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“Ppppodcast” maker Sebastian Koch: “There are still too few stutterers in public”
Journalist and podcaster: Sebastian Koch
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Some diseases are often not immediately recognizable, but have an enormous impact on the everyday life of those affected. Like stuttering. On World Stuttering Day, Sebastian Koch talks about his experiences at “heute important”.
Sebastian Koch is a journalist and podcaster – a combination that is now common. But his “ppppodcast” is not like everyone else. The stuttering can and should be read, because Koch is a stutterer and his podcast is therefore also from stutterers for stutterers. In addition, he gets mainly positive news because there are still far too few people who appear in public with symptoms.
Many know well-known personalities such as US President Joe Biden or actor Bruce Willis, who have stuttered at one point, but have largely left this language disorder behind them. However, you hear stuttering people like Koch less often. Nevertheless, he thinks that society is finally making progress: “At the moment, people with disabilities are benefiting from the zeitgeist, I believe. Society is becoming more sensitive and a lot is on the right track, even if there are of course still many problems,” explains he at “important today”.
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Podcast “important today”
Sure, opinionated, on the 12: “important today” is not just a news podcast. We set topics and initiate debates – with poise and sometimes uncomfortably. This is what host Michel Abdollahi and his team speak out for star– and RTL reporters: inside with the most exciting people from politics, society and entertainment. They let all voices have their say, the quiet and the loud. Anyone who hears “important today” starts the day with information and can have a sound say.
“The Bundestag’s work culture is simply no longer up to date”
Where society urgently needs to make even more progress is its federal government. The quota of women in the new Bundestag has only risen from 31 percent to 34 percent. Still frightening when you consider that there are more women than men in Germany, but that politically they are completely underrepresented.
The fact that so few women sit in the Bundestag is also due to the outdated work culture, says politician Anke Domscheit-Berg. She is a mother herself and has entered the Bundestag for the Left. 18-hour days, meetings on the weekends, business trips – all of this would disadvantage women more than average. Just like digital violence, which in politics mainly affects women and discourages young politicians from a career. However, one thing makes them cautiously hopeful: the coming traffic light government. With it, the political conditions for women could actually improve, hopes Domscheit-Berg.
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