Status: 08/15/2022 7:12 p.m
The Broadcasting Council of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg has dismissed Patricia Schlesinger as artistic director. She had resigned after numerous allegations as the head of the station. The board of directors must now clarify the details of the termination of the contract.
The Broadcasting Council rbb According to information from the broadcaster, Patricia Schlesinger has been dismissed as artistic director with immediate effect. Formally, the termination of the contract is initiated. The Broadcasting Council wanted to officially announce the decision in the evening.
Next must now the rbb– Board of Directors dissolve the contract. It is also about details such as a possible severance payment or possible claims for damages by the broadcaster against Schlesinger, it said rbb.
Allegations of nepotism and favoritism
Schlesinger resigned after allegations of nepotism and favoritism. A few days earlier she had already withdrawn as ARD– boss started. The Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office is now also investigating Schlesinger and other people. Schlesinger rejects all allegations.
The case deals with details such as controversial consultancy contracts for a company that has since been put on hold rbbconstruction project, an expensive company car for Schlesinger with a massage seat, catering for guests in her private apartment rbb-Costs, a hefty salary increase for Schlesinger by 16 percent to 303,000 euros plus a bonus system for executives, which the broadcaster has so far kept under wraps. The renovation of the executive floor with expensive furniture for 1.4 million euros also caused resentment.
Editor demands disclosure of all bonuses
Even before the meeting of the Broadcasting Council, the editorial committee of the rbb demanded that all bonuses agreed in-house had to be disclosed in the broadcaster. In the statement “All open!” Members called on the Broadcasting Council to do everything possible at its meeting to disclose all contracts, bonuses, performance-based salary components, bonuses, business, economic and special reports in the station. The Broadcasting Council must also face up to its responsibility – it is questionable how it could have happened that all control mechanisms had apparently failed.