You can argue about a lot of things, but there are no compromises when it comes to children who need our help.
That’s why even Amira and Oliver Pocher smiled for the cameras at the big fundraising gala of “A Heart for Children” despite their separation – after all, it was about the good cause live on ZDF on Saturday evening.
SHE came solo, HE with ex-wife Sandy Meyer-Wölden. All three were on the donation phone – a break for a good cause. At the end there was a large sum on the bright red heart.
What a moment! Moderator Johannes B. Kerner brings together the (somewhat surprised) Pochers Amira and Oliver, who were actually sitting separately in the hall. But they stood pretty close to each other again for a minute
THANK YOU for 21,216,573 euros!
Millions of people tuned in, hundreds of thousands called and donated to the BILD charity. Almost 100 celebrities such as Verona Pooth, Sophia Thomalla and friend Alexander Zverev or politicians like Karl Lauterbach answered the calls with large and small donations – and waived their fees.
Sophia Thomalla and Alexander Zverev were both on the phones on Saturday evening
So did moderator Johannes B. Kerner. And he even celebrated his 59th birthday live on stage.
Particularly moving: the appearance of Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer (102), who was personally awarded the “Golden Heart” by Chancellor Olaf Scholz for her commitment to fighting forgetting.
Margot Friedlander (102) The Chancellor presents her with the “Golden Heart”
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21,216,573 euros! THANK YOU for your heart for children
Millions of people tuned in, hundreds of thousands called and donated to the BILD charity. Almost 100 celebrities and politicians answered the calls with large and small donations.
That was the big “A Heart for Children” fundraising gala 2023. We say: THANK YOU for 21,216,573 euros! THANK YOU for your heart for children!
You can continue to donate here.
Lindner checks the numbers
If anyone knows anything about finance, it would probably be HE: Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner! Here he quickly checks his donation total notes again.
Bryan Adams sings “So happy it hurts”
Live on the “A Heart for Children” gala stage: Bryan Adams himself.
He sings his song “So happy it hurts”. Let’s see if we are the same when it comes to the final donation count…
Anna Loos visits aid project in Ethiopia
When it comes to war, people think of Ukraine and Gaza. But until recently a bloody conflict also raged in northern Ethiopia, with up to 700,000 people losing their lives.
Actress and singer Anna Loos (53) chose the BILD aid organization “A Heart for Children” made their way to this area forgotten by the world, where no help has arrived for years. The weakest people in particular suffer from this: the children of Afar.
The Australian nurse Valerie Browning (73) helps people wherever she can with her aid organization APDA.
Your aid organization, with the support of Diakonie Catastrophe Aid from Germany, has started a program to provide medical care to children. “The situation of the children here is extremely dramatic,” says the nurse. “More and more of them are being born with disabilities. They die from measles or pneumonia. The children and their mothers need help as quickly as possible.”
The vaccination costs five euros per child, it protects against ten diseases, including measles and whooping cough. Diseases that no child will have to die from in 2023, anywhere in the world.
What are Pocher and Thomalla whispering here?
“A Heart for Children” is sometimes a bit of a celebrity school trip: Here Alexander Zverev and Sophia Thomalla whisper with Oliver Pocher and Sandy Meyer-Wölden. And you would LOVE to play mouse…
“That’s how it started back then, it’s terrible.”
The great Margot Friedländer on the political situation: “When I came back to Germany in 2010, I couldn’t have imagined that something like this could happen again. That’s how it started back then, it’s horrible. Be human. People don’t do things like that.”
She goes on to say, addressing the generations after her: “I have come back to awaken you. It is for you, only for you. What was done to people back then must never happen again.”
Johannes B. Kerner says what every person in the room is thinking: “THANK YOU, Margot Friedländer. On behalf of all of us that you are here.”
Chancellor Olaf Scholz honors Margot Friedländer
“Nothing would be more comprehensible or understandable if you had turned away from this country forever,” said Chancellor Scholz, who awarded Margot Friedländer the “Golden Heart”.
“But you changed your mind, you reached out to your country. As a late returnee, what a great gesture, what happiness for our country. They came back to talk to us. To make young people imagine the almost unimaginable. And to say again and again with her deeply impressive tirelessness: ‘It is your responsibility to ensure that something like this NEVER happens again’.”
The appeal that Friedländer also recommends to the younger generations: “Be people, respect people”. “We are deeply grateful to you for this, we will carry this message forward,” promises the Chancellor.
Margot Friedländer receives the “Golden Heart”
Margot Friedländer (102), Holocaust survivor and traveling salesman against forgetting, is awarded the “Golden Heart” at “A Heart for Children”.
“One question determined our lives: How much can humans endure?” says Friedländer in the clip. Born in Berlin, she had a lovely childhood until Hitler came to power. 10 years after the Nazis came to power, Margot’s parents were sent to a concentration camp and murdered there. In 1944 Margot was also caught. She survives – and immigrates to the USA.
In 2010 – at the age of 89 – she returned to her old home, Berlin. As a contemporary witness, she fights against forgetting. “I’m grateful that I can do this for those who didn’t make it,” says the impressive woman.
There aren’t many people like Margot Friedländer anymore. This makes it all the more important to listen very carefully to this delicate, quiet woman when she says: “I have a job.”
“THAT wasn’t in the script”
TV premiere: Michelle Hunziker and Roland Kaiser together on the show stage! HE sings the song “It’s cold outside” with HER. A perfect pairing!
Kaiser simply finds Hunziker “great,” as he reveals to BILD. “Michelle is just fantastic. She is uncomplicated, lovable, beautiful and I really enjoy singing with her. I asked her and she said yes.”
Surprise for moderator Kerner: At the end of their performance, Michelle and Roland Kaiser sing “Happy Birthday” for Johannes B. Kerner, who is celebrating his 59th birthday today. “But that wasn’t in the script,” says the consummate professional, briefly speechless.
What a powerful photo!
Margot Friedländer (102), Holocaust survivor, hand in hand with Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer SE.
Great honor: Margot Friedländer, Holocaust survivor and traveling salesman against forgetting, guest at “A Heart for Children”