Bookstore Award 2026: "No Respect for the Jury" – the Scandal in Full Depth

kreiszeitung.de

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Deception, lack of transparency, threatening self-censorship: The dispute over the German Bookstore Prize touches on fundamental questions of cultural freedom in Germany.

n-tv.de

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Wolfram Weimer excludes three businesses from this year's German Bookstore Award. They defend themselves legally against the action of the Minister of Culture - and make serious accusations.

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JUNGE FREIHEIT

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The dispute over the Deutsche Buchhandlungpreis escalates: Three left-wing radical bookstores excluded from the prize now want to go to court. Their lawyers speak of an attack on freedom of opinion and even accuse Minister of Culture, Wolfram Weimer, of "a cowardly lie". This post "Infame Lie" Bookstores want to go to court against Weimer was published on Junge Freiheit.

Regeneración

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The scandal surrounding Germany's Minister of Culture's political pressure at the Berlinale intensifies with a new act of censorship against bookstores. Regeneración, […] The entry "Germany cancels National Booksellers Award for being 'leftist'" was first published on RegeneraciónMX.

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The Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM) Wolfram Weimer is said to have actively deceived the three bookstores excluded from the German Bookstore Award: According to one whistleblower, two of the bookstores had even planned the jury for major prizes – but the Minister's office told them something else.