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Marlene Knobloch
Where it ends for one pioneer, it begins for the other. “Lebbe goes further,” says the blonde woman with a bouquet of flowers in her hand and tears in her eyes. With the legendary words of a soccer coach, Petra Gerster said goodbye in her last broadcast after 30 years as the presenter of today-News. In doing so, she achieves something that no woman has ever managed to do in the main German news: To age in front of the camera until statutory retirement. And where with Petra Gerster it is the farewell that marks the turning point, with her successor it is the greeting. Because Jana Pareigis will soon be the first black presenter in the main news.