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ZDF presenter Böhmermann and "FAZ" editor Kaube
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Jan Böhmermann has just published a book.
It is called "Followed by nobody you follow" and collects the tweets of the TV presenter from 2009 to 2020. As is customary, Böhmermann gave interviews to promote the book.
For example, one appeared last Saturday in the "Süddeutsche Zeitung".
If Jan Böhmermann is to be believed, then an interview should have appeared in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" on September 6th.
But the feature section of the "FAS" opened with a text about the novel "All dogs die" by the writer Cemile Sahin.
No trace of Böhmermann.
Jan Böhmermann made it public on Thursday afternoon that he missed the interview in the Sunday newspaper by sending a letter to Jürgen Kaube, the editor of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", who is responsible for culture, via Twitter - where else?
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Kaube personally ordered that the interview be removed from the issue, according to Böhmermann's publisher.
He also instructed that it should not be published later either.
In the open letter, Böhmermann asked Kaube to explain why the interview had flown out of the paper.
He did not get it - the newspaper also said in response to a request from SPIEGEL: "The FAZ does not comment on editorial decisions."
Late on Thursday afternoon, Böhmermann had the letter to Kaube followed by several tweets in which he was indignant about the time he had spent on the interview and the associated photo session ("I was standing in potted plants!").
In the meantime he also offered "Welt" editor-in-chief Ulf Poschardt to publish the interview - before Böhmermann took action himself around midnight.
In a thread comprising 73 tweets, Böhmermann presented an interview text in which he gave detailed information about his motivation for using the medium of Twitter.
It "makes it possible to articulate even complex opposing opinions so pointedly that you are touched by it as a large cabaret artist or chief editor in chief," it says, for example.
This quote was also in one of two interview excerpts that Böhmermann had already posted that afternoon.
In the second excerpt from the afternoon, a passage in which Jan Böhmermann criticized the WDR director Tom Buhrow's handling of the "Umweltsau" song, there was no allusion to the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
It was only found in the nightly interview version - one of numerous Hegel mentions in the thread.
In this respect, it can be doubted that Böhmermann actually reproduced the exact wording of a "FAS" interview on Twitter.
The newspaper does not want to comment on this either.
However, not only Böhmermann will publish a new book this autumn, but also "FAZ" editor Jürgen Kaube.
The non-fiction book was published by Rowohlt and is entitled "Hegel's World".
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