2024-01-08 17:52:56
Opinion of ZDF satirist in court
Why Böhmermann can only lose against a Saxon beekeeper
As of: 4:52 p.m. | Reading time: 3 minutes
Satire vs. humor: Jan Böhmermann versus Rico Heinzig from Meißen
Source: ZDF/Ben Knabe; picture alliance/dpa/MyHONEY ORGANIC beekeeping
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Jan Böhmermann is scheduled to appear before the Dresden district court on January 16, 2024. He has sued a beekeeper who defends himself against a satire in “Magazine Royale” with an advertising campaign. This time the moderator didn’t consider what else was so important to him.
In “Royal Jelly,” a treatise by Roald Dahl, a man turns into a bee. The moral of the story of a beekeeper who feeds on the secretion of the queen bee and hopes to become a better person: Be yourself. In ZDF’s “Magazine Royale” Jan Böhmermann explains the world in general and now also the bee in particular.
“The bee is extremely cute, she is hard-working, she is fluffy, and unfortunately she is not doing well at all,” complains Böhmermann in a broadcast from last fall: “The bees are dying out, the bee doesn’t have much time left.” He shows a graphic: In 2012 there were still 699,000 bee colonies in Germany, according to the last count in 2022 there were 996,000 – almost 300,000 more! Like this? It is the wild bee that is dying out, explains Böhmermann, while the domestic and honey bee are hardly ever doing well.
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The beekeepers are doing even better. They are presented in a Böhmermannian way in “Magazine Royale”. In a video from Saxony, beekeeper Rico Heinzig raves about his own beekeeping and a honey app. It’s all PR, says Böhmermann about German bee start-ups like Heinzigs MyHoney and to German companies that have bee colonies placed on their properties and roofs in order to fulfill EU requirements, to draw attention to themselves as species conservationists and to wash themselves green.
Saxon beekeeper Rico Heinzig advertises with Böhmermann
Quelle: My Honey
“Beewashing” is what Böhmermann calls it. Which gave Rico Heinzig, the beekeeper from Meißen, the idea to advertise with it: “Leading bee expert recommends: Beewashing Honey”. Next to it is a picture of Böhmermann, who is again defending himself against it and is suing for his personal rights in the Dresden district court.
The trial will now take place in Dresden on January 16, 2024 under the file number EV 302529/23. According to the court order, the plaintiff, Böhmermann, has to appear in person. “Humm-buzz is win-win,” says his bee broadcast. But even if the court agrees with him and forbids the beekeeper from satirically offering his honey to him, perhaps the most prominent satirist on German television, he cannot win.
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Especially not in Saxony. For a policeman’s son who grew up in Bremen in the eighties and nineties, there is still nothing funnier than a Saxon people who mourn their kings, from August the Strong to Kurt Biedenkopf, the last father of the country, and defiantly refuse to let their mannerisms and idiosyncrasies die out allow.
“The colony is wrong about the bee,” explains Böhmermann in “Magazine Royale,” which, by the way, is named after the queen bee’s royal jelly. But when it comes to bees, the moderator himself is wrong. If he feels so offended by a beekeeper’s obvious answer that he sues him for it and, as a moralist, turns into a person who is no better than the humor of others.
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