Mr Koll, Germany-bring in picture of you from France?
If you ask a young French thing that comes in the case of Germany, in the sense, then, Berlin is currently, even before the German beer – but it is by far the one of Angela Merkel is called. This has a lot to do with the fact that it is seen from the French point of view as a symbol of political stability. We must not forget that our neighbors have in the past two years, the national parties are completely collapsed, the socialists, who have recently called the President and the government, got just seven votes. The entire political system of coordinates depends on a single, error-prone young man by the name of Emmanuel Macron.

And what of France-image?
The one country that carries perhaps like no other on earth, contradictions in and cultivated. The French want maximum freedom and at the same time, a powerful state that intervenes grading: If the farmers are competing not with your meat price is capable of, then you go to Paris and demand that the government back and meat prices at the supermarket increased. The state it rules – there’s an old Jakobi is keeping a niche Tradition.
Or another example: France and maintains Old, more than many other Nations – Paris is a Symbol of preserved beauty is also. And at the same time, the French are extremely innovative. The old Paris is already a Mecca of the Startup scene. These contradictions make it difficult to understand France fast, but you do it for a correspondent is also particularly exciting.

you have already worked in the ZDF capital city Studio, the beginning of the 2000s. As, among other things, the magazine “Frontal 21 have moderated”, and directed. What brings you back to Berlin? Paris is also beautiful.

Paris is even more beautiful. But you don’t have to be beautiful to be loved. Berlin is in other ways wonderful and especially beloved home. Also – if you will allow me this short digression – with a cultural force, and from Berlin, unfortunately, is not always enough. Paris conjures up from the stock of the great Blockbuster exhibitions, the tourists from all over the world. And Berlin? Here are a lot of outstanding, international artists, museums, cornucopias full of great art – but when was the last truly great, eye-catching exhibition was? According to my Paris-experience, I can only say: Berlin is using its great Potential.
but Above all, the interest in the changes in Germany leads me back to Berlin. When I look back on 35 years of political reporting – has never changed, the political coordinate system so complex and in an accelerated news of the world in which we all fight so that only a shorter period, see Hermann Lübbe it’s called the “present shrinkage”. And at the same time, by interested parties tried journalism is to disparage as a political actor. I think that is beyond the everyday news-reporting – one of the major challenges for the journalists. Our responsibility is proportionally increased to the extent of the critical perception of our work.

you had applied for it in April 2016 for the directorship at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg and were not elected Patricia Schlesinger scarce. Ticked off?

Well, of course. Else would I come back to Berlin? One of the Golden rules in my family is: “It is everything in life for anything good.” Of course, I would have led the RBB is happy to be restructured in the future, but that is far as a task for a decent piece of the actual profession of the journalist. The capital reporting allows me to work in these politically turbulent times more intense journalistic – and that is with all the stimulus to reform to a station that is my real passion.

your duties will include in the ZDF capital city Studio “Berlin”, the moderate on Sunday for the first Time. Will change the Format a little?

the Possible changes to my Deputy, Shakuntala Banerjee and I work with the editorial team together. One of the challenges will be, how we can position ourselves even better, even more visible on the net, on the various platforms.

To broadcast an Interview with a politician/a politician belongs to. What company are you maintain?
How it corresponds to my nature: critical, but mandatory. To me it is not about the other show. I want the viewer already knows the ideal way, after the conversation more than before. But this may of course also a question of the meaning of five times, if the answer is denied. At the end of the refusal for the viewer is a Information.
moderators do well with being authentic. Before my first “Frontal 21″broadcast a different pair of glasses, clothes that I normally wear had me restyled a moderation consultant completely, but on the day of the first shipment, I ignored everything. This applied only to the surface, but for the authentic presentation of the content, it is only right.

2019 there are state Parliament elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg. The AfD will continue to grow in all three parliaments are strong. How much the AfD there is then in “Berlin direkt”?

“Berlin” tried in his editorial decisions, always the voters to connect with the voters-Interesting. The AfD often fulfilled both criteria, and is therefore a recurring theme in the show – this is likely to continue after the parliamentary elections.

you Tweet, you are in Facebook or Instagram?
I am with the chirping on Twitter, even if currently not very loudly. The intensity of participation is likely to increase here in Berlin.

Nicole Diekmann, a member of the ZDF capital studios, has attracted with your “Nazis out”-Tweet a lot of attention. To ZDF booken-employees and/or face tweet?

not Necessarily. There are important additional media, which can complement their own reporting, or Research. But the journalistic objectivity must be maintained. Neutrality, balance and Fairness must also be observed in the social networks. Otherwise there is the danger of a strong veterinary network personality to be, which thus corresponds to the TV-Standards. That’s what I mean, but expressly as a General bar and not to the colleague.

In Germany, as in France, has heated up the public mood. It is a lot rougher, journalists, especially from the right-wing populist corner, harassed and insulted. How to react to the journalism?
Self-confident, and credible.

are you Interested in the Moderation of the next “Chancellor duel”? It should, of course, may not only talk show hosts. In General: How many matches in how many stations you expect?

thanks to Hape kerkeling, “” am I running the Moderation of the Chancellor of duel already behind me…

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you, as a Britain-experts: What Brexit?
obviously, one of Stanley Baldwin’s ancient wisdom demonstrate to: “The Englishman is made for a time of crisis”. In any case, a Brexit, the evidence that our hergebrachtes concept from the pragmatic British are in a coma. I console myself occasionally, on a long historical timeline of Brexit, at least, could ensure that the more isolated the British some of their beloved features in our otherwise connected world, preserve longer. We should pull in Europe, but in any case, the consequence, and to establish referendums such elementary questions mandatory high hurdles. It may not be the case that only 37.4 per cent (51.9 per cent can decide 72.2 per cent turnout), the British voters over the fate of entire generations.