The former tabloid journalist Michael Graeter writes about the “floating palaces” of the fashionable and is dismissed. Now he is suing an entrepreneur who is said to have been the trigger for the termination. The court hearing is bizarre.
He was a dazzling figure in Bussi-Bussi-Munich in the 70s and 80s. Surely as dazzling as the celebrities he wrote about, cheeky, with a sharp pen, sometimes also pandering. Today, the former gossip columnist Michael Graeter says somewhat theatrically in court: “I’ve lost everything.” And in his eyes, the culprit is an article about luxury yachts and their owners, which he wrote in a Munich magazine in 2018 – and in which he mentioned real estate entrepreneur Hubert Haupt.