Status: 08/20/2022 11:52 a.m
The crisis at rbb ex-director Schlesinger entails further personnel consequences: the chairwoman of the Broadcasting Council, von Kirchbach, resigns. She wanted to make her contribution to a new beginning, so her justification.
The chairperson of rbb-Rundfunkrat, Friederike von Kirchbach, resigns in view of the crisis of the public service ARD-Senders back with immediate effect. The 67-year-old said in a statement.
There is now 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.