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Three in three travels: Baerbock, Scholz and Laschet
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Kay Nietfeld / dpa;
Friso Gentsch / dpa
Before the federal election, there will be three joint talks on television and direct meetings between the Chancellor candidates Armin Laschet (CDU), Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and Olaf Scholz (SPD).
After RTL and ntv as well as ARD and ZDF, the private broadcasters ProSieben, Sat.1 and Kabel Eins will now also broadcast a triad, as the broadcasting group ProSiebenSat.1 announced on Thursday in Unterföhring near Munich.
Here are the plans of the stations at a glance:
Mediengruppe RTL
The first election triall is on Sunday,
August 29th
at 8:10 p.m. Then Baerbock, Laschet and Scholz will meet on
RTL
and
ntv
in the Berlin Adlershof studio, they will answer questions from Pinar Atalay and Peter Kloeppel.
Afterwards, Frauke Ludowig moderates a review program.
ARD and ZDF
It will be
the turn of the
public broadcasters on September
12th
:
ARD
and
ZDF will
broadcast the discussion of the three candidates for office from 8.15 p.m., the program will be moderated by Maybrit Illner (ZDF) and ARD editor-in-chief Oliver Köhr.
ARD and ZDF will also jointly broadcast the
final round of
the top candidates from
all parties represented in the Bundestag
on Thursday,
September 23
, moderated by Tina Hassel (ARD) and Theo Koll (ZDF), head of the capital city studios.
ProSiebenSat.1
On Sunday, September
19th,
the third triall will be broadcast live at 8:15 p.m. on
ProSieben
,
Sat.1
and
Kabel Eins
and on the internet, exactly one week before the federal election.
The new ProSieben presenter and former "Tagesschau" spokeswoman Linda Zervakis will moderate the event together with Sat.1 presenter Claudia von Brauchitsch.
In addition, the announced talks with Annalena Baerbock (September
1
) and Olaf Scholz (
September 15
) in the “ProSieben
Bundestag Election Show
”, moderated by Louis Klamroth.
Armin Laschet preferred not to take part in this format.
And otherwise?
To mark the start of the new TV channel, »
Bild
« will be
presenting
a so-called Chancellor Night
on Sunday,
August 22nd
from 7.30 pm.
In special editions of the talk format »The Right Questions«, Armin Laschet will be interviewed by the deputy »Bild« editor-in-chief Paul Ronzheimer from 8:15 pm.
At 9.45 p.m. reporter Kai Weise interviewed the SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz.
When asked whether Annalena Baerbock had also been asked, a "Bild" spokesman did not answer at first.
Moderator Johannes B. Kerner conducted personal discussions with all three candidates for the program »Best Cast« on
Magenta TV
(note on own account: the talk show is produced by Streamworks in cooperation with SPIEGEL TV).
Twice all three had already
talked to each other
in
ARD
broadcasts during the current election campaign: At the WDR Europe Forum on May 20, moderated by WDR editor-in-chief Ellen Ehni, and in the program of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) on June 26 with Tina Hassel and the MSC chairman Wolfgang Ischinger.
feb / dpa