[English subtitles] Beethoven or burka: Does Germany need a leitkultur? - Part 1 [Maischberger]
Channel: Anna Xu
Date: 2017-07-27

This is an episode of German TV debate show, maischberger, that aired on May 5, 2017.

Sandra Maischberger asks this debate question: Is the leitkultur debate really about integration, or is it a right-wing populist trick to affect the 2017 federal election?

Germany's federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziére wrote a newspaper column about leitkulur, or Germany leader culture. This is also called core culture or dominant culture. German leader culture is the idea that there are certain German ideals, and Germans will lead themselves to fulfill them. Or something like that. 

Guests:
Motsi Mabuse: actress, dancer, judge on a dance TV show
Joachim Hermann: Bavarian interior minister 
Sawsan Chebli: Berlin SPD state secretary
Hans-Ulrich Jörges: writer, journalist
Birgit Kelle: author, publicist

Original video:
maischberger: Beethoven oder Burka - Braucht Deutschland eine Leitkultur? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbxdLteVQUk

Thomas de Maiziére, "We are not the burka."
http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2017-04/thomas-demaiziere-innenminister-leitkultur