Ms. Achenbach, everyone knows your laundry now. How does that feel? Well, there is table linen, bed linen, dirty laundry – but most people associate other types of laundry, namely underwear. The title of my first book, "Everyone now knows my laundry", was a bit sensational in this respect. What I meant to say is that house searches and visits by bailiffs are extremely intrusive. And he recalls that a lot of dirty laundry was washed in connection with the scandal.

How was that for you? A lot has been written in the media. By describing everything from my point of view in two books, I have regained some of the sovereignty of interpretation.

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