Michael Wendler's apology is a godsend for Oliver Pocher. He takes apart the video of the singer in the "fact check".
Oliver Pocher (42) has pre-buttoned Michael Wendler's (48, "No matter") video. As the comedian explains in a nearly half-hour clip on Instagram, he wants to do a "little fact check" with it. Because what the pop singer and self-proclaimed "Corona Realist" claims in it is, in Pocher's opinion, "not everything is correct in terms of content".
Starting with the US election via Wendler's Telegram channel, which the singer recently announced to close again, Pocher addresses the singer's apology to RTL. At the beginning of the week, Wendler withdrew the allegation of conformity to the media in his statement and asked the broadcaster to apologize. Too late, says Pocher. "At the end of the day, Michael, you're a moderately successful pop singer, nothing more, nothing less." It is not his job to throw slogans such as conformity around himself.
In addition, Pocher notes about Wendler's surprising "DSDS" exit: "You left, you threw in the towel, for yourself. Nobody wanted you to go."
Pocher rants: "The greatest bullshit"
As Wendler explained in his statement, his return trip to his adopted home USA was justified, among other things, by an incident from the spring. When the first lockdown was announced, he was with his partner Laura Müller (20) for the RTL show "Let's Dance" in Germany and stayed in a luxury hotel. Because of the upcoming lockdown, they were "thrown onto the street like dogs". Pocher comments: "This is the biggest bullshit I've ever heard." After all, that's not how five-star hotels would treat their guests.
In addition, there would have been "apartments in an emergency". "You act as if something else had happened. (…) As if people had run through there with a gun." Why Wendler gave up his "DSDS" jury job, the comedian couldn't understand anyway. "That was four weeks ago," he says. At this point in time, the castings in Germany and the international call in Greece had already been recorded. "It would have only been about the live shows now," notes Pocher. So Wendler shouldn't have feared travel bans and hotel closings at the time of his departure.
Laura Müller has to take a stand
For Wendler, it was also a concern in his apology video to protect his wife Laura Müller. The singer could not understand that she was losing her advertising contracts and being dropped by cooperation partners. After all, she had nothing to do with the whole thing and at no point did she express her views. But that's where the mistake lies, says Pocher. "You can't always be neutral. You have to have an opinion every now and then," even at Laura Müller's age, the comedian judges.
Pocher can understand that the influencer is now losing a number of jobs. "Hung, caught" is his opinion. Companies that continue to use Müller as an advertising face would risk a shit storm through their connection to Wendler. His advice to the 20-year-old: "It would also be nice to express yourself one or the other time. Not just wearing big sunglasses, showing the pool at the back, making a muffin or putting on eyelashes." According to his own statement, Pocher is always ready to talk to Wendler and Müller.