Their farewell had already been set for a few months, now there is a date. Caren Miosga will be the one Topics of the day will moderate for the last time on October 5th before she takes over Anne Will’s political Sunday evening talk on Erste in the new year.
Miosga anchored the newscast for 16 years, longer than anyone before her. The NDR reminds in a statement that during this time, among other things, Miosga interviewed Ernie and Bert, moderated live from Kiev six months after the start of the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine and “during the Topics of the day “Ever on the studio table”. Miosga herself said that she was “infinitely grateful” for the years at the side of such great colleagues. “She won’t let herself be fobbed off,” said the director of NDR, Joachim Knuth. Miosga was with the Topics of the day “impressed by her precise classifications and her persistent and approachable interviews.”
Miosga will succeed Anne Will in 2024, who also held the slot for 16 years. More detailed plans for the new talk show are still being developed together with Miosga, according to ARD. The three big talk shows on the first, as well as the Sunday evening talk Maischberger and Hard but fair with Louis Klamroth, are currently being “readjusted” in order to better adapt them to play in the ARD media library – and also because they should be more distinguishable from one another.
Miosga, who was born in Peine in Lower Saxony in 1969, has been working for Norddeutscher Rundfunk since 1999. Before her time with the Topics of the day Among other things, she moderated the media magazine Zap and Title Theses Temperaments in the first.
Both Topics of the day In the future, Jessy Wellmer from RBB, who has been in charge since 2014, will be taking over Sports show on Sunday and moderated numerous other ARD programs. She will be one of the two main presenters alongside Ingo Zamperoni Daily topics – The date of their first broadcast will be announced in due course, according to NDR.