The RBB Broadcasting Council wants to elect an interim director this Wednesday. The SZ learned this from informed circles. Accordingly, the selection committee set up last week will sound out until Tuesday which applicants will stand for election to the committee on Wednesday. Names were not mentioned, apparently the selection committee has not yet finally decided on a group of people.
When the current RBB management team around Hagen Brandstätter will actually be decommissioned also depends on when the new director can take office. However, this should happen as soon as possible after the election, as it was said. The RBB is now looking for a rescuer who will stabilize and clean up the stumbling broadcaster: Apparently, the office will in future be led by a person who does not come from the RBB and does not necessarily come from the ARD environment. But under no circumstances should someone from the political sphere stand for election because of the top priority of being remote from the state in broadcasting.
The previous management, which essentially consists of the old management around the dismissed director Patricia Schlesinger, is no longer believed to be capable of renewal in the RBB – the ARD directors had publicly withdrawn their trust from the RBB leadership. The Broadcasting Council has therefore sounded out the procedure together with the legal supervisory authority currently in charge of the state of Brandenburg: The RBB state contract does not provide for an interim director to be elected; nevertheless, the Broadcasting Council has now decided to take this stepto stabilize the RBB. An interim director should hold office for a maximum of one year.
The selection committee consists of Dorette König, Chair of the Board of Directors, Dieter Pienkny, Chair of the Broadcasting Council, Sabine Jauer, Head of the Staff Council, and Dagmar Bednarek, spokesperson for freelancers. The RBB Board of Directors also meets on Tuesday. The meeting will deal with the abolition of the bonus system, which has granted management high and non-transparent surcharges in recent years. The bonus system was in the wake of the Schlesinger scandal became public and caused outrage internally. The acting director Hagen Brandstäter, who was administrative director of the RBB under Schlesinger and himself benefited from the bonuses, had drawn additional criticism because he at the session of the state parliament of Brandenburg on the RBB affair did not want to name the bonus system. In any case, the board of directors should then negotiate the contract for the new director on a new basis and without a bonus.