Pop singer Nena urged her audience to disregard the hygiene rules. Their concert ended without an encore.
Schönefeld – Pop singer Nena (61) once again sparked discussions with a performance. On Sunday evening she performed in Schönefeld in Brandenburg near BER airport.
The open-air concert was ended before a possible encore – according to a report by the “Tagesspiegel” and several videos on Twitter, Nena had previously commented on the hygiene regulations.
“I am threatened (…) that they will cancel the show because you do not go into your (…) boxes,” said Nena, according to the newspaper report and videos. “I leave it your responsibility whether you do that or not. Everyone is free to decide, just as everyone is free to decide whether they want to be vaccinated or not. “
According to the local administration, there was “no order from the public order office, but a decision by the organizer to end the concert after the main program was over”. “That was around 9.45 p.m. before the encore,” said Hilmar Ziegler, the head of the department responsible for the regulatory office of the community of Schönefeld.
There were employees of the public order office on site, but they were not authorized to make such far-reaching decisions, said Ziegler on Monday. Events such as concerts are currently only allowed to take place in Schönefeld until 10 p.m. anyway. “There is a ruling on this.”
The organizer did not want to comment further and referred to the report of the “Tagesspiegel”, Nena’s management could not be reached for a comment at first.
“Everyone is welcome with me. Okay? “, Said Nena according to a video clip. The whole thing is “politicized”. “And that is just completely corrosive.” On Christopher Street Day it was completely okay “that 80,000 people were close to each other on the street”. “So turn off the power or get me down here with the police. (…) I’m fed up with it. “
Nena has sparked discussions several times during the pandemic. In March, she published a video on Instagram with the title “Thank you Kassel” after thousands of people in the city took to the streets against the Corona containment measures.
In October, Nena triggered discussions about possible conspiracy theories with a post on Instagram, but emphasized that she did not want to be understood as a corona denier. “I have my deep faith in God. Hence my trust in life. And I have my common sense, which breaks down the information and the scare tactics that pour in from outside into all its individual parts, ”wrote the singer, who lived in Hamburg at the time. dpa
