Competition stimulates business.
But that there would be great competition for the successor of the ZDF director Thomas Bellut, that was not to be expected until a few days ago.
Program director Norbert Himmler is in the starting blocks as the candidate of choice.
A few others from the station came to mind for the office, but it seemed as if everything was going smoothly, maybe on July 2nd, at the next meeting of the television council, whose sixty members elect the director.
Michael Hanfeld
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But now there is a second in the league.
The “red” circle of friends of the television council sends her into the race, she was announced to the members of the committee, as the television councilor Leonhard Dobusch told Deutschlandfunk, by email: Tina Hassel, the head of the ARD capital studio.
What qualifies them, in particular, for the chief position on the Lerchenberg, they will still have to explain to the television councils.
Your embarrassing cheers at the Green Party conference in January 2018, when Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck were elected to the party leadership, shouldn't be, right?
“Fresh # green double top not only gives a feeling of optimism in France.
#Habeck and #Baerbock will be noticed!
#Responsibility can also be fun and not only be a burden Important signal in these times!
# bdk18 “, Tina Hassel tweeted at the time and apparently didn't even notice that she was behaving like a cheerleader cheering on her team.
“#Baerbock is voted with a lot of applause, in the race for #party chairmanship.
Refreshingly lively, in view of the lame #Groko protagonists # bdk18 ”, tweeted the now artistic director, who was noticeable in interviews with politicians in the first program with a rather erratic style.
For the program director Norbert Himmler, whom the “black” circle of friends favors, speaks differently. He has the same prudence with which the incumbent director Bellut maneuvers his station through all media-political debates and controversies. Himmler worked on the “ZDF family”, promoted political satire in the program and always defended it, invested heavily in ZDFneo as the program for the younger generation and the broadcaster's offerings aimed at different audiences, not just the generation sixty plus. Now the television councils are spoiled for choice.
Will it be agony like the election of the artistic director Markus Schächter in March 2002?
Back then, the "reds" and the "blacks" wrestled with each other for nights at a time.
The doors of the meeting room flew open and closed again.
Prime ministers clashed, backroom discussions were held.
It was a feast for the reporting journalists.
But not for the candidates - one after the other was worn out.
Markus Schächter, then program director, initially had no one on the dance card, he was elected in the fifth ballot with almost three fifths of the votes, as is required in the ZDF election.
When he was re-elected in December 2005, Schächter achieved a top result, which showed that he was not a bad candidate.
The ZDF television council announced on Friday that the extended presidium of the committee would hear Tina Hassel and Nobert Himmler at its meeting on June 15. At the meeting it will also be clarified whether the corona pandemic would allow an election in the television council meeting on July 2. The prerequisite for this is to hold the plenary session in attendance.