The audience rating was higher than the first TV triall.
However, some viewers are dissatisfied with the conduct of the conversation.
Berlin - What thundered in the most recent TV triall was cleared up relatively quickly: A loose instrument case near the studio.
“Nothing dramatic”, the portal
t-online
learned
from ARD.
The irritations about the talk with Olaf Scholz (SPD), Armin Laschet (CDU) and Annalena Baerbock (Greens) don't stop there.
Journalist Maybrit Illner (ZDF) and ARD editor-in-chief Oliver Köhr were also on Twitter while the live format was running.
"When Annalena Baerbock Olaf Scholz asks the better questions than the moderators," remarked
@Holgermat
pointedly.
Criticism of Triell moderators Illner and Köhr: "What a mess"
"Wow, how often and dubiously can moderators interrupt each other?
How embarrassing, ”tweeted Yasmine M'Barek, editor at
Zeit Online
.
"The extent to which the moderators give away the opportunity to address millions of people who only deal intensively with politics every four years is seriously shocking," said media journalist Stefan Niggemeier about the performance of Illner and Köhr.
"The moderators talk confused, candidates interview each other, something falls over in the background, thematically jumping wildly ... What a mess," said
Handelsblatt
editor-in-chief Sebastian Matthes.
TV trilogy with Illner and Köhr: "Mr Scholz's clock continues to run"
“Studio collapses.
The clock continues to run inexorably.
It is always unclear who is asking the next question, "reads a tweet from election researcher Thorsten Faas from the Free University of Berlin.
The clock?
Yes, the one that measures the speaking time of the chancellor candidates.
Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock Illner had drawn attention to this: "If I may say that in fairness: Mr Scholz's clock continues to run."
Apparently a technical problem that was fixed in the course of the broadcast.
The impression, however, that the duo Illner / Köhr panted from question to question and maintained the mutual interruption, apparently remained with many viewers.
Triell with Baerbock, Laschet and Scholz: Merkel and Schulz reached more viewers
The trio of ARD and ZDF was broadcast on the popular “Tatort” slot.
On Sunday evening, more than eleven million viewers tuned in, according to the two public broadcasters.
A total of 16 million people watched the duel between Angela Merkel (CDU) and Martin Schulz (SPD) in 2017.
The talk was the second big one of the federal election campaign in 2021. On August 29th, the RTL triumph hosted by Pinar Atalay and Peter Kloeppel took place on RTL
and ntv together watched around 5.6 million viewers. A third triall (with Linda Zervakis and Claudia von Brauchitsch) is planned for September 19 on ProSieben, Sat.1 and Kabel eins.
(frs with material from dpa)
