The ZDF wants even after “insulting poem” cooperate with Jan Böhmermann and extend his contract. “I think he’s completely detached from this a little story for a (…) exceptionally gifted presenter, comedian, reaching an audience that we do not otherwise reach so quickly,” said ZDF director Thomas Bellut on Friday in Mainz.
“The main foundation of Jan Böhmermann I see still at ZDFneo because he does not have his trademark soften there, it can remain as it is,” added Bellut. “We have been discussing with him whether there can still make a little more and how you could present him also in the main program.” Böhmer’s previous contract runs out at the end.
To the “libelous poem” against the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which the TV satirist and Grimme award winner had argued in March in his show “Neo Magazine Royale”, there was a stir and legal trouble. The poem is, among others, sex with animals, child pornography and transported clichés about Turks. In the past few weeks has been speculation whether Böhmermann ZDF remains true or switches to another station. In the radio sector, he was changed by public radio one for music service Spotify.
The poem had violated ZDF guidelines. “There we did not like because of the programming principles, so we have the program director and I decided to take the out of the library,” Bellut said. “You can also look different, legally we can not see it anyway.” For the same reason there is for the colleague who was editorially responsible for the broadcast of the piece, according to the director, “not punitive”. Böhmermann get for litigation counsel in the context of insurance.
The Mainz Public Prosecutor 1,500 complaints against Böhmermann or ZDF responsible for libel and expects “not many months” pending a decision on a possible indictment , ZDF director Bellut said: “That we wait really left off.” The Hamburg District Court had Böhmermann forbidden to repeat publicly large parts of his poem
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