Michael Graeter

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Michael Graeter (* 1941 in Munich ) is a German Boulevard - journalist and author . Graeter caused a sensation with the publication of gossip stories and social columns that were a mixture of personal experiences, life stories and often anonymous information. He was the inspiration for the film character Baby Schimmerlos from the Kir Royal film series by Helmut Dietl .

Life and work

Graeter volunteered at Augsburger Allgemeine in the early 1960s. According to his own statements, he was Germany's youngest head of department at the Munich evening newspaper , for which he already wrote as a member of the editorial team in 1965 . From 1970 to 1983 he was the publisher of the Augsburger Neue Presse . Later he worked as a correspondent in Paris for various newspapers and the ZDF telecast the hub . From 1984 to 1988 he wrote for Bild and from 1989 to 1997 for the magazine Bunte as a society columnist, then for the Neue Revue .

In 1975 he played in the episode A Playboy Blesses the Temporal of the crime series The Commissioner Himself.

From 1979 to 1998 he ran the “Extrablatt” café on Leopoldstrasse in Schwabing and also opened branches in Los Angeles and Berlin, which, however, failed. In 1986 he founded the Munich cinemas “Cadillac” and “Veranda”, and in 1998 the film theater “Aeroport FJS Schwabing”.

On March 13, 2002 he was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment on probation by the Munich Regional Court for delaying insolvency, bankruptcy and embezzlement of wages. Graeter therefore moved to Switzerland and worked there for a Swiss private broadcaster. However, he was extradited and had to serve the remaining eight months in the Landsberg correctional facility due to the breach of his probation requirements .

Graeter wrote again for the evening newspaper for a few years before Martin Balle took over in 2014 .

Graeter is married to Monika Graeter and has a son (* 1991), he lives with his family on the outskirts of Munich.

Works (selection)

  • The big, famous and rich. An indiscreet report . Herbig, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7766-1447-1
  • Who's what in Munich. In words and pictures . Schulz, Percha am Starnberger See 1987, ISBN 3-7962-0119-9
  • Vanity. Secret of success . Herbig, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7766-1599-0
  • Lexicon of Gossip. Love, vice and scandals - from Boris to Verona . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-8218-3946-5
  • Extra sheet . Langen / Müller, September 2009, ISBN 3784432077

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Article can no longer be accessed) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.michaelgraeter.de
  2. ↑ Tina Stockausen: Michael Graeter - a life for gossip . Ed .: Rheinische Post. Volume 64, Number 210, September 10, 2009, p. D8 .
personal data
SURNAME Graeter, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich