Overview
- The television presenter returned from a trip to India to find extensive water damage after a boiler above his apartment imploded and flooded the building.
- He has arranged temporary accommodation in a small attic flat in Hamburg’s Ottensen district.
- Plans for his 70th-birthday party on February 23 have been put on hold.
- Beckmann estimates that sanitation and restoration work on the property will take roughly one year.
- The details were conveyed in his remarks to Stern and have been reported across multiple outlets.