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Inka Schneider is a journalist and host of the popular talk show "DAS" on NDR television. On the red sofa in Hamburg, she has been interviewing prominent guests from entertainment, politics and science for 20 years. The journalist was born in Rüsselsheim. After a year as an au pair girl in Paris, she studied social and business communications at the Berlin University of the Arts. This was followed by a traineeship at WDR in Cologne. Inka Schneider made a name for herself as a presenter and reporter for the ARD Morgenmagazin and as a correspondent in the ARD Washington studio in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. For years she moderated the media magazine ZAPP and in the SWR program "Ich trage einen großen Namen" (I carry a big name) she has been part of the guessing team for 10 years. Inka Schneider was a scholarship holder of the RIAS Berlin Foundation and the German Marshall Fund for Young European Leaders. She lives in Hamburg and Berlin and is married to Sven Kuntze. 

Sven Kuntze is an award-winning political journalist. He studied sociology, psychology and history at the University of Tübingen. He worked as a TV reporter for WDR from Bonn, New York, Washington and Berlin. From 1995 he presented the ARD Morgenmagazin and then worked as a capital city correspondent in Bonn and Berlin. Today Sven Kuntze works as an author. His TV documentaries have won several awards, including the German Television Prize. His book “Altern wie ein Gentleman (Aging like a Gentleman) was on the Spiegel bestseller list for months. He is currently working on "Einigt Euch" (Come to an agreement) - a book about compromise. Sven Kuntze is married to Inka Schneider. They live in Berlin and Hamburg.

Kai Diekmann, born in 1964, interviewed Helmut Kohl for his school newspaper as a high school student in Bielefeld back in 1982. During his time in the Bundeswehr, he managed to enter journalism through an internship at Axel Springer Verlag. From 1998 to 2000, Diekmann served as editor-in-chief of WELT am SONNTAG, and from January 2001 to January 2017, he led BILD — to this day, the longest-serving editorin-chief in the newspaper’s history by far. The powerful figures of the Republic frequented his editorial office, confided in him, leaked state secrets to him — or talked themselves into trouble on his voicemail. In "Ich war BILD", Kai Diekmann provides exclusive insights behind the scenes of Europe’s highest-circulation tabloid newspaper. He recounts the legendary phone call from Wulff and his long and dramatic fall, Putin’s swim trunks and Erdoğan’s tirades, the passionately fought animosities with Schröder, and the only interview Trump ever gave to a German journalist. Kai Diekmann himself became a target of extremists. He is one of the cofounders of the social media agency Storymachine and lives with his wife and four 
children in Potsdam.