Health Minister Karl Lauterbach appears on the red carpet with his girlfriend. In January, the Federal Health Minister confirmed his relationship with journalist Elisabeth Niejahr.

The two appeared in public as a couple for the first time at the Berlinale premiere of the film “Small Things Like These” Lautersbach has four children with his first wife, but he says he has not had any contact with her for years. He has another child from a subsequent relationship with a journalist.