Overview
- About 200 people demonstrated outside the opera on Saturday, and police described the gathering as peaceful.
- Saxony’s vice minister-president Petra Köpping canceled her attendance earlier this week, saying she wanted to contribute to de-escalation.
- Organizers said they "exclude no one" and that Lindemann appears as a private guest invited by a sponsor.
- An open letter from the alliance "Gemeinsam gegen sexualisierte Gewalt und Machtmissbrauch" reported more than 180 cultural signatories warning of a "fatal signal."
- Lindemann denies the 2023 allegations of sexualized misconduct, and Berlin prosecutors closed their investigation in August 2023 for lack of sufficient evidence.