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Liebeserklärungen zum Wochenende – vom Mond und von Helmut Schmidt

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The Artemis 2 crew proposed naming a moon crater after the commander's deceased wife—from the moon, someone radios: 'I haven't forgotten you.'

1. The Pioneer Morning Briefing's weekend episode is hosted by Aleph Dogan, summarizing the past week and previewing the coming one. 2. Dogan is the sole host; no live guests appear in this episode, though archival audio from multiple public figures is played. 3. The episode's emotional center is a curated collection of love declarations by politicians and public figures, anchored by the Artemis 2 crew's proposal to name a moon crater after the commander's deceased wife. 4. The week-in-review opens with the death of actor Mario Adolf at 95, known for playing the villain Santer in the Winnetou films and General Director Hafenloher in the ARD series Kir Royale. 5. Germany's insolvency rate reached its highest point in more than 20 years in Q1, with the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research in Halle registering 4,574 filings—higher than during the 2009 financial crisis—affecting approximately 54,000 jobs. 6. CDU and CSU party offices, as well as some ministries, were labeled 'Eierhaus' (egg house) on Google Maps across Germany. 7. The European Commission's DiscoverEU program is distributing over 40,000 free train tickets to young people, with approximately 7,000 reserved for 17- to 18-year-olds in Germany. 8. The Vogue US May cover features Meryl Streep and former editor-in-chief Anna Wintour in Prada, timed to the release of The Devil Wears Prada Part 2, opening end of April. 9. The love theme opens with the Artemis 2 crew's proposal to name a moon crater Carol after the commander's deceased wife—Dogan frames this as the week's sharpest contrast to political conflict below: 'someone up there radios, I haven't forgotten you.' 10. Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is heard thanking his lifelong wife Loki: 'Without Loki, I would have been worth only half'—Schmidt notes they were married for almost seven decades and she died in October 2010. 11. Barack Obama is quoted at a fundraising gala in New York: 'For the past 25 years you have not only been my wife and mother of my children, you have been my best friend. I was smitten almost from the second I saw her.' 12. Bill Clinton praises Hillary as 'one of the two or three most famous young people of our generation' and 'the most gifted person in our generation'—immediately followed by Dogan playing his 1998 denial: 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.' 13. Emmanuel Macron describes Brigitte as 'the woman of my life, the woman I met when I was much younger than I am today—she is wonderful.' 14. Margaret Thatcher is quoted on husband Dennis: 'I couldn't have done it if Dennis had had a business up in Leeds or Glasgow. So we were always together.' 15. Queen Elizabeth II remembers Prince Philip's 'mischievous, inquiring twinkle' as 'as bright at the end as when I first set eyes on him.' 16. Swiss author Max Frisch describes his relationship with poet Ingeborg Bachmann as 'a nosedive'—'we lived together in Zurich, in Rome, for just over four years, and four years is a very long time for a nosedive.' 17. The coming week's outlook includes: Artemis 2 landing in the Pacific off California; the Hungarian parliamentary election on Sunday with Viktor Orbán under pressure from opposition party Tisza; a week-long German speed camera marathon starting Monday; a nationwide ban on minors buying or possessing laughing gas starting Tuesday; and the Marina Abramović exhibition Balkan Erotic Epic opening at Berliner Gropiusbau on Wednesday. 18. The episode previews a Pioneer 'Tag 8' interview with Engin Çatik, principal of Berlin's Friedrich-Bergius-Schule—once called the worst school in Germany—who describes his third day on the job involving a tear gas police operation and monthly police interventions before his tenure. 19. Hubert Aiwanger (Freie Wähler chairman, Bavarian Economy Minister) is quoted arguing the AfD benefits left-wing parties by splitting the bourgeois vote and preventing conservative majorities. 20. White House correspondent Julius Fandel calls Trump's Iran strategy 'a strategic disaster for the US' that will teach lessons to Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin and damage American credibility as a deterrent.

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