Overview
- He says he applied to the quiz show to finance an event vessel for parties he had envisioned from his event-planning work.
- He and a friend found the nearly 120-year-old boat on the IJsselmeer in the Netherlands and decided on the spot to buy it.
- He describes a selection process with multiple rounds and telephone tests that included questions such as Angela Merkel’s birthplace and the name of the first German foreign minister.
- He became the show’s eleventh million-euro winner in 2015 and later noted the ship cost less than a million and could have been financed by credit.
- His account was shared in conversation with Bianca Heinicke for SWR3’s 1 plus 1 – Freundschaft auf Zeit.