German musician Gil Ofarim has lodged a formal complaint in relation to an incident of anti-Semitism concerning a Star of David pendant at a Leipzig hotel last week, police said today.

In a case that has hit national headlines, Gil Ofarim, 39, posted a video on social media accusing the Westin Leipzig hotel, in eastern Germany, of denying him service because he was wearing a Star of David necklace.

"I am stunned by the anti-Semitic insult that the artist Gil Ofarim received," Foreign Minister Heiko Maas stated in response to the incident. 

"Leipzig is not a case on its own," he said, adding Germans had to counter any and every form of anti-Semitism.

"Anti-Semitism has no place in our country."