After severe water damage in his Hamburg apartment, moderator Reinhold Beckmann has found a temporary new home. A boiler exploded above his apartment while he was in India. The renovation will take a year.
Reinhold Beckmann, the well-known German moderator, recently experienced significant water damage in his apartment in Hamburg's Ottensen district. While he was traveling through India, a boiler imploded in the upper rooms of his building. As a result, the entire house, including his apartment, was flooded.
Beckmann, who has lived for many years in a factory-like building in Ottensen, announced that he is now moving to a small attic apartment in the same neighborhood. "I will soon move into a small place in Ottensen under the roof first," he told the magazine "Stern." Due to the damage, the planned party for his 70th birthday on February 23 is postponed for now.
The moderator estimates that the necessary renovation will take about a year. Beckmann became known to the wider public through his work on the sports show "ran." In 2023, he published a book about his family during World War II.
