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The German comedian gave an interview to the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. But it was not published. So Böhmermann did it himself, on Twitter.
Jan Böhmermann is irritated that his interview did not appear in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”.
Photo: Christophe Gateau (DPA, Keystone)
“I’ve never really seen anything like this,” German comedian Jan Böhmermann tweeted yesterday. To this end, he sent an open letter to Jürgen Kaube, editor of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”.
It should have been Kaube who wanted an interview with the comedian to be removed from the Sunday edition of the FAZ a few hours before its publication. Böhmermann was informed about this by his publishing house “Kiepenheuer & Witsch” – the comedian is currently on a promotional tour for his new book (read our interview with him about it here). The interview did not appear as a main story in the FAZ features section last Sunday. Böhmermann is now expressing his anger on Twitter.
It was a “big and very exciting interview”, for which he took a long time and had himself photographed especially for it. Among other things, he spoke about the culture of cancellation and the “critical consideration of the failure of democratic guardians to recognize and prevent the manipulation of the speech of the extreme right.” But editor Kaube said, according to Böhmermann’s letter, that the interview “should not be published under any circumstances.”
The 39-year-old man posted the conversation himself on his Twitter channel. He shared it in the form of a thread consisting of 73 individual tweets with his more than 2 million followers. “Die Welt” wrote about the tweets that no conclusions could be drawn about why the interview was canceled. The “star” checked with the newspaper. The FAZ does not comment on the editorial decisions, a publisher spokeswoman replied. Publisher Kaube is also said to have not (yet) complied with Böhmermann’s request for a statement.
Some Twitter users hope that Böhmermann will at least get photos of him grimacing in a flower pot. Another user commented that the comedian had made arrogant comments about the term cancel culture in the past, but now he is rebelling because this time he is the one being canceled.
