Binner blames complaints For canceled Hamburg show

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Pollak introduces the cancellation of Nikolai Binner's sold-out Hamburg show and asks what happened. Binner says complainants wrote to the venue and it yielded out of fear. After joking that envy of his humour and looks was responsible, he adds disagreement with his political stance, says he does not see himself as a political comedian and suggests he would have been regarded as moderately left-wing fifteen or twenty years earlier. Asked about treatment of COVID-measure critics, he argues attacks produce a Streisand effect and says cancellations lead him to sell four times as many tickets next time. In the complete final exchange on free expression, he says the problem has developed over decades and recounts an unnamed World War II veteran's allegation that anti-German media propaganda grew with Germany's economic importance. Those generalizations and claimed sales effects are his opinions, not independently established findings. Neither cancellation date nor venue is specified.

Nikolai Binner's sold-out Hamburg performance is canceled. In AUF1's October 9 interview he attributes the cancellation to complaints and a fearful venue, disputes the political characterization of his comedy and argues cancellations boost his later ticket sales. His explanation and claimed sales effect are attributed, and no venue response is aired. The broadcast does not specify the venue or cancellation day.