Overview

• The three-part production by Tristan Ferland Milewski and Ilona Tolle is available from August 26 on the ARD Mediathek.
• The film includes a recorded message to an ex-partner in which she says, “Hallo, ich bin’s, der Daniel, also die Lana eigentlich … ich möchte gern von dem Schiff hier runter.”
• New interviews and archival material depict sustained tabloid ridicule and queerphobic attitudes in the 2000s as a key part of the context for her life.
• Friends and family members largely did not know she was living as Lana Kaiser shortly before the disappearance.
• The documentary provides no new evidence about the September 9, 2018 overboard incident from AIDAluna, and the 2021 legal declaration of death stands.