A brave article by Detlev Schönauer, a very popular artist in Germany, was published on NachDenkSeiten Well, not anyway.

"After obtaining my degree in physics," writes Schönauer, "and then working for a couple of years as a university physicist, I started my own business as a cabaret actor in the Saar region 40 years ago, and until recently (with more than 6,000 performances) I was quite successful on stage.

Starting in 2015, I began to critically question the climate policy, but above all the migration policy, and - unlike many of my colleagues who have adapted since then - I turned against the prevailing mainstream. I have never criticized the admission of genuine war refugees, but the increasing number of immigrants, with all the foreseeable social and financial problems, was quite debatable to me."

Detlev Schönauer's performances are an atmospheric mix of satirical revues, musicals and chansons. Most Germans know the beret-wearing comedian as the host of SWR-TV's "Jacques", a fun French bistro, who was known to explain the world with his sharp-minded and critical observations on society's sore points and musical parodies.

So we knew that.

However, many people still do not know that he has been living in Hungary for some time.

Schönauer writes about why and what was the antecedent of this:

"After a few interviews I gave in the regional press, I was increasingly labeled a racist and a Nazi affiliated with the AfD, accompanied by many insulting and slanderous comments. […] Then, after a spontaneous short holiday in Balaton in 2019, we quickly made our decision. We found a country that still exuded genuine optimism, just like ours in the 70s: many happy young people with children populated the streets, people were extremely open, and the so-called The complete absence of loud hordes of young men of West Asian origin has completely tipped the scales towards Hungary."

This is how this German humorist came to Hungary, and now I came across his article - courtesy of a review published on Rab Irén's Ungarn Aus Erster Hand page - in which he spoke surprisingly positively about Hungary, the Hungarian people, their mentality, Hungarian government policy and especially its recent decades about his excellent results. In summary, thank you very much, you are having a great time in Hungary!

But how can such content appear in Germany?

At the beginning of the original article published on the "NachDenkSeiten" page, I found an editorial note that clearly shows how careful even newspapers that practice relatively "free" journalism are when an article strikes a note that goes against the accepted mainstream in the country.

Here is the editor's note:

“Mistakes happen; unfortunately with us too. This article wanted to provide an alternative, subjective point of view regarding Hungary. We expressly disagree with the author's statements and position on various issues, especially the refugee issue. Unfortunately, in the editorial stress, we did not check the article thoroughly enough. It should not have appeared without an introductory comment. Some readers have rightly called our attention to this. We discussed taking the article off the web again, but ultimately decided to keep it here with this dissociative note... Thank you for your understanding.”

The editorial mea culpa was written after the fact, as an addition, after the editors were accused of the content of the article.

The fact that the editors indicated this and dared to leave the article on their site despite the accusations proves their arrogance. Of course, who knows how long.

In Germany, if someone or a medium deviates even a little from the usual - and accepted by the mainstream - opinions, then they are "decapitated" like a mushroom that, stretching towards the light, tries to grow just a little bit bigger than the others .

(TTG)

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