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From the big stage to a successful restaurateurA path full of resistance – how Doreen Dietel turned her life around
Actress Doreen Dietel
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“Not everything is beautiful, even if it seems that way from the outside.”
Doreen Dietel (51) appeared in “Dahoam is Dahoam” for many years until the unexpected end came in 2017. The time afterwards wasn't easy for her, as the actress now says in an interview. And the years that followed were also filled with challenges.
Doreen Dietel opens a restaurant – but then the pandemic came
“After ten years of loyalty and total commitment to BR, it was the biggest slap in the face” of her career, she says Doreen Dietel in conversation with t-online about the end of the series. Suddenly it was no longer clear what to do next. She had a young son and with the child “it would have been difficult to go to Berlin to get myself back into the conversation – cleaning clinics, so to speak,” she says. Instead, the series star opened a restaurant on Tegernsee at the beginning of April 2018. A path that wasn't easy either.
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The Corona period came, staff shortages and economic challenges. “Can I do it?” Doreen Dietel asked herself again and again, as can be seen in a post on the restaurant’s Instagram profile. “But giving up was never an option for me,” she reported in it in April 2025.
She “finally picked up a wooden spoon herself and has been in the kitchen every day since then, feeding my guests and ultimately spoiling them with my own creative dishes”. She “fought through, always got up, learned, improved and just never stopped believing in myself. I did this because I wanted my son to be proud of me.”
A more honest life for Doreen Dietel
Doreen Dietel tells t-online that she now finds life in the country “more honest” than life on the red carpets. But starting with the restaurant was obviously very challenging. “A lot of things went wrong without my knowledge because I trusted the wrong people blindly and in good faith – and after six months my account balance was in the red.” She had to fight again. Today her income is “more regular and more predictable than in acting, even if the work is completely different. As a self-employed person, I have a lot more responsibility and uncertainty, but at the same time I also have more control.”
The former jungle camp participant works on weekends, sometimes without help, for up to 14 hours at a time, which is “extremely physically and mentally exhausting”. She cannot afford to be sick and continues to work even when she is in pain. your fiancé, whom she describes as a “great partner”, but supports her. “He is a very sensitive and intelligent person and even gave up his job as a radio presenter for us. That means a lot to me.”
She often asks herself why there are always new problems in her life. For example, she currently urgently needs to look for an apartment because she was laid off due to her own needs. But giving up is still out of the question: “Every day is a challenge and not everything is beautiful, even if it seems that way from the outside. But you have to stay strong and keep going. And that’s exactly what I do – every single day.” (spot on news/dga)
Sources used: spot on news
