That was the week on the boulevard: Why is there no binding posting etiquette after divorce? What gets Justin Bieber’s pulse racing?
Mats Hummels was late for the appointment – was still allowed to divorce Cathy. phew!imago/Spöttel Picture
Ms. Rützel, who made you angry this week?
Aleks Petrovic, one of those reality format jumpers that you unfortunately know if you missed the chance to read a good book several times this year. In any case, last week Petrovic served up his formally still-girlfriend Christina Dimitriou in a daring perpetrator-victim reversal maneuver in the finale of the foreign fummel format “Temptation Island VIP” so unabashedly that even a long-suffering trash TV watcher got his blood pressure in soared. Feel free to rework this format if your Christmas turns out surprisingly too peaceful. And I promise to really tackle the 100 volumes of In Search of Lost Time next year.
Justin Bieber also had a raised pulse last week: He was not at all happy with the new fan collection from H&M, which included sweaters, T-shirts and a shopping bag with his likeness.
I was surprised when he even asked his fans on Instagram not to buy this “garbage”, as he put it. Because H&M had brought Bieber clothing onto the market several times in the past few years, which I know so well because I once bought an oversized bib with Bieber lettering during a sale there. I thought it might be useful for me if I had to bug younger people for research like “How do you do, fellow kids?”. In any case, Bieber did not seem to have objected to previous collections, but this time he did not approve of the collection, he writes on Instagram. H&M, on the other hand, says the approval process was duly completed. It remains mysterious.
Anja Rützel and dog Juri.private
The now ex-couple Hummels, on the other hand, practiced complete transparency: Last week, Cathy posted a photo that was taken shortly before their divorce – with the information that Mats was too late.
Of course I followed the process closely. I think that there is still no binding posting etiquette on social media when it comes to divorce. There are now clear iconographies for engagements and pregnancies in terms of rings and bellies stretched out into the camera. When it comes to divorce, there is still plenty of room for improvement in terms of imagination. Analogous to those baby genitalia announcement videos where the parents-to-be reveal the sex of their child by trickling pink or light blue glitter out of balloons, I could well imagine a reveal video of the divorced ex-partners announcing whether they’re dating in the separate good or bad. If they are well disposed towards each other, rose petals trickle down on the partner. They can’t stand each other anymore, maybe cockroaches. The jungle camp will start again soon, so you could get inspiration if a separation is imminent.
Last week’s television topic was Boris Becker’s first interview after his release from prison, which he granted to Sat.1. Did you watch?
Of course, and I’m afraid I’ve gotten the wrong details from his recounting of the bad time in prison. For example, I’m still fascinated by the fact that he was said to have given English and maths lessons to English prisoners – for someone who doesn’t seem to have a very intimate connection with numbers and calculations, I find that pretty wild. My favorite moment in the interview was definitely when Becker showed me the folder he had brought along with his documents from his philosophy course. Now I’m eagerly awaiting his Lebenshilfe podcast.
What does Helene Fischer actually do?
I think now that she won’t be doing a Christmas show for the third time in a row, she’s just doing a little gymnastics on her chandelier over the holidays as a matter of habit.
Christian Seidl asked the questions
Anja Rützel is a freelance author and writes mainly about television and animals. For the Berliner Zeitung at the weekend, she observes the whimsical world of celebrities.