Joe Chialo: Who is the man Olaf Scholz is said to have insulted?

t-online Joe Chialo: Who is the man Olaf Scholz is said to have insulted? 2 hours • 2 minutes reading time Scholz is said to have insulted him Once a music manager, now a senator: This is Joe Chialo Olaf Scholz is said to have insulted him, but he himself is reluctant to comment on it. But who is the Berlin Senator for Culture, Joe Chialo, who is now the focus of attention? Joe Chialo is said to have been called a "court jester" by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. He himself confirmed that there was an incident, but did not want to comment on further details. You can read more about this here. Chialo has been Senator for Culture in Berlin for a year and a half after joining the party in 2016. Before that, he was briefly a member of the Greens, but left the party because of their opposition to foreign deployments of the Bundeswehr. He eventually joined the Union because of Angela Merkel's refugee policy and quickly rose through the ranks. In 2021 he ran for the Bundestag, but failed to get into the Bundestag. Shortly afterwards he was elected to the Federal Executive Board, and a year later the Governing Mayor Kai Wegner appointed him to the Senate. Career in the music industry His responsibility for culture is based on expertise, after all he is well connected in the scene. After initially working as a bouncer in the Nuremberg disco Mach1, he was briefly the singer of a metal band. After that he made a career as a music manager. So he finally went to Berlin for Universal, and in 2009 he founded his own companies to bring musicians to the market. He worked with the Kelly Family, Santanio and Álvaro Soler, among others. In the meantime he was part of the German jury for the Eurovision Song Contest. Kai Wegner and Joe Chialo: He was appointed Senator for Culture. Chialo comes from a Tanzanian diplomatic family, he was born in Bonn in 1970. When he was five, the family returned to Tanzania, but his father was soon sent back to Germany. Chialo has lived here since he was nine. He later trained as a CNC milling machine operator and dropped out of his studies in history, politics and economics. His path led him from culture to politics. Criticized as a senator - and attacked with anti-Semitism As a cultural senator, he is not without controversy. But he was ambitious. "You have to go into it with power, with desire and passion in order to promote Germany's cultural capital and one of the leading cultural capitals," he said before taking office. Then two major projects failed. First, he wanted to bring the Central and State Library (ZLB) to Friedrichstrasse. Then he called for an anti-Semitism clause for culture - only those who profess anti-Semitism should be supported. He failed both times.