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Wolfram Weimer Avoids the Debate

It is the next, seemingly amateurish volte from Wolfram Weimer, the non-party Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM). After the debate about the bookstore prize after the BKM excluded three bookstores because of “constitutionally relevant information,” Wolfram Weimer canceled the award ceremony on March 19th at the Leipzig Book Fair. Gerrit Bartels Gerrit […]

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After fierce criticism of the unloading of three shops from the German Bookshop Award, the controversial Minister of Culture, Wolfram Weimer, has completely cancelled the award. This also applies to two bookshops from Saarland.

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Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer has cancelled the planned award of the German Bookstore Award at the Leipzig Book Fair. The award ceremony should be held on the 19th ... The post Kulturstaatsminister Weimer says award of the German Bookstore Award ab appeared first on Apollo News.

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Three left-wing bookstores had been excluded due to "findings relevant to the protection of the constitution." Now the award ceremony has been cancelled.

·Berlin, Germany
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The bookstore prize was to take place this year without three left-wing shops. Wolfram Weimer's spokesman spoke of allegedly »constitutional protection-relevant findings«. Now the event is cancelled.

·Germany
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The Minister of State for Culture cut three left bookstores out of the jury's proposals for the bookstore award and provided for criticism. Wolfram Weimer now completely overturns the award ceremony at the Leipzig Book Fair.

The debate about the deletion of three jury proposals threatened to overshadow the meaning of the event "increasingly," said a spokesman for the Minister of Culture.

·Munich, Germany
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Frankfurter Allgemeine broke the news in Frankfurt, Germany on Monday, March 9, 2026.
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