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The second German television in Mainz was not necessarily a hotspot of wickiness in the mid-1980s. And the afternoon talk show “Reunion makes you happy” was not necessarily known for Hollywood-like debauchery.
And yet the program announcer and presenter Birgit Schrowange, now 67, report the “picture” of sexual adults of an former superior at ZDF. The repeated harassment would then have been targeted bullying.
The now deceased urge would have had an affair with a colleague at that time. And then showed interest in her, the young talent, which was just changed by the WDR. “Then he wanted to exchange me for her, but I didn’t want to,” said Schrowange. “When I didn’t go into his advances, he made my life hell. Until I complained about him with the director. It was not an easy time, but I got through it”
Birgit Schrowange-one of the first female pop stars of the “Normalo TV”
The rejected harassed would have removed Schrowange from the roster at the time without further explanation. Or taken from your mailbox, so that important inquiries for moderation jobs have disappeared.
Schrowange, who was in a relationship with her talk show colleague Markus Lanz from 1998 to 2006, was considered one of the first female pop stars of the “Normalo TV”. Especially when her later house broadcaster RTL mixed up the public law scene. “At that time I started to make a lot of money. The years before we were famous – but poor,” recalls Schrowange.
As a 20-year-old province of province, she came to the WDR in Cologne. There she quickly found a boss supporter. “He let me make school television, even though I had no idea. He saw potential in me, promoted me. I was just very lucky and was in the right place at the right time”.
“Until I came, all announcers were blonde and lovely with a wavy hair dryer”
With the move to ZDF, she made a new type of TV personality popular. “Until I came, all the announcers were blonde and lovely with a wavy hairstyle. I had dark hair, often carried her back sternly than bob or braid. I was a completely new type of woman.”
When she switched to RTL to RTL in autumn 1994 against the express advice of her ZDF “Hitparade” colleague Dieter Thomas Heck, she shaped the magazine “Extra” for years. Most colleagues’ comment: “Are you insane? After a year you are away from the window again.” Nevertheless, she was considered Sugardaddy there as “the most beautiful smile of the station”.
The glamor products of the German TV history certainly include Schrowange’s joint cover version (together with Simone Thomalla) by Herbert Grönemeyer’s “Men” for the CD “Adventure-20 Years Andrea Berg” …