As reported in the German Wikipedia:
A couple of users are not able to edit redirect pages in VE: Whenever they click on "Edit", they are automatically redirected to the target for editing. When the same users click on a link with "redirect=no" added to it (like https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fridovich&redirect=no&veaction=edit ), it works just fine.
Personally, I was not able to reproduce this behaviour so far. I tested it both logged in and logged out, and also switched between different browsers, but was always able to edit the redirect page.
I also searched for previous tickets describing this problem and found those two:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67926 - Same problem in 2014, but was fixed long ago
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118714 - Describing the opposite problem, but not reproducable.