Private billing at Maybritt Illner? Christian Lindner's ex with swipes

After the Thuringia disaster, Maybritt Illner's ZDF talk went high. AfD politician Gauland got an outbreak of anger and irritated Christian Lindner's ex.

• At the ZDF talk by and with Maybrit Illner , the Thuringia election was discussed.
• Not only Alexander Gauland caused a sensation.
• The ex of FDP federal chair Christian Lindner was also a guest at the talk.

Ex of FDP chief Lindner accounts for him in Thuringia - viewers are irritated

Update February 8, 2020: The appearance of Dagmar Rosenfeld , the ex of FDP leader Christian Lindner , at Maybritt Illner is still a topic on the Internet. Of all people, the woman he married in 2011 was supposed to judge the FDP's Thuringia disaster - and treated himself to swipes. "The question you have to ask yourself is: How did this election result come about?" Said the 46-year-old, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Die Welt ist.

While CDU chief Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer warned the Thuringian CDU in advance of the AfD scenario , Lindner said "such sentences are not known". There are two versions from Lindner's environment whether he believed that the AfD would vote for the FDP candidate Kemmerich. Then Rosenfeld came out for the attack: "If there is so little overview of an AfD that was offered to the CDU and FDP in November, then one has to say: Politics is something for professionals." In a Thuringia commentary for her newspaper Die Welt , she uses this phrase again: "The Thuringian lesson: politics is something for professionals".

A violent swipe at her ex, who used exactly this professional sentence even in relation to Greta Thunberg . It is not her first attack on the FDP leader . Already in 2019 she criticized as a smoker in a world comment that Lindner's party advocated a smoking ban. Your headline at the time: "Freedom is something for professionals."

Now, however, ZDF is also criticized because it was not made transparent to the viewers which personal relationship Rosenfeld and Lindner have in common. The portal übermedien.de asked - but the editors don't want to comment. Rosenfeld also did not respond to two requests.

And many viewers are still irritated: “Was Rosenfeld there as a journalist, politician or private person with a private opinion? It wasn't very clear to me, ”asks a Twitter user. Another recognizes a "somewhat strange constellation when Dagmar Rosenfeld evaluates the (political) Lindner performance."

A somewhat strange constellation when Dagmar Rosenfeld evaluates Lindner's (political) performance. #illner

Maybrit Illner: Gauland freaks out after Thuringia quake - but spectators rage because of Lindner's ex-wife

First announcement from February 7th: Mainz - The ZDF talk by and with Maybrit Illner on Thursday evening (February 6th) was quite down to business. Under the heading “On the right wing to power - breaking taboos in Thuringia” , she spoke to the guests Michael Kretschmer (Prime Minister of Saxony, CDU), Robert Habeck (Party Chairman, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Linda Teuteberg (Secretary General, FDP), Janine Wissler (Vice-party leader, the left), Alexander Gauland (parliamentary leader, AfD) and Dagmar Rosenfeld ( the world chief editor AND ex-wife of Christian Lindner) about the election in Thuringia.

Gauland at Maybrit Illner (ZDF): "You can't always ..."

Already at the beginning of the program almost everyone spoke out against the AfD in their opening speeches. This was made clear once again in the round table when almost all of those present shot at Alexander Gauland and the AfD and described him and the party as "fascistoid". Gauland then muttered: "This is nonsense."

In the discussion with Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer , the head of the AfD faction criticized the behavior of the CDU. “You can't always exclude a quarter of the voters, it gets on the others' feet. And, if the CDU goes on like this, I'm afraid that it won't be enough for the majority of the CDU either. "Kretschmer countered:" I won't rule out any, but I won't work with people who are traitors or Germany- Classify haters. ”Because one can only keep the firewall of democracy and fight back the AfD“ by daring to take action against this eroding ”.

Janine Wissler found clear words about the election in Thuringia * . Because it's about a very existential question. "And what happened here yesterday is not that any people were harmed, but that democracy was fundamentally damaged," said the vice-party leader of the left. The events in the Prime Minister election in Thuringia also had an impact in a recent Forsa survey. The CDU and FDP appear to have serious consequences.

ZDF talk with Maybrit Illner: Gauland talks rage and gets angry

World editor-in-chief Dagmar Rosenfeld sharply criticized the procedure in the Thuringia election * of the AfD. You can choose the compromise candidate if you realize that you cannot get your own candidate through. “But what you don't do if you don't want to choose your own candidate because you can't get through it is not to send him into the race a third time, but then you withdraw your own candidate. And you knew exactly if you would do that, Kemmerich * would not compete, ”she accused Gauland.

The latter denied the allegations and denied that he knew that. But the AfD man did not want to leave it at that and commented on a previous statement by Janine Wissler regarding Björn Höcke, the group leader of the AfD in the Thuringian state parliament.

After that Höcke was a fascist. Gauland raged. "It is nonsense that Mr. Höcke is a fascist. Fascism is something that is thankfully forbidden in Germany. And if Mr. Höcke were a fascist, he would not be sitting in a Thuringian state parliament. And that's why the nonsense is what is said here, ”he almost shouted in the ZDF talk .

Rosenfeld in Illner talk: viewers criticize Christian Lindner's (FDP) ex

Outside the discussion group, users discussed the invitation from Dagmar Rosenfeld on Twitter . Because she is not only the editor-in-chief at Welt , but also the ex-wife of Christian Lindner (Federal Chairman of the FDP). And after the scandal in Thuringia, this raises the question of trust on Friday. Not a good mix for many ZDF viewers.

"Call me fussy, but that Dagmar Rosenfeld as a journalist on a talk show talks about Christian Lindner as a politician, as if the two had never been married and without a transparency disclaimer for viewers, leaves me with a taste," writes Anna-Mareike Krause ,

I do not know who selects the guests at MB, but who invites his wife (Dagmar Rosenfeld) to Christian Lindner has no Dasein-B authorization for the job. Incredible ... #illner

A minority government was expected in Thuringia * anyway. But the new Prime Minister Thomas Kemmerich could be too weak even for such a one.

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network