Ulrike Demmer on Angela Merkel: “She has already rocked the halls”

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“ÜberMerkel” – Episode 08
Angela Merkel’s former spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer: “She has already rocked the halls”

The everyday life of a Federal Chancellor is long – and sometimes exhausting: 16-hour days, appointments from morning to evening, a constant flow of information. Conducting conversations, shaking hands, reading files, giving speeches – often in the public eye.

Ulrike Demmer talks about Angela Merkel

The employees of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government were almost always at Angela Merkel’s side. Ulrike Demmer was one of them. For more than five years, the award-winning journalist was deputy government spokeswoman under Angela Merkel.

“About Merkel – telling stories”

Angela Merkel was Chancellor for 16 years. The first. At the end of 2021 she resigned her post, now there is a man in office. What is left of her? What was she like, the chancellor? How is she as a boss, as a friend, as a feminist? For years, the story of Angela Merkel was mostly told by men. stern– Editor-in-chief Anna-Beeke Gretemeier meets for the podcast “ÜberMerkel – Vertraute recounting” with companions of the former Chancellor – yes, only with women. The conversations show new perspectives and thus draw a very personal audio portrait.

“ÜberMerkel – Familiar stories” appears weekly on Tuesdays at AudioNow, Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music and everywhere there are podcasts. You can also find all episodes here.

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In the eighth episode of star-Podcasts “ÜberMerkel – Familiar Stories” she reports starEditor-in-chief Anna-Beeke Gretemeier from everyday life with her boss, the chancellor: from the morning routine to the official dinner: “For this chancellor, work always has the highest priority and if something has to be done now, which is always the case in international business must be necessary at very short notice, that has been taken care of,” says Demmer. Merkel was “always, always on the job”.

Sources and additional material for the eighth episode of “ÜberMerkel”

In the interview, the ex-government spokeswoman offers a look through the keyhole into the government headquarters. She tells how Angela Merkel used social media during her chancellorship, how the former chancellor once struggled with a broken umbrella and how an interview in the chancellery works: “I was a bit nervous then.”

You can hear that and much more in the eighth episode of “ÜberMerkel – Telling Trusted Ones”.