After Hans Meiser’s death, colleague Vera Int-Veen says goodbye. She remembers a formative era and its profound influence.
They are two of the most famous TV faces of the 90s and celebrated huge successes with their formats. Presenter Vera Int-Veen (56) with her show “Vera am Mittag” on Sat.1 and her colleague Hans Meiser (1946-2023) with the show named after him “Hans Meiser” on RTL. After Meiser’s death, Int-Veen said goodbye to her colleague in an interview with the news agency spot on news: “Hans is a TV legend and shaped the television landscape for decades. I remember him as a pioneer of daily talk,” says Int -Veen.
Meiser remains the “father of all talk shows,” remembers Int-Veen. He also paved the way for her – as well as her talk colleagues – into more than a decade of daily talk shows. During her personal meetings, she found him to be a very approachable and humorous colleague, but in recent years she has only had sporadic contact. But they saw each other “every now and then at one or another event or at the airport”.
Vera Int-Veen: “I don’t want to miss a day”
She herself still fondly remembers the times: “I don’t want to miss a day. I learned so much from thousands of guests and also gained a lot of experiences for my life behind the camera,” says Int-Veen. Her show “Vera am Mittag” was one of the longest-running talk shows on German private television and was broadcast more than 2,000 times between 1996 and 2006.
Hans Meiser died suddenly of heart failure at the age of 77. To this day he is considered a television icon, the man from the very beginning of private television and a pioneer of talk show formats in the 90s. After moving to RTL plus in the 1980s, Meiser was initially an anchorman for the local news programs. In 1992 he started with “Hans Meiser” and the show was only discontinued in 2000.
Source: Stern
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