When it comes to hurt feelings, life’s great disappointments, this is the Colorful highly insightful. And the readers appreciate that, they want to feel sympathy in moderation when Princess Charlène of Monaco makes one of her deeply sad appearances at the side of her faithless husband or when Cathy Hummels talks about divorce and depression. However, too much suffering is not desirable in these times either, which is why the reports are always provided with a spark of hope, with the silver lining of the boulevard. Boris Becker, convicted of tax offenses, not spending pleasant months in British prison? But at least his ex-wives stick together!
And what could she Colorful write everything about a separation like that of Hubert Burda and Maria Furtwängler! One can well imagine the disappointment of the sentiment analysts on duty at the publishing house when they hear the news of the month – what an opulent feast is ready for free, but the celebrity understanders are in a really tricky position because, after all, Burda is the owner of the magazine.
In the brightly colored – if they would fall back on their usual gossip instinct there – it would work like this: First of all, it is essential to conjure up the very great love of this unequal couple, that happy initial phase that you always need for a good story. Well, here’s the sketch: Entrepreneur and esthete from a secure financial background meets doctor and actress. At first the liaison was kept secret, but passion triumphed. First their son Jacob was born, then they got married in Munich in 1991, with the poet Peter Handke standing by as an eloquent best man, and finally their daughter Elisabeth completed their happiness. What is an age difference of 27 years when two such magnificent people meet almost as equals?
“Supposedly I even had something with my husband.”
Starting from this emotional plateau, the Colorful stay a little longer with the pleasant sides of this connection, the international network of the couple, with the Bambi-ness of being and the forbes-List. The report should also mention the legendary television career of the actress, who has been acting as Charlotte Lindholm in the TV show for 20 years crime scene determined, as a cool clear one from the north, who wraps an audience of millions around her finger and always remains a little unpredictable. Maria Furtwängler praises her husband in every interview in a loving, distanced way, she describes him as a good father, an honest family man. But it is also becoming increasingly clear that the great-niece of the famous conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler is going her own way, and by no means wants to be reduced to the role of the billionaire’s wife and Burda princess. Then it’s better to stir up some trouble, even with male journalists who never really know whether what they say is meant seriously.
in one mirror-Interview 2012 she makes fun of alleged affairs coquettishly: “I’m supposed to have even had something with my husband.” Of course, that’s a through ball when you’re on stage at the Berlin Boulevard Theater with the play “Grumours… Rumors…”.
Hat to hat, croak after croak: Maria Furtwängler as Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm with guest star Udo Lindenberg in the “Tatort” episode “Everything comes back”.
(Photo: Frizzi Kurkhaus/dpa)
Since the official confirmation of the separation, the tabloids have meticulously counted the few appearances the two partners have made together in recent years. No one seems surprised that this marriage is now being wound up, much more quietly than other celebrity couples, by the way. It is hard to imagine that Maria Furtwängler’s lawyers would give her husband the divorce papers shortly before boarding the private jet, as actress Jerry Hall is said to have done with 91-year-old Rupert Murdoch (read in the current issue of brightly colored). At Burda, things are more civilized, people like to keep control, even over their own feelings.
Maybe everything is also quite undramatic, this final chapter, which is now dragging on a bit. The 82-year-old Hubert Burda preferred to attend his old friend Helmut Markwort’s birthday party alone this early summer, while Maria Furtwängler, 55, shone at the Bavarian Film Prize at the same time, and that was so normal that no one was surprised. When she charms a man on stage, she prefers to be completely unsuspicious about her old friend and crime scene-Teammate Udo Lindenberg, with whom she sings together, hat to hat, croak after croak.
And this might even be a good line for Hubert and Maria’s ballad in the brightly colored, this Lindenberg classic: “Behind the horizon it goes on.” Now officially alone. The lawyers will take care of the rest, the situation is settled anyway.