[3] In 1997, Böhmermann gained his first journalistic experience at Die Norddeutsche, a local edition of Bremen's daily newspapers.

In the follow-up series Lukas' WG, Böhmermann moved his main character into a shared apartment with the mascot of 1.

In January 2009, Böhmermann founded the First Turkish Carnival Club of Germany (1st TKVD) as part of a satirical action for the RTL program TV-Helden.

Until 2011, the radio station 1Live ran the monthly satire and entertainment program " Die ganz große Jan Böhmermann Radioschau.

[citation needed] Starting in January 2011, Böhmermann toured Germany for several weeks with Klaas Heufer-Umlauf with the satirical improv cabaret show Zwei alte Hasen erzählen von früher.

A museum expert interviewed by Böhmermann was deceived about the satirical intentions, and the film team put an invective into the mouth of a city hall doorman without consultation.

The responsible broadcaster, Radio Bremen, defended Böhmermann's film as a mockumentary that "mercilessly uses and exaggerates the means of the documentary.

In February 2014, the television station RTL announced that it would be testing Was wäre wenn?, a new comedy program with Böhmermann, Palina Rojinski, Katrin Bauerfeind and Jan Köppen.

Ten more episodes followed in 2017, but at the end of the year, Schulz & Böhmermann was discontinued due to too low viewer numbers.

Since 15 May 2016, Schulz and Böhmermann have jointly hosted the podcast Fest & Flauschig as a successor to their former show Sanft & Sorgfältig on Radio Eins.

In the case of the arrest of German captain Claus-Peter Reisch [de] and the seizure of the Lifeline sea rescue ship in Malta in July 2018, Böhmermann launched a fundraising campaign and collected around 200,000 euros in favor of a legal aid fund.

Also on the occasion of the arrest of German sea rescue captain Carola Rackete in Italy at the end of June 2019, Böhmermann, together with the presenter Klaas Heufer-Umlauf, called for donations for her and the Sea-Watch association.

In February 2015, Böhmermann's late-night show Neo Magazin Royale created the song and music video "V for Varoufakis".

The conclusion of the video shows an actual clip of Varoufakis in which he says "and stick the finger to Germany, and say 'well, you can now solve this problem for yourself'.

[4] The New York Times ran an article with the title "German Media Want Greek Finance Minister's Head Over 'Fingergate'".

[6] In response to the claims of the middle finger being either fake or real, Böhmermann's Neo Magazine Royale created a false version of the video clip labelled #varoufake, which claimed to show that Varoufakis had not given the finger, and that the clip Neo Magazine Royale had used in "V for Varoufakis" was indeed a fabrication.

[7] At 8:10 in the video, Böhmermann says the following: Dear editorial staff of Günther Jauch, Yanis Varoufakis is wrong, you did not falsify the footage.

The media were unclear as to which version was not manipulated,[8] and ZDF had to officially state that Neo Magazin Royale is satire and should not be taken at face value.

[9] Varoufakis himself praised Böhmermann's mockery of the German media on Twitter, writing "@janboehm Humour, satire & self deprecation are great solvents of blind nationalism.

[11] In mid-March, the German political satire TV show extra 3 aired a critical song about Erdoğan, which led to protests of the Turkish government.

[12] Two weeks later, on 31 March 2016 Böhmermann presented a poem named "Schmähkritik" ("abusive criticism") about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his satire show Neo Magazin Royale on the ZDF public channel.

Proceedings instituted by the prosecutor's office for "insulting of organs and representatives of foreign states" were based on principles §103 and §104 in the German penal code.

Böhmermann deliberately played with the limits of satire and said several times that this form of abusive criticism was not allowed in Germany.

[16] After a phone call with the Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the poem as "intentionally hurtful" ("bewusst verletzend"),[15] and prosecutors in Mainz planned to consult the federal Justice Ministry on whether to launch criminal proceedings.

[22] On 10 April 2016 the CEO of publishing house Axel Springer SE, Mathias Döpfner, made a plea for "solidarity with Jan Böhmermann".

[23] The former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis wrote on Twitter: "Europe first lost its soul (agreement with Turkey on refugees), now it is losing its humour.

[27][28] The filming of the upcoming edition of Neo Magazin Royale was cancelled due to "massive media reporting and the focus on the programme and the presenter".

[29] Subsequently, in 2018, the rarely used paragraph 103 of Germany's penal code, which criminalized insults against foreign heads of state, under which Böhmermann was indicted, was abolished.