Fried – view from Berlin
The hypocrisy of the Berlin firm
Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls the Berlin cultural senator a court docket idiot. Journalists stand subsequent to it and say nothing. One day later it prefers to make a sexy story of it.
Olaf Scholz referred to Joe Chialo at a celebration because the CDU’s court docket fools. The Chancellor defends himself in opposition to the accusation that he needed to racially insult Berlin’s cultural senator due to his black pores and skin colour. In the meantime he has known as Chialo. The pleasure was nice, the hypocrisy too.
Scholz made a mistake, additionally as a result of he didn’t apologize. But no matter methods to consider your conduct, the Berlin firm from politics and media reveals itself on this story as a complete from its significantly hypocritical facet. Yes, I’ve been a part of it for a few years. And generally it contradicts me.
The entrepreneur Harald Christ organized the celebration. Christ as soon as tried to go to politics, was a member of two events and is aware of lots of people. Around 300 company had been invited to his birthday, politicians, journalists, celebrities.
I as soon as handled Harald Christ, 16 years in the past. The SPD candidate for Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier had appointed him to his competence workforce. We had an extended, pleasant dialog. Since then now we have not met. I nonetheless obtained private invites to occasions. Perhaps the networker is simply a sociable individual, it’s most likely his enterprise mannequin. I did not go there.
Even at Christ’s birthday it’s apparent that not all invited mates had been, however some solely necessary and Adabeis. But after all Christian can invite who he desires. In his greeting, he requested “that personal discussions are not reported publicly”. That was honorable, but in addition naive.
What we’re with the editor -in -chief of the “Focus”, who made the story public. He apparently wrested with him about ten days and nights whether or not he ought to ignore the non-public character of the night. Then he did it, after all not as a result of it’s a sexy story a number of days earlier than the election that clicks nice, preserve God, however as a result of he desires to guard Germany from a chancellor who is just not worthy of his workplace. Or one thing like that. You can break confidentiality for that, proper?
Anyone who was touring with Olaf Scholz is aware of that he doesn’t discuss as dominated as in public past the protocol. In it, he differs from his predecessor, who was consciously a chancellor 24 hours a day and all the time left the journalist rounds in good time earlier than she might solely get within the danger of claiming one thing unintelligible.
Why did no person, sorry, opened the mouth?
Scholz is extra carelessly, typically for the good thing about journalists as a result of they expertise one thing, generally for his or her injury as a result of he additionally divides. I’ve by no means skilled a private insult. Incidentally, I consider that you could additionally arrange a cease signal for the Chancellor if he’s drawn.
That is astonishing to all of the studies from the Christian birthday: lots has been written, tells and whispered in regards to the unfly that Scholz is claimed to have unfold. However, I’ve heard nothing of it or learn that somebody would have contradicted the Chancellor. Only Chialo himself held in opposition to it after which eliminated.
Funny, proper? When Scholz ‘conduct was objectively as racist, as everybody finds now, why did no person, sorry, open their mouths? What in regards to the journalists? The editor -in -chief of the “Focus” mentioned. But apparently no person mentioned something. Take a glance, we do not know that.
Published in Stern 09/2025
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