Overview
- Jens Riewa, who led the 8 p.m. Tagesschau on Tuesday, wore glasses on air instead of his usual contact lenses.
- He said his optician forgot to order new lenses during a planned move from monthly to daily lenses, which he finds thin and hard to handle.
- The frames were a Swiss Götti model that he said he normally uses only at night for reading.
- Viewers on Instagram and X reacted mostly with praise and some compared his look to former Tagesschau icon Karl-Heinz Köpcke.
- Riewa has warned that visible changes at prime time trigger heavy audience feedback, so he intends to stick with contact lenses for the evening bulletin.