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Moderator Klamroth and activist Neubauer: “Together with a public figure”
Photo: phoenix / ZDF;
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On January 9, 2023, the talk show “Hart aber fair” will be broadcast again on the first ARD program at the usual broadcasting time on Monday evening.
But the TV audience has to get used to a new moderator after 22 years: instead of Frank Plasberg, who moderated his last program in November (about the soccer World Cup in Qatar), Louis Klamroth will then greet the viewers.
Klamroth was already presented in August as Plasberg's successor on the talk show commissioned by WDR.
The 33-year-old previously moderated the political talk show "Klamroths Konter" on n-tv, for which he won the German Television Prize (sponsorship award) in 2018.
He received a lot of attention in 2021 with the "ProSieben Bundestag election show", where he recently moderated two episodes of a political show together with Linda Zervakis.
The son of actor Peter Lohmeyer presented a documentary about inheritance for ZDF in 2021.
Almost a month before his debut on "Hart aber fair", Louis Klamroth gave an interview to the media service "DWDL".
In it he announces that he does not want to do everything differently, even if Frank Plasberg's move to him is "a giant step" for "Hart aber fair" and the WDR: "Towards a moderator half his age, who also has a beard and not wearing a jacket."
»The public has the right to know that«
Furthermore, Klamroth is asked in the interview about his former membership in a debating club - but also about the fact that he is with Luisa Neubauer, the best-known face of the German climate protection movement.
Louis Klamroth emphasizes that his private life will remain private in the future.
But: "Since I'm with a person in public life, I think the audience has a right to know that." It's important to him "to be transparent at the point."
However, journalistic independence is his principle, and his audience can rely on that.
He masters the clean, journalistic craft.
Klamroth refers to the "very experienced editors" of the talk show, in which open discussions are held about which topics are considered relevant, how they are processed and who is invited.
"It goes without saying that my partner won't be a guest on my show," emphasizes the moderator.
In his ProSieben show during the federal election campaign in May 2021, Klamroth discussed with the then Union top man Armin Laschet, among other things, a quote from Luisa Neubauer that the CDU candidate Hans-Georg Maaßen was spreading anti-Semitic codes.
As early as 2019, a joint event by Louis Klamroth and Luisa Neubauer on their book »From the end of the climate crisis« was part of the program of the »Lit Ruhr« literature festival.
After research by "Welt", WDR sharpened the editorial processes for "Hart aber fair" in September: Under the heading "Neffenwirtschaft" the newspaper addressed the fact that one of the two editors in charge of the production company Ansager & Schnipselmann for the talk show are responsible, who is the nephew of the wife of WDR program director Jörg Schönenborn.
Now the program director Andrea Schafarczyk is also involved in the processes, according to the WDR.
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