The Söder daughter and the ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt are making headlines with their unusual liaison. The two can learn a lot from each other, says columnist Nicole Diekmann.
If you enter the name Gloria-Sophie Burkandt into Google these days, the search engine’s news section delivers a quasi-self-referential result: The daughter of CSU boss Markus Söder is currently dominating the headlines because of her dalliance with the former boss of – yes, Google.
Now I wish everyone in this world true love from the depths of my soul. And I’m just as happy for everyone who makes each other happy with a dalliance, a flirt or other more non-binding and time-limited versions of spring fever. Especially in the foothills of this not only meteorologically harsh winter, we are all looking for warmth.
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And yet: It is a very difficult connection that Burkandt and Eric Schmidt are currently enjoying, eagerly accompanied by the boulevard. She is 27, he is 70. For those who are lazy about math: the age difference is 43 years. Realistically, he could be her father. He is actually only eleven years older than Markus Söder. That is, I am currently on the move, namely 59 years old. Mathematically, Schmidt could even be her grandfather. I know love is a strange game and falls into the most unlikely places, but I don’t understand women who are attracted to men who are generations older than them. To make this clear, this also applies to men who are looking for much younger women.
But I don’t have to understand everything, and I came to terms with the fact that not everyone in this world conforms to my ideas of success and success many years ago. In addition to the love and beautiful feelings for each other, what I really appreciate about this complex world is the fact that it never takes long to see something positive in almost everything. So let’s take a closer look at the potential of the liaison between the married Schmidt, who has an open marriage, and Burkandt.
date: 2026-02-11 20:58:00