Insult to the reader: “Who wants to live in Dortmund?”

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BerlinPrint works. And the media have a responsibility. As a journalist, this is something you should write behind the keyboard from time to time. Occasionally, readers need to remind us of this by pointing out mistakes. It doesn’t help to answer that nobody is immune to mistakes. Firstly, we have a special duty of care and should check each other out, and secondly, some misinformation has serious consequences. There is no question of unfortunate typing errors in appointment notices, the incorrect spelling of book titles, a zero too many or too little in statistics. It’s bad enough. But it should be about the emotional.

A long-time and well-meaning reader of the Berliner Zeitung called recently to ask why I wrote the sentence: “Who wants to live in Dortmund?” I should think about what I would feel if the same question were asked about Berlin . Well, the sentence was meant funny, it should draw a bow to the beginning of the review of the film “Daughters”. As the main male character, Josef Bierbichler complains bitterly about the city he is leaving to die.

Grönemeyer doesn’t like Düsseldorf

Decades ago a colleague from the west who has long since ceased to work here once wrote in an editorial: “In North Rhine-Westphalia you don’t want to hang dead over the fence.” A very strong formulation, albeit largely meaningless. After all, who would want to hang around as a corpse somewhere? If dead, then please underground. Dortmund is located in North Rhine-Westphalia, the state capital is called Düsseldorf. Perhaps the rejection that Herbert Grönemeyer expresses for Düsseldorf in his “Bochum” song prompted me to make my unfriendly Dortmund remark. From Berlin it all looks equally far away anyway. And if I can’t stand one thing about us Berliners, it’s this arrogance.

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