“Nothing Sick”
Boris Palmer was coached during the break
09/01/2023 02:27 am
In order to avoid further “overreactions”, Tübingen’s mayor seeks help from a coach. The goal: techniques of self-control. Palmer doesn’t think therapy is necessary.
During his one-month break in June, Tübingen’s Mayor Boris Palmer worked on himself with a coach. “I wouldn’t call it therapy,” Palmer said on Markus Lanz’s ZDF program. During the break, it was about his impulses, which led to overreactions. “And the question of controlling it better came to me.” The talks had shown that it was not about something morbid. “It’s really about training techniques of self-control.” And that’s where a coach is the right person to talk to. Before his break he was at a “dead point”.
The mayor of the city of 90,000 took a four-week break on June 1st. The reason for this was an uproar surrounding Palmer’s statements on the sidelines of a migration conference in Frankfurt am Main at the end of April. After the escalation, he also left the Greens.
After retiring from the public eye, he decided to start over on social media. Only “friends” should be able to comment on his Facebook profile, he said at the end of June. “This is a circle limited to 5000 people. Enough people to show many perspectives. But no longer the openness for every troll and every fake profile to let off steam on my site,” wrote Palmer in a post. Without constantly having to absorb negative energies from Facebook, he has lived much better and more relaxed over the past two months.
In the past, the politician was repeatedly offended with provocative statements. Palmer has been mayor of Tübingen since 2007. With statements about refugee policy, he repeatedly caused controversy and was exposed to accusations of racism. His management during the corona pandemic and his municipal environmental policy also brought nationwide attention and recognition.