Film, Music, Fashion, Sports & Politics
AL GORE / FARAH PAHLAVI / ANDRÉ AGASSI / BRITNEY SPEARS / BEYONCÉ / CLAUDIa SCHIFFER / DIANE KEATON / KARL LAGERFELD / JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER / LAUREN BACALL / MICK JAGGER / SUHA ARAFAT / VIVIENNE WESTWOOD / VITALI AND WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO / GEORGE MICHAEL / NAOMI KLEIN / HANIF KUREISHI / MICHAEL ENDE / MICHAEL MOORE / JAMIE OLIVER / FRÉDÉRIC BEIGBEDER / Benedict Cumberbatch / Cara Delevingne / Alicia VIKANDER / Meryl Streep / Jack Nicholson / Angelina Jolie / Anthony Hopkins / George Clooney / Bill Murray / Cameron Diaz / Kate Winslet / Cate Blanchett / Leo Di Caprio / Matt Damon / Marion Cotillard / Nicole Kidman / Robert Redford / Sylvester Stallone / Dustin Hoffman / Woody Allen / Shekhar Kapoor / Ron Howard / Sophia Loren / Steven Spielberg / Francis Ford Coppola / Daniel Day-Lewis / Asghar Farhadi / Jane Fonda/ Jodie Foster / Michael Caine / Woody Allen / Mira Nair / Cate Blanchett / Marjane Satrapi / ABBAS KIAROSTAMI / Heath Ledger / Paul Walker / Brandon Lee / Robin Williams / Roger Willemsen / Brittany Murphy / Sir Richard Attenbourough / Alicia Vikander / JESSICA CHASTAIN / CAREY MULLIGAN / SCARLETT JOHANSSON / CATE BLANCHETT / CHARLIZE THERON / Brad Pitt / Jennifer Aniston / Anna Maria Mühe / Daniel Brühl / Fatih Akin / Naomi Watts
Unforgettable Memories
George Clooney singing The Way We Were at the bar of the Cipriani Hotel in Venice, with Oscar winning composer Marvin Hamlisch on the piano
Pierce Brosnan and I almost weeping in an interview, talking about personal despair and suicide attempts
The ever-lovely Kate Winslet showing me private photos and videos of her kids
Snatching Shirin Neshat out of her own Venice premiere - as she urged before - so that she could get at least four hours of sleep before flying to NYC
Jeff Goldblum playing piano for me
Meeting newlyweds Cate Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton on their visit to Hamburg
Gwyneth Paltrow expressing her enthusiasm for meeting "a talented musician like Chris Martin"
Nicole Kidman entering barefoot into our room, shocked that Clive Owen was caught in the elevator
A tête-à-tête with George Clooney demonstrating the "Beshkan," a Persian way of clicking fingers, and his skill for cooking Shirin Polo, Albaloo Polo and Kalam Polo
When Pierre Cardin showed me around in his labyrinthic Palais Bulles — and got lost himself. Searching our way out, we ran into his special guests Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. We then joined them for an intimate cocktail in Cardin’s private salon.
How elegantly Catherine Deneuve manages to eat salad while speaking
Being asked by Diane Keaton how I meet guys I want to date
Eva Mendes confessing that I look like her best friend
Bruce Willis asking me: "Are you wearing a table-cloth?" (I was.)
Tom Hanks: "She is intimidating."
Receiving a Christmas card from Ang Lee
Robert Redford greeting me: "I remember you! Do you remember me?"
Reportage Extraordinaire
Pete Doherty complaining about Kate Moss burning his teddy-bear
Penélope Cruz telling me what she learned in her mother’s hairdresser’s shop about psychology
Charlotte Gainsbourg confessing that her lust for going to extremes on screen grew since a dangerous accident
Talking with Al Gore for "Welt am Sonntag“ about environmentalism
My covers stories for Swiss magazine Style
A "Spiegel online" story about an absurd set visit at Lars von Trier's "Melancholia" in Sweden
Reporting on 40 high-profiled Germans on their worst jobs, published in the German "Handelsblatt" magazine "Junge Karriere“ - the stories were often so original that Spiegel Online quoted them.
A "Spiegel Online" report about Roman Polanski’s first re-appearance at Zurich Film Festival after his incarceration
Al Pacino, Julianne Moore and Mads Mikkelsen interviews in "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung“
The talks with Abbas Kiarostami, Haifa al-Mansour or Deniz Gamze Ergüven in German VOGUE
Mariam and Shohreh Aghdashloo at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 12, 2016.