The WDR presenter Bettina Böttinger listens to the Cologne meeting on. After 17 years, she will moderate the talk show for the last time on October 27, as WDR announced on Wednesday. Böttinger shaped the program for a total of 30 years, it says there. The director of the WDR, Tom Buhrow, said on Böttinger’s farewell that he was impressed by the moderator’s “great journalistic flair” and the “excellent conversational skills”. “You can feel in every show that it doesn’t work without passion.”
Bettina Böttigner, born in 1956, began her career in the mid-1980s in the Bonn regional office of Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Early on she worked for the station, primarily as a moderator, and also for the magazine Parlazzothe talk shows B. meets …, Boettingeror West.art talk. In 1994 she founded her film and television production company Encanto, which also Cologne meeting produced. According to Böttinger, her 30th service anniversary at the Friday evening talk on WDR was “a big event and a good reason to give up” for her.