diff --git a/Classes/Domain/Model/News.php b/Classes/Domain/Model/News.php
index f6e06c12d0c02c5a76e2658b1778f2fedc2b8c35..bb9b2df7b38e8e27d713819b17714712fa5f92b1 100644
--- a/Classes/Domain/Model/News.php
+++ b/Classes/Domain/Model/News.php
@@ -97,6 +97,11 @@ class News extends CategoryAndNews {
 	 */
 	protected $contentFromAnotherPage = 0;
 
+	/**
+	 * @var bool
+	 */
+	protected $enableComments = TRUE;
+
 	/**
 	 * Constructor
 	 */
@@ -383,4 +388,18 @@ class News extends CategoryAndNews {
 	public function setContentFromAnotherPage(int $contentFromAnotherPage): void {
 		$this->contentFromAnotherPage = $contentFromAnotherPage;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @return bool
+	 */
+	public function getEnableComments(): bool {
+		return $this->enableComments;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @param bool $enableComments
+	 */
+	public function setEnableComments(bool $enableComments): void {
+		$this->enableComments = $enableComments;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/Configuration/Extbase/Persistence/Classes.php b/Configuration/Extbase/Persistence/Classes.php
index 1630518858a63d3e3784138bd2f1f0597cba9fe9..bd14047d646e2916741aab1b5792740200bbc634 100644
--- a/Configuration/Extbase/Persistence/Classes.php
+++ b/Configuration/Extbase/Persistence/Classes.php
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ return [
 			],
 			'dateEnd' => [
 				'fieldName' => 'tx_sgnews_date_end'
+			],
+			'enableComments' => [
+				'fieldName' => 'tx_sgnews_comments_enable'
 			]
 		]
 	],
diff --git a/Configuration/TCA/Overrides/pages.php b/Configuration/TCA/Overrides/pages.php
index 4e66b8171a91d41bbffe6f1cf1cd40e876ba2aa2..89fe28395137c140dcd5645668a8ae94ba8d72f2 100644
--- a/Configuration/TCA/Overrides/pages.php
+++ b/Configuration/TCA/Overrides/pages.php
@@ -445,6 +445,14 @@ if (version_compare(\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\ExtensionManagementUtility::getExten
 					'allowLanguageSynchronization' => TRUE
 				]
 			]
+		],
+		'tx_sgnews_comments_enable' => [
+			'exclude' => TRUE,
+			'label' => $localLangDbPath . 'pages.tx_sgnews_comments_enable',
+			'config' => [
+				'type' => 'check',
+				'default' => 1
+			]
 		]
 	]
 );
@@ -456,7 +464,8 @@ $GLOBALS['TCA']['pages']['palettes']['titleDescriptionAndHighlightFlag'] = [
 	--linebreak--, slug,
 	--linebreak--, tx_projectbase_path_segment, tx_projectbase_excludefromsluggeneration,
 	--linebreak--, tx_realurl_pathsegment, tx_realurl_exclude,
-	--linebreak--, tx_sgnews_highlighted, tx_sgnews_never_highlighted',
+	--linebreak--, tx_sgnews_highlighted, tx_sgnews_never_highlighted,
+	--linebreak--, tx_sgnews_comments_enable',
 	'canNotCollapse' => 1,
 ];
 
@@ -492,6 +501,7 @@ foreach ($GLOBALS['TCA']['pages']['columns'] as $languageExcludeField => $_) {
 			'tx_sgnews_date_end',
 			'tx_sgnews_highlighted',
 			'tx_sgnews_never_highlighted',
+			'tx_sgnews_comments_enable',
 			'og_title',
 			'og_description',
 			'og_image',
@@ -523,6 +533,7 @@ foreach ($GLOBALS['TCA']['pages']['columns'] as $languageExcludeField => $_) {
 			'tx_sgnews_date_end',
 			'tx_sgnews_highlighted',
 			'tx_sgnews_never_highlighted',
+			'tx_sgnews_comments_enable'
 		];
 	}
 	if (!in_array($languageExcludeField, $fieldNames)) {
diff --git a/Resources/Private/Language/de.locallang_db.xlf b/Resources/Private/Language/de.locallang_db.xlf
index 86abb8f74abddafa518c6a7cee73edb3b465ce6c..22069fcaa5e58020b26571c5b28a768defbbb1e2 100644
--- a/Resources/Private/Language/de.locallang_db.xlf
+++ b/Resources/Private/Language/de.locallang_db.xlf
@@ -81,6 +81,10 @@
 				<source><![CDATA[Use Image Cropping]]></source>
 				<target><![CDATA[Bild-Cropping aktivieren]]></target>
 			</trans-unit>
+			<trans-unit id="pages.tx_sgnews_comments_enable" approved="yes">
+				<source><![CDATA[Enable comments on this page]]></source>
+				<target><![CDATA[Kommentare auf dieser Seite aktivieren]]></target>
+			</trans-unit>
 			<trans-unit id="plugin.flexForm" approved="yes">
 				<source><![CDATA[Settings]]></source>
 				<target><![CDATA[Einstellungen]]></target>
diff --git a/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_db.xlf b/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_db.xlf
index 4b662ac7e4d78df18ad3830e3244c7abfe36f119..a24ed7c27096f50f44c0e42f5be02a6a69ad3954 100644
--- a/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_db.xlf
+++ b/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_db.xlf
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@
 			<trans-unit id="pages.tx_sgnews_use_image_crop">
 				<source><![CDATA[Use Image Cropping]]></source>
 			</trans-unit>
+			<trans-unit id="pages.tx_sgnews_comments_enable">
+				<source><![CDATA[Enable comments on this page]]></source>
+			</trans-unit>
 			<trans-unit id="plugin.flexForm">
 				<source><![CDATA[Settings]]></source>
 			</trans-unit>
diff --git a/Resources/Private/Templates/SingleView/SingleView.html b/Resources/Private/Templates/SingleView/SingleView.html
index e41e216fb8066430e905713e216397888239bf95..b9f098afd3e8a431d37aefe3ae39537627407321 100644
--- a/Resources/Private/Templates/SingleView/SingleView.html
+++ b/Resources/Private/Templates/SingleView/SingleView.html
@@ -224,14 +224,16 @@
 			</div>
 		</section>
 
-		<section class="content">
-			<div class="container">
-				<div class="tx-sgnews-single-comments">
-					<div id="comments" class="tx-sgnews-comments-inner">
-						<f:cObject typoscriptObjectPath="lib.sgCommentsIndex" />
+		<f:if condition="{newsMetaData.news.enableComments}">
+			<section class="content">
+				<div class="container">
+					<div class="tx-sgnews-single-comments">
+						<div id="comments" class="tx-sgnews-comments-inner">
+							<f:cObject typoscriptObjectPath="lib.sgCommentsIndex" />
+						</div>
 					</div>
 				</div>
-			</div>
-		</section>
+			</section>
+		</f:if>
 	</f:alias>
 </f:section>
diff --git a/ext_tables.sql b/ext_tables.sql
index cf5da4c80990185b37ed49d6cb7afb4664e7e346..82c2a724a4ac75c867450c6e421a505080acd1cf 100644
--- a/ext_tables.sql
+++ b/ext_tables.sql
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ CREATE TABLE pages (
 	tx_sgnews_location mediumtext,
   	tx_sgnews_date_end  int(10) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
 	tx_sgnews_content_from_another_page int(11) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
+	tx_sgnews_comments_enable tinyint(4) unsigned DEFAULT '1' NOT NULL,
 	KEY news_author (tx_sgnews_news_author)
 );