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Enough is enough: Monika Walden gets out! For 15 years, she has presented the popular NDR Sunday program "BINGO ! " Together with Michael Thürnau . - The Environmental Lottery ". Now the sympathetic blonde says goodbye. In the interview she told us why she decided to leave.
Sunday, 4 May, 5 pm: For Monika Walden, the last time is the bingo flap. For just over 15 years, she has adapted her life to the program. Now it is enough: "I go with a laughing and a crying eye. I experienced so much beauty with this show, grew together with the team and the audience - and then you go and see and hear no more. Still, it was time to leave. "
Every weekend work was on the plan
Since 1998, Monika Walden has been in the studio in Hannover on a regular basis every Sunday, explaining the environmental topics of the lottery, whose revenues benefit projects in the field of nature conservation and environmental protection. "But I always arrived on Saturdays to read the topics, " she says. At the same time she worked as an editor for the NDR in Kiel and as a radio presenter. Regulated free time did not exist. "I could never spend more than five days on holiday, with arrival and departure often left little time for recreation." There was no summer or winter break. "We tried that in the first year, but the program was so popular that the breaks were abolished".
130 million euros collected for good causes
It is a great success story: Over the 15 years, about 130 million euros could be collected for the environmental projects via the lottery. Monika Walden is pleased: "It's a nice feeling to have done his part to protect our environment and the animals".
The popular concept of the program: play, fun and exciting information. Above all the moderators provided for the fun. Michael Thürnau and Monika Walden liked to chatter and bet. When Monika lost Walden, she was allowed to ride her rickshaw or sing live. The two were not too bad for fun - not even for extraordinary birthday serenades as in this video:
Monika Walden wants to enjoy life and travel a lot
In the future Monika Walden wants to enjoy her free time and freedom and to travel a lot. "I love traveling, I want to go to New York, to Amsterdam, to Southern Europe, I have so much to do!" The beautiful woman loves traveling since she was young. "I've always been wanderlust, was a wild bumblebee and as a young girl hitchhiked through foreign lands."
Monika Walden became aware of the fact that life is not infinite by private blows of fate.
Relatives died and in her more and more thought space that one should not always postpone everything to later. "Many focus on earning money instead of enjoying life. I would like to do it differently now, I want to live fully in the here and now. After all, at the cemetery, the money does not bring anything anymore. "
Fans are welcome to ask the presenter for a photo
Nevertheless, she does not exclude a return to Germany's screens: "Who knows, maybe someday I'll do something on TV again." "If you miss Monika Walden on TV, you do not have to worry about that Afterwards she completely disappears from the scene. "I am reachable by e-mail and Facebook, you can write to me and if you meet me, you may also like to address me." She takes it for granted to be friendly with fans and also "I just do not want to look stupid, in the picture, then that's completely ok. As a public person you must never forget that without his fans you would be nothing and nobody."
