BY M. PITTELKAU, U. SCHÜLER AND G. XANTHOPOULOS
Ladislas Meyer-Landrut (48) has not seen his daughter Lena for 16 years after their contact was broken off.
But now she is set to take Europe by storm as Germany’s entry at the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo later this month.
He said: “There will always be a place for Lena at my table. Only she can choose the moment – but I hope that this moment will come eventually”.
BILD VISITS LENA’S DAD
A simple eight-dwelling block of flats close to Cologne – here lives the man from whom Germany’s star for Oslo inherited more than just her beautiful brown eyes…
“After all this time, I recognised her on TV immediately,” said Ladislas Meyer-Landrut. “And of course I am extremely proud of Lena”.
He had left the family early on when Lena (18, ‘Satellite’) was just two years old. “Nothing can be done for the child if the dad is barking and the mom is meowing,” he says today.
Ladislas, son of former German ambassador to the Soviet Union Andreas Meyer-Landrut, has his hair tied up in a ponytail. There are two wooden earrings in his left ear. He has a deep, pleasant, sonorous voice.
DADDY COOL
His workplace is the municipal seniors service. “I lead a simple, modest and happy life”.
A life without Lena…
That is something he regrets, but not laments. “I am just the maker,” Meyer-Landrut insisted. “I would not now want to establish contact with Lena that would look weird”.
But he is nonetheless a proud father.
“I wish that she stays the same as she is. I am above all pleased that Lena is doing her Abitur [High School diploma]. And of course I hope that she wins in Oslo”.
In the building where he lives, nobody knows that Ladislas is Lena’s dad. “I would like to keep my simple life”. The neighbours only know that the cool guy with the ponytail makes music…
“Yes. I am myself a musician, I play guitar!”
This talent, at least up until now, was the last gift he gave to his daughter.
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