Overview

• Samuel Koch announced on August 22 that he is leaving Instagram for the time being, making the statement in a post cited by tz.de/dpa.
• He said the platform fostered a professional and personal co-dependence that created a form of unfreedom for him.
• He emphasized the departure is temporary, using the word “vorerst,” and he did not set a timeline for a return.
• He thanked the many people who had shared their suffering with him on the channel and expressed gratitude for their openness.
• He is a film and theater actor, author and speaker with more than 71,000 Instagram followers, known publicly since a 2010 accident on “Wetten, dass..?” left him paralyzed and using a wheelchair, and he has been in the Nationaltheater Mannheim ensemble since 2018/19.