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This episode list contains all episodes of the German comedy or satirical program heute-show , sorted according to the German first broadcast . The television series currently comprises 21 seasons with 343 episodes and 13 specials (4 best-of programs and 9 annual reviews). The 21st season ended on June 12, 2020. The start of the 22nd season is planned for September 11, 2020.

Pilot episodes

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
1	1	May 26, 2009	Opel negotiations , federal presidential election , 60 years of the Basic Law , missile test in North Korea , financial crisis , European elections	David Flasch *, Micky Beisenherz , Morten Kühne , Björn Mannel , Stefan Stuckmann , Jörg Uebber , Markus Zimmer
2	2	June 23, 2009	Elections in Iran , federal party conference of the SPD , education strike , financial crisis, swine flu , Silvio Berlusconi and Noemi Letizia, federal party conference of the Left	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Björn Mannel, Stefan Stuckmann, Jörg Uebber, Markus Zimmer
3	3	September 8, 2009	Air raid near Kundus , federal election campaign ( Guttenberg , Rüttgers ' statements about Romanians, Twitter leak in forecasts for the Saxon state election , upcoming chancellor duel, pirate party , NPD ), parody of television statisticians like Jörg Schönenborn , EC regulation on lightbulbs , financial crisis, interactive TV shows with internet participation	Micky Beisenherz, Morten Kühne, Björn Mannel, Stephan Pächer , Stefan Stuckmann, Markus Zimmer
4th	4th	October 20, 2009	Outcome of the federal election, coalition negotiations, swine flu, Westerwelle's rejection of an English-language press question, Frankfurt Book Fair with guest country China, Thilo Sarrazin	Morten Kühne, Björn Mannel, Markus Schafitel , Sascha Albrecht , Stefan Stuckmann
5	5	November 17, 2009	SPD federal party conference , federal budget , Merkel's speech in the US Congress, Opel negotiations, 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall , swine flu, cabinet meeting	Morten Kühne *, Mickey Beisenherz, Björn Mannel, Markus Schafitel, Stefan Stuckmann, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
6th	6th	December 15, 2009	"False start" of the coalition, Growth Acceleration Act , VAT rates , reshuffle Jung / von der Leyen / Köhler , UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen , Nobel Peace Prize for Barack Obama , Kunduz affair, the crisis in Dubai	Morten Kühne *
Best of		December 30, 2009	Black-yellow coalition, FDP and Rainer Brüderle , Westerwelles rejection of an English-language press question, CDU and Angela Merkel, 60 years of the Basic Law, Silvio Berlusconi, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the SPD in the crisis, growth acceleration law, VAT rates, swine flu, UN climate conference	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Björn Mannel, Stefan Stuckmann, Jörg Uebber, Markus Zimmer, Markus Schafitel, Sascha Albrecht, Stephan Pächer

season 1

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
7th	1	January 22, 2010	Angela Merkel's government style, growth acceleration law, economic crisis and the Green Week , body scanners at airports, Guttenberg and the Afghanistan mission , EU standard for the use of prams on escalators	Morten Kühne *
8th	2	January 29, 2010	“Cold wave”, additional contribution in the health system , Günther Oettinger's English , Die Linke ( Lafontaine's retreat and others), positive economic forecasts, Afghanistan conference	Morten Kühne *
9	3	February 5, 2010	Tax evaders CD from Switzerland, carnival and state election campaign in North Rhine-Westphalia , “Cold wave”, Hartz IV ( Roland Koch : “Duty to work”, Ursula von der Leyen for renaming), 100 days of black and yellow federal government	Morten Kühne *
10	4th	February 19, 2010	Hartz IV debate, Association of Expellees , Guido Westerwelle's truisms	Morten Kühne *
11	5	February 26, 2010	Sponsors scandal to Jürgen Rüttgers , Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver , child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church , botch the subway -construction in Cologne	Morten Kühne *
12	6th	March 5, 2010	Causes of the threatened Greek bankruptcy , disputes in the black-yellow coalition (especially head lump sum ), CeBIT ( data retention , Google Street View , dissemination of personal data on the Internet ), potholes	Morten Kühne *
13	7th	March 12, 2010	Possibility of the black-green coalition due to increasing polls of the Greens , black-yellow coalition, Google Street View, Guido Westerwelle, euro crisis and the threatened Greek bankruptcy, Thilo Sarrazin	Morten Kühne *
14th	8th	March 19, 2010	Guido Westerwelle's conspiracy theories , Toyota , Philipp Rösler's plans to make drugs cheaper	Morten Kühne *
15th	9	March 26, 2010	Financial aid for Greece , Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and the Kunduz affair , biogas , Horst Koehler , child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church , the beginning of spring on television	Morten Kühne *
16	10	April 9, 2010	State election campaign in North Rhine-Westphalia , idiot test for alcohol traffic offenders, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl , the strategy of the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan , Scientology	Morten Kühne *
17th	11	April 16, 2010	Angela Merkel's visit to the USA , new tax relief concept of the FDP, state election campaign in North Rhine-Westphalia , admission of Guantanamo prisoners in Germany , shortage of rural doctors	Morten Kühne *
18th	12	April 23, 2010	State election in North Rhine-Westphalia 2010	Morten Kühne *
19th	13	April 30, 2010	Greece downgraded by a rating agency , FDP federal party conference in Cologne , TV duel as part of the state election campaign in North Rhine-Westphalia, conversation with Maybrit Illner	Morten Kühne *
20th	14th	May 7, 2010	State election in North Rhine-Westphalia	Morten Kühne *
21st	15th	May 14, 2010	Outcome of the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, interview with the representative of the lobby association “Pro Generika e. V. "	Morten Kühne *
22nd	16	May 21, 2010	Regulation conference in Berlin	Morten Kühne *
23	17th	May 28, 2010	Resignation of Roland Koch and successor Volker Bouffier , Lena Meyer-Landrut	Morten Kühne *
24	18th	June 4th 2010	Resignation of the Federal President Horst Köhler , candidates Christian Wulff and Joachim Gauck , Oder -Hochwasser, Lena wins the Eurovision Song Contest , savings conference of the federal government, " summer slump "	Morten Kühne *
Best of		June 8, 2010		Morten Kühne *

season 2

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
25th	1	August 27, 2010	Stuttgart 21 , suspension of conscription , summer interviews	Morten Kühne *
26th	2	September 3, 2010	Obama's problems , Roland Koch's withdrawal from politics	Morten Kühne *
27	3	September 10, 2010	integration	Morten Kühne *
28	4th	17th September 2010	Oktoberfest , extension of the service life of German nuclear power plants	Morten Kühne *
29	5	September 24, 2010	Health reform , quality offensive by Deutsche Bahn	Morten Kühne *
30th	6th	October 1, 2010	Stuttgart 21 , solidarity surcharge , Horst Seehofer and the CSU , one year black and yellow and the SPD in the opposition	Morten Kühne *
31	7th	October 8, 2010	International match , Stuttgart 21, immigration , 20 years of German unity	Morten Kühne *
32	8th	October 15, 2010	National Socialism , polls upswing of the Greens , Stuttgart 21	Morten Kühne *
33	9	October 22, 2010	Multi-cultural	Morten Kühne *
34	10	October 29, 2010	Bundeswehr reform, Stuttgart 21, economic boom	Morten Kühne *
35	11	5th November 2010	Castor transports , extended service life for nuclear power plants, education vouchers	Morten Kühne *
36	12	November 12, 2010	Castor transports, extension of the service life for nuclear power plants, Wolfgang Schäuble's reprimand for his spokesman	Morten Kühne *
37	13	November 19, 2010	Party donation affair of the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU , Berlusconi derailments	Morten Kühne *
38	14th	November 26, 2010	Survey upswing by the Greens, risk of terrorism in Germany , statements by Pope Benedict XVI.	Morten Kühne *
39	15th	December 3, 2010	Stuttgart 21	Morten Kühne *
40	16	December 10, 2010	PISA test , Hartz IV	Morten Kühne *
Best of		December 17, 2010	Germany is doing away with apprenticeships, Stuttgart 21 , extending the service life of German nuclear power plants , flat rate per capita	Morten Kühne *, Markus Barth, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber

season 3

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
41	1	January 21, 2011	Dioxins scandal , Gesine Lötzsch and communism	Morten Kühne *, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
42	2	January 28, 2011	Gorch Fock affair, dioxin scandal	Morten Kühne *, Andreas Coerper, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
43	3	February 4, 2011	Uprising in Egypt , quota for women	Morten Kühne *, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
44	4th	February 11, 2011	Hamburg parliamentary elections , Egyptian revolution , education vouchers , Hartz negotiations	Morten Kühne *, Andreas Coerper, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
45	5	February 18, 2011	Guttenberg dissertation , Hamburg state election	Morten Kühne *, Andreas Coerper, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
46	6th	February 25, 2011	Guttenberg dissertation, uprising in Libya ( Gaddafi / Berlusconi ), Hamburg state election ( Olaf Scholz ), Merkel's visit to Gammertingen	Morten Kühne *, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
47	7th	March 11, 2011	Resignation to Guttenbergs, Super E10 , Political Ash Wednesday , freedom of the press in China	Morten Kühne *, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
48	8th	March 18, 2011	Nuclear moratorium after the Fukushima nuclear disaster and state election campaigns etc. a. in Saxony-Anhalt , with guest Michael Mittermeier : residual risk	Morten Kühne *, Andreas Coerper, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
49	9	March 25, 2011	State election campaigns in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate , uprising in Libya (Gaddafi)	Morten Kühne *, Markus Barth, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
50	10	April 1, 2011	Results of the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
51	11	April 15, 2011	The FDP after Guido Westerwelle's withdrawal , the fake doctoral thesis by Silvana Koch-Mehrin , Italy's refugee policy under Berlusconi, nuclear phase-out , Bunga Bunga	Morten Kühne *, Andreas Coerper, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
52	12	April 29, 2011	Wedding of William Mountbatten-Windsor and Catherine Middleton , Energiewende, first meeting of the Council of Wise Men on the Future of Europe , with guest Monika Gruber	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
53	13	May 6, 2011	Death of Osama bin Laden , beatification of John Paul II (combined with Borussia Dortmund championship celebration )	Morten Kühne *, Andreas Coerper, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Oliver Nagel , Sven Nagel , Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
54	14th	May 13, 2011	FDP, Tod Osama bin Ladens, Eurovision Song Contest 2011 , Census 2011 , with guest Claudia Roth	Morten Kühne *, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Sven Nagel, Henning Bornemann , Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
55	15th	May 20, 2011	2011 census, FDP, arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Michael Gremlich , Henning Bornemann , Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Sven Nagel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
56	16	May 27, 2011	EHEC , G8 summit , City BKK , Joschka and Mr. Fischer	Morten Kühne *, Dietmar Jacobs, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
57	17th	June 3, 2011	EHEC, video blog by Heinz-Peter Haustein , Jörg Kachelmann , phase out of nuclear power by 2022, re-election of Sepp Blatters as FIFA President	Morten Kühne *, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
58	18th	June 10, 2011	EHEC, Presidential Medal of Freedom for Angela Merkel, SPD, Greece bankruptcy, phase out of nuclear power, with guest Mike Krüger	Morten Kühne * Andreas Coerper, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber, Dietmar Wischmeyer
Best of		June 17, 2011	FDP after Guido Westerwelle's withdrawal, Osama bin Laden's death, state election campaigns, etc. a. in Saxony-Anhalt, Guttenberg dissertation and resignation to Guttenbergs, nuclear phase-out by 2022	Morten Kühne * Micky Beisenherz, Andreas Coerper, Marc Loeb, Björn Mannel, Sven Nagel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel

Season 4

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
59	1	September 16, 2011	FDP, SPD, Berlin election , euro crisis	Morten Kühne *, Andreas Coerper, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
60	2	September 23, 2011	Pope visit , FDP, Pirate Party Germany , Oktoberfest , euro crisis	Morten Kühne *, Christian Guht, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Sven Nagel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
61	3	September 30, 2011	Pope visit (gleanings), announcement of President Vladimir Putin , Bundestag vote on EFSF , Philipp Rösler's newly published book, conversation with Wolfgang Bosbach	Morten Kühne *, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
62	4th	October 7, 2011	Dispute between Ronald Pofalla and Wolfgang Bosbach, Silvana Koch-Mehrin in the European Parliament , tasks of the Federal President, Bundeswehr reform, euro crisis and the stock exchange	Morten Kühne *, Andreas Coerper, Lutz van der Horst , Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Sven Nagel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
63	5	October 14, 2011	Federal Trojans , pirate party , Frankfurt Book Fair , bank rescue, CSU party conference	Morten Kühne *
64	6th	October 21, 2011	Gaddafi's death , two years in black and yellow, Occupy movement, Flexi quota	Morten Kühne *
65	7th	October 28, 2011	Questions to Angela Merkel, Euro Hebel, party congress of the party Die Linke , Revolution in Libya	Morten Kühne *
66	8th	November 4, 2011	Greece and euro rescue, CDU left shift, minimum wages , HRE billions, Berlin Occupy movement, 50 years of the German-Turkish recruitment agreement , SPD coalition options	Morten Kühne *
67	9	November 11, 2011	Tax relief, FDP federal party conference, change of government in Greece and Italy, nuclear waste disposal , Gottschalk successor	Morten Kühne *
68	10	November 18, 2011	Right-wing terrorism and the protection of the constitution, CDU and FDP party congress, NPD, Oskar Lafontaine and Sahra Wagenknecht , with guest Claus von Wagner	Morten Kühne *
69	11	November 25, 2011	Right-wing extremist terror, Eurobonds, Facebook and data protection, federal government on the Internet, federal party conference of the Greens	Morten Kühne *
70	12	December 2, 2011	on Guttenberg's book publication, federal party conference of the Greens, last Castor transport, referendum on Stuttgart 21, euro rescue	Morten Kühne *
71	13	December 9, 2011	SPD federal party congress and search for chancellor candidates, discussion about NPD ban, parliamentary elections in Russia, federal pirate party convention, EU summit on saving the euro, rating of the euro zone	Morten Kühne *
Annual review		December 16, 2011	FDP and Christian Lindner's resignation , euro crisis, on Guttenberg's return, CDU energy policy, pirates, constitutional protection and right-wing terror, Egypt after the revolution	Morten Kühne *

