Overview

• The roughly 15‑minute film, titled “Niemals geht man so ganz – Peter & Ulrike: Das Jahr danach,” offers first‑hand glimpses of their post‑news lives and is available on RTL+.
• Peter Kloeppel says he lives mainly in Florida with his American wife, keeps an early schedule with daily sport and a one‑hour nap, and has started baking German‑style bread he misses in the United States.
• Ulrike von der Groeben remains in Cologne, has published “Freiheit beginnt jetzt! Tipps für den Start in den (Un-)Ruhestand,” and favors trips to the East Frisian island of Baltrum.
• They note they met for dinner at least twice over the past year, more than during their working years together, and they rarely tune in to their former program “RTL aktuell.”
• Their partnership totals 4,580 joint broadcasts from April 1992 through August 2025, and they reunited publicly in April to receive the Grimme‑Preis.