“Maischberger. The week”: Elke Heidenreich distributes

• Sandra Maischberger actually wanted to discuss the women’s quota, the AfD, and of course the crown policy of the federal government.
• He did it on Wednesday night too, but Elke Heidenreich’s appearance will be remembered and it wasn’t necessarily positive.

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Karl Lauterbach and Wolfgang Kubicki, who are discussing Corona politics, a provocative Jan Fleischhauer and Maren Kroymann as advocates for the artists, would have a more or less normal talk show night with Sandra Maischberger can be. But that Elke Heidenreich obviously wanted to avoid as much as possible.

Sandra Maischberger spoke with these guests:

• Elke Heidenreich, writer
• Karl Lauterbach (SPD), member of the Bundestag and epidemiologist
• Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP), Vice-President of the Bundestag
• Maren Kroymann, kabarettist
• Oliver Köhr, ARD Capital Correspondent
• Jan Fleischhauer, columnist for “Focus”

The “maischberger” group discussed this:

Started with one Brief and unproductive discussion about the meaning of a quota of women., in which there was less dissonance between Maren Kroymann and Jan Fleischhauer than might be supposed. Perhaps all the arguments on this topic have simply been exchanged.

It got a little livelier, if not a lot at the AfD party conference, in which Jörg Meuthen gave a lecture at his party, how far to the right is still correct enough for the AfD and how “crude” it may seem to be able to rule at some point.

Jan Fleischhauer sees Meuthen’s emergence as a strategic move because, given current polls, “the hut is on fire” in the AfD. At the same time, Fleischhauer does it here without having to draw a parallel with the Greens, because they too would have been through a dispute over the address.But before I could continue with this crooked comparison, Maischberger slips in the middle and brings the speech back to the AfD.

Oliver Köhr see one here Double standards at Jörg MeuthenAfter all, he was also elected to his positions by the right. Koehr is skeptical of a submission behind Meuthen to make the party eligible for people who reject extremist behavior: “That won’t happen.”

The (expected) exchange of blows of the night:

Now, with some justification, one may find it not very original, which is why it felt like the hundredth time Wolfgang Kubicki and Karl Lauterbach had teamed up. Discussion on the correct corona strategy invite. Maischberger did it anyway, because firstly Lauterbach is a “politician and epidemiologist” and secondly because Wolfgang Kubicki is so beautiful is regularly against everything – freely translated.

The exchange of blows that was expected therefore had a comparative smooth course. Lauterbach repeated and explained with angelic patience all that he had already done in so many roundtables before. And Kubicki also raised many questions that he had already asked, for example, why older people in households would not be better protected by rapid tests or appropriate FFP2 masks.

When Lauterbach remains vague about this, Masichberger asks, but then lets him get away with “I’m looking forward.” Oliver Köhr, however, criticizes that some government actions are not communicated “honestly and plausibly” and hopes that the next vaccines will improve.

The performance of the night:

So there wasn’t a really rich discussion on the individual themes of the week, but that doesn’t necessarily belong to the concept of “maischberger. Die week”. Instead it stays much torn and left halfway and the Appearance of Elke Heidenreich couldn’t have been a better fit here.

“I was always very direct and straight,” Elke Heidenreich will say of herself that night and she will no doubt see this direct and straight line as positive qualities. That may be the case in certain cases, but it was more the case for “maischberger” rude and superficial. That starts with Heidenreich’s assessment of Angela Merkel. She had already interviewed the then Family Minister in 1992 and was impressed by her.

“I really liked her from the beginning and I still like her very much,” Heidenreich explains and then begins an endless adulation: “I want this woman as Chancellor. I feel like she is well represented by her. She is not corrupt, she is not arrogant, she is not vain (…) When you see how she has aged in this job, you see what she has worked for, that is good aging, she has achieved incredible things. She was always there, she was always present, she took care of everything “.

You like them Praise Merkel’s merits warmly and sufficientlyBut the claim that Merkel took care of everything is sure to upset many who have been awake for years. Merkel’s concerns about the climate crisis, economic inequality, digital infrastructure, the agricultural turnaround, the fight against right-wing extremism, the assistance emergency or a turnaround in mobility waiting. Heidenreich’s suggestion that everyone, including Merkel, makes mistakes seems too succinct.

But Maischberger does not interfere here, but a little later he even offers Heidenreich the opportunity to attack in the other direction again by giving him Keywords to hit a person enough. A selection:

Candidate for Chancellor of the Union – “I don’t like them all. Get rid of them. Something else.”

Karl Lauterbach – “It makes me very nervous.”

Christian drosten – “He looks cute and he’s certainly a good scientist too. (…) He will know what he’s doing, but everyone is a little ahead of me at the moment and is too important.”

Markus Söder – “That’s the real person. As it seems. (…) I don’t trust him on the road, but he did quite well in this crisis.” Heidenreich does not reveal how exactly.

That alone is pretty superficial, but it becomes even more difficult when Maischberger asks Heidenreich about his statement, “to see the positive in all that shit.” Where, then das Positive an Corona Maischberger wants to know and Heidenreich lists: “That you come in yourself, that you clean the kitchen, that you clean the closet, that you think: I have too many clothes that you read, that you write that you confront yourself and the people around you and are close of you. And that you walk the dog much more “.

It is questionable whether people struggling between home office, babysitting, and existential fears are as happy about kitchen cleaning as Heidenreich.

The bottom line:

In terms of acquiring knowledge, the evening at Maischberger’s was already pretty fine. And if I had taken something for yourself, the appearance of Elke Heidenreich should have left it behind in memory.