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His father implores, "Please let me see my granddaughter!"
It is a drama when grandparents are not allowed to embrace their grandchildren. Because then especially the innocent children suffer.
Joint ventures with the granddaughter, loving hugs, a peck for grandpa, a child smile, which warms the heart - all this is for Manfred Weßels (65) nothing more than a beautiful dream. A dream that is unattainable.
Because the father of Schlager star Michael Wendler (40) has not seen his granddaughter Adeline (9) for ages. The reason: the bitter family war in Wendler's house ...
Herne in the Ruhr area. Here Manfred Weßels lives with his second wife very modestly and bourgeois. Pomp and pride as with his son, who lives in a million-mansion with horse stud, there is not here. Father and son live in different worlds, have nothing left to say. The victims: Michael Wendler's daughter Adeline, the sweet granddaughter of Manfred Weßels.
For the first time, the retiree tells us how much he suffers: "It's awful. We have no contact, I'm not allowed to visit Adeline. I have a house ban with my son! "
Michael Wendler wants nothing to do with his father, said a long time ago: "He died for me!" Therefore, Manfred Weßels attempts to visit Adeline, always closed in front of a locked door. A shock to a loving grandfather .
But where did this hatred come from? As so often, it was about money and hurt vanities. Michael Wendler claimed that his father's dilapidated company had driven him into debt. Manfred Weßels says: "I have always done everything for my son!"
With Michael's success came the millions, father and son speak since then only about lawyers with each other. Whoever blames the dispute, the two probably do not even know themselves.
But what Manfred Weßels knows: He wants to bury the hatchet. For his granddaughter. "It's a shame, " he says, moving and leafing through the photo album. "Michael was such a fine boy - and I'm his father after all. I would be ready for reconciliation. "
Especially because Manfred Weßels knows that he does not have much time left: "I'm getting older and want to see my granddaughter grow up. I do not even remember what she looks like ... "
It is up to Michael Wendler to take the hand that his father hands him. And if he does not do it for himself, he should do it for his daughter. Because a child needs a grandpa.
