TV column "Markus Lanz" - After this TV appearance by Esken and Habeck, there is only one piece of advice for the SPD and the Greens

TV column "Markus Lanz" - After this TV appearance by Esken and Habeck, there is only one piece of advice for the SPD and the Greens Article by FOCUS-online author Carin Pawlak • 3 hours • 3 minutes reading time SPD leader Saskia Esken (SPD) is connected to Markus Lanz's show on ZDF. Late-night debate on TV: The traffic light government has failed. Green Economics Minister Habeck complains, SPD leader Esken puts on a show. It is pathetic how Germany's management is acting after the break. Do you know "Fuckup Nights"? It's a great thing. The idea is to install a culture that is open to mistakes in companies in order to generate more innovation and increase mutual acceptance. It looks like this: I stand up and say that I have done a lot of things wrong. I have recognized that. And now I'm standing here and want absolution. I'm doing my man and, that too, I'm doing my mistress. I'm jumping over the stick that now gives me a better perspective. The Catholic Church has been doing this well for centuries. Just say a few Hail Marys and Our Fathers - and carry on until the next confession. Apologize, bow down - everything for Germany It's almost painful how Robert Habeck, the current Federal Government's Minister of Economics, behaves on "Markus Lanz". "I have apologized several times for mistakes," he bows down in the ZDF talk show. Before that, however, Friedrich Merz, the Union's candidate for chancellor, had radiated a lot of optimism on "Maybrit Illner". "A very stable substance," he sees for Germany. "We live in one of the most successful countries, the German business model works." The right men just have to step in - that's what Friedrich Merz wants to tell us. Minister Lindner's dismissal: Habeck says yes and no If you listen to "Markus Lanz" late on Thursday evening, you'd think you'd stumbled into a very special kind of couples therapy. Robert Habeck is celebrating his personal "Fuckup Night". He repeatedly stresses that not everything was done correctly, including by him. And: "I don't want to be part of this mess afterwards." Are we taking a basic dialectic course? "Yes, it was right to dismiss the finance minister," but "Yes, it could have been avoided." Yes, what now? It seems like what is called in modern German: Habeck is lost. Lost, drifted away, helpless. The Greens are out. So still in somehow. The FDP is out, but the Greens will certainly no longer play a part in the next government. "I'm thinking about that," says Habeck about the phase after the big bang and "the big questions." What would be better: just do it! Flowerpot, budget and once again Mrs Esken With astonishing audacity, SPD leader Saskia Esken claims her comradely stability. Saskia Esken, connected from Berlin, sits between flowerpots and lamps on "Markus Lanz". She talks about a government capable of taking action, and she really does it seriously. She babbles about how her chancellor Olaf Scholz "tried for weeks to save the budget". While she is talking, Robert Habeck looks very annoyed. Then he actually says: "I just find it annoying!" Arrogant, cheeky - that's the SPD and Saskia Esken's fault What is annoying for the viewer of the ZDF talk show is that the failed coalition partners like to gloss over each other. Habeck does the emotional part: "I'm already worried about how long the process is taking." It always takes a long time when Saskia Esken talks and can't contribute anything. "I find it presumptuous," says journalist Michael Bröker, rightly so. "That's really cheeky!" It's cheeky that the opposition with Friedrich Merz should now serve as voting cattle. Talking and saying nothing - that's too stupid for presenter Markus Lanz Esken is cheeky, but at the same time as harmless as ever. "Because a lot of water will have flowed down the drain..." she meanders to herself. "We still have the opportunity now..." That's too stupid for presenter Markus Lanz. "I don't know if we're speaking a different language. To be honest, I'm a bit speechless." Robert Habeck looks pained. Saskia Esken looks out into the TV world between her screen plants. I don't want to be a therapist in this couple drama. By the way, I don't like the buzzword toxic either, because it's used too carelessly by everyone. But what Habeck and Esken are doing is ridiculous. It's ridiculous because neither of them has anything to say anymore. Do not keep Germany waiting any longer after this undignified spectacle.