According to a media report, the successor has already been determined. The 54-year-old is to replace Anne Will in January next year at the big TV talk show on ARD.
In mid-January of this year, Will announced that she would be shutting down her talk show. For 15 years and two months, Ulrich Wickert had moderated the "Tagesthemen" on the same show as Anne Will, taking over the slot of »Sabine Christiansen«