TV host Reinhold Beckmann must leave his apartment in Hamburg's Ottensen district after severe water damage flooded the building. An imploded boiler caused the incident, discovered while he was traveling in India. Beckmann is now packing his bags in search of a new home.
Reinhold Beckmann, the well-known TV host, musician, and author, has lost his home in Hamburg. In the NDR Talk Show on Friday evening, he stated: "I'm packing my bags." His apartment has become uninhabitable due to severe water damage – "nothing left to save there." The renovation is expected to take about a year.
The damage was caused by a boiler in the rooms above his apartment, which imploded and flooded the entire building. Beckmann learned of it while on a trip to India. A neighbor discovered the water damage on Saturday when she picked up his mail and noticed the flooding. Without her, it might not have been found until Monday.
Beckmann has lived for many years in a factory-like building in Hamburg's Ottensen district, where he is the only resident; the rest serves as business spaces. Upon his return, the apartment reeked of moisture, food and parts of his clothing were ruined, but fortunately not his instruments. The fire department saved the research materials for his second book: "Everything is okay there." The kitchen, however, is completely destroyed.
"You lose a home that you loved very, very much, and now you're forced to move out and find something new," Beckmann reflected. Born in 1956 in Twistringen, Lower Saxony, he turns 70 on February 23. He gained fame through the sports show "ran" and published a book in 2023 about his family during World War II.
