The death of Queen Elizabeth II occupies the world. While heads of state commemorate the monarch’s lifetime achievements, numerous celebrities from the music world (Mick Jagger: “I remember her as a beautiful young woman, right down to the nation’s beloved grandmother”) have paid tribute to her striking personality.
ZDF satirist Jan Böhmermann used the moment when the news of his death spread around the world for a different interpretation and recalled that the potentates of this world can also die. Of course, the moderator was talking about Ukraine warmonger Vladimir Putin.
“The Queen is dead and Putin is also transient,” wrote Böhmermann – and thus caused countless critical posts on Twitter, which at least considered the analogy between the Queen’s death and a possible death of Putin to be inappropriate.
“Stupid”?
“I just think that sentence is stupid!” wrote a user under the post. “The Queen is not at all to be mentioned in the same breath as such a wretched war criminal! Completely irreverent, completely wrong, completely inappropriate! Shame on you, Mr Böhmermann.”
Most recently, Jan Böhmermann was mainly in the headlines because he fooled Laura Müller, wife of pop singer Michael Wendler. He had a greeting message recorded by her produced for Olli Schulz and played it in the joint podcast “Fest und Fluffy”. With laughter and being touched, both of them debated what it’s like to earn money with such audio statements, to pay off the musician’s debts and to finance the joint luxury lifestyle.