Music producer and DSDS juror Dieter Bohlen caused criticism and incomprehension with statements about sanctions against Russia. “How morally depraved do you have to be to ignore this terrible war, the fear and suffering and death it causes, for cheap applause?” tweeted SPD leader Saskia Esken. “And to complain about the cold ‘and all the frippery’ that doesn’t affect him as the super-rich anyway?” Esken was referring to a video showing Bohlen at a panel event.
In the excerpt, Bohlen says with a view to the policy of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine: “If they hadn’t imposed these sanctions, for example, and you’d sat down sensibly at a table, yes, then people wouldn’t need to do all this frills now. “
The 68-year-old Bohlen also says in the short clip: “Now we have to freeze, now we have to do this and that, that’s all shit from my point of view.” The statements apparently come from a panel event at the end of August of the business platform “Entrepreneur University”, Bohlen himself initially did not comment on the criticism on Thursday.
After Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the West imposed massive sanctions, primarily intended to make it more difficult for the Kremlin to finance the war.
Bohlen became known as the singer and composer of the pop duo Modern Talking (“You’re My Heart, You’re My Soul”). He is currently on the TV jury for the last season of “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” on RTL.
