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In the press review interview: Christoph von Marschall and Dunya Hayali
A picture from the daily newspaper "Die Welt" showing Annalena Baerbock wearing a helmet during a visit to eastern Ukraine - headline: "At the front" - was presented to Christoph von Marschall as a guest of the ZDF "Morgenmagazin" ("Moma") .
The "Tagesspiegel" editor, born in 1959, has a doctorate in Eastern European history and has been a US correspondent for many years, was supposed to do the press review in the show in conversation with "Moma" moderator Dunja Hayali.
In his remarks on the Baerbock photo, Christoph von Marschall called the Green politician "this young lady who is our foreign minister".
You can see Baerbock in the picture that she doesn't feel particularly comfortable in the situation, it's not her world.
Criticism of the statements by the "Tagesspiegel" journalist came promptly.
Less than half an hour after the broadcast, the young Schleswig-Holstein CDU politician Justus Schmitt posted the excerpt in question with the comment that the federal government had “endless open flanks regarding #Ukraine” and was amazed (“Oh man”) that the first comment on Baerbock.
The clip was spread by Twitterers with a much wider reach, such as Toto, who is close to the SPD, and Philip Le Butt.
The latter wrote: »It is simply unbelievable how people talk about Baerbock.
These people have no shame in showing their sexism openly.«
The "Welt" journalist Robin Alexander, in turn, criticized the culture of debate on Twitter in a tweet: "Example of the problematic structural change in our public sphere," he wrote, "reasonable interview, accurate observations, knowledgeable classifications.
Twitter: Scandal!«
Moderator Dunja Hayali responded in the late morning.
She explained to her more than 500,000 Twitter followers that, unlike interviews with "politicians/experts" in the press review format, she usually does not contradict.
It's about hearing the comments of those invited.
However, in this case, perhaps she should have, Hayali admitted.
She decided to clarify the matter "verbally with Marshal afterwards".
Result of this clarification: Dunja Hayali published a text message that Christoph von Marschall apparently sent to her.
In it, Christoph von Marschall emphasizes that he did not mean the phrase "young lady" in a disrespectful way, but only wanted to describe Baerbock's discomfort in the situation: "I'm sorry if my formulation gave rise to misunderstandings.
I'll take that to heart."
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In the comments on this post, Mareile Ihde, an employee of the FDP parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament, took up Marschall's formulation that the crisis area was "simply not her world" and quoted a SPIEGEL article from 2019 about "Fischer's heiress" Baerbock .
It says: "Before she became a politician, Baerbock wanted to be a war reporter."
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