A clinch between Harald Schmidt and his former joke writer Jan Böhmermann has been smoldering for some time. Now the old master has in one Interview with the “Berliner Zeitung” refilled. When asked whether he was involved with the “ZDF Magazin Royale” moderated by his younger colleague, Schmidt simply replied: “I don’t know. Far below my threshold of perception.”
Schmidt Böhmermann once braided a laurel wreath
The 64-year-old had already complained against his former pupil three years ago: “I knew early on that Böhmermann would never make it as a moderator – but I also knew that he would go very far as a riot box.” “Harald Schmidt Show” from May 2007 his words were colored quite differently – when Böhmermann was a guest, he said of the up-and-coming satirist: “You are verbally very fit and very fast”. Only he himself knows what underlies his rethinking.
Poison darts fly back
In the recent past, Böhmermann also did not hold back with mockery about his old teacher. In February of this year, Schmidt had left it unclear whether he was immunized. Afterwards, Böhmermann joked on his show: “… does the unpleasantly vain old show cynic self-righteously shit on solidarity and the common good, because the egomaniacal psycho rooster has had his little sheep dry for a long time anyway?” Also in the new interview with the “Berliner Zeitung” Schmidt kept his silence – but he “really liked the “excitement” about his vaccination status.
“I leave Berlin to the woken, young, upbeat people”
In the conversation, Böhmermann was not the only target of his pointed tongue – the capital also had to cash in. Schmidt said: “I leave Berlin to the woken, young, up-and-coming people,” and further: “when I have business to do in Berlin, I almost always stay in Hanover.” led by a small group of academic leftists, he replied: “Of course. I would say: Berlin-Mitte plus the online media that depend on it. I drive a lot through Germany – petrol stations, supermarkets and so on. People don’t even know these discussions even exist.”