The claim

Several media outlets write it in the headlines, even the Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann writes it in a tweet: Apparently the song “Layla” is banned.

Our conclusion

There is no official ban on the song. Only some folk festival operators don't want the song to be played at their events.

Whether it's 10 naked hairdressers (for which Mickie Krause apologizes ) or the trip to the brothel in Barcelona - German Ballermann hits are not exactly a stronghold of feminism. The current No. 1 hit in Germany called “Layla” fits in seamlessly – but now not only some media outlets are writing in the headlines , but even the Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann that the song has been banned.
But banning a song looks different.

The song and the debate

I have a brothel and my brothel mom is called Layla. She is more beautiful, younger, hornier. La-la-la-la-la-la-la-Layla-la-la-la-la.
Okay, that’s not necessarily Goethe, but that’s not the claim either: party songs like that have to be able to be bawled along to while drunk, because you can’t set Schiller’s bell to music.

The bone of contention, however, is the text, which is about a brothel owner named Layla - which probably upsets some people, including the organizers of the Würzburg Kiliani folk festival and the Düsseldorf St. Sebastianius-Schützen, who organize the Rhine fair: They don't want that the song is played at festivals.

Important: The respective operators do not want to hear the song at their festivals - and these operators are not an authority, but private organizers! However, the Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann apparently misunderstood this:

In a tweet he writes: “ You don’t have to like hit lyrics. You may even find them stupid or tasteless. But to ban them officially, I think, is one thing too many. #layla

Lawyer Chan-jo Jun, who describes the statement as “nonsense law,” :

Official ban? Here? No, this kind of nonsense law shouldn't happen to a lawyer. Politicians are perhaps allowed to do that, but not as federal ministers.

Buschmann justified his tweet : “ With my tweet about the folk song 'Layla' I wanted to remind you that there are rules of good taste in our society that we can all argue about. However, it is something different when public authority wants to explain to people what correct and good taste should be. This goes too far.

Well, organizers of folk festivals are still not a public authority , but simply organizers - and they can decide, for example, that no song by Heino or the Zillertaler Schürzenjäger will be played if they don't like it.

The discussion should be less about the non-existent official ban and more about how much everyday sexism is already seen as normal - and why the current critics didn't notice this much earlier, because as already mentioned: texts like this are not new. Not only in Ballermann hits, but also in German rap, for example.

Can songs even be officially banned?

But of course, and has been for a long time, namely since the Federal Center for the Protection of Children and Young People in the Media came into existence.

A ban on songs, also known as confiscation, usually affects songs whose lyrics go far beyond artistic freedom, for example many songs by right-wing radical bands that openly display their violent fantasies against foreigners in the lyrics.

There are also indexed songs: These are not banned, but may no longer be publicly displayed, advertised or played if children under 18 are present. We are not allowed to link such songs here either, but fans of “Ärzten” will certainly know which songs are meant.

Conclusion

So there is no official ban against Layla, but only a localized ban by some organizers of folk festivals - and of course they can decide how they want for their own events. Although the lyrics of the song are sexist, they do not violate any law and therefore cannot be banned by the authorities - unless there is a sexism law, but then many other songs will also be banned from many clubs and events disappear.

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