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I am the founder and CEO of mostvoted.app and movo media GmbH. Most recently, I served as COO at a software company that operates behind the scenes. Before that, for 33 years, I worked as a journalist at Heise Medien in Hanover—first as an editor, senior editor, and deputy editor-in-chief, as well as head of software at the computer magazine c't, and then for 13 years as editor-in-chief at Mac & i, which I founded myself. Although I got into podcasts later than the pioneers in Germany, I started earlier than most. I particularly enjoy interview and political podcasts.
Stephan’s recommendations
Gespräche und Analysen zu politischen Themen in Deutschland und weltweit
I’ve always liked Anne Will; she’s both a likable and critical host. She has successfully carried over the strengths and principles of her political talk show on ARD to “Politik mit Anne Will.” Guests are often knowledgeable political journalists, such as Mariam Lau from *Die Zeit* or Veit Medick from *Stern*. In the podcast format, the participants take plenty of time to discuss controversial topics—it’s always worth listening to. With two episodes a week, I unfortunately still don’t always manage to keep up.
Interviews mit außergewöhnlichen Menschen, so lange bis alles gesagt ist
Alles gesagt? by the two "Zeit" journalists Jochen Wegner and Christoph Amend is a wonderfully laid-back interview series featuring mostly likable guests. The idea of asking them intelligent, yet also funny and critical questions for as long as it takes until they say a previously agreed-upon closing line works surprisingly well. In between, the whole thing is lightened up by the sounds of eating and the game “A, B, or Next.” Some conversations last over seven hours. For some time now, international figures have also been featured, with the German version then translated using AI. Hats off to this move!