Season 5

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
72	1	January 27, 2012	The "affair" around Christian Wulff , annual review quiz 2012, monitoring of left-wing politicians by the protection of the constitution, current status of the euro rescue, the FDP 2012 and conversation with Rainer Brüderle	Morten Kühne *
73	2	3rd February 2012	Angela Merkel's trip to China, rescue of the euro, dwindling trust in politics, SPD conference, US election campaign, Die Linke and the protection of the constitution	Morten Kühne *
74	3	February 10, 2012	Euro rescue and the role of Germany, cold snap, crises in the Near and Middle East, jubilee of the Queen , with guest Monika Gruber	Morten Kühne *
75	4th	February 24, 2012	Federal President candidate Joachim Gauck , Greece crisis, Political Ash Wednesday , SPD in Bavaria	Morten Kühne *
76	5	March 2, 2012	New regulation of the Flensburg point system , Philipp Rösler with Markus Lanz , FDP and the media, Federal President candidates, status of the rescue of Greece, fight against the law	Morten Kühne *
77	6th	March 9, 2012	Big tattoo and honorary salary for Christian Wulff, fight against corruption of parliamentarians , elections and democracy in Russia and Iran , citizens' dialogue with Angela Merkel in Erfurt , CeBIT	Morten Kühne *
78	7th	March 16, 2012	State elections in North Rhine-Westphalia , Federal President candidates, energy transition, women's quota , Bildzeitung 's image of women , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , CeBIT, Markus Lanz as the new host of Wetten, dass ..?	Morten Kühne *
79	8th	March 23, 2012	Election and swearing-in of Federal President Joachim Gauck, early state elections and election campaigns in Schleswig-Holstein , North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland , voter opinions on the FDP, initiative against food waste	Morten Kühne *
80	9	March 30, 2012	The parties after the state elections in Saarland, NPD ban proceedings, solidarity surcharge	Morten Kühne *
81	10	April 13, 2012	Reactions to the poem What must be said by Günter Grass , parties before the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein, debate about childcare allowance , tax treaties between Germany and Switzerland	Morten Kühne *
82	11	April 20, 2012	The parties in the election campaign in North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein, solidarity pact for the Ruhr area, the left after Gesine Lötzsch , Salafists in Germany, situation in North Korea and Spain	Morten Kühne *
83	12	April 27, 2012	FDP party congress, reactions to the book Thank you, we are emancipated ourselves! Farewell to the dictation of Kristina Schröder's role models , human rights in Ukraine and Bahrain , presidential elections in France	Morten Kühne *
84	13	May 4, 2012	State elections in North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein , BILD turns 60, surveillance scandal at Aldi , federal party convention of the Pirate Party, human rights in Ukraine , European Football Championship 2012	Morten Kühne *
85	14th	May 11, 2012	State election in Schleswig-Holstein and the “rebirth” of the FDP, state election in North Rhine-Westphalia, “fear” of the Greens of the pirate party, disputes between the right-wing extremist splinter party Pro NRW and the Salafists, election of François Hollande as French president, Greek parliamentary election , European Football Championship, inauguration of Vladimir Putin	Morten Kühne *
86	15th	May 18, 2012	Dismissal of Norbert Röttgen , parties after the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, first meeting of Angela Merkel and François Hollande, delays in the construction of Berlin Brandenburg Airport	Morten Kühne *
87	16	May 25, 2012	Change of environment minister , the book Europe doesn't need the euro by Thilo Sarrazin , search for a party chairman for “Die Linke”, Greece's possible exit from the euro and “alternative currency” barter , commonalities between the Euro summit and ESC , Facebook share, Occupy- Move	Morten Kühne *
88	17th	June 1, 2012	Problems in the black-yellow coalition (electoral defeats, dismissal of a minister, energy turnaround , euro crisis, care allowance , data retention , minimum wage ), European football championship , measures by the consumer ministry against the throwing of food, sale of German weapons in crisis areas, forecast goodbye to the euro , debt crisis in Greece	Morten Kühne *

Season 6

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
89	1	August 31, 2012	Trip to China by the Federal Cabinet , lasting effects of the euro crisis in Italy, Greece and Spain, Gertrud Höhler 's book "The Godmother" critical of Merkel, too high electricity prices according to a study by the Alliance 90 / The Greens , election campaign for the 2012 presidential election in the United States , Review of important media events during the past summer break	Morten Kühne *
90	2	September 7, 2012	Good poll results for Angela Merkel, poverty despite a pension, the idea of ​​Ursula von der Leyen's “subsidy pension”, sports offered by the job center for the elderly, the primary election of the federal chairman at the party congress of the Greens, Werner Winkler's candidacy for the federal chairman of the Greens, election campaign for Werner Winkler, loss of the electorate in the Pirate Party, Twitter scandal by Birgit Rydlewski	Morten Kühne *
91	3	September 14, 2012	Judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court on Germany's participation in the ESM , euro crisis, purchase of government bonds by the ECB , Bettina Wulff , her new book and the rumor in the red-light district , 10 years Hartz IV, tense relationship between Gerhard Schröder and Oskar Lafontaine , Agenda 2010 , postponement of Opening date for Berlin Brandenburg Airport, criticism of Klaus Wowereit	Morten Kühne *
92	4th	September 21, 2012	Innocence of Muslims and protests against it, the dilemma between freedom of expression and respect for religion , the "Central Investigation File Against Law" by Hans-Peter Friedrich , National Socialist Underground and the unprofessional actions of the constitutional protection and other secret services, Angela Merkel's unclear positions on current political issues, the poverty and wealth report of the Ministry of Labor and the widening gap between rich and poor, Mitt Romney's disparaging statement about the poor population in the USA, the tax treaty Germany-Switzerland , interview with Erich Hess	Morten Kühne *
93	5	September 28, 2012	Chancellor candidacy of Peer Steinbrück for the election to the 18th German Bundestag , resignation announcement of Kurt Beck as prime minister of Rhineland-Palatinate , "CDU-TV" with Angela Merkel, coalition talks between the CDU and CSU over the educational content without the FDP, the proportion of women in the Management positions, Kristina Schröder's “Flexi-Quote”, Helmut Kohl 's 30th anniversary as Chancellor , demand for the use of armed drones in Afghanistan , Til Schweiger's film Guardian Angel as an advertisement for the German Armed Forces	Morten Kühne *
94	6th	5th October 2012	Upcoming election campaign between Angela Merkel and Peer Steinbrück, Day of German Unity , lobbying for the slot machine manufacturers, the television duel between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the Oktoberfest	Morten Kühne *
95	7th	October 12, 2012	The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union , the increase in the EEG surcharge , the income of Peer Steinbrück through secondary employment and the associated discussion about transparency , the primary election of the party chairman for the Greens, the candidacy of Werner Winkler, the search for a new one Nuclear waste repository , Gorleben nuclear waste storage facility , Angela Merkel's visit to Greece, Greek financial crisis	Morten Kühne *
96	8th	19th October 2012	The speech duel between Angela Merkel and Peer Steinbrück with regard to the election to the 18th German Bundestag , allegations of plagiarism against Annette Schavan because of her dissertation , the increase in electricity prices, the EEG surcharge and network charges , the security in the German nuclear power plants , the transparency of the Secondary activities of politicians , the reluctance of Germany to enforce the anti-corruption convention of the United Nations , the discussion about the possible abolition of the practice fee	Morten Kühne *
97	9	October 26, 2012	The affair about the call from CSU press spokesman Hans Michael Strepp to ZDF , the CSU party conference , the discussion about the educational salary , the election of Fritz Kuhn as Lord Mayor of Stuttgart , the European debt crisis , the Greek financial crisis , the decline in the polls of the Pirate Party Germany , the television duel between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney	Morten Kühne *
98	10	November 2, 2012	Crisis summit of the black-yellow coalition , the dispute over the educational salary , abolition of the practice fee , power struggle in the FDP, decline in the CDU's votes in the big cities , Peer Steinbrück's secondary employment , the women's quota , debt cut for Greece, the condemnation of Silvio Berlusconi , freedom of the press at public broadcasting	Morten Kühne *
99	11	November 9, 2012	The 2012 presidential election in the United States and the victory of Barack Obama, the decision of the coalition committee to introduce the education salary and to abolish the practice fee , Ursula von der Leyen's reform to increase pensions, finance these measures through taxes and new debt, and bring charges against Beate Zschäpe , scandal in connection with the destruction of files in the case of the National Socialist underground , weak investigative work by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , visit by Wolfgang Kubicki , crisis at the FDP	Morten Kühne *
100	12	November 16, 2012	Angela Merkel's “tour” through Europe and a Greek / Portuguese protest, primary election of the Greens and “deselection” of Claudia Roth, federal party conference of the Greens, conversation with Werner Winkler , Peer Steinbrück's paid lectures and the image of the SPD, Federal Audit Office and state waste of money, children's Traffic education of the police, farewell to the Mainz male inventor Wolf Gerlach	Morten Kühne *
101	13	November 23, 2012	"The most successful federal government since reunification", election campaign mishaps with Peer Steinbrück, Germany's role in the euro crisis and representation in the Bundestag election campaign, right to strike for church employees, determination of the location of the Greens and election of Claudia Roth as federal chairman, increase in rents and Electricity prices	Morten Kühne *
102	14th	November 30, 2012	Further financial aid for Greece and the politicians' lack of background knowledge, representation of the euro crisis in the election campaign, changes to the current poverty report , gasoline-laden advent calendar chocolate, climate change and the World Climate Conference in Doha , federal party conference of pirates	Morten Kühne *
103	15th	December 7, 2012	Federal party congress of the CDU, failed equality of homosexual couples in adoption law, role of men in the CDU, efforts for a new NPD ban procedure, "fateful election" in Lower Saxony , arms exports to Saudi Arabia and quality of the Bundeswehr weapons	Morten Kühne *
Annual review		December 14, 2012	Peer Steinbrück's election as candidate for chancellor and comparison with Angela Merkel, Gernot Hassknecht's review of the year, Germany's role in the euro crisis, Italy and the return of Silvio Berlusconi, major German projects (Berlin-Brandenburg airport, Stuttgart 21, energy transition), public perception by Joachim Gauck and review of Christian and Bettina Wulff, the fight against the law and the renewed NPD ban proceedings, CSU family policy and the introduction of childcare allowance , the "Goldene Vollpfosten"	Morten Kühne *

