While Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters had opted for a dual leadership structure at the Berlinale—and thus against Dieter Kosslick—and Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth had questioned the value of such a structure and consequently declined to renew Carlo Chatrian’s contract in favor of a single-director model, the Berlinale’s current leadership, Tricia Tuttle, came now under fire from the Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer due to allegations of anti-Semitism. A nuanced discussion takes place in the conversation between journalist Minh Thu Tran and film critic Matthias Dell on the February 27, 2026, episode of Kompressor on Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Listen here.
