Last but not least: When Moritz meets Thomas

Moritz Leuenberger gave the speech for this year's Cicero Prize winner Thomas Gottschalk on Thursday. The media and transport minister himself had already won this prize once before, as the very first winner in 2003. The Federal Chancellery does not want to withhold the laudatory speech on Gottschalk with the beautiful title "A god, a prankster and the holy quota or what is politics doing on a TV show?" from the local people: It can be read in full on the Internet. Leuenberger spends the first few paragraphs of the 20,400-character speech on himself and his supposed state of shock when he learned that someone else would now receive the prize in the form of a bust of the ancient rhetorician Cicero. But then there are still enough words about the entertainer Gottschalk, neatly divided into the areas of "God" and "joker". The fact that the entertainer spit on him the first time he met him with the sentence "Well, how's politics?" does not go unmentioned - and gives rise to a witty comparison between politics and the media industry. It is also clear that Leuenberger does not want to see television ratings as the measure of all things. The media minister, who is rumored to be not particularly fond of the media, has once again made his view of things known.