from
Moritz Baumstieger
With historical parallels, it is one of those things that may seem related at first, but then, in terms of its causes and consequences, are usually quite different. Nevertheless, Frank Bajohr listened up when he turned on the radio on Tuesday, he had just come back to Germany from vacation. In a country, as Bajohr has now learned, where a person is not welcome in a hotel if he wears a Star of David around his neck. In the news he heard a report about rock singer Gil Ofarim and his experiences at the Leipzig hotel The Westin. “Put the star away”, a hotel employee said to him there, only then could he check in, a second one. Ofarim spoke all this on the curb in front of the hotel lobby in a much shared video into his cell phone camera, all alone. “Germany 2021”, he presses out at the end, he cries.