Of
Claudia Tieschky
On that June day in 2011, when Thomas Bellut was elected director of a conference hotel on Potsdamer Platz without a candidate opposing him, one could see something that is seldom shown so clearly: power. Berlin is newly built, but an odor of the old Federal Republic hangs in these rooms. Power meets behind wood-panelled doors, closed to the public, at long rows of tables – the television council with its lavishly delegated political staff. And power also antichambers in front of the paneled doors – the executives of ZDF: almost exclusively men in suits.