Season 7

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
104	1	January 25, 2013	The parties after the state election in Lower Saxony , Christian values ​​in the Catholic Church, further postponements for the construction of Berlin Brandenburg Airport, 50 years of the Élysée Treaty	Morten Kühne *
105	2	1st February 2013	Sexism debate triggered by statements by Rainer Brüderle , home visits by the SPD chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück , EU idea of ​​water privatization, state visit by Egypt's President Mohammed Mursi in Berlin	Morten Kühne *
106	3	February 8, 2013	Withdrawal of the doctorate from Annette Schavan , new insecurity in Stuttgart 21 , sexism debate and sexism at the carnival , the Catholic Church and the Pius brothers on the morning-after pill for rape victims	Morten Kühne *
107	4th	February 15, 2013	Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. , new education minister Johanna Wanka and changes in the Merkel II cabinet , horse meat scandal , family policy, political Ash Wednesday with the topic of state financial equalization , studio guest Hannelore Kraft	Morten Kühne *
108	5	February 22, 2013	Horse meat scandal , exploitation of (temporary) workers, role of women in the Catholic Church, Stefan Raab as moderator of the Chancellor's duel in 2013	Morten Kühne *
109	6th	1st of March 2013	Philipp Rösler's 40th birthday, minimum wage debate, Angela Merkel's turning point, gay marriage, parliamentary elections in Italy 2013 and their consequences, food scandals (organic eggs, horse meat and animal feed), Ilse Aigner's crisis policy	Morten Kühne *
110	7th	March 8, 2013	Poverty and wealth report of the federal government and FDP changes to it, Stuttgart 21 and BER , partial demolition of the Berlin Wall because of luxury apartments, lack of affordable housing in the cities, energy transition , fracking , discussion in the CDU / CSU about gay marriage and decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court on this	Morten Kühne *
111	8th	15 March 2013	Election of the pope , everyday life of the new Pope Francis , 10 years of Agenda 2010 , Peer Steinbrück , family policy, FDP with Philipp Rösler and Rainer Brüderle, FDP-TV for the federal party conference, Hartmut Mehdorn as the new managing director of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH	Morten Kühne *
112	9	22th of March 2013	National debt crisis in Cyprus , new party Alternative for Germany , NPD - prohibition procedure , EEG surcharge , inauguration of Pope Francis	Morten Kühne *
113	10	April 5, 2013	Korean conflict with Kim Jong-un as dictator, 50 years of ZDF , party influence on ZDF, allocation of seats in the NSU trial , new version of the StVO	Morten Kühne *
114	11	April 12th, 2013	Raids on non-governmental organizations in Russia, Russia as a host country at the Hanover Fair , offshore leaks , compensation for parliamentarians , resolution of the repository site selection law , NSU process	Morten Kühne *
115	12	April 19, 2013	Rejection of the women's quota in the Bundestag, SPD federal party conference in Augsburg with Chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück , allocation of seats at the NSU trial , alternative for Germany	Morten Kühne *, Tommy Jaud, Ralf Kabelka, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Sabine Stehr
116	13	May 3, 2013	Uli Hoeneß's tax affair , relatives affair , allocation of seats in the NSU trial , election program of the Greens , studio guest Peter Altmaier	Morten Kühne *, Ralf Kabelka, Marc Löb, Manuel Löw, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
117	14th	May 10, 2013	Angela Merkel in the election campaign, nepotism in the CSU , NSU trial , “bald safari” with Martin Sonneborn , FDP party conference	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Andreas Coerper
118	15th	17th May 2013	Angela Merkel's past in the GDR , demographic change in Germany , long-term care insurance , Peer Steinbrück's shadow cabinet , Federal Party Conference of the Pirate Party Germany	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
119	16	May 24, 2013	Scandal over Euro Hawk, 150 years of the SPD , increasing video surveillance in Germany, Hungary's violations of EU rights, Angela Merkel's bad image in Europe	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Ralf Kabelka, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Andreas Coerper
120	17th	May 31, 2013	Town hall talks with Angela Merkel , Merkel's relationship with the car lobby, visit by the Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang , scandal over the Euro Hawk drone, Peer Steinbrück's competence team, Philipp Rösler's visit to Silicon Valley , election campaign kisses with Dirk Niebel	Morten Kühne *, Dietmar Jacobs, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
121	18th	June 7, 2013	Role of the media in the flood , election campaign gifts, banks do not want to lower overdraft rates, Euro-Hawk affair , border controls in Europe, Lutz van der Horst interviews Jürgen Trittin , reform of the point system	Morten Kühne *, Björn Mannel, Dietmar Wischmeyer, Lutz van der Horst, Malte Pieper, Marc Löb, Markus Schafitel, Markus Zimmer, Mickey Beisenherz, Morten Kühne, Oliver Welke, Ralf Kabelka, Thomas Rogel

Season 8

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
122	1	September 6, 2013	Chancellor duel , Syria conflict , NSA affair , election campaign	Morten Kühne *, Ralf Kabelka, Hans-Peter Klemm, Fabian Köster, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
123	2	September 13, 2013	Election campaign, turnout, state elections in Bavaria , controversial administration by Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Andreas Coerper
124	3	20th September 2013	Bundestag election (FDP second vote campaign, alternative for Germany ), state election in Bavaria	Morten Kühne *, Ralf Kabelka, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
125	4th	September 27, 2013	Bundestag election (end of the FDP , alternative for Germany , election debacle of the Greens )	Morten Kühne *, Dietrich Krauß, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
126	5	4th October 2013	Coalition negotiations, smallest opposition of all time, Democracy Day in Brandenburg, US budget dispute, election in Austria , Hungary forbids homeless people to spend the night outdoors, “slave labor” when building stadiums in Qatar	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
127	6th	October 11, 2013	Coalition negotiations and options, costs of Tebartz-van-Elst's bishop's residence , EU refugee policy and German attitudes towards refugees, Seehofer II cabinet , "Realization" of Seehofer's toll for foreigners, US budget dispute	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
128	7th	18th October 2013	Costs of Tebartz-van-Elst's bishop's residence , coalition negotiations, lobbying, Kristina Schröder gives up ministerial office	Morten Kühne *, Dietrich Krauss, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
129	8th	October 25, 2013	NSA listens to Angela Merkel , first session of the 18th Bundestag , coalition negotiations, federal party conference of the Greens	Morten Kühne *, Ralf Kabelka, Fabian Köster, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
130	9	1. November 2013	Surveillance and espionage affair in 2013 , coalition negotiations, delay in the construction of the Berlin metropolitan airport	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Markus Schafitel
131	10	November 8, 2013	Coalition negotiations, surveillance and espionage affair in 2013 , potholes on German roads, the Federal Constitutional Court is reviewing the ZDF State Treaty , Deutsche Bank makes less profit, working conditions for the construction of the stadium for the 2022 World Cup	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Andreas Coerper
132	11	15th November 2013	Coalition negotiations, party conference of the SPD in Leipzig, ex-Federal President Christian Wulff in court , Munich's application for the 2022 Winter Olympics failed , criticism in preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics , lower interest rates for savers	Morten Kühne *, Andreas Guni, Ralf Kabelka, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Markus Schafitel, Sabine Stehr
133	12	22nd of November 2013	Party congresses of the parliamentary groups, coalition negotiations, surveillance and espionage affairs in 2013 , referendum for fair wages in Switzerland	Morten Kühne *, Andreas Guni, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
134	13	November 29, 2013	Coalition negotiations and coalition agreement , membership vote of the SPD on the coalition agreement , surveillance and espionage affair 2013 , collective bargaining dispute at Amazon	Morten Kühne *, Dietmar Jacobs, Ralf Kabelka, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
135	14th	December 6, 2013	Coalition agreement , member vote of the SPD on the coalition agreement , NPD prohibition procedure (2013–2017) , PISA test 2013	Morten Kühne *, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Oliver Welke
Annual review		December 13, 2013	Award of the “Golden Full Post” 2013, FDP party congress , coalition agreement , SPD membership vote on the coalition agreement , surveillance and espionage affair 2013 , hurricane Xaver , costs of Tebartz-van-Elst's bishop's residence , Pope Benedict XVI 's resignation .	Morten Kühne *, Dietmar Jacobs, Ralf Kabelka, Andreas Guni, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Oliver Welke, Sabine Stehr, Lutz van der Horst, Andreas Coerper, Micky Beisenherz, Fabian Köster, Hans- Peter Klemm, Dietrich Köster

Season 9

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
136	1	January 24, 2014	Grand coalition , first Federal Minister of Defense , “key ministry ” , NSA affair and transatlantic free trade agreement , labor migration
137	2	January 31, 2014	Grand coalition , minimum wage , Baden-Württemberg education plan , law on homosexuality at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games , criticism of Joachim Meisner
138	3	February 7, 2014	Opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics , self-reports and criminal charges for tax fraud , Gauck's speech at the 50th Munich Security Conference , NSA affair and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
139	4th	February 14, 2014	Energy transition and local elections in Bavaria in 2014 , government crisis in Berlin , Edathy affair , referendum on immigration in Switzerland, alternative for Germany , European elections in Germany in 2014 , killing of a giraffe in Copenhagen Zoo , law on homosexuality at the 2014 Winter Olympics	Morten Kühne *, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber, Oliver Welke
140	5	February 21, 2014	Edathy affair , government crisis in Berlin , diet increase in the Bundestag, party conference of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , genetic maize
141	6th	March 7, 2014	Energy transition , Crimean crisis , municipal elections in Bavaria 2014 , Political Ash Wednesday , Mardi Gras , alternative for Germany
142	7th	March 14, 2014	Indictment and conviction in the tax affair in Uli Hoeneß , referendum on the status of Crimea , elections for the Supreme People's Assembly in North Korea , CeBIT 2014 , Cardinal Meisner is retiring
143	8th	March 21, 2014	Crimean crisis , Uli Hoeneß tax affair , Schäuble striving for “black zero” , energy transition , CeBIT 2014 and surveillance and espionage affair 2013
144	9	March 28, 2014	100 days of the grand coalition , AfD party conference , exclusion of Russia from the G8 , banking supervision , ZDF state treaty unconstitutional , restriction of the Internet in Turkey
145	10	April 4, 2014	Minimum wage , energy transition , pensions , pilots strike at Lufthansa , municipal elections in Turkey 2014 , development of the debt crisis in Greece , European elections 2014 , Berlin Brandenburg Airport
146	11	April 11, 2014	Data retention , general debate in the German Bundestag on the 2014 federal budget , European party congress of the CDU, Wetten, dass ...? is discontinued , European elections in Germany 2014 , smallest opposition of the German Bundestag , Rainer Brüderle's book presentation, Joachim Gauck at the Deutsche Bankentag
147	12	April 25, 2014	Torsten Albig's proposal for the car toll, European elections in Germany 2014 , Vladimir Putin and the crisis in Ukraine 2014 , Germany out of her mind ( Akif Pirinçci )
148	13	May 2, 2014	Transatlantic free trade agreement , surveillance and espionage affair 2013 , European elections in Germany 2014 , Monday demonstrations, Joachim Gauck's visit to Turkey
149	14th	May 9, 2014	European elections in Germany in 2014 , surveillance and espionage affair in 2013 , ADAC crisis
150	15th	May 16, 2014	Right-wing populism in the European elections in 2014 , reactions to the victory of Conchita Wurst at the Euro Vision Song Contest 2014 , European election campaign of the Alternative for Germany , Congress of the FDP , the crisis in Ukraine , Congress of the party Die Linke , power companies and energy policy
151	16	May 23, 2014	2014 European elections , protests in Turkey , pension policy, International Aerospace Exhibition Berlin 2014
152	17th	May 30, 2014	2014 European elections , surveillance and espionage affair 2013 , soccer World Cup 2014 (criticism of the World Cup area of ​​the German national soccer team , driving license revocation of Joachim Löw , "peeing affair" around Kevin Großkreutz , protests in Brazil )
153	18th	June 6, 2014	2014 European elections , Catholic Day 2014

Season 10

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
154	1	5th September 2014	State elections in Saxony , German arms delivery to Iraq, NATO summit in Wales, crisis in Ukraine 2014 , resignation of Christine Haderthauer , resignation of Klaus Wowereit	Morten Kühne *, Ralf Kabelka, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
155	2	September 12, 2014	Discussions about the car toll (infrastructure charge) in Germany, “Shariah Police” in Wuppertal , asylum seekers discussion , state elections in Thuringia and Brandenburg	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Fabian Köster, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Markus Schafitel
156	3	19th September 2014	State elections in Thuringia and Brandenburg , election successes of the AfD , visit of the Emir of Qatar in Berlin, referendum on the independence of Scotland in 2014	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
157	4th	September 26, 2014	Equipment problems in the Bundeswehr , Islamic State , transatlantic free trade agreement , AfD , morning-after pill and march for life
158	5	October 10, 2014	Equipment problems in the armed forces , problems in asylum seekers' homes , discussions about sexuality in the Catholic Church , Daniel Bahr switches to business	Morten Kühne *, Dietrich Krauss, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Markus Schafitel, Jörg Uebber
159	6th	17th October 2014	Exclusion of the Today show from the German Bundestag
160	7th	October 24, 2014	Strike the GDL at the Deutsche Bahn and the union Cockpit at Lufthansa , eight IT Summit , economic downturn in Germany , women's quota , Apple and Facebook pay staff Social Freezing , Ebola fever epidemic and influence of the pharmaceutical industry , excluding the now-show from the Germans Bundestag
161	8th	October 31, 2014	Hooligans against Salafists , lobbying in the German Bundestag , re-employment of former federal ministers , state elections in Thuringia	Morten Kühne *, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Marcus Schafitel
162	9	November 7, 2014	Strike the GDL at the Deutsche Bahn , German reunification , National Socialist Underground , AFD shop must today-show, again in the German Bundestag turn	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Denis Martynow, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Marcus Schafitel
163	10	November 14, 2014	Landing of the Philae probe on the Churyumov-Gerassimenko comet , fall of the Berlin Wall , conflict between the USA and Russia , Luxembourg leaks , lobbying in the German Bundestag , Barbara Hendricks	Morten Kühne *, David Flasch, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Denis Martynow, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Marcus Schafitel
164	11	November 21, 2014	Criticism of the Riester pension and controversy surrounding Carsten Maschmeyer , problems with the final storage of nuclear waste , corruption at FIFA , RT (Russia Today) also available in German, realignment of the Bundeswehr , hooligans against Salafists	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Hans-Peter Klemm, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Marcus Schafitel
165	12	November 28, 2014	Women's quota , demonstrations against asylum seekers' homes and asylum policy , solidarity surcharge , Alliance 90 / The Greens party conference in Hamburg ,	Morten Kühne *, Ralf Kabelka, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Marcus Schafitel, Tobias Thye, Jörg Uebber
166	13	December 12, 2014	CDU party conference in Cologne , CSU and asylum policy, Pegida , Bodo Ramelow as the first left-wing Prime Minister in Thuringia , Christmas presents	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Marcus Schafitel, Tobias Thye
Annual review		19th December 2014	Awarded the “Golden Post” 2014, Hartmut Mehdorn's resignation as Chairman of the Management Board of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH , Alexander Dobrindt and the car toll , equipment problems in the Bundeswehr , war in Ukraine and tensions between Russia and the USA , Merkel III cabinet , Wolfgang Schäuble and the “Black Zero”, Uli Hoeneß , Alice Schwarzer and Thomas Middelhoff , Alternative for Germany and PEGIDA

