Recommendations of the Editorial team
Since Gerhard Schröder of all people invented the office of Minister of Culture in 1999, we cannot be right. The Minister of Culture is the most German after the Minister of Transport. Schröder had occupied the post with Michael Naumann at the time, a man who radiated culture.
Naumann had once founded the “Zeitmagazin” and headed the Rowohlt publishing house from New York, and he was right to give Thomas Pynchon the Nobel Prize for Literature. But he couldn’t decide that alone, and Pynchon did not get the price.
Michael Naumann looked like the culture itself. Many years later I saw him in a restaurant in Berlin at lunch. He was a retiree, he folded the newspaper after reading it and drank an espresso. Perhaps he went to the chocolate museum afterwards.
What was so wrong about Monika Grütters?
Monika Grütters had studied German studies and was able to speak well. She also had authority. But somehow all writers, filmmakers, theater people, musicians and stage designers nagged them. Grütters was to blame for everything. Until Claudia Roth was to blame for everything. Documenta screwed up, clapped in the wrong place at the Berlinale, and always Foundation Prussian Cultural Ownership.
Above all, she was too short and too late Manager of Ton Steine Shallen. “What did she actually qualify for the office?” Asked Markus Lanz recently, and he answered the question himself: “She was a manager of this band Rio Reiser, who was good.”
Now Wolfram Weimer, who was once editor -in -chief of the newspaper “Welt” and founder of the magazine “Cicero”. He is a “media entrepreneur” and lives on Lake Tegernsee. The public astonishment played could hardly have been greater if Dieter Bohlen had been appointed. Joe Chialo had been expected.
Wolfram Weiner is binding
The cultural workers are dissatisfied with Weimer before he even took up his office. You wonder what the man has to do with culture. You know that he likes to go to the opera. Maybe he also likes to read books because he wrote some of them himself. Maybe he also likes to watch “Yellowstone” like Markus Söder. Maybe he loves the Berlin Schaubühne.
In any case, Weimer has always been eloquent and binding with the 37 appearances in television talk shows since 2019. An investigative reporter checked the Tegernsee whether Wolfram Weimer plays golf in Rottach on Lake Tegernsee. Uli Hoeneß lives on Lake Tegernsee, and Friedrich Merz has an apartment in Gmund.
If Merz and Weimers play golf on Lake Tegernsee, some would be proven what is considered the axiom of Wolfram Weimer: the fall of the West. This figure of thinking is popular among conservatives and Catholics, it is fueled from time to time. Like the left -wing movements have their hobby horses and favorite theses.
But Weimer denies playing Golf: “I don’t practice this sport.” And besides, Bernhard Langer Minister of Culture should not be a creditor Catholic.
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I think that the debate magazine “Cicero”, which Wolfram Weimer founded in 2004 with the Ringier-Verlag, was and is a very decent magazine. It is culture in it. “He knows how to spell Cicero, but not what he said”: This is simply stupid malice that we want to avoid in cultural nation.
Now we let Wolfram Weimer do it. Maybe he will practice culture.