A Virologist Nutcracker is definitely one of the special novelties since 2021. He is dedicated to diagnostics, teaching and research into diseases that are triggered by viruses and no other profession is currently as much in focus as that of the virologist. He wears a white coat, a mouth and nose mask and stands with one leg on the virus. For us it is a symbol for the past and coming years, in which we all have to stand together against “COVID-19“. In particular, it is also a homage to all the helpers and heroes of everyday life in the Corona crisis.