Kai Schumann
“A Christmas goose is pure terror”
“Inga Lindström: The Author and I”: Rasmus (Kai Schumann) has retreated to the country to finish his new novel, because his publisher is breathing down his neck.
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Kai Schumann is relaxed about Christmas and New Year’s Eve. However, the “Inga Lindström” star gets serious about his annual balance sheet for 2022.
With “Doctor’s Diary” (2008-2011) he conquered the hearts of women. As forensic pathologist Dr. Johannes Reichau, whom he played from 2009 to 2013 in the Leipzig “Tatort”, he secured a place in TV Olympus. And then came the popular TV series “Heldt”, in which he embodied the title hero from 2013 to 2021. This Sunday evening (December 11th) there will be a reunion with actor Kai Schumann (46). He and Eva-Maria Grein von Friedl (42, “Der Ranger”) play the main roles in “The Author and I” (8:15 p.m., ZDF), a new film in the “Inga Lindström” series. Schumann can be seen as the reclusive and mysterious author Rasmus. In an interview with the news agency spot on news, the Dresden-born artist reveals how he celebrates Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
How are you celebrating Christmas this year?
Kai Schumann: I haven’t thought about that at all. I like living in the moment. I’ll see when the time comes.
What role do gifts play and have you got them all together yet?
Schumann: No, not at all. Gifts are not important to me. I consider surrendering to the moment to be the greatest gift.
What’s on your table for Christmas?
Schumann: Did you know that a goose can live 15 to 26 years? Do you know how old most fattened geese in Germany live? Between four weeks and half a year. Christmas should be a celebration of love, for many beings on this planet it is pure terror.
What traditions do you celebrate around the Christmas holidays?
Schumann: Family and friends are together. I don’t need Christmas for that, but it’s a wonderful side effect of the holidays.
How do you like to celebrate New Year’s Eve, do you prefer wild and relaxed or small and cosy?
Schumann: I think I’ve celebrated New Year’s Eve in many ways. Loud and wild – I would almost say Dionysian – and also very quiet and calm and level-headed. And every way of celebrating has something of its own.
What have you planned for this year?
Schumann: I don’t make any plans. I try to live in the now.
What is your personal balance sheet for the year 2022?
Schumann: More than ever, people are running like a hamster wheel so that a few will become richer and richer. The waste of this absurd process turns our planet into one uninhabitable for us. And while everyone screams louder and louder, those who really have something to say are not heard.
What do you wish for 2023?
Schumann: An idea how we can get out of the compulsion of permanent economic growth. And peace for all beings on this earth.