Overview

• In a Süddeutsche Zeitung contribution, Weimer accused both left and right extremists of enforcing “tugendterror” that stifles creative expression.
• He highlighted the removal of a naked Venus Medici statue from a Berlin federal agency after its equality officer deemed it sexist as an act of “cultural ignorance.”
• Weimer likened the rejection of female nudity to a “Jacobinical iconoclasm” and referenced the firing of a Florida teacher who showed Michelangelo’s David to pupils.
• He urged the state to widen the “corridors of the sayable, explorable and depictable” instead of imposing purity edicts and to defend art freedom over political influence.
• His remarks have drawn criticism from cultural professionals and left-leaning media and revived his warning of a “global culture war” in Western democracies.