Voters called “pig faces” – AfD politician files criminal complaint against Kurt Krömer

The comedian Kurt Krömer is encountering resistance within the party with his criticism of the AfD and its voters. The Brandenburg AfD state parliament member Dennis Hohloch, who is a member of the federal executive board, filed a criminal complaint against Krömer on suspicion of incitement to hatred and insults.

Krömer made it clear in an Instagram post on October 9th that he does not want to see AfD voters at his reading next year. “At this point I wanted to address our mentally disconnected friends from the AfD again,” he says. "No tickets for AfD voters, right? I don't want your money, it stinks - just like you. Plus, I don't feel like standing on stage and looking at any pig's faces."

“We have a general denigration of people,” said Hohloch about his criminal complaint against Alexander Bojcan, Krömer’s real name. “We’re not just talking about AfD members here, we’re talking about a much larger group, namely AfD voters.”

Krömer is planning a reading tour of his book “You may not believe everything you think” from September 2027. A new show called “Krömer’s Last Hour” is also planned for ZDF. It will be produced for ZDFneo and the ZDF streaming portal. It will appear weekly on ZDfneo from November 26, 2026 at 10:15 p.m. Four episodes are planned in which he welcomes two guests each to talk and play games.

The AfD politician Hohloch started an online petition with the title “AfD voters as ‘pig faces’ – ZDF must end its collaboration with Kurt Krömer!”. Krömer commented on the petition on Wednesday, but did not address the criminal complaint.

In a reel on Instagram he published a photo of Hohloch and wrote: “The man behind the ZDF petition” with two laughing smileys. It read: “The parliamentary managing director of the AfD parliamentary group in the Brandenburg state parliament belongs to a group of members of the state association that the Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution lists as confirmed right-wing extremists.”

The AfD is being monitored nationwide by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a suspected case. Individual state associations are classified as definitely right-wing extremist by the respective state Office for the Protection of the Constitution - this applies to Brandenburg, also to individual members of the state parliament.

The ZDF reacted to Krömer's post, which was criticized by the AfD: "Kurt Krömer's post on his Instagram channel is a statement that has no connection with a ZDF production."