2024-04-14 03:59:42
In January, the Health Minister made his new love public. Now Karl Lauterbach showed up at the Federal Press Ball with Elisabeth Niejahr.
Now the couple walked the red carpet together and posed for the photographers at the 71st Federal Press Ball in Berlin’s Hotel Adlon. Karl Lauterbach appeared in classic black and revealed to the German Press Agency: “Everything I’m wearing today, the tuxedo, the shirt, the bow tie, the cufflinks, everything is just borrowed from Kreuzberg, nothing is owned.”
“He should do this more often”
“But I think it looks good on him. He should do it more often,” enthused Elisabeth Niejahr, who also wore black for the gala event. She wore a blue tweed jacket from the French fashion label Gerard Darel over a simple long dress.
However, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Economics Minister Robert Habeck, Finance Minister Christian Lindner and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock canceled. For the first time since the party entered the Bundestag in 2017, AfD politicians and their press spokesmen were not even invited. Their presence could not be combined with this year’s motto “For freedom of the press. Protecting democracy,” said the organizer.
The ball has been organized by the Federal Press Conference, the association of capital journalists, since 1951, initially in Bonn and Bad Neuenahr, and since 1999 in Berlin. Around 2,200 guests from the media, politics and business came to the Hotel Adlon on Friday evening.