Breakdown in the “ARD-Mittagsmagazin’: Suddenly the technology goes on strike. As soon as we switched back to the studio in Leipzig, Tino Böttcher and Stephanie Müller-Spirra were sitting in the dark.

Only the two of them and the sofa could be seen, the background was dark. “Now you have also discovered our secret. We broadcast from a virtual studio, so the lights go out quickly,” joked BöTTcher.