The corona crisis is particularly noticeable during curfew.
The ban on going outside after 9 p.m. or 10 p.m., as it currently applies in some federal states, feels strange in Germany in 2021, regardless of the question of how useful the instrument is.
This is not only true for you, but also for us as the SPIEGEL editorial team.
Going out, meeting people, doing research on site is a central element in our job description.
We notice it all the more when it is restricted.
With our
live podcast “curfew” we want to give you
an exciting and entertaining evening
from 9 p.m. today
, despite the ban on going out.
[To listen to the live podcast, follow the video stream above and activate the audio track if necessary]
We want to give you an insight into our everyday life as journalists.
We want to show you how we work;
how we get our information - as far as we can reveal it - and what strange, touching, humane, difficult and sometimes dangerous situations we experience.
How do you meet terrorists?
Or people who are hiding?
SPIEGEL editor Jonas Leppin joins
them
talk to the international reporters Katrin Kuntz and Alexandra Rojkov about their research in war zones, dictatorships and on the American-Mexican border.
You, dear readers, can not only listen, but also
ask questions via our forum
.
Katrin Kuntz
, 38, has been researching for SPIEGEL in almost two dozen countries since 2013, often under extreme conditions. For example, she reported on the drug war in the Philippines and traveled several times to northern Iraq when the so-called Islamic State took power there. Among other things, she met Yazidis who had been enslaved by IS and were able to flee, and a German who had joined IS. In the USA, Kuntz and her colleagues reported on the family segregation on the Mexican border in 2018, in which several children were torn away from their parents on the orders of Donald Trump. Tonight she wants to explain how she manages to get close to the people in her stories, who often live in secret or have had extreme experiences.
Alexandra Rojkov
, 32, is also part of the international department of SPIEGEL and has reported in the past two years, among other things, on the Turkish offensive against the Kurds in Syria and the last presidential election campaign in the USA.
Rojkov is currently in Israel, where she is pursuing Israeli anti-corona policy and recently reported on the tragic mass panic on Mount Meron at the Lag Ba'Omer festival.
So listen in, ask questions, we look forward to hearing from you!
And then write to us at republik21@spiegel.de how you liked it - and what you always wanted to know about SPIEGEL.
Maybe we can answer that in the next "curfew".
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