The Jodeldiplom ("yodeling diploma") is a fictitious degree created for a sketch by German humorist Loriot.
[1] The sketch pokes fun at the numerous degrees awarded by universities and folk high schools, which grant their recipients social status without providing any meaningful qualifications for the labor market.
The sketch "Yodeling School" was produced by Radio Bremen as part of the episode Loriot VI[3] and first broadcast on Das Erste on 7 December 1978.
Mrs. Hoppenstedt is interviewed after the course by a reporter Viktor Schmoller (Loriot) for the "Women's Journal of Radio Bremen".
In the interview, Mrs. Hoppenstedt explains her participation in the course that as a housewife and mother, when the children are out of the house, she wants to have the feeling that she is standing on her own feet, and wants to have "something of her own", a "Jodeldiplom."