Spiegel TV's 2025 year-end review covers a year marked by political crises including new elections, migration disputes, and conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine. Despite the crisis mode, reporters highlight entertaining and quirky moments. The collection features a series of investigative films on societal issues.
The major Spiegel TV year-end review for 2025, titled 'People and Their Stories,' summarizes twelve months of political turbulence. Topics such as new elections, debates on the cityscape, soaring rents, the Gaza conflict, and the war in Ukraine dominate the year. Yet, the reports also include lighter, quirky episodes that shape reporters' daily lives.
The overview includes numerous Spiegel TV films. Key focuses cover clan crime, like a clan member's attack on a reporter in court or a family's extortion trial. Right-wing extremism is addressed in pieces on Götz Kubitschek's network, young Nazis, and Reichsbürger, including a meeting in Schwerin and a police raid on the 'Kingdom of Germany'.
Other films examine espionage cases, such as those involving Maximilian Krah and a Chinese agent, as well as rejection of refugees in Hamburg-Hochkamp. Political oddities, like the Auto Drivers' Party or AfD members viewing Russia as no dictatorship, are portrayed. Economic scams, from phone frauds to mini-apartment extortion in Leipzig and towing rackets, complete the picture.
International reports take viewers to the Ukrainian war zone and the devastated city of Gaza. One film reflects on ten years since Angela Merkel's 'We can do this' statement and the accompanying rightward shift in Germany. These contributions provide insights into current challenges and human fates of 2025.
