A Question: Is this Copy of a Söring-themed German TV Show Complete?
The interview is famous, but does it even exist anymore in complete form?
In 2007, a popular German TV talk show featured an interview with Jens Soering from a prison visiting room in Virginia. The TV show was on YouTube for years, and featured in every discussion of the Soering case in Germany. However, at some point, all versions of this TV show were completely removed from the Internet, for reasons nobody has been able to discover. The show now cannot be found anywhere online. Was it a legal threat? Rights issues? Nobody knows.
I contacted the German TV channel and asked them for a copy of this show. I paid a hefty fee for it. They sent me a video file which supposedly contains the entire TV show. You can download it here, compressed for size, but otherwise completely unaltered from the original. Please don’t circulate the copies for now. Please use them only for private research purposes.
My question to you is: Is this the show you saw on TV or on the website of the German TV channel, complete and unedited? Some people who have seen the file believe one or more key scenes may be missing. As you can see, there is a severe glitch in the file just after the 43:00 mark. This glitch is definitely in the original of the file the German TV station sent me and not caused by a download error or my software. You will see it, too. I don’t know what the glitch signifies. If you’re a media professional and know what a glitch of this type signifies in a 2007-era recording of a TV show, please get in touch.
Regardless of the glitch: If you watch the interview and think a scene may be missing, please get in touch by leaving a comment or sending me a DM or email. What I am interested in is a description of any scenes that you remember seeing in the original version, but which are not in this file. The more specific you can be, the better.
Of course, if you recorded the original show or downloaded it from the Internet when it was still available, please get in touch — I would love to see what you have.
This is a developing story, and I will update it as matters progress. In the meantime, thank you for any help!