Tom Bohn on His Decision: Why I Will No Longer Work for Public Broadcasters

"I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the way the major socially defining issues have been handled since Corona. I've also talked to the people in charge there and emphasized that I don't want to participate in exposing dissenters to ridicule. Satire must not participate in narrowing the discourse. And now this is exactly what is happening again with the war in Ukraine. Narratives and positions of groups that are high up in the social hierarchy are being repeated incessantly, and at the same time the mood is being set against those who think differently. In my opinion, this no longer has anything to do with satire." Christine Prayon alias Birte Schneider

""I'm fed up, or to put it even more clearly: I'm fed up with the permanent and increasingly religious climate gibberish, with energy turnaround fantasies, with electric car worship, with scary stories about doomsday scenarios from Corona to conflagrations to weather catastrophes. I can no longer stand the people who shout this into microphones and cameras every day or print it in newspapers. I suffer from having to witness how natural science is turned into a whore of politics. I am tired of being told what to be ashamed of by abused, pubescent children. I am tired of being told by some deranged people that I am to blame for everything and everyone - but especially as a German for the past, present and future misery of the whole world. I am tired of religious and sexual minorities, who shamelessly exploit their well-defined minority rights with non-stop media support, trying to tell me what I can and cannot do and say. I am fed up with people who are completely out of their minds, who ruin my German mother tongue and who think they have to teach me how to write and speak in a way that is appropriate for the mainstream. I'm tired of seeing how completely uneducated people, who have done nothing in their lives but carry a foreign briefcase, believe they can rule Germany. I can't stand it any more when, under the pretext of a "colorful society", justice and security disappear and when, in the evening, coming out of the central station, one has to step over dirt, filth, homeless people, drug addicts and procuring criminals, past scribbled walls. I would like my country to value and support the people, regardless of gender, skin color and origin, whose hard-working, productive and value-creating work produces the wealth of the entire society every day: the employees in companies, the craftsmen, the freelancers, the many committed and socially active entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized businesses. I want the teachers of our children, the doctors and nurses of our sick and needy to receive the recognition, appreciation and support they deserve every day. I want the young and the impetuous to let off steam within the well-established boundaries of our legal space, but also to bow down to their parents and grandparents, to the old and the experienced, because they are the creators of their prosperity and freedom."" Prof. Dr. Knut Löschke