Money used to be unimportant to them – today things are different
In May 2010, the then 19-year-old Lena from Hanover, who had previously only worked as a Expander appeared in “K11 – Inspectors in Action” or “Judge Alexander Hold”, the ESC winner’s title went to Germany for the second time – and made music history. As the winner of the “Eurovision Song Contest” she gets, among other things, a three-part song Luxury brand suitcase set Rimowa gifted. “Who can afford a Rimowa suitcase? That was so absurd for me and I got three of them; a large, a medium and a small. I couldn’t believe it. The thing lasted seven years.”Lena remembers in the “Everything said?” podcast at the end of 2019.
Lena Meyer-Landrut does not come from a wealthy family. “We weren’t on the brink of existence, but it wasn’t as if we could have bought everything we could have imagined. We have always lived very modestly“, reveals the singer. Before taking part in Stefan Raab’s casting show “Our Star for Oslo”, she had never worked once in her life. “Never did a student job or newspapers delivered. Not because I was so incredibly lazy, but because it didn’t make sense to me, because I didn’t understand the reason. […] I didn’t want to buy anything, that’s why I didn’t need to earn any money either“, Lena reports in the podcast. The musician was even more overwhelmed in May 2010 “sudden financial freedom and independence had no more financial worries”.
Although Lena Meyer-Landrut emphasized to “Stylebook” in July 2018 that she Money is important be, “because it means security“, she doesn’t chase after the bills. Investing in stocks and dealing extensively with the financial industry in order to achieve the best possible profit is not for the singer. “I don’t do things like that just to make money. Somehow that’s not in me.”says Lena, theirs Annual income estimated at around 850,000 euros becomes.
Sources used: Vermögensmagazin, Vermögens.org, picture, “Everything said?” podcast, stylebook