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How the political celebrities followed the triell on site and who was good with whom

2021-09-13T11:57:52.471Z


The TV triall saw millions of viewers. But also directly on site, behind the studio building in Berlin, politicians, journalists and party friends followed the broadcast live. 


The TV triall saw millions of viewers.

But also directly on site, behind the studio building in Berlin, politicians, journalists and party friends followed the broadcast live. 

Berlin - Anyone who gossiped together, cracked jokes and even made plans would also have been worth watching.

But the exchange behind the scenes is rarely communicated to the outside world - although it has a not inconsiderable part in political developments.

Often new goals and collaborations emerge here, MPs probe possible similarities, but also rivalries.  

For the Triell, the studio behind the reception hall set up a white outer tent the size of a football pitch: outside food trucks and party umbrellas, inside sponsor serenades with alcohol and standing tables invite you to linger.

Corona-like precautions are taken: The 3G rule applies, there is a separate test station in front of the tent, and a mask is required - at least inside.

His competence team came for Laschet and Uschi Glas

An hour before the duel, political celebrities arrive: the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate Malu Dreyer (SPD), the deputy SPD chairman Kevin Kühnert, Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD), SPD federal chairman Saskia Esken, the former Green Party leader Cem Ozdemir.

Head of the Chancellery Helge Braun (CDU), the Minister of Education of Schleswig-Holstein Karin Prien (CDU), the Prime Minister of Hesse Volker Bouffier (CDU), the former Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia Bernhard Vogel (CDU), the Deputy Federal Chairwoman of Bündnis 90 / The Greens Ricarda Lang, the Greens federal manager Michael Kellner, the former Greens parliamentary group chairman and Federal Minister for Agriculture Renate Künast and other members of parliament from state representatives.

Most of the candidates from Armin Laschet's competence team are on site - Friedrich Merz is not there - but including terrorist Peter R. Neumann, who chooses a laughing group picture with his cell phone, which he posts on Twitter and jokes about which one He comments on this: “Are you ready?”, “Are you ready?”, “Ready when you are!” In the end it will be: “Hello future !!

We are ready…"

Hello future !!

We're ready ... @CDU #Triell pic.twitter.com/5lcytXh01q

- Peter R. Neumann (@PeterRNeumann) September 12, 2021

Celebrities have also come: actress Uschi Glas, dressed in black, and model and actress Victoria Jancke, in a trouser suit, are sitting in the CDU camp.

The music producer Leslie Mandoki ("Genghis Khan") also settles there.

Actress and director Karoline Herfurth has herself photographed together with Annalena Baerbock after the triumph.

Behind the scenes, wine and beer stands and food trucks invite you to linger

The atmosphere is reminiscent of a sports festival: the air is slightly charged, the other political camps are clearly recognizable - if only because many of them have come closer to the party colors in their clothing. Malu Dreyer appears in a red dress, with which she appears later that evening on Anne Will's show. Saskia Esken also wears bright red. Black jackets were chosen for the CDU, the ladies of the green wear “their” color in many shades.

When the triall begins, most of them take their seats. In the tent, the Greens position themselves in the rows of chairs on the right, the SPD on the left. The CDU guests choose the places in front of the large screen outside in front of the tent. First of all, everyone looks excitedly at the screens, applauds their respective candidates, cheers or laughs indignantly if they dislike a statement. Almost everyone in attendance pulls out the cell phone at some point in the evening. However, some of them are almost always busy with the small technical device during the live broadcast, especially Saskia Esken seems very absorbed during the triell.

The SPD camp is in a good mood when Olaf Scholz answers the Maybrit Illner question: “If you elect Olaf Scholz, do you get Saskia Esken as minister?” Replies “You then get Olaf Scholz as Federal Chancellor”. But when the topic of Wirecard comes up, the faces quickly become serious again. Kevin Kühnert raises his eyebrows. Malu Dreyer looks slightly depressed. Roaring, cross-party laughter breaks out when Annalena Baerbock comments on the background noise during the broadcast: "Oops, the studio is collapsing!"

In the Greens, Baerbock's statements about the party “Die Linke” and its demarcation from the AfD cause vehement applause.

Among the supporters of the CDU, the head of the NRW State Chancellery, Nathanael Liminski, is pleased about Laschet's statement to Scholz: “We are failing because of the bureaucracies in your party” and makes a boxing movement towards the CDU campaign manager Tanit Koch: “We can do him now Put your towel on. ”- but shortly afterwards scratches his head thoughtfully when his boss gets into a whirlwind on the subject of“ social housing ”.

After the duel, Olaf Scholz has himself photographed with a currywurst and a beer glass

There is committed applause from the CDU at Laschet's clear edge against the right.

While the Greens were well received, when Baerbock criticized the fact that the schools were tested several times over the course of the week, but that this had not yet been practiced in the companies.

Shortly before the end of the Triell, unrest arises, camera teams and photographers position themselves.

The commentators position themselves in front of it, have the microphones ready.

The first to appear shortly after 10 p.m. is Olaf Scholz.

He has taken off his tie and his mask.

He drives to the food truck and orders a currywurst, then gets another beer and is photographed with it.

A photographer comments laconically: "Now he's doing the Schröder!"

Annalena Baerbock appears next.

In contrast to her predecessor, she wears an exemplary surgical mask, has her picture taken halfway with actress Herfurth, who arrived on time for the photo call, and heads for the tent.

There the top candidates allow themselves a glass of white wine.

Cem Özdemir ponders coalition issues

The last to appear, at 10:30 p.m., is Armin Laschet.

He, too, lets himself be photographed outside next to Uschi Glas with a beer in hand, then heads for Baerbock in the tent, and the two of them are smiling.

Meanwhile, Scholz is talking outside under the umbrella with Nikolaus Blome and Cem Özdemir about possible coalitions and cracking a political joke about the CDU.

A questioner approaches Scholz and politely asks him: "Now please say 'off the record' as you will do with the left".

Scholz smiles away: “It doesn't work at all!

You always hear everything! "

When Olaf Scholz and Blome say goodbye, Özdemir stays behind and starts pondering.

He does not rule out the possibility that a coalition could fail after the election.

Based on the football quote, it would then read: After the triall is before the triall!

Source: merkur

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