“More people will probably have to go”
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Patricia Schlesinger is also stepping down as director of the RBB. Previously, she renounced the chief post at ARD. “There is a great lack of understanding among the RBB employees as to why their salaries are always so tight,” says Anette Dowideit, department head of the WELT investigative team.
RBB moderator Sarah Oswald expects that more people will have to go if all relevant documents can be viewed. She finds it “very annoying when you get to read what is happening in your own company in other media from colleagues”.
MModerator Sarah Oswald expects further personal consequences in the RBB affair. For the research in-house, you expect that everything about the allegations will be reported relentlessly and that your colleagues will be able to view all relevant documents such as contracts and invoices, Oswald told the “Spiegel” in an interview and added: “That probably means that other people have to go.”
Oswald interviewed program director Jan Schulte-Kellinghaus on Monday evening in the “Abendschau” on RBB television and then received great praise for her critical questions. It was clear to her that she had to approach the interview with the same attitude as with a politician, she told the “Spiegel”.
In the meantime, something is moving in Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB). “There is now a research team that takes care of clarification,” said Oswald. But overall, progress is “still damn slow”. “And it’s just very annoying when you get to read from colleagues in other media what’s happening in your own house,” said the “Abendschau” presenter.
After allegations of nepotism and taking advantage, RBB director Patrica Schlesinger resigned as head of the station on Sunday. In connection with the allegations made against her, the Berlin public prosecutor’s office is investigating Schlesinger, her husband and the RBB chairman of the board of directors, Wolf-Dieter Wolf, who has also resigned and has also resigned from his position as chairman of the supervisory board of RBB Media and his supervisory board mandate at Messe Berlin.
