SPD chairmanship, AfD leak, NZZ boss: “The opposite of salvation is needed”

t az: Mr. Küppersbusch, what was bad last week?

Friedrich Küppersbusch: Suddenly an hour less light.

taz: Former Labor Minister Hubertus Heil is toying with the SPD party leadership. He is still missing a candidate for dual leadership. Who could be the woman at his side?

Küppersbusch: For purely aesthetic reasons, I advocate some social democrat called “Waidmanns”. If one tends to get the impression that the SPD has recently tried with slightly under-charismatic personalities, it is logical to seek salvation in salvation. Who doesn't remember the powerful demonstrations of the working class under the bright red banner "We cannot rule out the fact that..."? That's exactly the wording of the applicant, who impressively performs the pretty paradox: "If you don't ask me now, you'll get screwed." With the separation - party leaders Esken and Walter-Borjans, cabinet member and Vice Chancellor Scholz - the SPD was more successful than now, when the party almost disappears behind cabinet discipline. What is needed is a woman with her own opinion, clear language and, above all, irrepressible will. Simply the opposite of salvation.

taz: Hackers published hundreds of thousands of AfD emails last week. Initial research shows that the content of the communication fits what is clearly a right-wing extremist party: Are we one step closer to banning the AfD?

Küppersbusch: It depends on what it says. There may be a risk of a ban on the use of evidence if the illegally obtained information is not as exciting as the breach of the personal rights of the AfD cadres who send emails. So far, co-leader Weidel seems to have been caught cheating and lying about party donations; God rest assured that this is absolutely not a monopoly of right-wing extremists. Email debates about party expulsion procedures can be read as an indication that there are Nazis - and also as evidence that people are moving against them. The Constitutional Court would therefore have to decide whether the sound of the internal emails differs clearly enough from the beautifully colored facade outside. As of now: a deserved draw, even at this level.

taz: Markus Söder calls for an “extremism clause” in the state financial equalization system. The CSU wants to pay less to the countries where the AfD and the Left will govern in the future. What do you want to pay less for?

Küppersbusch: It's tempting to respond to a full-blown burp with a similarly inspiring body wind: First of all, you could demand back from Bavaria the coal that it received from the state financial equalization system for 38 years. Then it would have to be clarified whether coalition partners with Nazi fun in their school bag are also a stately extremist knight, and what else Söder's deputy MP Aiwanger is talking about. According to preliminary reports, the proposal violates six articles of the Basic Law, and even if all of them were flexed, the question would remain as to whether Article 79 Paragraph 3 of the Basic Law prohibits exactly that. In the end, the federal government would have to ask the state of Bavaria to pay in accordance with Article 37 of the Basic Law – “federal compulsory law”. And, by the way, to finally look for a location for a final nuclear waste storage facility. I would even pay more for that.

taz: Alice Schwarzer is discontinuing the magazine Emma after 50 years. Tips for retirement?

Küppersbusch: Don't use your ass to outline what you've put down with your fingers.

taz: On the website “Gen Z regulates” the initiators are calling for social protests throughout Germany. What can the boomers fix for us?

Küppersbusch: The Junge Union Berlin-Mitte calls for “administrative assistance from the Bundeswehr in the planned (in quotation marks) student protests”. Okay, I'm a boomer, but I can't be as old as the Junge Union anymore.

taz: In Switzerland, a liberal takes over the head position of the right-wing conservative NZZ. A chance for the paper?

Küppersbusch: When we were studying journalism, we were given the NZZ as an answer to the question of which was the best German-language newspaper. Even back then it was too expensive for students, so you could take a look at the departmental library for free and had to admit that it was a bit more boring than the FAZ. In any case, it took 40 years to turn it into an “anti-wokes”, Trump-friendly paper and as such not exactly unique. The way back will be a bit of work.

Küppersbusch: The entire First League does not offer a sharper contrast to the test-and-serve club Leipzig than RWE. Tomorrow, 6 p.m., DFB Cup, RWE – RB Leipzig.