The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and his wife spent the Christmas holidays in the Canary Islands. As it was a strictly private trip, we are not going to reveal where the couple, who returns to Berlin today, have been or what they have done. But there is one detail that the chancellor won’t mind letting him know: He hasn’t set foot on his former boss’s favorite island, Angela Merkel. Once a year, at least, Merkel travels to La Gomera to go hiking and enjoy almost intact nature, admire an endless ocean and exercise her reflexes by walking in dizzying stretches. Imagine that you find it.
Scholz returns home a little tanner, more rested and loaded with vitamin D for the political winter that awaits him, but at the cost of missing the Christmas show with which Helene Fischer has entertained for a decade. million Germans on the first public television channel. A program that this year has once again been full of surprises and nods to current events, in addition to the performances of the Swedish singer Loreen, the last winner of Eurovision, and Helene dressed as Barbie. The Helene Fischer show, the non-English speaking singer with higher incomes in the music business, even ahead of Céline Dion and Britney Spears, in Germany he is as linked to Christmas as street markets, decorated fir trees, mulled wine and the hope that it will snow.
Forbes magazine places it in eighth place on the list with about 28 million euros annually. It’s not much compared to Katy Perry (73 million), Lady Gaga (44), Jennifer Lopez (41) and Riana (about 33), but she counts former President Donald Trump among her declared fans.
Helene Fischer, 1.58 meters tall and 52 kilos, sings Schlager, a type of light and catchy piece accompanied by pop instrumentals, which is fundamentally about love. Mandatory to sing it in German, although this blonde doll dares with everything. She has recorded with Luis Fonsi and in one of his last specials she brought him as a guest to perform a duet of Despacito with German sensuality.
The queen of German Christmas entertainment was born 39 years ago in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. In 1988 she moved with her Russian-German parents to Wöllstein in Rhineland-Palatinate. She doesn’t speak Russian, but if she had to she would learn some lyrics, because she is more than a singer. She is an artist. She sings, dances and does acrobatics even on the trapeze.