Overview

• ZDF’s late-night talk show resumes after its summer hiatus on Tuesday, 26 August 2025, with a 22:45 start time.
• The lineup features SPD parliamentary leader Matthias Miersch, RND editor-in-chief Eva Quadbeck, Bild journalist Paul Ronzheimer, ZDF Washington head Elmar Theveßen, and CNN correspondent Frederik Pleitgen from Moscow.
• Miersch is slated to address Vice Chancellor Klingbeil’s visit to Ukraine, social policy, and the SPD’s call for additional sanctions on Israel.
• Quadbeck will analyze Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s foreign-policy focus and assess the state of the black-red governing coalition.
• Ronzheimer will report from recent frontline travel in Ukraine, Theveßen will outline how Americans view President Trump’s security policy, and Pleitgen will explain Russian perceptions of Merz and weigh the likelihood of a Putin–Zelenskyj meeting.