Season 11

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
167	1	23rd January 2015	Attack on Charlie Hebdo , freedom of expression , PEGIDA and LEGIDA , parliamentary elections in Greece , Green Week 2015 and the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement	Morten Kühne *, Ralf Kabelka, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
168	2	January 30, 2015	Parliamentary elections in Greece and the Greek sovereign debt crisis , Pegida , human rights in Saudi Arabia , Syrian-Turkish conflict 2012 and Cumhurbaşkanlığı Sarayı , Bayerischer Rundfunk and Markus Söder	Morten Kühne *
169	3	February 6, 2015	Yanis Varoufakis and the Greek National Debt Crisis , War in Ukraine since 2014 and Very High Readiness Joint Task Force , Minimum Wage Act (Germany) , AfD	Morten Kühne *
170	4th	February 13, 2015	Minsk II and the war in Ukraine since 2014 , SPD board meeting, Olaf Scholz , FDP , Safer Internet Day , sorry for editing errors in the broadcast on February 6, 2015	Morten Kühne *
171	5	February 20, 2015	Greek sovereign debt crisis , political Ash Wednesday and right-wing populism at the CSU , citizenship election in Hamburg and low voter turnout , AfD , infrastructure and PPP Germany , Islamic State , political Ash Wednesday	Morten Kühne *, Stephan Herschung, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
172	6th	February 27, 2015	Greek national debt crisis , low wage sector in Germany, asylum policy of the European Union , debate about power lines in Bavaria, car toll in Germany, Anton Hofreiter as a guest	Morten Kühne *, Stephan Herschung, Dietrich Krauss, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Stephan Pächer, Markus Schafitel
173	7th	March 6, 2015	possible abolition of the solidarity surcharge , increase in child benefit by 4 €, increase in the Bundeswehr budget and outdated technology of the Bundeswehr, technical deficiencies in the NH90 military helicopter , National Socialist underground , quota for women and "equal work - equal wages", sexual harassment at work, minimum wage in Germany	Morten Kühne *, Fabian Köster, Dietrich Krauss, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Jörg Uebber
174	8th	March 13, 2015	Chancellor visits Japan , Greek sovereign debt crisis , Sigmar Gabriel in Saudi Arabia and Qatar , rent brake , Peer Steinbrück's book “Postponed Future”, Vladimir Putin and Russia , International Tourism Exchange Berlin	Morten Kühne *, Nikolai Kleinhammer, Fabian Köster, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
175	9	March 20, 2015	Solar eclipse of March 20, 2015 , Greek national debt crisis , stinkefinger controversy surrounding Yanis Varoufakis , protests against the opening of the new building for the European Central Bank , CeBIT and the partner country China , PEGIDA , Peter Tauber as studio guest	Morten Kühne *, Nikolai Kleinhammer, Fabian Köster, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jakob Schreier
176	10	April 10, 2015	Greek sovereign debt crisis , Alexis Tsipras on a state visit to Vladimir Putin , Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes, reporting by the Bild newspaper , combat drones , xenophobic protests , Islamophobia and xenophobia in Germany , Tatjana Festerling , opponent of vaccinations , "Truth Congress"	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Dietrich Krauss, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Markus Schafitel
177	11	17th April 2015	“Citizens 'Dialogue” of the grand coalition , Angela Merkel and Sigmar Gabriel , lobbying in the German Bundestag , childcare allowance , SPD , xenophobia in Germany , attacks on asylum seekers ' homes , Geert Wilders and PEGIDA , Upper Saxon dialect	Morten Kühne *, Stephan Pächer, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel,
178	12	April 24, 2015	Girls' Day , gender role , criticism of the HK G36 assault rifle , lack of operational capability of the Bundeswehr , refugee disaster in the Mediterranean ( Mare Nostrum and Triton ), European Commission , southern Africa initiative of the German economy , economic upswing in Germany, justice debate , initiative new social market economy , data retention	Morten Kühne *, David Flasch, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Markus Schafitel, Markus Zimmer
179	13	May 1, 2015	BND – NSA surveillance affair , headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service , National Security Agency , Deutsche Bank , Alternative für Deutschland , repository for radioactive waste , Labor Day	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Ralf Kabelka, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Stephan Pächer, Malte Pieper, Markus Schafitel
180	14th	May 8, 2015	Bettina and Christian Wulff , rail strike and Claus Weselsky , strike , BND – NSA surveillance affair , hardware store employee prevents terrorist attack in Oberursel , racism , state election in Bremen 2015	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Ralf Kabelka, Marc Löb, Stephan Pächer, Malte Pieper, Linus Rübeling, Markus Schafitel, Markus Zimmer
181	15th	May 15, 2015	Asylum policy of the European Union , Viktor Orbán , Charlotte of Cambridge , no-spy agreement and Ronald Pofalla , citizenship election in Bremen 2015 , FDP , low voter turnout , strike in local day-care centers, anti- chemtrail demo	Morten Kühne *, Andreas Guni, Fabian Köster, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel, Jakob Schreier
182	16	May 22, 2015	End of the rail strike and Claus Weselsky , collective bargaining autonomy and collective bargaining law , alternative for Germany , Bernd Lucke and Hans-Olaf Henkel , federal party conference of the FDP , legalization of cannabis ,	Morten Kühne *, Micky Beisenherz, Andreas Guni, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
183	17th	May 29, 2015	FIFA corruption scandal and Sepp Blatter , referendum on same-sex marriage in Ireland and the situation in Germany , G7 summit at Schloss Elmau , energy transition	Morten Kühne *, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Linus Rübeling, Markus Schafitel

Season 12

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
184	1	September 11, 2015	Refugee crisis in Europe , failed projects of the CSU ( care allowance and car toll)	Morten Kühne *, Oliver Welke *, Micky Beisenherz, Ralf Kabelka, Fabian Köster, Björn Mannel, Malte Pieper, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
185	2	18th September 2015	Refugee crisis in Europe, Greek sovereign debt crisis , CETA and TTIP , electric cars at the IAA 2015	Morten Kühne *, Oliver Welke *, Andreas Guni, Fabian Köster, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
186	3	September 25, 2015	VW emissions scandal , Viktor Orbán's visit to Bavaria, how industries and parties deal with the refugee crisis, World Summit for Sustainable Development 2015 in New York / Sustainable Development Goals	Morten Kühne *, Oliver Welke *, Fabian Köster, Marc Löb, Björn Mannel, Stephan Pächer, Thomas Rogel, Markus Schafitel
187	4th	October 2nd, 2015	Refugee crisis , plagiarism allegations against Ursula von der Leyen , VW exhaust gas scandal , 25 years of German reunification , Gregor Gysi as a guest
188	5	October 9, 2015	Refugee crisis , synod of bishops on the subject of marriage and family, lack of data protection on Facebook , VW emissions scandal , celebration of German reunification in Brussels
189	6th	October 16, 2015	Bought World Cup 2006 , negotiations on TTIP , protests against updating sex education in Baden-Württemberg
190	7th	October 23, 2015	1st “birthday” of PEGIDA , Angela Merkel's visit to Turkey , purchased 2006 World Cup , data retention , refugee accommodation at Venus Berlin
191	8th	October 30, 2015	Refugee crisis , arms exports to Qatar , bought World Cup 2006 , sausage as a cause of cancer , resolutions of the Synod of Bishops , meetings of GDR border soldiers
192	9	November 6, 2015	Refugee crisis , committee of inquiry into the energy transition , absolute majority of the AKP in the parliamentary elections in Turkey in November 2015 , sales of pharmaceuticals in Germany
193	10	The episode was originally scheduled for November 13, 2015; due to the attacks in Paris it was not broadcast. It was also not made available in the ZDF media library.
194	11	20th November 2015	Attacks in Paris and Mali , bought 2006 World Cup , expansion of the BND and the protection of the constitution , AfD demonstration in Berlin
195	12	November 27, 2015	10 years Chancellorship of Merkel , CSU - party congress , Berlin , UN climate conference , federal delegates ' conference of the Greens , memorial service for Helmut Schmidt
196	13	4th December 2015	Military intervention in Syria, Climate Change Conference of the United Nations , AFD , new government in Poland
197	14th	December 11, 2015	Federal party conference of the SPD , NSU trial, data protection in the EU , excessive demands on the BAMF , climate change
Annual review		December 18, 2015	u. a. Award of the "Goldenen Vollpfosten" 2015 (to Franz Beckenbauer , Donald Trump , Claus Weselsky and "Bernd" Höcke )

Season 13

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
198	1	22nd January 2016	Sexual assaults on New Year's Eve 2015/16 / Angela Merkel's refugee policy, policy of the Polish government , security problems at Belgian nuclear power plants
199	2	January 29, 2016	Refugee crisis, Horst Seehofer's threatening letter to Angela Merkel, Julia Klöckner's A2 plan, dealing with the AfD in talk shows, VW diesel scandal, Cologne carnival
200	3	February 12, 2016	Horst Seehofer's dictum about the “rule of injustice”, asylum package II, “shooting order” from the AfD, possible upper limit on cash, differences in wealth in Germany, Horst Seehofer's visit to Putin
201	4th	19th February 2016	EU refugee summit in Brussels, Brexit, state elections in Baden-Württemberg and Saxony-Anhalt on March 13, advertising in the classroom
202	5	February 26, 2016	Attacks on refugees in Clausnitz and Bautzen, investigations by the police against attacked refugees, state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate on March 13, FIFA presidential election, Donald Trump in the US primary campaign, fear of foreigners in Saxony
203	6th	4th March 2016	Refugee crisis, NPD ban, glyphosate in beer, ALFA party
204	7th	March 11, 2016	State elections in Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt on March 13th, refugee crisis, Angela Merkel's deal with Erdoğan, International Women's Day
205	8th	March 18, 2016	After the state elections in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt: Debacle for CDU and SPD, rise of the AfD, lawsuit by energy suppliers against the nuclear phase-out, serious incident in Fessenheim nuclear power plant, ECB key interest rate cut to 0.0%
206	9	April 1, 2016	Terrorist attacks in Brussels, the fight against terrorism, integration, the 2017 federal budget, poverty among pensioners, housing shortages, planned new sexual offenses, surveillance by insurance companies
207	10	April 8, 2016	Panama Papers, “Economic promotion through aid to tax evasion” in Bavaria, European tax havens Ireland and the Netherlands, Starbucks and IKEA as tax evaders, refugee deal with Turkey, NSU scandal and Nazis in hiding, poor pay for geriatric nurses, “Grandma export” after Eastern Europe
208	11	April 15, 2016	Böhmermann affair, old-age poverty, bad poll numbers for the SPD, bonuses for VW managers, campaigns by Food Minister Christian Schmidt and Justice Minister Heiko Maas
209	12	April 22, 2016	Diesel scandal, refugee deal with Turkey, Sigmar Gabriel's visit to Egypt, Islambashing by the AfD, impoverishment of single parents, 90th birthday of the Queen, threatened Brexit, integration law
210	13	April 29, 2016	Obama's visit to Hanover, FPÖ Federal President candidate Norbert Hofer, awards for electric cars, the new FDP
211	14th	May 6, 2016	Trump in the US presidential election campaign, TTIP leak, working conditions in slaughterhouses, germs in factory farming, freedom of expression in Turkey, the Bundeswehr's deployment in Mali, the Bundeswehr's new cyberwar unit, AfD program party conference
212	15th	May 13, 2016	Crisis of the SPD, Seehofer's criticism of the Chancellor, abolition of the € 500 note, cum-cum deals, tests for older drivers, swastika-schnitzel satire of the show today
213	16	May 20, 2016	Decline of democracy in Turkey, EU nuclear policy, postponement of the EU decision on glyphosate, manure import to Germany, inheritance tax reform, sports summer 2016: FIFA and doping, abolition of cash?
214	17th	May 27, 2016	Closed meeting of the grand coalition, fast internet, integration law, values ​​and rules for refugees, federal presidential election in Austria, Monsanto takeover by Bayer, federal interior minister to increase the number of burglaries, police savings, today-show summer forecast with Dietmar Wischmeyer, Lutz van der Horst in London : "Krauts for Brexit"
215	18th	3rd June 2016	Alexander Gauland on “neighbor” Jérôme Boateng, racism in German football, left-wing party congress in Magdeburg, parliamentary genocide resolution on Armenia, new prostitution law, vacation in Turkey, upcoming Brexit decision in England

