diff --git a/app/components/ProductSpotlight.tsx b/app/components/ProductSpotlight.tsx
index 676405b..d6fd9c8 100644
--- a/app/components/ProductSpotlight.tsx
+++ b/app/components/ProductSpotlight.tsx
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { Fragment, type ReactNode } from "react";
 import Image from "next/image";
 import Link from "next/link";
 import { AddToCartButton } from "./AddToCartButton";
@@ -7,6 +8,44 @@ import { getSpotlightProduct, getShippingSettings, getDefaultTaxRatePercent, get
 import { formatPrice, discountPercent } from "../lib/format";
 import { effectiveTaxRate } from "../lib/cartTotals";
 
+type LexicalTextNode = { type: "text"; text: string; format?: number };
+type LexicalNode = { type: string; text?: string; format?: number; children?: LexicalNode[] };
+
+// Minimal Lexical JSON → JSX converter for spotlightText — deliberately NOT
+// the full block-oriented RichText.tsx (Posts/LegalPages' renderer, with
+// its own heading/paragraph spacing and image/quote blocks). This teaser
+// only ever needs paragraphs of plain text with optional bold spans
+// (Lexical's text `format` bitmask: 1 = bold), rendered inline to match
+// this section's own <p className="text-body ..."> treatment rather than
+// picking up article-level block styling.
+function renderInline(node: LexicalNode, key: number): ReactNode {
+  if (node.type === "text") {
+    const textNode = node as LexicalTextNode;
+    const bold = typeof textNode.format === "number" && (textNode.format & 1) === 1;
+    return bold ? <strong key={key}>{textNode.text}</strong> : <Fragment key={key}>{textNode.text}</Fragment>;
+  }
+  if (node.type === "linebreak") return <br key={key} />;
+  // Any other inline node (link, etc.) — render its text children without
+  // the wrapper itself; this teaser has no use for an actual <a> here.
+  return (node.children ?? []).map((child, i) => renderInline(child, i));
+}
+
+function SpotlightText({ content, fallback }: { content: unknown; fallback: string }) {
+  const root = (content as { root?: { children?: LexicalNode[] } } | null)?.root;
+  if (!root?.children?.length) {
+    return <p className="text-body text-text-body whitespace-pre-line">{fallback}</p>;
+  }
+  return (
+    <>
+      {root.children.map((paragraph, i) => (
+        <p key={i} className="text-body text-text-body">
+          {(paragraph.children ?? []).map((child, j) => renderInline(child, j))}
+        </p>
+      ))}
+    </>
+  );
+}
+
 /**
  * Product teaser for whichever product is marked `spotlight` in Payload
  * (defaults to none — the section just doesn't render until one is set),
@@ -86,14 +125,7 @@ export async function ProductSpotlight() {
           >
             {product.spotlightHeadline || product.name}
           </p>
-          {/* whitespace-pre-line — spotlightText is a plain textarea field,
-              and admin-entered paragraph breaks (e.g. the "Die Sieben"
-              spotlight copy) should render as actual line breaks instead of
-              collapsing into one run-on line like default HTML whitespace
-              handling would. */}
-          <p className="text-body text-text-body whitespace-pre-line">
-            {product.spotlightText || product.description}
-          </p>
+          <SpotlightText content={product.spotlightText} fallback={product.description} />
           {/* MwSt./Versand disclosure on its own line, not crammed into
               the price row itself — same reasoning as todo-cards'
               Pricing.tsx (identical text, same narrow-column risk). */}
diff --git a/app/lib/payload.ts b/app/lib/payload.ts
index 6fa5ef8..028f044 100644
--- a/app/lib/payload.ts
+++ b/app/lib/payload.ts
@@ -203,7 +203,13 @@ export type Product = {
   spotlight: boolean;
   spotlightEyebrow: string | null;
   spotlightHeadline: string | null;
-  spotlightText: string | null;
+  // Lexical richText JSON (switched from plain textarea 2026-08-25 so
+  // admins can bold parts of the teaser) — rendered by
+  // ProductSpotlight.tsx's own minimal inline converter, not the full
+  // article-oriented RichText.tsx (that one adds block-level heading/
+  // paragraph spacing meant for blog posts/legal pages, wrong fit for a
+  // single teaser paragraph).
+  spotlightText: unknown | null;
   spotlightImage: string | null;
   // Per-product opt-in for a wishlist heart on the homepage spotlight —
   // independent of (in addition to) the global wishlistEnabled toggle,
@@ -262,7 +268,7 @@ type PayloadProduct = {
   spotlight: boolean;
   spotlightEyebrow: string | null;
   spotlightHeadline: string | null;
-  spotlightText: string | null;
+  spotlightText: unknown | null;
   spotlightImage: { url: string } | number | null;
   spotlightShowWishlist: boolean;
   trackInventory: boolean;