The Wulff speech: Five editors, five opinions
Do we still need a Federal President?
It was a miserable spectacle as Christian Wulff glossed over, rumbled and begged for understanding. It's about him, I thought, not about the dignity of the office. And asked me: Do we still need a Federal President? His job is - except to make bella Figura abroad - to act in his own country as a moral authority. This requires the trust of the people - but that has lost Wulff. Bad, but we can do without a president. And look for ourselves the women and men whose words give us strength. Claudia Kirsch
Wulff satire: Laugh with over the private Facebook pages of the President - on stern.de
Able to learn? Maybe with new friends
I think the President should give up a contact: looking for new friends, with mature minds and good knowledge of people, money and glamor does not matter. Maybe it could save him a more normal environment. But let's be serious: how capable of learning our President actually is, he proved yesterday impressively. Only ARD and ZDF were allowed to ask and send - a press conference for all was not acceptable to him. Freedom of the press? By this, "man" means something different. Silke Baumgarten
Great entertainment value
Luckily, this is a purely representative office and not big politics. That's why the Wulff affair is something of a Royal Soap to me. Let's face it: the drama about a lavender president on the way to the Emir is simply more interesting than the euro crisis and economic data. The plot has pace and a bit of glamor, and almost every day there are new revelations about mobile derailment, presumptuousness in the office and false friends. High point: the presidential cliffhanger last night. I'll stay tuned. Mike Dinklage
Who, if not him?
I found the event as embarrassing as the entire Vorgeklänkel, would have bet yesterday morning that we stand in the evening without Federal President. Probably a change also failed because of the question: who should do it better than Wulff? The list of publicly discussed successors is more arbitrary than convincing. Von der Leyen, Käßmann, Gauck, Lammert, de Maizière, Müntefering, Platzeck, Schäuble, Stoiber, Potter ... And as a satirical insinuation: Why not Hape Kerkeling, Franz Beckenbauer or Günter Jauch for president? Too bad. We once had a Richard von Weizsäcker ... Barbara Voigt
laaangweilig
The man bores me. He has as little profile as his rimless glasses. And let's face it: do not we have enough other and more important problems? My suggestion: quiet resignation and then Mr. Gauck to the front! Nikola Haaks
