Keyword, Weimer

Berlin Administrative Court: Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media may not describe Berlin bookstore as "political extremists"

Berlin, Bremen, Göttingen, April 30, 2026. By order of the Berlin Administrative Court, the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) was ordered to refrain from describing the operators of the "Bookstore of the Wavering Globe" as "political extremists." The case concerned a corresponding statement by…

PM: Warning against BKM: Bookstore takes legal action against interview statements by the Minister of State for Culture and a Freedom of Information Act request has been filed regarding internal official procedures

Berlin, Bremen, Göttingen, March 19, 2026. The statement by Minister of State for Culture Weimer in Die Zeit on March 18, 2026, that the three bookstores excluded from the German Bookstore Prize were "political extremists," has now had legal consequences. The bookstore "Zur Schwankenden Weltkugel" from Berlin…