Overview
- The comedian told Bunte in an interview published Wednesday that decades of savings are gone, she is using her bank overdraft and has mortgaged her house, and the situation keeps her up at night.
- Köster said she spends roughly €1,000 a month on medications, a cost she linked to not having paid work and to the ongoing financial pressure of living with long-term disability after a 2008 stroke.
- She described lasting physical limits from the stroke, including weak use of her left arm and difficult walking, and said she sometimes gets around in an electric wheelchair on good days.
- Her 33-year-old son is a key source of emotional and practical support and she worries he could inherit debt despite his promise that he will earn enough after finishing his studies.
- Köster used the interviews to urge political attention to the strain on intensive and care staff and to criticize public understanding of care work, remarks that were carried by multiple outlets though one quoted a more pointed comment about migrant caregivers and AfD supporters.