She also began to appear as a television moderator in discussion programes transmitted by ZDF, ARD, WDR and the private-sector broadcaster VOX.
[2] Her public profile rose after August 2000 when she began her involvement with Das Literarische Quartett [de] (The Literary Quartet), a weekly television program produced by West Germany's ZDF broadcasting operator in collaboration (at that time) with Austria's ORF.
She also participated in a number of subsequent "one-off" episodes transmitted during 2005 and 2006 to celebrate anniversaries of Friedrich Schiller, Thomas Mann,[4] Heinrich Heine und Bertolt Brecht.
[1] From August 2006 till September 2012 she "fronted" Swiss Television's Literaturclub show in succession to Roger Willemsen.
[8] In 2007 Iris Radisch published her first book, "Die Schule der Frauen" (loosely "The women's school").