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Entertainer and actor Schmidt: Back on board
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Harald Schmidt is shooting again as Oskar Schifferle on the »Traumschiff«.
A ZDF spokeswoman told the "Badische Latest News": "The shooting of the ship started on Tuesday." The 65-year-old joined the crew a few days later.
His manager Sigrid Korbmacher confirmed: "That's right.
It starts at the weekend.” Filming is planned abroad until December.
According to ZDF, it is not yet clear when this new episode will be broadcast.
According to ZDF information, the MS Amadea will take you to the Canary Islands and Cape Verde via Madeira.
“The land part will be shot in Namibia in January and February 2023.” The episodes that have already been produced without Schmidt as Schifferle will probably run until the end of 2023.
In the "Lapland" episode of the "Dream Ship" that was exceptionally broadcast last Sunday - instead of New Year's Day or Christmas - the cruise director Schifferle was "on sick leave", as Florian Silbereisen expressly said in the film as the captain.
The trained theater actor Harald Schmidt, who became famous as a late-night talker, has been part of the regular crew since New Year's Day 2008.
During the Corona period there were discussions about Schmidt's corona vaccination status, which the entertainer liked to riddle.
Why exactly Schifferle then disappeared and whether a lack of vaccination played a role is unclear.
Schifferle was last seen on board by ZDF viewers at Christmas 2021 in the episode »Sweden«.
The episode had been filmed the previous summer.
eth/dpa