Today we know Katja Burkard (59) as a radiant icon of the media landscape. For an incredible 28 years (!) She moderates the lunch magazine point 12 at the beginning of her career Katja Burkard had to fight with violent ridicule – Because Germany made fun of a moderator on TV suffering from a speech error. In the meantime, she speaks openly about her notorious Lispel-S: these medical reasons are behind it.
Because of Lispeln: Katja Burkard had to struggle with hatred and malice
At the beginning of her career, the blood boy blonde had no easy start on TV: the audience took a lot of time to get used to Katja Burkards Lispel-S- And unfortunately this was expressed in hate and malice. The moderator revealed in the Bunte interview that she was constantly made a joke figure in the first few years: “I also admit, initially laughed as many, I didn’t find it so funny.” As Burkard looked at the beginning of her career, you can see here:
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In the meantime, Katja Burkard has made peace with her speech error. She would even have made her lisps famous, as she suspected in an interview with Stern: “On the other hand, it also contributed greatly to my awareness.” Fortunately, the TV audience got used to her S-error: “I’ve been fine with it for about ten years. Nobody has appealed to me since then.”
“Had several hearing tortures”: Katja Burkard reveals the medical reason for her lisp
Katja Burkard now speaks wonderfully about the real reasons for her speech error. There is a serious medical cause for your famous Lispel-S. In the star interview, she revealed:
I had several hearing stakes in my life and thereby a weakness in the high -sound area. I don’t hear my S-error myself. So I couldn’t work on it.
Burkard confessed to colorful that she could not perceive her own speech error at all due to the tinnitus disease. Because the moderator cannot hear her own mistake, it was not easy to work on it: “At some point I actually tried to be adapted and was with the speech therapist. And the more I tried it […] The worse it got. “
Fortunately, Katja Burkard was able to count on the support of RTL in training. The broadcaster never put them under pressure After the therapy approaches failed: “And then my bosses said: ‘Please just leave it. It is so that you are doing and we can live with it.'” The rest is – as the saying goes – history.
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Katja Burkard on TV: So you can watch point 12
Point 12 runs on Monday to Friday in RTLof course from 12 p.m. The show can also be checked at RTL+.