Jan Böhmermann (archive picture): "Please cut out and send in"
Photo: MORRIS MAC MATZEN / REUTERSA school principal from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania had reported a high school graduate for defamation. Now the satirist Jan Böhmermann has offered the 18-year-old an internship. "Voucher for Mr. Fiete Korn for an extensive editorial internship in a ZDF main program satirical broadcast by / with Dr. Jan 'Gerald' Böhmermann", tweeted Böhmermann on Sunday about an article about the student. Underneath he wrote "please cut out and send in", only to send another tweet a little later with "serious".
Korn had been reported by his director after a critical speech at the Abitur ball of the Free School Prerow. In his speech, which was sometimes ironic, he had criticized the way in which the school administration treated the students and created a climate of fear and intimidation. Students are said to have been motivated to monitor their classmates.
The headmaster has not yet made any public statements. The school on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula announced that he was still on vacation, as lessons did not begin until August 31.
Böhmermann himself had received an advertisement from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2016 after dedicating a humiliating poem to him on his show. In it he had confessed to Erdogan, among other things, having sex with animals.
The poem sparked a diplomatic crisis between Germany and Turkey. After a two-year legal battle, the Hamburg Higher Regional Court upheld a ban on essential parts of the controversial poem in May 2018.
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