You can deny Heidi Klum a lot. Moderation talent, perhaps, or critical ability. A lack of a sense of dramaturgy, on the other hand, is certainly not. The mother of Flavio Briatore's favorite daughter Leni impressively proves this this week in her popular TV documentary about Instagram-obsessed graduate screening ladies, or as ProSieben calls it: Germany's Next Top Model. Because exactly on the day on which Germany's Next top mayor Kai Wegner does not receive a photo from the tough Berlin House of Representatives jury twice, Klum also sends her catwalk freshmen to the capital. There she wants to put them through their paces and runway potential at the Fashion Week debutante ball.

Accordingly, the show was recorded in January – and Franziska Giffey, the Heidi Klum of the Berlin SPD, is still at the helm. So nothing stands in the way of the first big catwalk jobs with designer Kilian Kerner. Apart from the 700 other models who, in addition to the 14 aspirants from the Klum talent factory, are competing for the 28 coveted starting places at the Fashion Grand Prix in the Bolle Festsäle. Only four percent of the applicants will be allowed to run at the Kilian Kerner Show. Statistically, there are exactly 0.5 candidates from the squad of model coach Heidi Klum. Fortunately, despite the increasingly merciless battle for market share, it is unlikely that ProSieben will have quota-relevant young models sawn through in the middle. Although, after just under 800,000 viewers from the advertising-relevant target group (season minus record), this seems quite necessary. If the switch-on euphoria continues to decline, GNTM will collapse in the coming weeks as brutally as the FDP did in the last state elections.

Hope for catwalk right to stay is destroyed in piecework

Redhead Cassy doesn't care about quotas, she has other problems: "I don't think I fit into Kilian Kerner's models." One sometimes hears crude conspiracy theories about reptilians in human form in the relevant Telegram groups. But models who take possession of other models – that's new. Cassy's bad luck: Kill-ian Kerner is in launch mode today. He eliminated so many hopes of a permanent catwalk right to stay in record time, and Friedrich Merz is already considering appointing him as head of the Federal Office for Migration. He finds Anna-Maria "to fall asleep", Marielena "too grumpy", Nina's look is "like an office clerk" and he identifies Somajia as a "highlighter of death".

Keyword buried: Since a whiff of apocalyptic mood is blowing through the front rows at Berlin Fashion Week after the departure of the main sponsor this season and noticeably fewer designer shows are taking place, the much-heralded casting week has to keep its head above water with customers who are not familiar with fashion. Among them is a company that offers "nails for doers". It's great, you might think at first: craftsmanship has golden ground, we have a shortage of skilled workers, and there are too few women in woodworking professions anyway. Unfortunately, it's all about nail polish. Selma and Ida show a lot of skin in the hand cosmetics assessment center, while Olivia shows a lot of emotions. She wins the casting and is now allowed to take care of nails professionally.