Overview
- Intemann won nearly 1.8 million Deutsche Mark in 1994, then spent the windfall on property, cars, travel, failed business ideas and gifts.
- Within about a decade the money was gone, and he recounts a period of private insolvency, divorce, depression and time in a shelter, crediting his Bernese mountain dog with keeping him alive.
- Two decades on, he says he is debt-free, works at a beverage market and takes home about €1,800 net per month, keeping expenses low and renting a room in a shared flat.
- To earn and cope after the collapse, he once offered his shaved head as ad space, drew media bookings, and later took his story to small stages such as the “Kunst gegen Bares” format.
- He is pursuing paid talks, plans an autobiography with a professional writer and no longer plays Lotto for himself, though he enters his mother’s numbers and says he does not want to win again.