The “topic as such” is what interests her, says Angela Merkel in response to ZDF’s Mitri Sirin’s almost astonished question as to why she wants to give her first interview now of all times since the end of her term as Chancellor. The twelve-minute-long conversation will be broadcast on October 3rd, and it begins where Merkel left off in her last speech on a day of German unity. That was in Halle in 2021; Back then, Merkel became comparatively personal when she complained about a journalist’s claim that her GDR past was biographical “ballast.”
Merkel in the ZDF interview on German Unity Day: Punch in the stomach – media
