22-year-old daughter. As she has heard, there are many fake accounts from herself and “strangely” from her children, said the British woman in a podcast on the British broadcaster BBC. You can tell your kids, “You can’t have this because I want you to enjoy your life,” Winslet explained. “I want you to be a kid, I want you to look at the clouds and not photograph them and put them on Instagram.” She also wants to avoid her children being influenced by hate online.
Yusaku Maezawa, 47, Japanese billionaire, flies around the moon with a DJ. The founder of online fashion site Zozo announced that he is taking eight artists on board for his planned space trip, including DJ and producer Steve Aoki and Korean K-pop musician Top. Maezawa plans to fly around the moon for a week in 2023 aboard a SpaceX spacecraft. The wealthy entrepreneur invited people who “see themselves as artists” to accompany him on his space journey in March last year. From around one million applicants, he has now also selected Irish photographer Rhiannon Adam, Indian actor Dev Joshi, American YouTuber Tim Dodd, Czech choreographer Yemi AD, British photographer Karim Iliya and American filmmaker Brendan Hall. Maezawa foots the bill for the entire week-long round trip to the moon.
Nicolin Gabrysch, outgoing Cologne councilwoman, leaves a lasting impression. The left-wing politician caused a stir at a meeting of the Cologne city council on Thursday because after her last speech (she is leaving the city council voluntarily) she glued herself to the lectern, like him express reported. “People who know me know that I don’t go without a bang,” she announced her action. The city, she criticized, is only fighting the symptoms of climate change, but is refusing to work on the causes. “It cannot and must not go on like this. That’s why I’m making sure that things don’t continue as usual, at least here and now, but at least a little bit differently than usual.” Mayor Henriette Reker wanted to continue the session with reference to a second available lectern. But there was a brief interruption. Gabrysch’s hand was separated from the desk with solvent.