The director of the fair, Jürgen Boss, defended the controversial presence of the publisher in the name of freedom of expression.
Several authors invited this week to the Frankfurt book fair canceled their participation at this international event to protest against the presence of a far-right German publisher.
This boycott movement was promoted by the German author and anti-racist militant Jasmina Kuhnke, which since the show’s inauguration gave up going to a stand located near the ultra publishing house “Jungeuropa”.
This editorial is presented as akin to the current of the “New Right” and is directed by an identity and nationalist activist, Philip Stein, that in the past he had asked for the expulsion of Kuhnke, the daughter of a Senegalese father and a Croatian mother.
Kuhnke said earlier this week that he did not feel safe at the Frankfurt fair and that It seemed “intolerable” that “Nazis had a platform in the room”, the main international event in the publishing world.
Other authors followed Kuhnke’s example and canceled his participation, such as the German actress Annabelle Mandeng, the british writer Nikeata Thompson or the influencer Riccardo Simonetti.
The organizers of the fair “deeply regretted these cancellations”, according to a statement transmitted this Friday to the AFP.
The director of the fair, Jürgen Boss, defended earlier this week the controversial presence of the publisher in the name of freedom of expression.
Jungeuropa publishes theorists of the extreme right, such as the French Alain de Benoist O Robert Brasillach, a former member of the French Action shot for being a collaborator. (I)
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