The Voice Behind the Skin

Radio does something specific to your imagination. You build a version of the person in your head—assembled from vocal texture, the way someone laughs between records, the rhythm of how they talk—and it becomes surprisingly detailed over time. Then Playboy publishes a shoot featuring five presenters from Radio Energy, and suddenly you’re renegotiating a lot of things at once. Julia Rohrmoser, Natali Juhasz, Daniela Heiss, Elisa Rebellato, and Janine Strehlau did exactly this in the March 2019 issue, and the results are not difficult to look at.

Elisa Rebellato apparently had someone tell her recently that she’s so singular she couldn’t have been invented—which is a tremendous compliment to receive and, judging by the photos, not entirely inaccurate. Daniela Heiss says the nicest thing someone can do is write in to tell her they love the show. There’s something I find genuinely appealing about that: a woman who knows what she needs and is honest about needing it.

The interviewer asked, inevitably, about men. Janine Strehlau wants the first impression to land right; humor matters more than looks. Julia Rohrmoser says she doesn’t go for pretty boys—a man needs to radiate something, some quality she can’t quite name but recognizes on sight. Natali Juhasz is drawn to creative people, anyone with real passion for any form of art. All five agreed, when it came to it, that Justin Timberlake could stay. That consensus is correct and requires no further discussion.