Overview

• ARD pre-recorded Felix Banaszak’s Sommerinterview on Sunday morning and aired it at 18:00 on Das Erste without a live stream.
• The network has stopped live streaming its Sommerinterviews and added technical and editorial safeguards under a revised security concept.
• Two demonstrations were registered for the Banaszak interview, including one by pro-nuclear group Nuklearia planning camera-facing banners and another whose tactics were unspecified.
• ARD worked closely with Berlin police and the Bundestag patrol to secure the outdoor venue and prevent disruptions.
• The procedural changes respond to the July 20 noise protest by the Zentrum für Politische Schönheit that marred the Alice Weidel interview.