Status: 08/20/2022 2:45 p.m
The directors of ARD trust the executive director of the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) does not allow the incidents surrounding ex-broadcaster Schlesinger to be processed quickly enough. Of the ARD-Chairman Buhrow explained that rbb need a fresh start.
The directors of the ARD have of incumbent rbb-Lace distrusted. Of the ARDChairman Tom Buhrow explained that his colleagues are still hearing new allegations exclusively from the press. “We, the directors of the ARDno longer have confidence that the station’s executive management will be able to process the various incidents quickly enough.”
Buhrow paid tribute to Friederike von Kirchbach, Chair of the Broadcasting Council who had resigned. Your step is a signal for a profound new beginning rbb. “This will also have to affect the current management of the station,” because it is questionable that the rbb can be stabilized with this setup. “But that is in the elementary interest of the ARDthe long-suffering employees and also the people in the rbbbroadcast area,” says Buhrow.
rbb radio council chief von Kirchbach resigned
Von Kirchbach announced today that, given the crisis in public law ARD-Sender resign with immediate effect. The step is another personal consequence in the affair about allegations of nepotism against the recalled director Patricia Schlesinger.
“Of the rbb faces a new beginning. After ten years as Chair of the Broadcasting Council, I would like to make a contribution and make my position available. With the dismissal of Patricia Schlesinger as director, our committee paved the way for new structures and people in the rbb made free. For everything that comes now, I see new people in charge, so I’m resigning,” said von Kirchbach.
“For me, the matter is in the foreground”
In the current debate about rbb and the public service system should not be about people, “for me the matter is in the foreground. This includes the self-critical examination of our work in the Broadcasting Council in the past. It is important to me to have initiated this discussion now,” explained you further. On the other hand, she is not willing to have her professional integrity as a pastor and pastor called into question, this is happening publicly and is not acceptable to her.
Von Kirchbach has chaired the supervisory body since 2013 and has been a member since 2007. The deputy chairman of the Broadcasting Council, Dieter Pienkny, will take over the official business on an interim basis for the time being.
The Broadcasting Council is one of the control bodies in the public broadcaster, it keeps an eye on the program work. The committee also elects the director. On Monday, the members of the Broadcasting Council recalled Schlesinger as director. The Board of Directors, as the second control body, is now dealing with the specific termination of the contract.