He actually made a confession months ago and made a deal with the public prosecutor's office - but the trial against former MDR entertainment boss Udo Foht continues in Leipzig. The 72-year-old is accused of fraud, breach of trust, bribery and tax evasion. And the court has decided to work through the case in detail.In his influential function, Foht played a key role in shaping hit shows until 2011 and was considered a sponsor of stars like Florian Silbereisen and...
ARD chairman Kai Gniffke "People have to be able to check with us: What is reality and what is fake?" At the beginning of the year, SWR director Kai Gniffke took over as chairman of the crisis-ridden ARD. A conversation with the one who should fix it now.Interview by Aurelie von Blazekovic source site
On Friday everything came together again at the RBB. Journalists' associations and unions had called for a warning strike in the midst of the ongoing collective bargaining, which is being conducted particularly hard in this year of reappraisal and austerity at the RBB. On posters, employees in Berlin complained about the cost-cutting measures by director Katrin Vernau and the general conditions in the station. Some RBB programs were canceled, such as that lunchtime magazine in the first and in the...
After the RBB crisis, interim director Katrin Vernau tries to clarify. Recently, two cases made headlines: before a labor court, the broadcaster's lawyers refused to come to an amicable agreement with the dismissed director Susann Lange. At the same time, interim director Vernau reported on the ARD broadcaster's intranet that new inconsistencies in payments to the old top staff were being investigated.Specifically, the management staff of the ARD broadcaster, including the management, is said to have received 1,700 euros more...
According to the law, broadcasting councils and the ZDF television council meet in public. But how can you specifically track what is going on? An overview. source site
from Aurelie von BlazekovicWith the humor in the ARD is complicated. Political cabaret, satirical shows, stand-up performances from WDR to MDR are rarely talked about because of their high quality and throwaway punch lines. More often, you can get the feeling when you accidentally turn it on, because apparently without much editorial thought, people are let loose on the viewers who - despite cabaret and poetry slam prizes - elicit more questions than laughter from even the most devoted audience....
After the ORF, the ZDF now also no longer wants to show films with the Austrian actor Florian Teichtmeister. The background: A procedure is currently underway against Teichtmeister because he was in possession of around 58,000 files showing the sexual abuse of children.Various Austrian media had already reported about two weeks ago that the ORF will refrain from producing and broadcasting any productions with the actor until the court has clarified it. "Repetitions of programs with Florian Teichtmeister are not...
from Roman DeiningerThe ARD men didn't quite trust their own idea. To be on the safe side, they called in a replacement speaker on June 16, 1976 - just in case, as Dagmar Berghoff later said, "that I passed out or couldn't speak from fright". Karl-Heinz Köpcke, as "Mister Tagesschau" a member of the West German television aristocracy, apparently had no idea that he was helping the future "Miss Tagesschau" into office that day. At the time, Köpcke feared, Berghoff...
from Roman DeiningerThe ARD men didn't quite trust their own idea. To be on the safe side, they called in a replacement speaker on June 16, 1976 - just in case, as Dagmar Berghoff later said, "that I passed out or couldn't speak from fright". Karl-Heinz Köpcke, as "Mister Tagesschau" a member of the West German television aristocracy, apparently had no idea that he was helping the future "Miss Tagesschau" into office that day. At the time, Köpcke feared, Berghoff...
A SWR journalist writes a well-meaning portrait of the new Minister of Defense - and is now his spokesman. source site