Season 14

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
216	1	September 9, 2016	State election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Debacle for the CDU, Merkel-Bashing, Seehofer's proposals for refugee policy, PR advice for Sigmar Gabriel, new iPhone, Apple's tax-saving model in Europe, AfD success in the state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, downfall of the NPD
217	2	16th September 2016	Election to the House of Representatives in Berlin on September 18, 2016 , Berlin-Bashing, Seehofer's threat to Angela Merkel on the subject of upper limits, mass brawl between refugees and right-wing extremists in Bautzen, return of the "German people", free trade agreement TTIP and CETA, Stuttgart 21 laying of the foundation stone, new ICE 4th
218	3	23rd September 2016	After the parliamentary elections in Berlin : Red-red-green coalition, Angela Merkel shows "feelings", Andreas Scheuer's sentence about Senegalese, "About a year" parental leave law, AfD pushes into the Bundestag: "Panic" among the MPs, SPD- Vote on CETA
219	4th	September 30, 2016	first TV duel between Trump and Clinton, Trump bashing, ineffective rent controls, agreement on inheritance tax, Hartz-4 poverty, fairy tales of equal opportunities, Edmund Stoiber's 75th birthday, common future of the CDU and CSU?
220	5	October 7, 2016	Unity celebration in Dresden, Russian propaganda in Internet forums, additional health insurance contributions, individual health services (IGeL), threatened demise of Deutsche Bank
221	6th	October 14, 2016	Dirty US election campaign: Sex allegations against Donald Trump, Angela Merkel's state visit to Africa, fatal “development aid” for Africa, hatred and agitation on Facebook: Inactive Justice Minister Heiko Maas, 70 years of North Rhine-Westphalia: state with negative records
222	7th	October 21, 2016	Red-red-green in Berlin, Martin Schulz as Chancellor candidate of the SPD, meeting Putin and Merkel, 3rd TV duel Trump vs. Clinton, VW diesel scandal
223	8th	October 28, 2016	Germany is looking for a Federal President, citizens' survey “Living well in Germany”, Germany Day of the Junge Union, Reich citizens, status of implementation of the climate protection plan, election of the top candidate by the Greens
224	9	4th November 2016	Countdown to the US presidential election, pension reform, Chinese hunger for German companies, CSU party conference in Munich, GBW scandal, Prime Minister succession dispute in Bavaria
225	10	November 11, 2016	Elected US President Donald Trump, Trumpism, US election parties in Germany, Bundeswehr image campaign for young people, climate conference in Marrakech, nitrate contamination of the groundwater
226	11	18th November 2016	Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Obama's farewell tour, populism in the USA and in Germany, the Trumpsens, Facebook's help in inflammatory speeches, Turkish empire efforts, party congress of the Greens, wealth tax only for the super-rich
227	12	November 25, 2016	Angela Merkel's candidacy for a fourth term in office, hiring of politicians through the SPD agency Network Media GmbH, populism, disarming Reich citizens, gun lobby, news from the AfD, federal press ball, criticism of the AfD on the radio license fee
228	13	2nd December 2016	Pension reform, Riester pension, digitization of work, federal presidential election campaign in Austria, upcoming decision on the EU in Italy, the "damned political correctness", Reich citizens
229	14th	December 9, 2016	Merkel's re-election as CDU leader, party convention of the CDU, car toll, possible compensation for energy companies due to the nuclear phase-out, fake news on Facebook
Annual review		December 16, 2016	Awarded the “Golden Post” 2016, Donald Trump, Deutsche Bank, Volkswagen, Winfried Kretschmann, AfD, fake news, Brexit, Günther Oettinger, Putin, Erdogan, Christmas markets

Season 15

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
230	1	January 27, 2017	SPD Chancellor candidate Martin Schulz, new Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, Donald Trump's first week as US President, the USA on the way to dictatorship, meeting of the international right-wing populists in Koblenz, "Bernd" Höcke's Dresden speech, lack of political consequences after the attack in Berlin
231	2	3rd February 2017	Donald Trump's entry stop for Muslims, democracy sell-off in the USA, Merkel's visit to Erdogan, animal cruelty in factory farming, SPD poll high thanks to Chancellor candidate Martin Schulz
232	3	February 10, 2017	SPD high poll, forced harmony between Angela Merkel and host Seehofer, “news from Trumpstalt”, media censorship in Poland and Hungary, Merkel's refugee deal with Libya, upcoming federal presidential election of Frank-Walter Steinmeier, opposing candidate Engelbert Sonneborn
233	4th	17th February 2017	Federal President-elect Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Norbert Lammert's speech at the Federal Assembly, Schulz hype, denazification of the AfD: “Bernd” Höcke excluded from the party, VW emissions scandal
234	5	February 24, 2017	Trump's week: more nuclear weapons and #LastNightInSweden, Trump method, duel for the chancellorship: Schulz against Merkel, polls low among the Greens, transparency law against tax evasion, German tax havens, armament in Germany
235	6th	March 3, 2017	Political Ash Wednesday: Merkel vs. Schulz, effects of Agenda 2010, imprisonment of Deniz Yücel , convictions after fatal car races, preventive detention for those at risk, Martin Schulz hype
236	7th	March 10, 2017	German-Turkish relationship, Turkish constitutional referendum, Diesel committee of inquiry, Merkel's planned visit to Donald Trump, Trump's second entry stop, Geert Wilder's election campaign, PowerPoint education vs. Fanaticism by Nico Semsrott
237	8th	17th March 2017	Merkel's visit to Donald Trump, US punitive tariffs on German cars, Seehofer to Putin, Turkish-Dutch crisis, election in the Netherlands, Greens in the house election campaign
238	9	March 24, 2017	Martin Schulz 'election as SPD chairman with 100%, upcoming state elections in Saarland, planned ban on alcohol advertising, frosty German-American relations
239	10	March 31, 2017	Brexit letter to the EU, celebration of 60 years of the Treaty of Rome, Schulz effect in Saarland, state elections in Saarland, coalition committee in Berlin, car toll, threatened inflation of the Bundestag, mountains of rubbish from disposable bottles
240	11	April 7, 2017	Trump's attack on Syria, Merkel's election campaign in North Rhine-Westphalia, speculation about the traffic light coalition in the federal government, #freedeniz, Turkish constitutional referendum, dispute in the AfD, new cyber defense force, news from Trump stalt: death of the climate protection agreement
241	12	April 21, 2017	Donald Trump vs. Kim Jong Un: impending nuclear war, Donald Trump's strike against Syria, Ivanka Trump advises Donald Trump, Erdoğan's success in referendum on the presidential system, tax policy: abolition of the cold progression, poverty report by the federal government, self-tearing of the AfD, upcoming elections in France
242	13	April 28, 2017	Ivanka Trump at the “Women20” summit in Berlin, Seehofer's renewed candidacy for prime minister, upcoming presidential election in France, Industry 4.0, AfD party conference dismantled Frauke Petry, AfD's ethnic family policy
243	14th	5th May 2017	Super election year 2017 has begun: Merkel vs. Schulz, upcoming state elections in Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia, debate on dominant culture, right-wing extremism in the Bundeswehr, Bundestag blocks tobacco advertising ban, 100 days President Trump
244	15th	May 12, 2017	Upcoming state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, state elections in Schleswig-Holstein, presidential elections in France, Powerpoint presentation: shift to the right in Europe, diesel scandal, lack of investment in school infrastructure
245	16	19th May 2017	State election in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bundestag election campaign, the SPD's draft program, the FDP is back, Macron and Merkel, Germany is Europe's loan shark, Trump's betrayal of secrets, Trump and Erdoğan, the relationship between the German government and the Turkish government
246	17th	May 26, 2017	Trump's visit to Europe, Trump's arms sale to Saudi Arabia, presentation of the SPD election program, CSU Bayern plan, access to biometric data on the identity card, sponsorship at the Protestant Church Congress, image problem of the Bundeswehr
247	18th	2nd June 2017	Trump announces Paris climate protection agreement, anti-Americanism, Chinese prime minister in Berlin, company pension strengthening law, "marriage for everyone" no longer in this legislative period, mafia paradise Germany, today-show summer oracle

Season 16

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
248	1	September 8, 2017	Today's show is now also in HD, Bundestag election campaign, TV duel between Angela Merkel and Martin Schulz, What is that for 1 election campaign ?, last Bundestag session in this legislative period, “new” topics of the FDP, scandals of the AfD, moderation by Claus Strunz, acute situation in North Korea, bankruptcy of the A1 motorway through public-private partnership, Diesel summit, HORSTaberfair with the Magdeburg Garden Party, DIE FRAUEN, die Menschliche Welt and the STRAIGHT party
249	2	15th September 2017	Upcoming federal election, Angela Merkel in conversation with the citizens, screaming angry citizens, Turkish travel warning for Germany, Erdoğan's Nazi comparisons, increased German investments in Turkey, slow broadband expansion in Germany, election campaign for the “last voters”, Guttenberg return, never again GroKo
250	3	22nd September 2017	Final spurt of the election campaign, AfD scrapbook, Bundestag changes for the AfD, hacking attack on the federal election ?, “The Dark Nerd Rises”, new GroKo or Jamaica ?, the “principles” of the Greens, Lutz van der Horst explores for a Jamaica coalition the CSU
251	4th	29th September 2017	After the federal elections: Right shift, AfD in Münster below 5%, Jamaica coalition, crash of the CSU, new elections ?, the show today praises the SPD for going into the opposition, “Trümmersozen”, Petry divides the AfD ?, Meuthen's racism , the blame of the media, the final failure of Trump's health care reform, the North Korea conflict, reporters at the AfD and CDU election party, folder calls at the Berlin marathon
252	5	October 6, 2017	Direction dispute in the Union, Lower Saxony election, Chancellor Bunker, Day of German Unity, feeling of inferiority among East Germans, diesel scandal, cum-ex scandal, lobbying, no sugar restriction in food, falling proportion of women in the Bundestag
253	6th	October 13, 2017	Upper limit dispute settled, 10-point plan of the CSU, home concept of the Greens, waiting for Jamaica, Lower Saxony election, shortage of staff at German courts, upcoming national council election in Austria, ban on masking in Austria
254	7th	20th October 2017	Jamaica exploratory talks, Lower Saxony election: the SPD is alive !, nursing emergency, Trumpization of the world, far-right shift in Austria, right-wing conservative government in Switzerland
255	8th	October 27, 2017	inaugural meeting of the 19th Bundestag : bigger and male, failed Bundestag Vice President -Kandidat AfD, "My friend is AFD" faltering Jamaica exploratory talks, Telekolleg Coalition mathematics, massive insects dying , # MeToo debate over sexism, sexual harassment and rape
256	9	3rd November 2017	one year of President Trump, investigations into the Russia affair, America's heroin catastrophe, standstill exploratory talks in Jamaica, clear failure to meet climate protection targets, Reformation Day, Martin Luther merchandising
257	10	November 10, 2017	The sticking points of the exploratory talks in Jamaica, green concessions to Jamaica, wavering Prime Minister Seehofer, Paradise Papers , the tax haven of Holland, rising rents in Germany, impending old-age poverty, ideological refusal to vaccinate
258	11	17th November 2017	Still no Jamaica agreement, poor issues at the CDU, demand for more flexible working hours, dumping wages for trainees, multiple jobbers, temporary contracts, family reunification of refugees, Islamophobia, austerity measures at the Berlin Police Academy, world climate conference in Bonn: coal exit without Germany
259	12	November 24, 2017	Jamaica is dead, bogeyman FDP, new GroKo ?, Out for the social ticket in NRW, FDP overtakes the CSU on the right, SPD in the acid test, new elections ?, minority government ?, Siemens is cutting massive jobs in Germany
260	13	1st December 2017	On the way to the third GroKo ?, Martin Schulz refuses government options, Federal President Steinmeier holds talks with parties to form a government, Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt votes against coalition agreements for glyphosate approval, Kenya coalition (black-red-green without CSU) ?, Federal delegate conference of the Greens, civil servants' union against SPD proposal for citizen insurance, privileges of civil servants teachers, FDP - the Christian Lindner party
261	14th	December 8, 2017	SPD federal party convention: Masochism of the Social Democrats, Söder becomes Prime Minister-designate in Bavaria, AfD party congress: political comeback of "Bernd" Höcke, Powerpoint lecture by Nico Semsrott on racism in the AfD, problems with parcel delivery: enormously increased online trade, Amazon- Work slaves, guest: Jens Spahn
Annual review		15th December 2017	Award of the "Golden Post" 2017: no Golden Post for: Jamaica Coalition (with balcony) and Angela Merkel (preliminary talks between SPD and Union, "Cooperation Coalition " (KoKo) or minority government ?) Golden Post for: Christian Lindner, Donald Trump ( 3rd full post in a row, Roy Moore , tax reform, recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel by the USA, fracking in Utah), Harvey Weinstein ( #MeToo movement), Deutsche Bahn (breakdowns on the new ICE high-speed route between Munich and Berlin), Erika Steinbach (tweets, golden poison syringe for life's work), Frauke Petry (full post in blue ), Boris Becker ( insolvency proceedings ), German auto industry ( diesel scandal , lobbying in the German Bundestag), Erdoğan (full post in baton edition, #FreeDeniz ), Amazon's Alexa ( Surveillance state Germany) Christmas break in the German Bundestag, the today show ensemble against GroKo and for minority government

