„The Political Part“ – Live recording of the ZEIT podcast

The ZEIT podcast „The Politics Section“ is a guest in Leipzig as part of the Federal Forum on Legal and Rule of Law Promotion of Forum Recht Foundation the ZEIT Podcast Tour 2026. Once a week, the podcast hosts meet Tina Hildebrandt, Chief Correspondent, and Heinrich Wefing, head of the politics desk at *Die Zeit*, and we talk about politics: what drives it, what it does, and what it can achieve. On November 27, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. The two of them are live on location at the Federal Administrative Court with their podcast and are speaking with Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Andreas Voßkuhle, former President of the Federal Constitutional Court. Together, they discuss current issues related to the rule of law and the importance of the Federal Constitutional Court in our democracy.

About the podcast hosts

Tina Hildebrandt She is the chief correspondent of ZEIT. She was born in Nuremberg in 1970 and grew up in the Rhineland region. In Bonn, she studied political science, history and German studies; after the German reunification, she worked from 1991 as an editor at the Mitteldeutsche Express in Halle/Saale. Since 1994, she has reported on German government policy, initially as a parliamentary correspondent for the Cologne Express in Bonn, before she moved to the capital office of the news magazine Der SPIEGEL in 1997. Since 2004, she has been a political correspondent for ZEIT in various roles; among other things, she worked as chief correspondent and for several years headed the ZEIT capital office together with Marc Brost. From 2022 to 2026, she co-led the politics department of ZEIT together with Heinrich Wefing. Tina Hildebrandt has been a co-moderator of the weekly podcast „Das Politikteil“ since 2020.“

Heinrich Wefing He was born on July 9, 1965 in Darmstadt and grew up in Hamburg. He studied law and art history in Bonn and Freiburg and was awarded a doctorate in law in 1994 with a thesis on parliamentary architecture. In 1995 he worked as a correspondent for the political section of the Hamburg weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT, then in the feuilleton section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). In 1996 he joined the feuilleton section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. From 1997 to 2001 he was its cultural correspondent in Berlin. From 1996 to 2004 he reported from San Francisco for the American West Coast for the FAZ. From 2004 to 2007 Wefing headed the feuilleton section of the FAZ in Berlin. In 2008 he returned to Hamburg as a member of the political section of the ZEIT. From 2010 he was deputy head of the political section, and since 2018 he is co-head of the section. Since 2020 he is co-moderator of the weekly podcast „Das Politikteil.“ He is one of the initiators of the Charter of Digital Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which was published in 2016.

Photo: Jana Legler

Service

Admission is free of charge. Registration is not required.

Location: Federal Administrative Court, Simsonplatz 1, 04107 Leipzig

Please feel free to contact the Federal Administrative Court directly for information regarding the accessibility of the event venue.

Doors open 20 minutes before the show starts.

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