A year of guests read as a network
Guests were recorded for every episode broadcast in 2024. Each episode usually features four of them, who form the nodes of the network; a line means two guests appeared together.
Change of guests across the year
Split into quarters, the network is sparser: 120 guests in the first, 128 in the second, 92 in the third and 108 in the fourth. The labelled names are the guests connected to the most others, which means they appeared across several episodes.
Share of women
107 of 297 guests were women, a share of 36 percent. The figure holds fairly steady across the year, between 34 and 37.5 percent in three quarters, and 29.3 percent in the third.
Prominent sectors and organizations
Politics was the largest group with 104 individuals, followed by media at 48 and think tanks and academia at 47. Among organizations, the CDU and SPD led with 25 and 21 people. Third place goes not to another party but to ZDF, the broadcaster airing the show, with 15.
However, the returning guests were almost entirely journalists: Theveßen, Bröcker, Quadbeck, Röller, Münstermann, Siems, Lehmann, Machowecz. From politics, only Stegner, Kühnert and Ramelow reach the upper ranks across the year, and each within a single quarter.
