Summer interview
The summer interview goes back to a series of ZDF programs on the Bonn program in the 1980s. During the summer holidays , the top politicians of the parties represented in the German Bundestag were asked about the most important questions of current politics . The format will also be continued directly in the follow-up program in Berlin . Occasionally, the current Federal President is also questioned.
history
After the first television interviews with well-known politicians during the holiday season, the first regular conversations of this kind were held with Helmut Kohl at his traditional holiday resort Sankt Gilgen on Wolfgangsee , first in 1988. While Gerhard Schröder and his interviewees at his home in Hanover met, his successor Angela Merkel usually conducts the talks at the government seat in Berlin . The Green politician Joschka Fischer was visited in the Italian Tuscany - as a member of the then so-called Tuscany faction .
concept
Most of the longer interviews are moderated by the journalists from the ZDF capital city studio, who also lead through the program. It is typical that the discussions are held in the constituency or at the politicians' vacation spot as well as outdoors and that those involved regularly appear in casual summer clothing. The latter has only recently changed, with politicians and journalists appearing increasingly more formally for the conversation.
Further spread
In the meantime, other television and radio programs have introduced “summer interviews”. The series of talks held in the ARD broadcast Report from Berlin is particularly significant . Whenever the weather permits, the conversations are recorded on the terrace of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus . In the meantime, representatives of the parties based in the respective state parliament are also asked about state political issues in the third television programs and in the radio programs of the ARD. Private broadcasters and newspapers have partly joined this practice.
In Austrian television , there is a similar number. They are referred to there as the Summer Talks .
criticism
In view of the news-poor situation during the vacation time (so-called " summer slump "), the discussions regularly meet the interest of the other media, even if it has been criticized that the statements made were mostly inconsequential and of no further meaning.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Thomas E. Schmidt: The little television game. In: The time. August 24, 2000, accessed August 13, 2011 .
- ^ A b c Sebastian Fischer: Politician summer interviews: Here I am human. In: taz. August 12, 2011, accessed August 13, 2011 .
- ^ Corinna Emundts: Fight for the summer slump. Email from Berlin. In: The time. July 11, 2006, accessed on August 13, 2011 : "brav und inhaltsleer", "Thesendreschen."