Overview

• The Landgericht Berlin granted former Intendantin Patricia Schlesinger her contractual Ruhegeld of €18,384.54 for January 2023
• The court held Schlesinger liable for just over €24,000 in damages related to company car misuse and improperly billed travel expenses
• In a preliminary judgment the court acknowledged RBB’s entitlement to roughly €1.7 million in variable bonuses, €88,000 in ARD allowances
• Dispute over the abandoned Digitales Medienhaus project was severed and will proceed in a separate trial
• Both parties retain the right to appeal the non-final ruling and criminal investigations by the Berlin Generalstaatsanwaltschaft remain ongoing