Overview
- LEONINE Studios released the first trailer on Jan. 14, presented exclusively by Bild, launching the film’s promotional campaign.
- Horst Schlämmer sucht das Glück opens in German cinemas on March 26, 2026.
- The film sends the Grevenbroich deputy editor across Germany—from South Germany to Sylt and Büsum—meeting passersby, celebrities and psychologists as he pursues a feel-good mission.
- Sven Unterwaldt directs, with cast members including Tahnee Schaffarczyk, Meltem Kaptan and Laura Thomas.
- Kerkeling calls returning to the role “like a liberation” and says the character is “absolutely un-cancelable”; the new movie is the second Schlämmer feature after the 2009 hit that drew about 1.3–1.4 million cinemagoers.