The lunatic is in the hall.

With this first line of their song "Brain Damage", the band Pink Floyd entered the phase of their fame fifty years ago.

It was a programmatic song.

The going mad was sung about by acoustic impressions, the music of the band corresponded to that.

Using a device that transmitted all the sounds in any order to different loudspeakers, she made the listeners of her concerts lose their sense of orientation, causing dizzy spells and hallucinations.

The lunatic is in my head.

That's someone in my head, but it's not me.

Today these verses are difficult to avoid a sarcastic interpretation.

Because the madman in the hall who has lost his bearings now seems to be Roger Waters himself, formerly the band leader of Pink Floyd.

The madman in the Frankfurt Festhalle, where he would like to give a concert next May.

Frankfurt Mayor Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg (Greens) is calling for it to be cancelled.

In Munich, Cologne and Berlin, the same spirit is being discussed.

Waters has released pig balloons with Stars of David at concerts.

There are also versions in which the Islamic crescent and the cross are added.

Great fun when the pig bursts.

Waters promotes the boycott of Israel during his concerts and has long supported the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement.

What he says about Ukraine as the cause of the war there could easily make Ulrike Guérot a groupie.

But anyone who would try to ban the appearances of the moon worshiper would encounter freedom of art and freedom of expression.

She also protects craziness.

Better contracts are needed

Accordingly, the mayor asks the Frankfurt trade fair, to whose real estate the hall belongs, to check under what conditions a cancellation is possible.

Unfortunately, when she adds that anti-Semitism is not an opinion, that is not the law, and she knows full well that as mayor she could not ban the concert.

So if Waters' contract with the trade fair doesn't say he can't let the "lunatic" in his head out on stage, things can get difficult.

The city of Frankfurt and the state of Hesse are the shareholders of the fair, with sixty and forty percent respectively.

Perhaps they should insist that corresponding aspects be included in future contracts with artists.

Or the fair should simply not conclude such contracts.