Overview
- ZDF lists four guests for Tuesday, Oct. 21: headteachers Barbara Mächtle (Ludwigshafen) and Engin Çatik (Berlin-Friedenau), Frankfurt parents’ council chair Katja Rininsland, and Jerichower Land district chief Steffen Burchhardt (SPD).
- The conversation focuses on early learning gaps, school safety and discipline, infrastructure shortfalls, and the impact of teacher shortages in a rural county.
- The episode airs at 23:15 and is typically recorded in Hamburg-Altona a few hours before broadcast without a studio audience.
- ZDF publishes the day’s guest lineup in the afternoon, with the program available shortly after on the ZDF-Mediathek and streamable via the ZDF site or Joyn.
- The show runs three late evenings per week with episodes around 60–75 minutes, draws up to about one million viewers, and has been produced since 2011 by Mhoch2 TV co-owned by Markus Lanz and Markus Heidemanns.