Kerstin Ott had a meteoric rise. Since her profession took off in 2016, she has turn into an integral a part of the German pop scene. A dream for the Berlin lady with a penchant for cigarettes. However earlier than the dream: playing habit. Homelessness. A tough, dwelling nightmare.
Kerstin Ott has been with the Schlager circus for a very long time. © Brigitte Dummer / Schlager.de
Kerstin Ott gained the yr 2016 with “The One Who At all times Laughs”. The self-employed painter grew to become a pop star. She already described the best way there in 2018. Anybody who understood the title of her biography “Nearly at all times smiling” might guess that Kerstin Ott had bitter instances behind her. Playing habit, cash worries, homelessness. What Ott wrote about her soul was cruel. She continues to be requested at present. And in contrast to so a lot of her colleagues who as soon as made their previous public and most well-liked to stay silent about it, she speaks. To have the ability to assist others who doubt themselves, even despair.
Her adrenaline turned her right into a gaming junkie
First the despair, a playing habit. Ott in an interview with “Gala”: “I wished to flee from my on a regular basis life. At the moment I nonetheless stopped myself from coping with myself. I used to be additionally a little bit of an adrenaline junkie and once I performed I used to be in placing all of it collectively is what attracted me.” In some unspecified time in the future, debt and even homelessness arose. “It occurred then as a result of I used to be in police coaching and I noticed this job wasn’t for me,” Ott says within the “internet speak present”. She remembers: “As I’m, I gave up on my heels and thought that one thing would develop in my outdated job. Sadly, that was in the course of the winter. I did not get an condo as rapidly as I had I hope.”
Kerstin Ott lived in a automobile for 3 winter weeks
She had no different supply of earnings on the time and misplaced her flat. Your mattress: the automobile. For 3 lengthy chilly weeks. She discovered a lesson from this, as she reveals in an interview with “Gala”: “In the long run I had hope and the is not going to to remain on this state of affairs for too lengthy. I by no means misplaced religion in myself, I stayed on the ball, I labored and that is how I received out.” Fortuitously, Kerstin Ott is the “one who at all times smiles” once more.
