Gundula Gause: Why she has had the same hairstyle for 30 years

Gundula Gause
Why she has had the same hairstyle for 30 years

Gundula Gause with her signature bob.

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30 years of “heute journal”, 30 years of the same hairstyle. Of course, Gundula Gause also has to talk about her trademark for the anniversary.

Gundula Gause (57) has been moderating the “heute journal” for 30 years. During that time, she not only stayed true to ZDF, but also to her hairstyle. Since February 8, 1993, the journalist has greeted viewers with her trademark: the blonde pageboy cut.

On the occasion of the anniversary, Gundula Gause is of course also asked about her famous bob in various interviews. Even if she can no longer hear questions about her hairstyle.

“Once approved and stuck with it”

“You can talk to me about anything, just not about my hairstyle,” says Gause with a laugh in an interview with “Augsburg General”. She just thinks the cut suits her. She just feels good about it.

But she also associates her bob with her professional consistency. She sees herself as “a woman who stands for continuity and reliability”. “Crazy experiments” are not her thing. Her conclusion about the hairstyle: “Once found good and stuck with it”.

Satisfied with the second fiddle in the “heute-journal”

In addition to her hairstyle, Gundula Gause is repeatedly asked about another issue: Doesn’t it bother her that she has only played second fiddle as a co-moderator at “heute journal” for 30 years? She is relaxed about that too. She identifies “to a large extent with the task of selecting the news, writing it and helping to shape the program as a team”.

She has no problem with the ZDF philosophy of using only experienced correspondents as the main moderators. “But I was always an editor and worked mostly in the office, in my ‘news workshop’, as I always say,” she says. It fits the way it is.

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