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Hardly anyone was closer to the Chancellor: Former Federal Education Minister Annette Schavan is a friend of Angela Merkel. She reports in the fourth episode of “AboutMerkel – tell the familiar” of very private moments – and of the content of an SMS from Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg to the Chancellor before his resignation as Defense Minister.
Crisis mood in Berlin. On March 1, 2011, then Federal Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU) appeared before the press – and resigned from his post. He copied his doctoral thesis without identifying any quotations as such.
Annette Schavan talks about Angela Merkel
Shortly before that, an SMS from him arrives on Angela Merkel’s mobile phone. At this time she is at the computer fair with her Federal Education Minister and friend Annette Schavan (CDU). “Cebit” in Hannover. The chancellor hands Schavan her mobile phone. A quick look, an apparently knowing and satisfied smile from both of them. Since then, the public has been puzzling: Did Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg inform Merkel of his resignation in a short message?
“AboutMerkel – tell the familiar”
Angela Merkel was Chancellor for 16 years. The first. At the end of 2021 she resigned her post, now there is a man in office. What is left of her? What was she like, the chancellor? How is she as a boss, as a friend, as a feminist? For years, the story of Angela Merkel was mostly told by men. sternEditor-in-chief Anna-Beeke Gretemeier meets for the podcast “AboutMerkel – tell the familiar” with companions of the former Chancellor – yes, only with women. The conversations show new perspectives and thus draw a very personal audio portrait.
“AboutMerkel – tell the familiar” appears weekly on Tuesdays on , , , and everywhere there are podcasts. You can also find all episodes here.
in the star-Podcast “AboutMerkel – tell the familiar” Annette Schavan reveals almost ten years later what was really in the Zu Guttenberg SMS. In the conversation with starEditor-in-chief Anna-Beeke Gretemeier is not just about government crises. Girlfriend Schavan, who later also stumbled across a plagiarism affair, also reports what makes a good evening for the ex-Chancellor, what Merkel cooks when she receives visitors, and how Merkel once insisted on buying tickets for a concert in Milan herself to pay.
Sources and additional material for the fourth episode of “AboutMerkel”
And the now 66-year-old Merkel confidante tells of very personal moments with her friend: “In this friendship there are also moments of consolation.” You will hear that and much more in the fourth episode of “AboutMerkel – tell the familiar”.
“AboutMerkel – tell the familiar” appears weekly on Tuesdays on , , , and everywhere there are podcasts. You can also find all episodes here.
Source: Stern
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