2024-04-29 22:23:38
An interview with Til Schweiger sparked a lot of discussion last week. The film star seriously insulted colleagues from the show industry – and received backlash.
Til Schweiger’s tantrums are no longer a secret. Whether journalists, film critics or even employees on the set: many incidents have now become public in which the filmmaker lost his temper. Schweiger himself admitted that this led to border crossings. Verbal gaffes were known primarily from his Instagram account, on which he would sometimes resort to a round-the-clock attack in the middle of the night.
This time his anger was even printed in the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”. There Til Schweiger said that he couldn’t stand two German celebrities at all – ZDF presenter Jan Böhmermann and comedian Oliver Pocher. “I despise them because they always laugh at other people’s expense.” But more than that: Schweiger also shared violent fantasies.
For him, Jan Böhmermann is “the greatest emetic in the German media landscape,” which is why Schweiger would not shy away from using violence. “If I hit him, I once swore to myself, he would get a big bang,” said the “Honey in the Head” creator. However, when he actually met the 43-year-old, he was able to hold back “thank God,” Schweiger then gave in.
“He obviously came out drunk”
Jan Böhmermann reacted shortly after the lines were published and expressed his displeasure with “Die Zeit”. This did not live up to its “publicistic responsibility” and published threats that could be prosecuted. But the ZDF presenter doesn’t leave it at that. In his “Fest & Fluschig” podcast with Olli Schulz he also talks about the topic and fires back strongly against Schweiger.
“Funnily enough, we sat together in the editorial office last week and saw these sad videos on RTL where Til Schweiger was carried to the clinic by, I think, Oliver Masucci with two broken arms,” he reports about his work with “ZDF Magazin Royale “-Editor and adds: “It was really crazy because people thought it was a fake. But then he came out obviously drunk and with plaster casts.”
Take Til Schweiger out of the joke cycle because he’s obviously really done.
Jan Böhmermann
He and his editors then decided to “take Til Schweiger out of the joke cycle because he’s obviously really done.” He was all the more surprised by the publication in “Zeit”, which, according to Böhmermann, took place three days after this situation in his editorial team. In terms of content, he couldn’t gain anything from the interview because “the white wine spritzer really bubbles out of every other line.”
An allusion to Schweiger’s alcohol consumption, although he reports in the interview that he is currently in therapy and no longer wants to drink alcohol because he has noticed that he too often “hurts everyone again when he’s drunk.” Schweiger then says: “That’s why I don’t want to drink alcohol anymore. I know that I can do that.”
Responsibility of the media when it comes to alcohol and violence
Böhmermann, on the other hand, doesn’t understand how the newspaper came up with the idea of ”granting” this “forum” to Til Schweiger. He describes Schweiger as “obviously in need of help.” He feels that “public threats of violence from someone who doesn’t need publicity, but rather help, psychological help” are completely out of place. He describes the media company’s decision as “somewhat down.” Böhmermann was “very annoyed” by the publication. He sees the medium’s “ethical compass” at risk.
Böhmermann hopes that Schweiger “will get along somewhat and hopefully he will still get along and his illness has not progressed to such an extent that he will slip into alcoholic dementia.” The 60-year-old himself has been open about his problems since the incidents surrounding his “Manta, Manta” sequel, in which he became violent while under the influence of alcohol.