Shortly before the meeting of the WDR Broadcasting Council, a delicate detail becomes public.
The institution is said to have known about Klamroth's relationship much earlier.
Cologne – The chair of the new “Hart aber fair” moderator Louis Klamroth has been shaking for a few days.
Shortly after his debut as Frank Plasberg's successor, his neutrality as moderator was questioned.
After signing his contract with West German Broadcasting (WDR), his relationship with the popular climate activist Luisa Neubauer became public.
So far, the WDR has stated that it did not know anything about it.
Contradictory details are now coming to light shortly before the crucial meeting of the Broadcasting Council.
"Hard but fair": WDR apparently knew about Klamroth's relationship with climate activist Neubauer
Despite Klamroth's partly good reviews for his previous "hard but fair" moderation, the WDR broadcasting council will deal with his personal details on Tuesday, January 31st.
In the worst case, Klamroth is threatened with dismissal, with his secrecy he could have violated the broadcaster's compliance rules.
So far, the WDR mediated that Klamroth concealed his partnership.
But shortly before the Council meeting,
focus.de
wants to know a delicate detail that will change the Klamroth cause significantly.
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He fears for his job, the WDR for his image.
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"Louis Klamroth informed WDR about his relationship at the end of August last year, well before the contract was signed." This statement by a WDR spokeswoman to
focus.de
contradicts the previous communication from the media authority, which was only known after the contract was signed.
Several weeks earlier, WDR said that "Mr. Klamroth's private life was not an issue in the discussions between WDR and him before the collaboration was announced".
According to this information, the station was informed between the announcement of its selection and the signing of the contract.
Broadcasting Council surprised by a new detail - "So far I have understood it completely differently"
Now the WDR Broadcasting Council is supposed to shed light on the matter at today's meeting in the afternoon and determine whether the broadcaster violated its own compliance rules.
The new information about the undreamt-of knowledge of the WDR about the moderator and actor will be new to some.
When asked by focus.de
, the CDU politician and council member Jan Heinisch was
“completely surprised by the new news.
So far I have understood it completely differently".
He is now demanding even better clarification of the confused facts.
The WDR reacts quite clarified.
"We are convinced that Louis Klamroth understands his journalistic craft and is able to separate his private life from his presenting work.
He also proved that in yesterday's show. ”His partner, the Munich climate activist Luisa Neubauer (26), who is six years his junior, is excluded from Klamroth's show.
Apart from the scandal surrounding Klamroth, the WDR has often made a mistake in the last three years, be it the "environmental pig" scandal about a children's song, astronomical salaries for the gray eminence of the WDR or an accusation of lack of reporting on the flood disaster in the Ahr valley .
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