The podcast “Sportschau f – inspiring women from sport” won the German Radio Prize. The episode was awarded paracycler Maike Hausberger.
There are questions that go deeper than usual, that was also the jury. The WDR 5 Podcast “Sportschau F – Inspirational Women from Sport” won the German Radio Prize. Awarded in the “Best Interview” category on Thursday evening (September 11, 2025) in the new flora in Hamburg, the episode with Paracycler Maike Hausberger.
“What is normal?”asks the World Champion and Paralympic winner of Paris 2024 in this episode and immediately gives the answer: “There is no definition!” Maike Hausberger tells very openly in an interview with Sportschau-F-Host Freddie Schürheck of mental low points, financial uncertainty and the strength that arises when you trust yourself – even when everything is faltering around you.
Friederike Schürheck /Maike Hausberger, Sportschau F – Inspirational Women from Sport, July 29, 2025 00:19
In the podcast she cleans up with the myth of the norm and shows how liberating it can be if you leave the drawer thinking behind. It is a conversation about identity, social expectations and the courage to go your own way.
Strong women from sport
The hosts Freddie Schürheck and Kerstin von Kalckreuth visit for “Sportschau f – Inspirational women from the sport” Athletes from sports where they feel at home. Talks develop in which very personal and intimate insights into the career and private life are given.
The women report on their experiences and findings, about successes, defeats, challenges and friendship, about everything the sport demands from them, what it gives them and what they have learned from him. They are women who shape and change the sport and society. And that encourage Maike Hausberger.