Ulf Poschardt, now editor-in-chief after editor-in-chief, is with the Welt responsible for pithy opinions, so one could have guessed what happened recently: his book was published by Zu-Klampen-Verlag in February Shitbürgertum are to be published as a volume in a series of socio-political essays. As the South German newspaper Now the first to report, it won’t be. Editor Anne Hamilton found Poschardt’s statements too steep. Poschardt now stated that he had been canceled before Christmas. From a letter that he received with an edited version of his manuscript, he read “suddenly a fundamental unfamiliarity with the text, its tonality and sharpness.” In telephone conversations he was also asked to “tone down” the book and make it more “conventional” so that it would fit into the series. Otherwise it would not be published.
