Overview
- Thaler, in interviews published Friday, promoted an April 1 book launch with Knaur and a spring reading tour that includes sold‑out dates in Rosenheim and Deggendorf.
- The memoir recounts her mother’s gambling addiction culminating in 1993, when she tried to extort a supermarket for five million marks by threatening to claim its cottage cheese was poisoned, leading to a three‑and‑a‑half‑year sentence.
- Thaler says she worked to repay her mother’s debts, describing severe strain at home that included her husband eating cat food when money ran out.
- She now calls the relationship a case of co‑dependency and says writing the book became therapy after finding her mother’s life story following her death in 2022.
- A longtime cast member of ZDF’s Die Rosenheim‑Cops since 2002, Thaler says she continues on the series but is filming less to reclaim personal time.