On social media, satirist Jan Böhmermann accuses Constantin Schreiber of not being a real person. The "Tagesschau" spokesman does not let that sit and now also reacts publicly in order to prove its authenticity.
Is "Tagesschau" spokesman Constantin Schreiber a robot? At least satirist Jan Böhmermann put forward this bold thesis on Twitter on Sunday evening - and the very human news journalist immediately countered it quite calmly. Immediately after the 8 p.m. news was broadcast on the first, Böhmermann posted: "I'm 72 percent sure that Constantin Schreiber is a robot." And the satirist is apparently not alone with this assessment. More than 2,500 people liked his tweet, and he also received a lot of approval in the comments.
Less than 15 minutes later, the "Tagesschau" spokesman had the answer ready with a smile and posted a picture on Twitter on which he wrote a note with the inscription "I'm real!" (in German: "I'm real!") in his hand. He wrote "Greetings from Hamburg".
But because that didn't dispel Böhmermann's doubts ("Isn't that exactly what a robot would do?"), Schreiber got help from his "Tagesthemen" colleague Aline Abboud for verification. She finally posted a photo showing her with a colleague and a writer and notes with a blue tick and the words "He's really real" (in German: "He's really real"). She wrote "double check?" and the appropriate hashtag.
The journalist Constantin Schreiber has been speaking the main edition of the 8 p.m. news on ARD since January 2021. In the first few weeks, viewers also compared him to Superman in terms of his looks. Schreiber is a Middle East expert and has been reporting from the region for ntv for many years. He received a Grimme Prize for his German-Arabic series "Marhaba - Ankommen in Deutschland" on ntv. He has been working for ARD in Hamburg since early 2017.
(This article was first published on Monday, October 17, 2022.)
