2024-06-22 11:13:10
When the “Neue Deutsche Welle” dominated the German charts, two pop star lovebirds led the press by the nostril for an entire yr.
Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz, Matthias Schweighöfer and Ruby O. Payment, Collien Ulmen Fernandes and Christian Ulmen, Lena Meyer-Landrut and Mark Forster: Those that are profitable within the leisure world prefer to have a companion at their aspect for issues of the center who has precisely the identical way of life. These days, that is not an enormous deal. In spite of everything, the Web and social media by no means sleep and have their eyes in all places.
Previously, nonetheless, celeb amorous affairs may very well be saved secret. The perfect instance: the Hollywood-style hide-and-seek sport between Germany’s most well-known lodge visitor, Udo Lindenberg, and Hagen’s pop export hit par excellence, Gabriele Susanne Kerner, alias Nena.
Maybe the preferred German musicians of the 80s really could not maintain their fingers off one another for an entire yr. Virtually extra astonishing than the liaison itself is the truth that nearly no one knew something about it till 2002. The panic rocker and the “99 Luftballons” creator saved their romantic secret underneath wraps for nearly twenty years. However then the “greatest secret in present enterprise” was revealed in type through the entrance web page headline of “BILD”.
Sooner or later within the mid-eighties, Nena and Udo are stated to have hit it off on a flight from Berlin to London. What adopted was an emotional rollercoaster journey that each events bear in mind as “nice enjoyable”. Nena specifically put a variety of effort into the sport of disguise and search: “I went by means of reception on the Intercontinental carrying a monkey masks. On Sylt, I used to be smuggled into accommodations at night time with a blanket over my head,” says the NDW icon in an interview with the “Tagesspiegel”. To maintain the connection secret, everybody concerned went to nice lengths – and succeeded. Solely as soon as did issues get actually tight. Nena remembers: “We nearly bought caught as soon as by the then “Bravo” editor-in-chief, who was standing within the lodge foyer in London, once we wished to go roller-skating at night time. I jumped behind the velvet curtain… It was actually thrilling,” reveals the singer.
However within the fast-moving pop universe, the spark of affection quickly light. For a yr, Nena and Udo had a passionate relationship in secret. “Then it bought boring,” Nena admits. Right now, each musicians can chortle lightheartedly concerning the rosy pranks of the previous.
Each Nena and Udo Lindenberg have lengthy since discovered their real love. Whereas Nena has been fortunately in a relationship with drummer and music producer Philipp Palm for the reason that mid-nineties, Panikorchester boss Udo Lindenberg has been raving about freelance illustrator and photographer Tine Acke since 1999. “Tine is aware of me greatest and we belief one another utterly,” Udo Lindenberg revealed to the “Frankfurter Rundschau” in 2019.
The admired particular person describes the cult German rocker as follows: “Udo is at all times very quick and really spontaneous. Precisely the other of me: I prefer to plan. However with Udo that is not potential, you will have to have the ability to shoot from the hip,” says Tine Acke.
And what does Nena say concerning the love of her life? The good woman of German popular culture, who got here across the nook 40 years in the past in a vivid purple miniskirt and unshaven armpits, does not actually must say a lot. When Nena bought along with Philipp Palm, twelve years her junior, in 1993, no one believed that the connection would final. Right now, the 2 lovebirds have two grown-up kids, Samuel and Simeon, and are nonetheless completely happy collectively. And now everybody: “Love does not search, love does not ask, love is…”