The “heute journal” moderator has recently spoken to people from Ukraine again and again. What she saw and heard there often left her with a lump in her throat.
ZDF “heute journal” moderator Marietta Slomka counts among her most difficult interview moments of recent times not conversations with top politicians, but with people from Ukraine.
“You say goodbye and say goodbye – and I have a lump in my throat because I don’t know if I’ll ever see this person again,” said the journalist in an interview with the German Press Agency.
Sometimes it happens that the line to the interviewee breaks off during the recording. “Once someone was pulled out of a car by two gunmen because they thought he was a spy. That happened before my eyes during the recording in the afternoon.”
Slomka (52), who is one of the best-known TV news presenters in Germany, added: “You feel helpless while you’re sitting in your dry, warm, safe editorial office. Psychologically, that’s probably the most difficult thing I’ve experienced as an interviewer. ” Because it brings you so close to war. “In contrast, tough exchanges of blows with professional politicians are actually a walk in the park.” (dpa)