Former FPÖ top politician Johann Gudenus expressed his anger about multilingual children on Instagram – and pissed himself in the foot. Because his wife also has a different mother tongue…
According to Statistics Austria, 55 percent of Viennese primary school students do not speak German in everyday life or in their family environment at home. In terms of the entire Alpine Republic, this is about a quarter.
But Gudenus was especially impressed by an example from Berlin: at a certain school, only one in 103 children spoke mainly German at a certain level, the ex-top politician shared an article on Instagram. He immediately accompanied this with the hashtags “#incomprehensible #selfblame #untergangdesabendlandes”.
Shortly afterwards, the woman responded publicly: “Sometimes your children don’t speak German at home because they have a different ‘mother tongue’. What do we do now?”
Tatjana Gudenus fled Serbia in 1992. In 2007 she came to Vienna, where she did not yet speak German at all. She also talks to the children in BKS (Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian) within her own four walls. “Other languages are an enrichment and not a problem. Above all, there is absolutely no point in agitation in this or any other case, so relax everyone,” she says.
Source: Krone
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