"RTL is more than you think," said a statement on Thursday that reported to us that the broadcaster was looking for "millionaires" and "visionaries" and was "a very attractive employer" for "talents from very different backgrounds." areas".

One can doubt that.

Reports are currently being received from the media company on an hourly basis, the headline of which ends with “leaving RTL Germany”.

That was weeks ago when a whole phalanx of senior staff left RTL, and it's continuing now.

Henning Tewes, previously RTL Germany's Chief Content Officer (i.e. head of programming) is leaving and will be replaced by Stephan Schmitter, who previously served as Chief Journalistic Content Officer.

The "Chief Communications Officer" (i.e. head of communications) Frank Thomsen is also no longer there.

He is followed by Eva Messerschmidt, previously "Co-Chief Streaming Officer" (i.e. deputy streaming boss).

Personalities that mean something

These are personal details that don't necessarily say much to the outside world.

But each one shows individually and as a whole that at RTL Germany and even more so at the magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, which has merged with RTL, only one word counts – that of Thomas Rabe.

As the wiry sun king, the man is now the boss of Bertelsmann, the RTL Group in Luxembourg and RTL Germany.

For some time now, Rabe has been massacring the group's most important media companies, making a clean sweep and causing chaos in the leadership.

First went people who wanted to manage the merger of Gruner + Jahr and the broadcasting group RTL, above all Stephan Schäfer, whose post as RTL Germany boss Rabe took over himself.

Then the longtime RTL spokesman Christian Körner left, now his successor Frank Thomsen is gone.

Thomsen came from Gruner + Jahr.

As a former "Stern" editor and editor-in-chief of "Stern.de", he embodies the attempt to save magazine titles there, which Oberboss Rabe can save.

In case of doubt, this is little to zero and nothing (except "Stern", "Capital" and "Geo").

As the specialist service “Medieninsider” just reported, Rabe does not think anything of the plan to launch a comprehensive RTL + app (“One App, All Media”), which should be used to get television, streaming and music.

Rabe probably thinks that nobody needs something like that.

He probably has a big vision for the future of what were they called?

RTL?

Gruner + year?

He'll have fused that right through.