Group ‘surprised’ when their song was used to disrupt an interview with Alice Weidel – but now they face a backlash
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t was while Alice Weidel was being interviewed on the terrace of a parliament building overlooking the River Spree in Berlin that members of the Corner Chor’s mobile phones began to ping with alerts as their song in protest at her far-right party, Scheiß AfD Jodler (Shit AfD Yodellers), blasted out from a 100,000-watt sound system on the other bank.
“We were hugely surprised and truly happy to hear at that moment that our song was receiving such a public airing,” one choir member told the Guardian.
The choir had not known of the carefully orchestrated plans by the Centre for Political Beauty (ZPS) – an association of action artists led by the philosopher Philipp Ruch – to use their song to disrupt the so-called summer interview, a regular annual TV fixture in which leaders of the main political parties are questioned in turn, typically in a relaxed setting.
