Ex-first lady Bettina Wulff is promoting her new book on Jörg Kachelmann's TV talk - and also comes up with Michelle Obama and liver sausage cuts.
- Bettina Wulff was once Germany's first lady .
- In 2018, she separated from ex-federal presidents for the second timeChristian Wulff.
- In the talk by Jörg Kachelmann , she spoke about how this time shaped her.
Leipzig - Ex-First Lady Bettina Wulff spoke fairly frankly in the current issue of the MDR talk "Riverboat" about her time at the side of ex-Federal President Christian Wulff - and moderator Jörg Kachelmann had a phrase from her new book in particular .
He had even noted the position: on page 109. "She was Germany's youngest and most glamorous first lady - but inside she felt like a 'master butcher at a vegan conference'", he introduces her to the audience.
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Ex-First-Lady Bettina Wulff: "I felt like a 'master butcher'"
Bettina Wulff laughs embarrassed. "That's a bit exaggerated ..." - "You wrote it!" "Yes!" "Do you admit that you wrote it?" - "I don't just admit it, it's a lot of fun made and was also a good process ”. I didn't write it alone, but together with a very, very good friend of mine, Heino Masemann, ”she rowed back a bit.
Kachelmann would now like to know who the “vegans” were at the time and why Wulff felt so strange in her role as Germany's first lady. The 46-year-old replied that she had often experienced moments when she "should have pinched herself". “The life that I had lived up to then was a normal single-parent life, I say. And suddenly everything was different. ”In this new environment, she felt like a“ master butcher ”.
Jörg Kachelmann (MDR) on Bettina Wulff: "Did you practice this standing?"
Do they now lead a "normal" life again and has something of this "in-between life", as they describe it, persisted? She took a lot with her, replies Wulff diplomatically, and "there have been many great experiences and encounters that I definitely don't want to miss".
Now the director is showing a photo of Bettina and Christian Wulff together. "There are a lot of legendary photos of you from that time, and it's almost iconic how you stood there," flatters Kachelmann. Wulff giggles and explains: "This is the first photo, that is, the photo taken by the Federal President in the Presidential Office ." Wulff is standing in a robe made of bright red, shiny fabric with his head raised at the side of her husband at the time.
"Did you practice this standing?" - "Yes, of course!", It comes promptly. "That was a bit bizarre. I remember exactly, I went there in jeans and sneakers, from Hanover to Berlin, put on my dress, and then I was back-and-forth back - and in the evening I was back at liver sausage cuts, ”says Wulff.
More about Bettina Wulff in the video: She and Christian Wulff separated again
Bettina Wulff in the Kachelmann Talk: Michelle Obama is an “icon” for me
Later, the language comes to another ex-first lady: Michelle Obama , who met Wulff - and was "incredibly excited" at the meeting, as she explains. "She is an icon for me. She took away all inhibitions and fears, we got on very well. ”
She talked to Obama about family and children - and took a valuable piece of advice from the meeting: With all the hustle and bustle around the office as first lady, never losing contact with the surrounding area. Unfortunately, she no longer has any contact with Michelle Obama today: "It is a function, a kind of office that I held there and that is also over." Incidentally, Wulff's new book bears the striking title "Different Than I Think - How I Learn what really matters ”.
Bettina Wulff in NDR talk: "What really attacks me ..."
Already at the beginning of the month, the ex-federal president's wife, who is currently promoting this, was seen on television. In the "NDR Talk Show" she spoke about the fight against paparazzi - which she sometimes feels as "hopeless". "What really attacks me are nasty stories about the family and my children," said Wulff.
For a while, the photographers would have followed and ambushed their children . But in the end the realization followed: "You can't win at this level." In 2008, the 46-year-old PR consultant from Burgwedel married Christian Wulff, the then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, who was Federal President from 2010 to 2012. The couple separated.
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