New ARD excitement about Dieter Nuhr - a "joke" from him triggers everything

The West New ARD excitement about Dieter Nuhr - a "joke" from him triggers everything by Marcel Görmann • 7 hours • 2 minutes reading time There is again a stir about Dieter Nuhr. In his ARD show he hinted at something that caused a wave of outrage on the internet. The 63-year-old spoke about the increase in knife attacks in Germany. Dieter Nuhr in ARD show: "Shouldn't it be better to put people like that to sleep?" The cabaret artist made this comment in response to these official crime statistics: "What kind of people are they who leave the house with a knife? Shouldn't it be better to put people like that to sleep?" Dieter Nuhr in the ARD show "Nuhr im Ersten" First some embarrassed giggling in the audience, then applause. Nuhr himself admitted: "It is actually uncivilized." But we need to talk about the fact that the proportion of knife-related suspects with a migrant background is high. He claimed that the issue should be hushed up so as not to play into the hands of right-wing extremists. The increase in knife crimes was a topic in all media (>>> our editorial team also reported on the BKA crime statistics in the spring). "A case for the broadcasting council" Many ARD viewers are shocked by Nuhr's suggestion of killing in his show. Did he cross a line here? Former CDU general secretary Ruprecht Polenz thinks on X that Nuhr is now "a case for the broadcasting council". Film producer and Green Party politician Peter Heilrath sees "comedy in the Sylt style" in the ARD entertainer - an allusion to the "Foreigners out" scandal on the North Sea island. Florian Klenk, editor-in-chief of the Austrian weekly newspaper "Falter", sees it similarly. Disgusted, Klenk writes: "Put him to sleep? With gas? Or with a syringe? Perhaps Nuhr can show off his 'humor' a little more during a guest performance in Sylt." The former politician Christopher Lauer assesses the whole thing a little more calmly. He writes on X: "Dieter Nuhr is living proof that there is no so-called cancel culture in Germany." The staging of him as someone who satirically addresses uncomfortable topics against the mainstream still works brilliantly with his audience.