Günther Jauch: One minute humanity – tagesspiegel

05:53 clock Matthias Kalle

To the refugee disaster in the Mediterranean it was on Sunday at Günther Jauch. First, in the show, everything was as usual. However, shortly before the end of the spectators witnessed a great moment of television and humanity – thanks to the Brandenburger Harald Hoeppner.

Until just before the end actually everything was as usual: Heribert Prantl was right, Günther Jauch seemed overwhelmed latent and Roger Koeppel was Roger Koeppel. But then, the show lasted really only a couple of minutes, Jauch said still to a guest: Harald Hoeppner, who had been waiting in the wings for nearly an hour in the audience. There was a Einspieler to the man who lives with his family in Brandenburg and eventually could not stand. The news of refugees who die on their inhumane way across the Mediterranean

Hoeppner bought a ship, because he, however, wanted to do something that is saving lives

Harald Hoeppner takes on the mission of Günther Jauch – for a minute.

In Jauch wanted to talk to Hoeppner – but Hoeppner did not want to talk to Jauch. No sooner had Jauch sat next to him, he jumped up, strode onto the podium guests, turned to the studio audience and called for a minute’s silence for more than 700 refugees who had arrived a few hours earlier in the sea died. And the audience stood up, even Koppel got up and ran after Jauch Hoeppner, as if he would catch his own mission, the mission was in this moment no longer “Günther Jauch,” but for a wonderfully correct minute ” Harald Hoeppner. “

And the helplessness of the moderator of a talk show in which a minute will be silent, and this minute, suddenly everything made more humane and dignified than all the minute before – the was a very great TV moment. Because everything was just right. Because it felt right – and because it was right. And after that minute, as Jauch then still tried the game boring “Jauch asks guest responds” to play because Hoeppner said only that he no longer wished to discuss. And the moment the man

was already a star in the social media The “I have absolutely nothing against foreigners, but ….” – Racists

What happened before? One can of course forgettable. If the program was 55 minutes to the end, you would have been annoyed at Roger Koeppel and thought about what Heribert Prantl said, and one would have again wondered why a man like Hans-Peter Friedrich was really once Interior Minister – but all that has almost every week when a political talk show in Germany look at. One would be on Sunday maybe just a little more excited by what had just happened. It would have been excited about the nonsense phrase “It can not go on,” came from Koeppel and Friedrich; you would have agreed Prantl, who said that refugees do not “just for the heck of” Europe would want; you would have briefly considered whether Friedrich really meant that those who “just want to live better,” had no place in Europe (and incidentally torpedoed the basic idea of ​​capitalism); one would have shaken his head as Koeppel said to Prantl, he was still “a wealthy man,” why would he not receive at home refugees.

And you would probably yelled at the TV, as a certain Mr Haase came to the word that no refugees in Bautzen (foreigners: 1.3 percent) want to have, and a typical representative the “I have absolutely nothing against foreigners, but …” – racists. One would have this talk show – like so many before – forget displaced. But then came the last four minutes. Then came the decisive moment, which was not really a minute, but a great moment of television and humanity.

The rhetorical question about the program was “What is our duty?” And perhaps Harald Hoeppner given the correct answer: pause. Not discuss. Make.