Overview

• At an HKW event, Jan Böhmermann said scheduling rapper Chefket for October 7 was unwise and that Jewish perspectives should have been considered from the start.
• The Chefket concert was canceled after Culture State Minister Wolfram Weimer publicly criticized the booking as antisemitic, prompting further withdrawals that wiped out the exhibition’s concert program.
• The Federal Criminal Police Office confirmed it inspected a rooftop installation featuring a telescope and a claimed mirror toward the Chancellery after security concerns were raised.
• Reporting indicates the setup did not enable views into the chancellor’s office, though the HKW and BKA acknowledged the on-site check.
• Böhmermann and Weimer confronted the episode in a public discussion that spotlighted rising antisemitism concerns, the limits of satire, and the role of political oversight in cultural programming.