Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer in the podcast “Everything said?”

Wolfram Weimer is the Federal Government's Minister of State for Culture - and one of the most controversial incumbents this department has had to date. He worked as a journalist, publisher and media entrepreneur before Friedrich Merz brought him into the cabinet in 2025. Now he is a guest on the Infinite Podcast.

The conversation is about Weimer's role as Minister of State for Culture, the strong criticism that accompanied his appointment from the beginning, and his friendly relationship with Friedrich Merz. Wolfram Weimer talks about the AfD's success, the CDU's crisis and his own mistakes in office. He raves about the success of the green politician Cem Özdemir in Baden-Württemberg and explains how he himself became an enemy of the right.

A few days after the AfD's electoral success in Saxony-Anhalt, the conversation also revolves around the political center in Germany, which, in Weimer's impression, has remained too quiet for too long. He talks about a shift in the public debate from questions of distribution to questions of identity and about the fact that historical places and national symbols should not be left to right-wing radicals.

Wolfram Weimer remembers his studies in Frankfurt, his rebellion against 1968 teachers and professors and buying his first share as a student. He talks about how, to him, the time between the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and September 11, 2001 sounded as if the model of a liberal, market-economy society had become established - and why this supposed certainty is currently in danger of breaking down.

Wolfram Weimer was born in Gelnhausen in 1964. He grew up in a teacher's household and spent part of his childhood in Portugal. He later studied history, German and political science and received his doctorate on the Bank of North America.

He began his journalistic career at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and later became editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Die Welt. In 2004 he founded the political magazine Cicero, where he served as publisher and editor-in-chief. In 2011 he briefly became editor-in-chief of the magazine “Focus”, and in 2012 he founded the company Weimer Media Group together with his wife.

After 4 hours and 25 minutes, Wolfram Weimer ends the conversation. Because that can be said at everything? only the guest.