The AfD chairman Chrupalla does not know the answer to a poem question from a child reporter.
Before that, he advocated more German cultural assets in schools.
Berlin - Learning lyric works by heart in school: Some put their heart and soul into it, for others it was a nightmare.
Some may remember the "Moon Night" by Joseph von Eichendorff or the "Erlkönig" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
“Logo!” - child reporter Alexander has now made AfD chairman Tino Chrupalla sweat in his ZDF interview when he asked a question about the world of poetry.
But first to the background: The reporter wanted to know what the AfD actually means when it wants to introduce more German cultural assets into schools.
“We would like more German folk songs to be taught again, that German poems be learned, that we should honor our German poets and thinkers more in schools,” replies Chrupalla.
Tino Chrupalla at the “logo!” - child reporter: “I would have to think about it now, I can't think of anything”
Alexander doesn't seem to find it quite as conclusive: “I think we have to learn a lot of poems by heart.” That's why he just wants to know the politician's favorite poem. But Chrupalla has to think about it first and looks to the side, visibly unsettled. "My favorite poem is ... um ... I have to, I would have to think about it now, I can't think of any." "Not?" Alexander prefers to ask again. "No."
“Maybe your favorite poet?” A name quickly comes to Chrupalla's mind: “Heinrich Heine.” In other moments, too, the children's reporter did not make it easy for the AfD's top candidate for the Bundestag election: For example, he should understand the meaning of “cringe” ( foreign shame), which Chrupalla did not know, explain “referendums” in a child-friendly way and put the word “Chancellor” into drawings.
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Mockery on the net because of Chrupalla's (non) answer to his favorite poem
The video has been on ZDF for a few days. But now there is ridicule and malice on the net for Chrupalla's statements. “It's like asking Sarah Palin about her newspaper reads. Or Donald Trump after his favorite passage from the Bible, "writes an editor from
Spiegel
. “Anyone who rides through the wind and night so late, it is the Chrupalla, take good care of you,” writes another. The young reporter is widely praised for his follow-up.
But there is also occasional encouragement to Chrupalla's demand: “Anyone who's shouting because Chrupalla doesn't have a favorite poem can probably name one right now?
1. Is that completely irrelevant and 2. Is the man right: Of course it is important that more German poems are taught in school, ”writes someone on Twitter, whose profile description contains the motto of the AfD campaign.
(cibo / dpa)
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