She has been the wife of Finance Minister Christian Lindner for around three and a half months. But professionally, Franca Lehfeldt is now treading paths away from politics. The journalist focuses on health issues in a new job.

So far, political reporting has been Franca Lehfeldt’s passion. As a journalist trained at RTL, she reported for the station, among other things, from the Bundestag and events in Berlin.

But the 33-year-old also found her happiness in the political environment in her private life. Finally, on July 7, she gave the yes word to Finance Minister Christian Lindner on Sylt. For her it is the first marriage. The FDP politician, on the other hand, was already married – and also to a journalist. From 2011 to 2020, Dagmar Rosenfeld, the current editor-in-chief of “Welt am Sonntag”, was the woman at his side.

Only recently, in an interview with “Zeit”, Lehfeldt dispelled concerns that her marriage to the finance minister could possibly lead to conflicts of interest in her job. Of course she continues to work as usual. “Anything else would be a professional ban for a woman. In 2022 that seems absurd to me,” said Lehfeldt. But she made one restriction: “I don’t report on the FDP and the Federal Ministry of Finance.”

The journalist confidently emphasized that she first had the job “and then the man”. Accordingly, she does not define herself “as the wife of …”.

Now, however, Lehfeldt has looked for a new job that initially has nothing to do with politics. Together with the virologist Hendrik Streeck, who has been known not least since the corona pandemic, she will moderate a health magazine, the television station “Welt” said.

“Whether venereal diseases, broken heart syndrome or the use of exoskeletons: the background to the physical and psychological processes are clearly presented and explained in the broadcaster’s news studio,” the statement said.

With the format, they wanted to inform viewers “about important health issues and explain scientific facts without prejudice,” Lehfeldt is also quoted as saying. “Many diseases are still stigmatized and not sufficiently discussed publicly,” she adds. And as long as there is no need for any government measures, politics will probably remain largely unaffected when it comes to this complex of issues.