2023-05-31 18:56:17
“Worked almost for nothing at the Tagesschau for four years”
Karolin Kandler now works as a presenter for “ProSiebenSat.1 Media”
Source: pa/dpa/Christoph Soeder
Karolin Kandler presented the Tagesschau – as a mother of two. Because she could only work part-time and commuted across Germany to get the job, there was hardly anything left over from her salary. The 37-year-old would like better conditions for working mothers.
ABeing able to be a news presenter at the same time as a mother – that may sound like a dream. It wasn’t for Karolin Kandler, at least not financially. The 37-year-old, who was in front of the camera for almost four and a half years for the ARD news, said to “Bild“. “In addition to the love for this job and the team, I worked for four years at the Tagesschau for almost nothing,” Kandler is quoted as saying.
“And then, as a woman, you ask yourself in the end: Is the work still worth it then? Is it worth it?” She tried to see the work as an “investment in my future” – and in the end decided: “It was worth it!”
However, Kandler did not work “almost for free” because of the miserable pay, but because she traveled to Hamburg several times a month for her shifts. She now moderates at “ProSieben Newstime” near her home in Munich. Previously, the following calculation applied: “Working six days a month cost me at least 550 euros for a hotel, 500 euros for train journeys and sometimes up to 900 euros for two babysitters if my mother couldn’t help and I had both children in Munich and Hamburg had to accommodate.”
Going to work as a mother of two small children is therefore “pure luxury”. You earned 2100 euros and spent 1950, “Bild” calculated – Kandler added: “The rest went on food.”
The journalist has been married to a Munich entrepreneur since 2015, but she doesn’t just want to rely on his income: “I always wanted to be independent and not ask a man for money when I wanted to buy new shoes. You just have to imagine that the man who always earned the money suddenly disappears – then you as a woman are stuck at home and in the worst case you have to go to the employment office. I also think it’s good for a marriage if you both work and if you have some balance in the relationship.”
Children could still become a “career blockade” in the job – “if you look at it hard”. Many young women do not know what to expect when they become mothers. “You’re in your mid-20s, studying, have great, ambitious ideas about the compatibility of job and family – and then reality intervenes.” After the parental leave phase, you have to “invest an extremely large amount of money” to “get back into the job race”. and not to be “left behind”.
Kandler’s suggestion to improve the framework conditions for young mothers: “The childcare options simply have to be more flexible. Maybe more needs-based, maybe further into the morning and further into the evening, depending on how you want and need to work.”
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