After the broadcast "STRG_F" of the NDR brought up a whole series of fake allegations against the shows "Duell um die Welt" and "Late Night Berlin", Klaas Heufer-Umlauf (36) now took a position. In his ProSieben show "Late Night Berlin" on Monday, he explained about the allegations against him and Joko Winterscheidt (41) that in some cases they had overshot the target. Among other things, it is about a stolen bicycle theft.
Of course, the first reflex was to say: "Yes, we are only doing nonsense television here. For God's sake, we are not journalists who are only committed to the truth," said Heufer-Umlauf in his statement. They also showed things that the audience should "tear out of everyday life". That is "the main goal".
"Will never happen again"
Heufer-Umlauf said in his show, among other things, that a lot of what happens in television studios is "quite rightly part of a production called Entertainment", which aims to tell, entertain and distract jokes as well as possible. Nevertheless, they were "overshot this goal in individual cases," the moderator continued: "For example, with the bicycle thief."
They would have presented this case "clearly so differently that one cannot wipe it off with such a simple 'is just entertainment'". According to Heufer-Umlauf, he could understand everyone "who was disappointed by it. For that I want to be serious and apologize without any irony. It was an if and but a mistake and will never happen again."
The mistakes that were made were not made out of "cynicism, contempt for viewers or laziness". "There were isolated cases in which we did not want to see that the reality is less exciting than what we like to see on the show stage," said the 36-year-old.