Under protest banners, bodyguards and police: Schulze and Herrmann ask themselves G7 questions at “Now red i”.
Created: 06/24/2022, 15:12
By: Josef Hornsteiner
Katharina Schulze and Joachim Herrmann were guests at "Now red i" in the Bayernhalle.
They answered questions from the audience about the G7 summit.
© Josef Hornsteiner
Katharina Schulze and Joachim Herrmann answered questions from the audience about the G7 summit on the BR talk show “Now red i” – accompanied by police officers and next to protest banners.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen - It's quiet.
"One minute," calls the BR director to the tense group.
Thomas Hock sits in front of several screens and has everything in view with his colleagues.
The production manager is waiting for the next sign, while the daily news has been running on the monitors in the studio since 8 p.m.
Presenter Tilmann Schöberl stands in a gray suit in front of the audience, which sits in a semicircle in front of him.
He gives final instructions.
Turn cell phones off or on mute, if possible don't get up and walk in front of the cameras, raise your hand if someone wants to talk.
A bit like at school.
Shortly before 8:15 p.m., the director calls a second time.
"30 seconds." Joachim Herrmann sits calmly in a small armchair.
The Bavarian Minister of the Interior (CSU), together with his counterpart, Katharina Schulze, leader of the Greens parliamentary group, turns around for one last photo before the discussion.
"Five seconds, four, three, two, one." Then the cameras flash red.
G7 summit 2022 in Elmau: Discussion on the pros and cons of the meeting "Now red i"
Bayerischer Rundfunk's "Now red i" format will be broadcast live from Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Tuesday evening.
For this purpose, the Bayernhalle was converted into a complete television studio within just two days and is now unrecognizable.
The topic is what else: the pros and cons of the G7 summit 2022 in Elmau from June 26th.
The live stream begins.
There are many familiar faces in the audience: Thomas Schwarzenberger, Mayor of Krün, Elisabeth Koch, colleague from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, District Administrator Anton Speer.
But also Bernhard Raubal, who again leases his meadow to the demonstrators as a protest camp, the left-wing activist Lisa Poettinger from Murnau, who as the mouthpiece of the "Stop G7 Elmau" alliance would like to call off the most important meeting of the heads of government, or Daniel Schimmer, district chairman of the hotel - and restaurant association Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Very few are satisfied with Schloss Elmau as a location for G7 summits
They all happily discuss the sense and nonsense of the big event for an hour.
The consistent tenor: Most think it is important that the heads of government of the most powerful countries in the western world meet for talks.
But very few are satisfied with the location in Schloss Elmau in the Isar Valley.
While Schöberl lets the audience talk and ask questions, three large bodyguards stand at the edge of the stage.
The bodyguards never take their eyes off Joachim Herrmann and the guests.
Seven police officers are also stationed at the entrance.
They also took a look at a banner that members of the Greens district association put up in front of the entrance to the Bayernhalle.
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They checked whether this small protest was registered.
“Talking is silver, action is gold!” Katharina Schulze read before her performance.
"Is that an otter?" she asked upon noticing the redesigned G7 logo on the green banner.
"No, that's a strong arm," said Philipp Golka, member of the board of Greens Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Green representatives demand: After the G7 summit, it should not "stay with lip service"
The Greens have absolutely nothing against meeting the most powerful.
"But it is important that results follow." It should not "remain at lip service".
How did the visitors of the BR evening react?
"Most of them took note of us." After the live broadcast, the two top politicians Herrmann and Schulze were available for a few more minutes to answer personal questions.
They are almost always the same: What is the point of all this?