Season 17

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
262	1	January 26, 2018	SPD votes for further GroKo, analysis of exploratory papers, Erdoğan's war against the Kurds with German tanks, German arms deliveries to both warring parties, Green Week in Berlin, factory farming, Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, request from the AfD parliamentary group regarding the replication of the Holocaust Memorial by the artist collective Center for Political Beauty within sight of Bernd Höcke's apartment
263	2	February 2, 2018	Diesel scandal: pollutant tests on monkeys, impending driving bans, fine dust pollution from laser printers, GroKo coalition negotiations, limitation of family reunification, two- tier medicine, higher CO 2 emissions in Germany
264	3	February 16, 2018	Deniz Yücel released from custody, condition of the SPD: Martin Schulz resigned, Andrea Nahles as designated SPD leader, next GroKo, coalition agreement, promises for fast Internet, political Ash Wednesday, Olympic Winter Games in South Korea, Russian doping, apologies to Dieter Amann (see criticism at today show )
265	4th	February 23, 2018	Angela Merkel brings Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to Berlin as CDU General Secretary, distribution of the CDU ministries, massive deficiencies in equipment in the Bundeswehr, Federal Administrative Court adjourned decision on diesel driving bans, "free" local public transport, food scandals in Germany, debate about wolves in Germany
266	5	2nd March 2018	Diesel driving bans, the Essen food bank stop accepting foreigners, citizens take on state responsibilities, Trump's gun laws, gun lobby in the USA, German Rifle Association, pending SPD membership decision on GroKo, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as possible successor to Merkel, Merkel's new ministerial group, Nico Semsrott: SPD - right at the bottom
267	6th	March 9, 2018	The new GroKo is in place, SPD ministers, Merkel's 4th term, Dorothee Bär 's idea of ​​an air taxi, AfD: Poggenburg's resignation , AfD Syria delegation, trade war with the USA, European punitive tariffs, Trump's employees who quit, election stalemate and a shift to the right in Italy , Family friendliness of the new government, midwifery need, life disaster pregnancy in Germany
268	7th	March 16, 2018	Merkel elected Chancellor for the fourth time, Jens Spahn's statement on Hartz 4, Horst Seehofer's “Heimatmuseum” , Germany will be as safe as Bavaria, Putin's imminent re-election as Russian President, nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal , Russian hackers, multi-resistant germs in German waters, deployment of reserve antibiotics in factory farming, Markus Söders election as Bavarian Prime Minister, Friedemann Weise : More child benefits in Germany
269	8th	23 March 2018	Start of the new GroKo, Merkel's inaugural visit to Paris, planned European finance minister, initially no US punitive tariffs for the EU, criticism of the German export surplus, Easter travel, shifting truck deliveries from rail to road, discussion about "advertising" for Abortions ( § 219a ), Jens Spahn's reactionary image of women, the AfD's longing for the time before 1968
270	9	April 6, 2018	GroKo dispute about affiliation of Islam to Germany, " traditional bunny", dealing with women in the CSU, host Seehofer's Ministry of Men, conspiracy theories about Islam, SPD does not want to abolish Hartz 4 after all, taking people out of the unemployment statistics, Hartz 4 cemented poverty, Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal, Swiss Post sells address data to political parties, new Bavarian police law allows arrests because of “imminent danger” and the use of explosives, Germany is cruise world champion: environmental destruction and starvation wages
271	10	April 13, 2018	Trump's lightning tweet: fear of the USA attacking Syria, GroKo closed-door conference at Meseberg Castle , the new government's school policy failed: massive teacher shortage, sale of HSH Nordbank : billions in losses for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, sugar tax in Great Britain , Andreas Scheuer's funk hole- Reporting app: Funkloch-Ort Brenschede
272	11	April 20, 2018	Trump's Twitter announcement on the airstrike on Syria , James B. Comey's book of disclosure about Trump, the German stance on the airstrike on Syria, new arms exports to Saudi Arabia, mini nukes , nuclear armament, start of the barbecue season, cheap meat thanks to factory farming and animal cruelty, exploitation of the Slaughterhouse employees , mechanically separated meat , water in the sausage, care emergency, echo scandal : anti-Semitism by Kollegah and Farid Bang , Holocaust denier and AfD politician Wolfgang Gedeon
273	12	April 27, 2018	Angela Merkel's visit to Donald Trump, Trump's call to Fox News , Emmanuel Macron's visit to Trump, failure of the rental price brake , Hanover trade fair , artificial intelligence , care robots , Industry 4.0 , cross-duty in Bavarian offices, a small request from the AfD on the number of severely disabled people after inbreeding with a migration background, Andrea Nahles new SPD chairwoman
274	13	4th May 2018	Labor day, minimum wage, exploitation in the logistics industry: deliveroo and amazon, reactions to Söder's cross duty, international press freedom day: arrests in Turkey, Erdoğan's war propaganda, denunciations in Turkey, awarding of the 2024 European football championship to Germany or the Turkey, documents on party financing must be published, Jens Spahn meets Hartz IV recipient, Maischberger about language taboos
275	14th	May 11, 2018	Donald Trump announces nuclear deal with Iran, Israel's presentation of false evidence of Iranian violations of the nuclear agreement, Trump's arms deals with Saudi Arabia, command tone of the new American ambassador , Dobrindt's fight against the “anti-deportation industry”, flawed Asylum decisions by the BAMF , Horst Seehofer's anchor centers , teaching values ​​for refugees, Charlemagne Prize for Emmanuel Macron, visions for Europe, citizens' dialogue on Europe, Global Marijuana March , 70th anniversary of the Women's Union : Lack of women in the federal ministries
276	15th	18th May 2018	General debate in the Bundestag, budget of the new GroKo, black zero threatens future generations, investment gap in education and digital infrastructure, German national soccer players Özil and Gündoğan meet "their president" Erdoğan, EU Commission warns Germany about air pollution, model declaratory action law, illegal shutdown facilities at Porsche and Audi, Federal party conference of the FDP: “Innovation Nation”, lack of women at the FDP, Christian Lindner is afraid of (presumably illegal) foreigners who buy bread rolls
277	16	May 25, 2018	Donald Trump's cancellation of the summit meeting with Kim Jong-un, threatened US punitive tariffs on German cars, Merkel's visit to China, Chinese investments in Germany, Chinese social credit system , new Italian government threatens euro stability, Italian Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte , Bavarian police warned truants to take Whitsun holidays, measures against (drinking) tourists, unfounded positive asylum notices in the Bremen BAMF , NRW home ambassador Ralf Moeller
278	17th	June 1, 2018	Trade war with the USA, new Italian Prime Minister Conte sworn in, right shift in Italy, littering the oceans with plastic, EU ban on plastic straws, infertility due to microplastics in cosmetics, basic data protection regulation , questioning Mark Zuckerberg in front of the European Parliament, diesel driving ban on two Road sections in Hamburg
279	18th	June 8, 2018	New ISS commander Alexander Gerst , Alexander Gauland declares 12 years of Nazi dictatorship to be "bird shit" in German history, AfD historical revisionism, Junge Alternative program convention , Donald Trump wants to leave G7 summit in Quebec early, US punitive tariffs, trade war , Question time from the Chancellor in the Bundestag, start of the soccer World Cup in Russia

Season 18

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
280	1	September 7, 2018	Brown mob in Chemnitz after homicide, Horst Seehofer: “Migration mother of all political problems”, AfD and Pegida march together, observation of the AfD by the protection of the constitution ?, Discussion about the term “hunt”, President Maaßen doubts the authenticity of a video of attacks on non-whites in Chemnitz , Federal President Steinmeier's recommendation for a concert with fine cream fish fillet , Volker Kauder announces a lack of education, shortage of teachers, bad planning of the Conference of Ministers of Education, Left Movement # stand up , Prime Minister Söder shrinks CSU polls, Seehofer's resignation without consequences
281	2	September 14, 2018	General debate in the Bundestag, refugee policy, AfD leaves the Bundestag for a short time, Martin Schulz's comeback, Maassen's resignation is demanded, Seehofer starts tweeting, right-wing conspiracy theories, police action : eviction of forest occupiers in the Hambacher Forest , railway is even more delayed, enormous shortage of care workers, poor caregiver pay
282	3	September 21, 2018	In spite of misconduct, President Maaßen should be promoted to State Secretary - housing expert Adler should go for it, extreme housing shortage, construction child allowance, urban densification, permanent disruptor Seehofer, hardware retrofits in the diesel scandal, 10 years of Lehman's bankruptcy, democracy in crisis
283	4th	28th September 2018	Erdoğan's state visit to Germany, Erdoğan's Nazi comparisons, the economic crisis in Turkey, Steinmeier's poorly attended state banquet for Erdoğan, the 2024 European Football Championship in Germany, “relentless” clarification of abuse by Catholic priests, the Vatican moves its child molesters worldwide instead of punishing them, and discusses celibacy , Ralph Brinkhaus is the new Union parliamentary group leader, the beginning of the end of the Merkel era ?, Hamburg students are supposed to denounce teachers critical of AfD , Swiss “travel warning” for Dresden
284	5	5th October 2018	GroKo: Agreement in the diesel dispute, Scheuers exchange bonus for diesel cars, no usable hardware retrofits for diesel cars, Day of German Unity, threatened hard Brexit , tax investigation against Donald Trump, upcoming vote on Supreme Court judge candidate Brett Kavanaugh , Influencer Academy in Berlin
285	6th	October 12, 2018	Before the state elections in Bavaria: Söder vs. Seehofer, AfD election campaign in Dresden, AfD politician Andreas Winhart warns of alleged “Negro” diseases, vigorous greens, black and green in Bavaria ?, fight against global warming, legacy of the Chancellor, Germany Day of the Junge Union
286	7th	19th October 2018	Loss of GroKo in the state election in Bavaria , no consequences of the CSU after the election, CSU forms coalition with the Free Voters , crash the SPD Ironically, with Nico Semsrott : 242,000 participants at Indivisible demo in Berlin, Tank & Rast -Monopole to German Motorway service stations, advertising ban on abortion (§ 219a), fine for abortion doctor, Pope equates abortion with contract murder, the Vatican's handling of homosexuality
287	8th	October 26, 2018	Before the state elections in Hesse : decision on the fate of GroKo ?, Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel versus Volker Bouffier , plans to increase the pollutant limit values , Saudi Arabian murder in Khashoggi , exploitation of parcel delivery staff , NATO maneuver Trident Juncture in Norway
288	9	2nd November 2018	Angela Merkel announces renunciation of CDU chairmanship, candidate for CDU chairmanship: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer , Friedrich Merz , Jens Spahn , worried citizens are losing the image of the enemy Merkel, losses of the popular parties in the state elections in Hesse, SPD presents GroKo timetable, AfD complains falsely media disregard of their electoral successes, Trump threatens to use firearms against refugees from Mexico and wants to abolish acquisition of American citizenship by birth in the USA, guest: Robert Habeck
289	10	November 9, 2018	Midterm elections in the USA: Democrats win the House of Representatives, Republicans expand majority in the Senate, Trump withdraws CNN reporter's accreditation, House of Representatives becomes more female, fight for CDU chairmanship: Kramp-Karrenbauer , Merz and Spahn , Hans-Georg Maaßen retire Postponed, AfD report to protect against observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, castration ban on male piglets is postponed
290	11	16th November 2018	Angela Merkel's slow goodbye, Horst Seehofer resigns as CSU boss, but remains Minister of the Interior, candidate for the CDU chairmanship, millionaire Merz counts himself to the middle class, SPD debate camp, diesel driving bans on parts of the A 40, hardware retrofits not until 2020, motor vehicles -Bundesamt sends out advertising brochures for new cars, clan crime, Jens Spahn wants to ban fresh cell cures
291	12	23rd November 2018	Beginning of the end of the Merkel era, UN migration pact , fight for CDU chairmanship, Hartz IV reform proposals, sanctions of the Hartz IV regime, Macron’s appeal for EU politics, AfD topic “ Europe of the Fatherlands ”, ARD retouched “ FCK-AFD “sticker from police call
292	13	November 30, 2018	Bundestag approves UN migration pact, AfD warns of millions of immigrants from Africa, German fears of migration, faltering 5G wireless network expansion, dead spots, Anja Karliczek wants new studies on raising children in homosexual partnerships, crisis meeting at Deutsche Bahn: breakdowns, delays and Lack of staff, Pofalla turn: turn back halfway to avoid delays
293	14th	7th December 2018	Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is the new CDU chairwoman, Merkel's farewell as CDU chairwoman, glyphosate , neonicotinoids , homelessness, digital pact ends up in the mediation committee , artificial intelligence
Annual review		December 14, 2018	Awarding of the "Golden Full Post " 2018: Golden Full Post to Great Britain ( Brexit Chaos), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer , Friedrich Merz , Golden Full Post to the CDU Andean Pact (micro-penis edition), Full Post in Love to Donald Trump ( Record post winner) and Kim Jong-un , sun protection factor 50 post in the hot summer of 2018 , diesel driving bans , government sued Deutsche Umwelthilfe , digitization full posts in the Nokia edition to Andreas Scheuer , further full posts to the Saudi Crown Prince ( Khashoggi murder) Ursula von der Leyen (consulting company in the Bundeswehr), to the German Wolf (comeback of the year), for the Hasi video , Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein to the right for the AfD , one year AfD in the Bundestag, further posts to Alice Weidel ( AfD donation affair) and for Angela Merkel's lethargic reign

