Actor Christopher Waltz
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After a flight from Munich to Berlin, Christoph Waltz never saw his suitcase again. It contained “beautiful, beloved things” that the actor now misses. A complaint has so far been unsuccessful.
Ein the suitcase of actor and two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz was lost on a Lufthansa flight in December and has not been found since. Waltz told the Süddeutsche Zeitung that he had given up the piece of luggage “with childlike trust” – “in the meantime given up in the literal sense” – and has not seen it again since.
In the suitcase, a “brand new Rimowa”, there would have been “beautiful, cherished things” and if the complaint process between him and the Lufthansa hotline was “a medical emergency, I would have been dead for weeks,” said Waltz.
“At Lufthansa, trying to get your suitcase back gets you into a completely depersonalized and absolutely industrial process,” Waltz told the newspaper. There has been “a Property Irregularity Report, reference number BER-LH-33385, for more than two months.”
He checked in the suitcase on December 16, 2022 before a flight from Munich to Berlin, and the luggage was to be delivered on December 30, 2022 with flight LH 1934. “I know all the numbers by heart,” said the actor. The 66-year-old Hollywood star does not know whether the suitcase was stolen or lost for other reasons.