Overview

• RBB airs Olaf Sundermeyer’s documentary “Blaues Land – Wie die AfD den Osten verändert” at 8:15 p.m., followed by a live discussion at the Bertolt Brecht Gymnasium in Bad Freienwalde.
• Panelists include Interior Minister René Wilke (independent), AfD lawmaker Jean-Pascal Hohm, a school head, and filmmaker Sundermeyer.
• Local alliance Bad Freienwalde ist bunt and VVN-BdA have called a protest and demanded Hohm be disinvited, citing a June 15 attack on their community event.
• RBB says the lineup was carefully weighed, notes that pro-diversity guests declined invitations, and pledges a particularly critical approach to the AfD.
• Police plan an evening deployment, and Hohm defends his participation as a democratic right as the AfD contests its extremist designation in court.