Paragraph style - next style

Hi!
I have a question about paragraph-styles.
For designing a book I receive a lot of unformatted text from different people. Now, of cause I need styles for different cases. One of those is a question-answer-style (interview -> see image below). You normaly can create a paragraph-style with the option to have, after pushing RETURN, another style (I think in english it has to be „use next style“). Okay, my problem is it works ONLY when I start typing the text word by word in Indesign an push RETURN and going on typing... That´s not what I want. My idea was, to copy an paste the whole text from Word (or from wherever) to Indesign and give´em the style it needs.
Doesn´t it work somehow? With „nested styles“ it works neither. You can only make a „soft break“ to use next style. So I must insert it one by one after each paragraph. Not so ...
Nochmal auf Deutsch, falls es missverständlich war:
Also, ich möchte ein Absatzformat erstellen für ein Interview. Da ich die Texte alle nicht selber schreibe ,sondern lediglich fertig geschrieben erhalte und dann am Stück einfüge, würde es Sinn machen, eine Formatvorlage zu erstellen, welche mir bestimmte Schritte automatisch abnimmt. Es gibt diese praktische Einstellung unter "Absatzformatoptionen" -> "Formatvorlagen" -> "Nächstes Format". Das scheint aber nur zu funktionieren, wenn man den Text buchstabenweise in das vorformatierte Feld eintippt. Dann erst bekommt der Absatz nach jedem Umbruch das ausgewählte Format. Wenn ich das aber bei einem komplett eingefügten Text probiere (nach der Frage "Eingabe" drücken), pasiert nichts. Wieso? Wie kann man das hinbekommen, evtl. alternativ?

Ok, I understand both, German and English.
Ok, ich versteh’ beides, deutsch und englisch.
When you select several paragraphs you can go to first paraagraph style in the pargraph style panel and choose with the right mouse click in the context menu:
You can apply:
This selected style
This selected style and delete Overrides and/or Character Styles
This style then next style
This style then next style and delete Overrides and/or Character Styles
Wenn Du mehrere Absätze ausgewählt hast, kannst Du im Absatzformatbedienfeld mit der rechten Maustaste das Absatzformat für den ersten Absatz auswählen und mit der rechten Maustauste aus dem Kontextmenü aus den verschiedenen Varianten wählen. Siehe oben in der Abbildung.
Die Menüvarianten mit nächsten Absatz und Zeichenformate und Überschreibungen (nicht in der Abbildung) sind nur dann im Menü vefügbar, wenn das Absatzformat erstens einen entsprechenden Nächsten Absatz definiert hat bzw. Vorkommnisse von Zeichenformaten und/oder Überschreibungen vorkommen.
PS. Es existiert auch ein deutsches Adobe U2U-Forum.
Addition / Ergänzung:
If the text is in only one frame or in only one cell of a table there exists as well the function next paragraph style. When you apply such an objects style to a text frame or to a cell of a table all text is formated according the first paragraph style choosen in the object style or cell style and the following paragraphs are styled as defined in next paragraph,
Wenn der Text nur in einem Textrahmen oder innerhalb einer Zelle einer Tabelle ist, dann besteht die Möglichkeit, dass im Objekt- bzw. Zellenformat unter Absatzformat erstens dieses aktiviert wird und zweitens, das nächste Absatzformat aktiviert wird. Dadurch werden bei Anwendung des Objekt- bzw. Zellformats der erste Absatz und die darauffolgenden entsprechen mit den definierten Absatzformaten und nächsten Absatzformaten formatiert.
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