Daniela Katzenberger: Iris Splits from Stefan at Lake Garda

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Daniela Katzenberger: Iris splits from Stefan at Lake Garda.

What was planned as a joint camping vacation at Lake Garda tips into an emotional rupture in the new episode of the VOX docu-soap "Daniela Katzenberger": Iris Katzenberger (59), mother of Daniela (40), separates there from her then-partner Stefan Braun. Both Focus Panorama and Bunte pick up an identical preview text. The original article comes from KUKKSI.

The show announces the episode dramatically:

But instead of beautiful vacation moments, there are bitter tears, heated accusations, and ultimately even a breakup!

And immediately goes on to explain why the trip becomes especially hard for Iris:

Especially for Mama Iris, the trip becomes an emotional nightmare.

The pitch dispute that triggered everything

Daniela Katzenberger wanted to go camping with her family at Lake Garda and relive memories of her childhood — but tensions flared after a short time. The concrete trigger: not all pitches had been reserved for the entire stay. Some family members therefore had to leave the campsite while the others began searching for new accommodation. Frustration grew within the travel group — and Iris's then-boyfriend Stefan Braun came under fire. The others blamed him for the organizational mishap. Eventually Stefan had enough and left in anger.

The pitch issue was apparently only the opening act. Back in the group, the situation escalated further — until the fight between Iris and Stefan could no longer be patched up.

The outburst in front of eleven-year-old Sophia

In the show, Iris describes how deeply Stefan's behavior hurt her. "Stefan made a huge mistake," she explains to RTL. That things can get a bit louder between adults, she makes clear: "I'm happy to yell back." The line that, from her perspective, gets crossed is a different one: Stefan loses his composure while her eleven-year-old granddaughter Sophia is sitting at the table.

Iris's verdict on this is unequivocal:

He yelled in front of Sophia. That is absolutely not okay with me. That's a no-go.

Stefan Braun also regrets his outburst in hindsight. "That was pretty shitty of me," he admits to RTL. But his feelings for Iris had not changed at that point: "I love the woman. I love the family," he stresses.

The decision at the Lake Garda table

For Iris, who by her own account had only recently mourned a close friend, trust was nevertheless lastingly shattered. The thought that her granddaughter had to witness the fight weighs on her especially: "I felt embarrassed on her behalf, because the girl is sitting there and he's yelling. Absolutely not okay," explains the 59-year-old. She formulates the consequences unmistakably: "When we're home, you can pack your things," she tells Stefan.

The question she then asks captures the end of the relationship in a nutshell: "If you're not even able to handle a few days camping with me, how do you expect to have a relationship with me when that's already too much for you?" In the end, the decision is made in a joint conversation: "We argued so much that we decided to go our separate ways."

What the new episodes show — and what has long been known

The split between Iris Katzenberger and Stefan Braun has long been no secret: it became public back in April 2026. The new episodes now reconstruct in detail which scenes played out beforehand at Lake Garda. And there is already a new chapter: according to Bunte, Iris is "barely separated and already in love again" — freshly smitten with a 31-year-old.

While the underlying press text appears word-for-word identical at both magazines, the headlines set slightly different accents: Focus Panorama speaks more neutrally of a "new episode" and a "breakup"; Bunte is considerably more dramatic with "season" and "love drama," as well as the statement "Iris throws Stefan out," naming Iris's active step outright.