Season 19

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
294	1	1st February 2019	Constant discussion about speed limit, doubts about diesel limit values, toxic masculinity, impending no-deal Brexit, mass tourism in the mountains, deficiencies in animal welfare
295	2	February 8, 2019	Respect pension, melodious names of the SPD laws, coal phase-out, the shitty energy transition, 15 years of Facebook, committee of inquiry into the advisory affair in the Ministry of Defense
296	3	15th February 2019	possible break of GroKo, CDU workshop talk on migration, left shift of the SPD, planned abolition of Hartz IV, return of Sigmar Gabriel ?, calculation errors in fine dust criticism, Nico Semsrott: artificial intelligence, rent increases outside of metropolises, child benefit, unregulated comparison portals, fake ones Customer ratings, shortage of personnel in the Bundeswehr
297	4th	February 22, 2019	Trump threatens punitive tariffs on German cars, Germany's affront to the USA during the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline , Germany misses the 2 percent target for arms spending, trade war with the USA, Trump announces a national emergency for the construction of the wall on the border with Mexico, round table on biodiversity After a successful referendum “Save the bees”, insect dying, CSU-led Federal Ministry of Transport prefers road construction in Bavaria, digital pact for education, the Christian agenda of Federal Education Minister Anja Karliczek
298	5	1st March 2019	Atomic summit in Hanoi ends without an agreement, Michael Cohen's testimony about Trump, the dad clan: Anti-abuse summit - hardly any consequences for clerical rapists, round table on plastic waste, politics relies on voluntariness instead of laws on sugar, animal welfare and leftover food, Julia Klöckner's "Too good for die Tonne “app, hysterical fear of wolves
299	6th	March 8, 2019	Political Ash Wednesday, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer's joke about toilets for intersex people, alleged ban on Indian costumes by a Hamburg day-care center, Fridays for Future , massive resistance to Article 13 and upload filters, withdrawal of non-profit status from attac
300	7th	15th March 2019	Brexit chaos, English For Brexiteers, plans for European aircraft carriers, diesel problem finally solved: Bundestag raises nitrogen oxide limit, creative measures against fine dust measurements, automatic license plate checks in city centers, body cameras for Bavarian police officers, violence against police officers, exaggerated police laws, suspended procedures Police violence, lousy situation of emergency services in Germany, discussion on equality, gender pay gap, women in male professions, international women's day
301	8th	March 22, 2019	One year GroKo, end of the Merkel era ?, von der Leyen under pressure: budget cuts and consultant affair, Horst Seehofer's inactive home ministry, planned merger of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, Brexit postponement (nerve-wracking issue), postponed eviction of Viktor Orbans from the EPP, Greens demand To evaluate fare dodging as an administrative offense, improvements in local public transport, speed limit, presentation of the first air taxi ( CityAirbus )
302	9	29th March 2019	Brexit-free today show, New Silk Road : China's influence on Italian ports, Huawei as part of the 5G cell phone network: suspected espionage, social point system in China, trade war USA - China, displeasure with American ambassador Richard Grenell , (a) social housing by Vonovia / Deutsche Wohnen in Berlin, Berlin's failure in housing construction and major projects, EU copyright reform, turning assistants, pensioners on e-bikes, e-scooters , Andi Scheuer's bicycle helmet campaign
303	10	5th April 2019	2nd Brexit-free show today, planned vaccination, measles epidemics in schools, opponents of vaccinations, Germanic New Medicine , planned contradiction solution for organ donation, no agreement on electoral reform, increased PR budget of the federal ministries, direct communication between politicians and the electorate, AfD-TV , Nico Semsrott: A for jobs, farmers' protests against stricter EU slurry regulations, nitrate pollution of German groundwater, factory farming for export to China, slurry import from the Netherlands
304	11	April 12, 2019	Flexit-Brexit by October 31, referendums with a terrible outcome, first photo of a black hole, meeting of the climate cabinet, Fridays-For-Future demands, Christian Lindner's fight against truancy, bleeding rural regions, brain drain, shortage of doctors, fundamental convention of Greens, guest: Martin Sonneborn
305	12	April 26, 2019	Upcoming European elections, unknown EU Parliament candidates, terrifyingly tired European election campaign, lack of electromobility, biomethane: electricity from bales of straw, greenwashing from Mercedes-Benz, Boris Palmer's racist criticism of Deutsche Bahn's advertising and consequent shitstorm, federal party conference of the FDP, new general secretary of the FDP : Linda Teuteberg , planned amendments to the Basic Law by the FDP, empathy with the New FDP, Gerhard Schröder's 75th birthday
306	13	3rd May 2019	Unscheduled CDU board meeting after the European elections: End of the Merkel era ?, EU top candidate Manfred Weber , general contractor liability for parcel couriers, Kevin Kühnert's demand to nationalize BMW, CO 2 tax, AfD denies man-made climate change, Romanian pro-corruption law, EU -Money in the pockets of the Czech and Hungarian prime ministers, European anti-corruption agency OLAF , Macron's scolding against Germany
307	14th	May 10, 2019	Discussion about the abolition of the German national anthem, extinction of species, Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner allows more insecticides, powerful farmer's lobby, watered-down manure regulation, hysterical debate about Kevin Kühnert's ideas of expropriation, the English vote in the European elections, opponents of Europe are running in the European elections, right-wing agitation in the social media, Facebook " Fight “against fake news , key points for Spahn's planned vaccination requirement, vaccination opponents at the esoteric fair
308	15th	17th May 2019	"The fat years are over": Tax estimate with expectation, standstill in the coalition, speculation about Merkel's future, lack of investments, ailing German business enterprises: Bayer, monitoring of Monsanto critics, shortage of skilled workers and craftsmen, electric scooters not allowed on the sidewalks, 70 years Basic Law: lack of equal rights in boardrooms, the state torpedoed informational self-determination, debt trap for ancillary costs accounting, expropriation discussion
309	16	May 24, 2019	Resignation of Theresa May , Strache-Video , FPÖ resignations, new elections in Austria, European and Bremen elections, Christoph Maria Herbst on Bremen, abolition of federalism ?, Rezo- Video The destruction of the CDU and the “answer” of the CDU, election of the EU -Commission presidents, mini-parties in the European elections, debate on basic pension, shooting down of wolves
310	17th	May 31, 2019	Downfall of the people's parties in the European elections, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer calls for rules for YouTube opinion-making, Angela Merkel receives an honorary doctorate from Harvard, no resolutions by the climate cabinet, lack of digital skills on the part of the CDU, personal debates at the SPD, right-wing populists' profits, right-wing shift in Saxony, shortage of doctors the country
311	18th	June 7, 2019	Resignation of Andrea Nahles, bullying at the SPD, signs of disintegration of the GroKo, AKK's falling polls, green heights, Robert Habeck next Chancellor ?, Klöckner's promotional video with Nestlé, lobbying the food industry, resignation of Theresa May, Trump's visit to England, today's show -Summer forecast

Season 20

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
312	1	September 6, 2019	Heavy losses of the people's parties in the state elections in Brandenburg and Saxony, a quarter of the voters in Saxony vote for AfD, neo-Nazi past of Andreas Kalbitz, Boris Johnson's Brexit terror, CSU starts its YouTube channel CSYOU with Armin Petschner, Andi Scheuer's half-billion-dollar toll disaster, Burning rainforest, new forest dieback, SPD seeks leadership
313	2	13th September 2019	Upcoming concept of the government for climate protection, upcoming UN climate summit in New York, Markus Söder's climate concept for Bavaria, e-scooter problems, new cheapest job: Juicer, resentment with China after talking to Hong Kong activist, massive job losses in the wind energy industry, Climate change deniers among wind power opponents
314	3	20th September 2019	Climate package of the climate cabinet, decades of neglect in climate protection, Andi Scheuer's fantasy goals in the climate protection concept, IAA in Frankfurt: cultural war against the car, hardly any money for bicycle traffic in Germany, pleadings for and against SUVs, 100 years of elementary school, dramatic shortage of teachers: newcomers urgently wanted, modern teaching thanks to Youtube, insults from politicians are now officially allowed
315	4th	September 27, 2019	Today show oracle: "Nikolaus is Groko out", stillbirth climate package, Merkel and AKK fly with two planes to the USA, investment backlog in Germany, balance sheet of the Merkel era, bankruptcy of Thomas Cook , Brexit: anger in the British parliament, state support for Condor , stranded package travelers, digital supply law, antibiotics in factory farming - multi-resistant germs, drug emergency in Germany, health insurance companies continue to pay for homeopathic remedies (which are no better than placebos), new elections in Austria, impeachment efforts against Trump
316	5	4th October 2019	Day of German Unity, discrimination against East Germans, battery research center goes to Münster instead of Lusatia, unequal distribution of federal authorities in East and West, first model declaratory action against VW in the exhaust gas scandal, Federal Motor Transport Authority (Kraftfahrtbundesamt), car lobbyist, permission to abuse by the courts, Facebook should display hate comments, Sebastian Kurz can Continue to govern in Austria, HC Straches resigns from the party
317	6th	October 11, 2019	after the anti-Semitic attack in Halle, Erdoğan's attack on the Kurds after the US troops withdrew from Syria, impending impeachment proceedings against Trump, Trump's blows and megalomania, Nobel Peace Prize to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed , useless climate protection efforts , traffic blockades through Extinction rebellion , senseless retraining courses
318	7th	18th October 2019	Brexit deal: End in sight? Erdoğan's attack on the Kurds, EU that can be blackmailed with a refugee deal, Young Union for the primary election of the CDU's top candidate, SPD implements more election promises than the Union, lengthy elections for SPD chairmen, Seehofer wants after the attack by Halle watching the gamer scene, rotten sausage scandal at the meat company Wilke: no consequences
319	8th	October 25, 2019	Start of the car toll investigation committee: shaky Andi Scheuer, failed CSU women's quota, state election in Thuringia: candidacy of right-wing extremist Björn Höcke, Bodo Ramelow's record as Prime Minister, seal of approval Grüner Knopf: Fast Fashion - disposable product clothing, 70 years of the German Federation of Trade Unions
320	9	1st November 2019	State election in Thuringia: Left and AfD win, where is the Chancellor ?, Friedrich Merz leads revolt against Angela Merkel, the power fantasies of the fascist Björn Höcke, unsuccessful search for moderate AfD people, crashed SPD, election of the SPD chairman: semifinals, legalization of cannabis ?, new drug commissioner of the CSU, healthy people's drug alcohol ?, endangered freedom of expression?
321	10	November 8, 2019	Mid-term review of the GroKo, AKK's international ambitions, basic pension with or without means test, climate package: methane avoidance, milk subsidies, turbo cows, racist statements by the AfD on the Nuremberg Christkind, Berlin rent caps , exploding rent prices, Berlin building inability, death threats against Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir
322	11	15th November 2019	Impeachment hearings against Donald Trump, evangelical Christians consider Trump to be God, Erdoğan's visit to Washington, homecoming of German IS supporters, new debt atlas, low interest rates, new forms of investment, ban on plastic bags, burned plastic is part of the recycling quota, German garbage export, greenwashing, Olaf Scholz wants to withdraw the non-profit status of pure men's associations
323	12	22nd November 2019	CDU party conference in Leipzig, AKK asks the question of power, GroKo digital retreat: Funklochgipfel, digital cabinet, citizens' initiatives against radio masts, power lines and wind turbines, Friedrich Merz against AKK, 50 billion for the railway, problems without end on the railway, dual leadership of the Greens in office confirmed, Green Harmony Party Congress, homeopathy discussions among the Greens, naturopaths without state regulation, Fabian Köster distributes globules at the Green Party Congress
324	13	29th November 2019	CDU party convention: Salvation Bringer Söder ?, Bavaria's exit from the national education council, impending old-age poverty, necessary pension reform, higher pensions in Austria and the Netherlands, Chinese re-education camps and the involvement of VW, the German armed forces are training the Chinese military, patient data from statutory health insurance patients for research, digitalization in medicine, monitoring tariffs for health insurances, "Rebel" Friedrich Merz
325	14th	December 6, 2019	SPD party congress: the revolution fails, new SPD chairmen Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans , new deputy SPD party chairman Kevin Kühnert , 70 years of NATO: no money for the Bundeswehr, year 2030: all problems solved, UN climate conference in Madrid: where is Greta ?, AfD party conference in Braunschweig: departure of Alexander Gauland, AfD eats chalk, Hazel Brugger's internship with Lars Klingbeil
Annual review		December 13, 2019	Award of the “Goldenen Vollpfostens” 2019: to Great Britain (Fish'n'Chips-Edition, Boris Johnson, Brexit), to Andi Scheuer (toll debacle), to all Germans (Save our car: diesel scandal, speed limit, e-cars) HC Strache (Vodka Red Bull Edition, Ibiza affair), to Markus Söder (most radical change of image), to Hubert Aiwanger (knife for self-defense edition), to Julia Klöckner (animal welfare label), to Friedrich Merz (faller Edition), to the SPD (schizophrenia-Vollpfosten), to all of us (imaginary (eco- / opinion) dictatorship-Vollpfosten)

