The majority of the culture industry has so far remained silent about the allegations against Florian Teichtmeister. Expectations were all the greater when new Jedermann Michael Maertens started talking about the matter in the Ö3 interview with Claudia Stöckl.
He was “shocked and appalled,” Teichtmeister’s former colleague at the castle said promisingly. Can an actor finally find clear words?
Unfortunately not. In the second sentence, Maertens apparently starts with a victim-perpetrator reversal. There are “feelings like pity,” he says, without mentioning the sexually abused children in the files the mime hoarded. (47,000 photos alone show victims under the age of 14!) He talks about Florian Teichtmeister: “How terrible it must be if you have such tendencies,” says the festival star.
He finds “impossible what happened there”. Again, it’s not about the photos, some of which are accompanied by fantasies of violence, but about Teichtmeister’s “this public bustle through the city”. Everyone was “terrified that he would hurt himself”.
Yes, Florian Teichtmeister is ill. But his mental disorder doesn’t make him a victim yet – there’s no easy way to explain the consumption of images documenting the disgusting crimes committed against thousands of children. But Maertens – unlike interviewer Stöckl – does not actively mention these children on the radio.
In no sense.
Source: Krone
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