The rower gets on board: Thomas Bellut stops as head of ZDF – media

On the day of June 2011, when Thomas Bellut was elected manager of a conference hotel on Potsdamer Platz without opposition, one could see something that is rarely shown so clearly: power. Berlin is newly built, but a smell of the former Federal Republic wafts through these rooms. Power meets behind wood-panelled doors, closed to the public, at long rows of tables: the television council with its lavishly delegated political staff. And power also antechambers in front of the paneled doors – ZDF executives: almost exclusively men in suits.