There are journalists in the capital for whom Tilo Jung is a red rag. The 37-year-old YouTuber and inventor of the interview series "Young and Naïve" is known for his hard probing at the Federal Press Conference. He annoys government spokesmen and top politicians by the dozen.
He founded his YouTube format Jung & Naiv ten years ago and has now interviewed over 600 personalities there. Jung is always on first-name terms with his interlocutors and has long, sometimes very detailed conversations, in which some of the invitees have already talked their heads off. For example, it is considered a foregone conclusion that a conversation with Jung was fatal for the then Ukrainian ambassador Andriy Melnyk. Melnyk's statements about the Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera, whose partisans shared responsibility for the mass murder of Poles and Jews in World War II, probably ultimately led to the dismissal of the ambassador.
In an interview with Jung, Juan Moreno, host of the SPIEGEL interview podcast »Moreno+1«, tries to find out whether the persistent questioner also has some good answers. In the conversation with Moreno, Jung calls for "capitalism to be overcome". This is a remarkable demand for one of the capital's best-known journalists – especially when you consider that Tilo Jung had only one dream in his youth: to get rich as quickly as possible.