Overview
- Anne Will told WDR's Kölner Treff that she received Sprecherziehung during her Volontariat in Berlin, saying she had trouble telling the sounds 'sch' and 'ch' apart.
- She said the training was part of adapting from her Cologne dialect to standard Hochdeutsch so she could work on national German television.
- Will described a lifelong attachment to Cologne's Karneval, recalling her first parade at about age 14 and twice riding on the president's Rosenmontagswagen amid what she recalled as roughly 1.5 million people.
- She said watching a TV broadcast of Altweiberfastnacht recently made her decide she must return to Cologne to celebrate Karneval in person.
- Multiple outlets republished her Kölner Treff remarks as human-interest reporting that explains how common Volontariat training and formal speech coaching shape German broadcasters' careers and public voices.