Season 21

No. Ges.	No.	First broadcast	subjects	Authors (* = head author)
326	1	January 31, 2020	Environmental sow scandal, coal phase-out, decline of wind energy, new hard coal -fired power plant Datteln 4 , billions in compensation for coal-fired power plant operators , Brexit enforcement, Mexit: Harry and Meghan's royal exit, coronavirus : WHO declares an international health emergency , conspiracy theories, catastrophic conditions in the German health system, fail Electoral reform	Morten Kühne *, Oliver Welke *, Jana Fischer , Simon Hauschild , Ralf Kabelka , Fabian Köster , Markus Paßlick , Jakob Schreier , Markus Zimmer
327	2	February 7, 2020	Election of Thomas Kemmerich as Prime Minister in Thuringia with the votes of the AfD: Dam break and debacle, acquittal of Donald Trump in impeachment proceedings, Trump's speech on the state of the nation, counting range in US primaries in Iowa, Trump again allows US landmines worldwide, too low Food prices, animal cruelty Factory farming: pigs can be kept in cages for another 15 years, power of supermarket chains, speed limit: the Netherlands introduces 100 km / h on motorways	Morten Kühne *, Oliver Welke *, Jana Fischer , Simon Hauschild , Fabian Köster , Matthias Mohler , Thomas Rogel , Markus Schafitel , Markus Zimmer
328	3	February 14, 2020	Resignation of AKK after Thuringian election scandal, accession of the CDU chancellor candidates: Friedrich Merz, Armin Laschet, Markus Söder and Jens Spahn, Can a man be Chancellor ?, ValuesUnion, hatred of local politicians, obligation to pay receipts, tax fraud, storm depression Sabine	Morten Kühne *, Oliver Welke *, Simon Hauschild , Fabian Köster , Matthias Mohler , Thomas Rogel , Markus Schafitel , Mathias Taddigs , Markus Zimmer
329	4th	February 28, 2020	Coronavirus outbreak in Germany and Austria, search for a new CDU party leader: Merz, Laschet or Röttgen ?, SPD victory in Hamburg election thanks to senior, right-wing terror and (everyday) racism in Germany, AfD feels like Hanau- Attack as a victim, racist AfD coloring book, unmasked terrorist group around Teutonico, 20 years of key culture debate
330	5	March 6, 2020	Coronavirus: Hamster purchases of toilet paper and pasta, panic through the media, disadvantages of globalization, return of the refugee crisis of 2015: Blackmail by Erdoğan, suspended right of asylum at the Greek border, discussion about tightening gun laws, International Women's Day: Danger to life for women due to products designed for men, male dominance on television, appearance of addictive potential on the subject of gender pay gap
331	6th	March 13, 2020	(because of Corona without a studio audience) Effects of the corona pandemic: Germany-wide school closings, test chaos due to federalism, economic crisis, unlimited lending: death of the black zero, football Bundesliga cancellation, risk of death due to a lack of health staff, US entry ban for people from Schengen countries, Corona im US election campaign, refugee crisis on the Greek-Turkish border, local elections in Bavaria, Andi Scheuer's planned mobility center in Munich
332	7th	March 20, 2020	(because of Corona without a studio audience) Germany closes, Angela Merkel's speech on the corona pandemic, corona parties, recognition for super hero workers, recession, economic aid, digitization, home schooling, home office, worldwide travel warnings, border closings, corona -Hotspot Ischgl , no Olympic cancellation yet, Corona fake news and conspiracy theories, the protection of the Constitution is watching the AfD “wing”, today show share tips
333	8th	March 27, 2020	(because of Corona without a studio audience ) Angela Merkel in the home office, confusion about the ban on contact in Germany, economic rescue package of 1.5 trillion euros, empty supermarket shelves and travel restrictions: memories of the GDR, crisis manager Söder, tips for working in the home office, lack of protective clothing and disinfectants, drug addiction from China, applause instead of money for health workers, closed tables, help for the homeless and rest stops, impending job losses, preppers
334	9	April 3, 2020	(because of Corona without a studio audience ) Corona: Discussion about mask requirement, shortage of masks, endangerment in old people's homes, cell phone tracking to protect against Corona, impending insolvency of small businesses, special reports from the economic sector, Germany's rejection of Corona bonds, Corona special broadcasts: switch to live deserted places and expert interviews, closed schools, state-specific regulations on Abitur exams
335	10	17th April 2020	(because of Corona without a studio audience) Resurrection of public life: relaxation of the corona rules, discussion about mask requirements, reopening of schools: soap and concern for risk groups, summer vacation at home, virologists as pop stars, man-made virus pandemics, church services in times of Corona: Empty churches, inner-German borders, restriction of basic rights: excessive police actions, nudging of the population: scaremongers for children, criminals use the corona crisis, corona conspiracy theories, harvest workers for asparagus harvest
336	11	April 24, 2020	(Due to Corona without a studio audience) Easing of the Corona exit restrictions, Angela Merkel's "opening discussion orgies", warehouse frenzy in German households, cancellation of the Oktoberfest, nationwide mask requirement, long-term corona restrictions, women at home in constant stress, lobbyists in the NRW government, systemically relevant Men's soccer Bundesliga: ghost games and mass tests for soccer players, weight gain in corona lockdown, BER opening in October, unemployment in the USA, Trump's bizarre (and deadly) anti-corona tips, Amazon's mega profits
337	12	1st May 2020	(because of Corona without studio audience ) 5 days of wearing a mask, coming recession, subsidized car industry pays dividends, Lufthansa rescue by the state, Armin Laschet's Corona easing, dead health authorities, delayed Corona app, Fabian Köster at the Neuss public order office, problems with digital distance learning , Beijing's propaganda: cover-up measures on the origin of the Corona, worldwide threat to press freedom from Corona, Orban's dictatorship in Hungary, new fines in the road traffic regulations
338	13	May 8, 2020	(because of Corona without a studio audience) Easing after the Corona crisis in Germany: responsibility with the federal states, hairdressing shops open again, Bundesliga restart: hygiene concept and lack of atmosphere, church openings: restrained singing, greens: survey fall and digital party conference, new car purchase bonus ?, Impending French fries crisis ?, anti-social tax tricks and state aid for DAX companies, again no reform of the electoral law, Julia Klöckner's advertising with Kaufland, cessation of court proceedings due to Corona, attack on the show team today at a hygiene demo
339	14th	May 15, 2020	(because of Corona without a studio audience) Conspiracy stories: New World Order, Corona: hygiene demonstrations and relaxation, anti-vaccination, prevention paradox, Resistance 2020, aluminum hat wearer Attila Hildmann, Bill Gates as the absolutely evil, QAnon, thwarted vacation plans, planned border openings, corona tracing app, inhumane conditions for harvest workers and slaughterhouse workers, multi-resistant germs in factory farming, Bundesliga restart with ghost games
340	15th	May 22, 2020	(Because of Corona without a studio audience) Renewed hygiene demonstrations, municipal debts, retail deaths, problems with the catering trade after reopening, problems with the beer gardens with the insurance companies, Kalbitz expulsion: self-denazification of the AfD, bicycle boom due to Corona ?, Andi Scheuer's fight against speeding fines, climate protection - Death by Corona ?, Border opening for tourists: no vacation abroad, vacation in Duisburg
341	16	May 29, 2020	(because of Corona without studio audience) Corona minimal consensus of the federal states: Merkel warns of "fetuses", confusion about Ramelow's Thuringian Corona special route, further corona easing in Saxony, hygiene concept for brothels, BILD hate speech against Drosten, Markus Söder superstar, CSU online party conference, Andi Scheuer's toll lies, EUR 750 billion in EU funds against Corona, The frugal four: EU countries against debt union, FRG Prime : German machines for southern Europe, beach vacation in Corona times, court decision: compensation and statute of limitations in the VW exhaust scandal, racist VW commercial on Instagram
342	17th	5th June 2020	(because of Corona without studio audience) Murder of George Floyd, Trump's Law & Order course: threat of military action against the US population, systematic racism in the USA, Trump's anti-postal vote campaign and his war with Twitter, 130 billion WUMMS- Economic stimulus package: temporary VAT reduction, no funding for pure combustion vehicles, lack of educators thanks to starvation wages: not systemically relevant ?, new coal power plant Datteln 4: fake coal phasing out law, relapse into the family image of the 50s due to Corona
343	18th	June 12, 2020	(Because of Corona without a studio audience) Mallorca vacation allowed again for Germans, Corona problems of travel agencies, cruise lull, Lufthansa rescue, youth hostels dying, criticism of voucher solution of the tourism industry, today show summer forecast, Trump's planned US troop withdrawal Germany, institutionalized racism in Germany, the corona crisis is worsening worldwide: Bolsonaro grave digger and rainforest clearing, textile industry: exploitation of Bangladesh

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b c} No main author given by ZDF.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Spelling of M. Beisenherz adopted by ZDF.
3. ↑ Today show from September 24, 2010. Accessed September 22, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Today show from November 19, 2010. Accessed October 22, 2011 . 
5. ↑ Today show on November 26, 2010. Retrieved October 22, 2011 . 
6. ↑ Today show from December 3, 2010. Accessed October 22, 2011 . 
7. ↑ today show on December 10, 2010. Accessed October 22, 2011 . 
8. ↑ Spelling taken from M. Loeb from ZDF.
9. ↑ today show on January 21, 2011. Accessed October 22, 2011 . 
10. ↑ today show on January 28, 2011. Accessed October 22, 2011 . 
11. ↑ Today show on February 4, 2011. Retrieved October 22, 2011 . 
12. ↑ today-show from September 28, 2012. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 25, 2013 ; Retrieved December 11, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ today-show from October 5, 2012. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 25, 2013 ; Retrieved December 11, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ today-show from October 12, 2012. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 14, 2012 ; Retrieved November 11, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ today-show from October 19, 2012. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 22, 2012 ; Retrieved December 11, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ today-show from October 26, 2012. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 26, 2012 ; Retrieved December 11, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
17. ↑ today-show from November 2, 2012. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 25, 2013 ; Retrieved December 11, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ today-show from November 9, 2012. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 25, 2013 ; Retrieved December 11, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
19. ↑ Today show on November 16, 2012. Accessed January 7, 2013 . 
20. ↑ Today show on November 23, 2012. Accessed January 7, 2013 . 
21. ↑ Today show on November 30, 2012. Accessed January 7, 2013 . 
22. ↑ today show on December 7, 2012. Accessed January 7, 2013 . 
23. ↑ today show on December 14, 2012. Accessed January 7, 2013 . 
24. ↑ Today show on January 25, 2013. Accessed January 26, 2013 . 
25. ↑ today-show from February 1, 2013. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 25, 2013 ; Retrieved February 4, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
26. ↑ today-show from February 8, 2013. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 9, 2013 ; Retrieved February 9, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
27. ↑ Today show on February 15, 2013. Accessed February 16, 2013 . 
28. ↑ Today Show on February 22, 2013. Accessed February 23, 2013 . 
29. ↑ Today show from March 1, 2013. Accessed March 2, 2013 . 
30. ↑ today show from March 8, 2013. Accessed March 12, 2013 . 
31. ↑ Today Show March 15, 2013. Accessed March 16, 2013 . 
32. ↑ today show from March 22, 2013. Accessed March 23, 2013 . 
33. ↑ Today show from April 5, 2013. Accessed April 8, 2013 . 
34. ↑ today show from April 12, 2013. Accessed April 14, 2013 . 
35. ↑ today show from April 19, 2013. Accessed April 20, 2013 . 
36. ↑ Today-show from May 3, 2013. Accessed May 8, 2013 . 
37. ↑ Video heute-show from May 10, 2013  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on May 10, 2013. (offline)
38. ↑ Video heute-show from May 17, 2013  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on May 18, 2013. (offline)
39. ↑ Video heute-show from May 24, 2013  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on May 24, 2013. (offline)
40. ↑ Spelling of D. Krauss adopted by ZDF.
41. ↑ Spelling of D. Krauss adopted from ZDF.
42. ↑ Printed matter 19/1444 - Severely disabled people in Germany. (PDF) Small question from MPs Nicole Höchst, Franziska Gminder, Jürgen Pohl, Verena Hartmann and the AfD parliamentary group. German Bundestag, 19th electoral term, March 22, 2018, accessed April 28, 2018 .