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At the end of December 2019, a song by the WDR Children's Choir caused great excitement in Germany: In a satire video, the children sang “My grandma is an old environmental pig” to the melody of the well-known children's song “My grandma drives a motorcycle in the chicken coop”.

Among other things, it said: “My grandma rides a motorcycle in the chicken coop.

That's a thousand liters of super every month.

My grandma is an old environmental bastard. "And further:" My grandma drives an SUV to the doctor, runs over two grandpas with walking frames. "

This was followed by fierce criticism, including from the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU), for whom the station "exceeded the limits of style and respect for the elderly".

“To instrumentalize young against old is not acceptable.” WDR director Tom Buhrow reacted quickly: “The video with the failed grandma song was a mistake.

I apologize for this without any ifs or buts. "

The satirist Jan Böhmermann alludes to this with a new song by a children's choir in the last issue of “ZDF Magazin Royale” this year.

But this time the fictional grandmother does not commit any climate sins, but acts like a corona denier.

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“So that the curse of 2020 can be broken, we will end the year as it started: with the WDR children's choir,” said Böhmermann in his introduction to the recording, although it is not the WDR children's choir.

"So that next year will be better."

"My grandma knows there is no Corona, Corona, Corona.

She no longer believes in "topics of the day" and in MoMa.

My grandma saw through the game early on, ”the song begins.

Then the point is that grandma “celebrates après-ski in Ischgl” because she “doesn't feel like social distance”, but is looking for “the thrill” and wants to have fun.

Grandma also has a group on Telegram, she doesn't care about coughs and fever: "My grandma has now realized the truth."

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"My grandma storms the Reichstag, the Reichstag, the Reichstag in black, white and red," begins the fourth stanza.

“So that 'up there' someone can finally let me know.

My grandma is now coughing in the resistance. ”In the last verse, which Böhmermann sings along with, the bitter punch line follows:“ My grandma has been in a coma since the day before yesterday, in a coma, in a coma.

With a plastic tube in her tracheostomy.

Pandemic over and my grandma too. "

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The video was viewed a good 60,000 times on YouTube by noon on Saturday.

In an earlier version of the text, the children's choir was erroneously referred to as the “WDR Children's Choir”.

We corrected the mistake.