Oliver Polak has written a Roman à clef. Nothing, therefore, what readers should with eagerness to plunge, to search for in the “real world” examples of fictional heroes or fictional villains. With “Against hatred of Jews” wrote the 42-year-old comedian very laconic in his biographical experiences, from Growing up as a Jewish child in Papenburg, Germany, to “a – my – Here-and-Now”. 127 point lots of pages quickly weggelesen, often nodded, sometimes shook his head. Anti-Semitism, bad.

The book is for a month on the market. The scandal ignites, it is only now – with an article on the media journalist Stefan Niggemeier. For the “Friday” he has subjected the not-too-great effort, to identify a few of the villains in “Against hatred of Jews”. I found one with Jan Böhmermann, Klaas Heufer-Umlauf and Serdar Somuncu.

not Good? What happened?

Polak called no name, and his book begins with the sentence “This Text is not an accusation.” However, he describes, among other things, as a “controversial comedian”, a “music television presenter” and a “TV presenter” from the stage blew up. Ironically, of course. Then, a disinfectant is used. The “Gag none,” writes Polak was, “because he had no punch line”.

The scene in 2010, when 25. Stage anniversary of Serdar Somuncu. “Yes, now go also,” said the Bohemian man on the Sofa. Heufer-Umlauf jumps up: “You must go now!” Him Somuncu, the nachbrüllt the outgoing Polak follows: “Fuck you!”

After that, the boys wipe the hands, and Heufer-Umlauf asks: “tell me, you can get the actually? You gave …your hands with him?”, he even had him “on the Arm …”, to which he says: “Disgusting. E-kel-detention!” As the Bohemian man pulls out the disinfectant from behind the Sofa. That would be the punch line.

Before his rabidly staged departure of Polak had addressed on the stage of the “clumsy” handling of the Germans with the Holocaust, in the book, he asks: “Should be the irony? Who exactly are you? He imitated his gesture, a anti-Semite, or a voice from him?” The greater the taboo, the better should of course be the punch Retrobet line.

Hey! Everything is not meant to be!

the point Remains, it is perhaps not even a joke. But anti-Semitism, so the suspicion may let off steam in the chic dress, the Inauthenticity, because: Hey! Everything is not meant to be! The gackernde audience makes the impression, as would something stuck in the throat.

Oliver Polak

KiWi-publisher Helge Malchow keeps this suspicion in the “world on Sunday” for “an absolutely baseless allegation” without Böhmerman: “If you know this author and his work, then you know that this author is not in connection with anti-Semitism.” Böhmermann is also author of the KiWi, because of the Passage in question is not “Against hatred of Jews”.

Now you can’t with Stefan Niggemeier is the question of why not just the Polak, or Malchow, but “journalists”, including in the MIRROR, identify in “your many Reports, the Bohemian man for the audience”.

it May be that an interested audience will work it quite. May also be that an old hand such as Malchow feared, the Bohemian man could come into the crosshairs – and it wanted to protect. May also be that the Humor of the satirist has so many doors that it is believed as a Journalist, as a precaution, always behind the next be really true, good face.

Now, the accusation of anti-Semitic behavior is tattooed something like the big, face, hard criminals and just out of jail brother who the #MeToo charge. If he is in the room, Crouch all the way. With the you want to have really nothing to do.

Getwitter with grudge

According to robust böhm’s reads so far, the only statement on this subject: “unfortunately, I can participate without a reasonable revenue sharing not on the subsequent reinterpretation of the ultra-stark Ficki-Ficki-Comedy career in a dazzling, sensitive intellectual biographies”, he tweeted – not without resentment, not without scorn and therefore not really sovereign.

Polak itself does not wish to speak in this matter. Who is talking to him, feel that he’s the thing – and not to the laws of irony, or the legendary limits of Satire. He’s quite reluctant to the thing. “Sorry,” said the Bohemian man in front of him once, “but your Judaism is your Unique Selling Point, since by now had to”.

Polaks thing that makes the reading of “Against hatred of Jews” suspect is currently at least Thinking about structural anti-Semitism and the endless reproduction of the corresponding Stereotypes. Everywhere, even on TV. He would have had something else in mind, such as a key novel, he would have his book “The 42 most blatant hater of the Jews of my life”, subtitle: “people you would never expect!”

You could pose quite the question, who would be helped individual people because of anti-Semitic patterns of behavior in the pillory – where the Problem is so structural that it can to the liberated laughter of an enlightened audience, “the Good”.

In the phenomenal documentary “Kulenkampffs shoes” on the television of the economic miracle years, there is a scene in which a cheat the candidate out to talk, jokingly, “I have learned from the Jews”. What Kulenkampff gently as he frightened on his Arm no longer touched him, no, that’s what you have to say.

anti-Semitism, bad. It has not changed too much.

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