diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/app/controllers/widget/text_module.coffee b/app/assets/javascripts/app/controllers/widget/text_module.coffee
index 909b880fd..d99a3cec5 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/app/controllers/widget/text_module.coffee
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/app/controllers/widget/text_module.coffee
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ class App.WidgetTextModule extends App.Controller
     for item in allRaw
       if item.active is true
         attributes = item.attributes()
-        attributes.content = attributes.content.replace( /<%=\s{0,2}(.+?)\s{0,2}%>/g, ( index, key ) ->
+        attributes.content = attributes.content.replace( /#\{{0,2}(.+?)\s{0,2}\}/g, ( index, key ) ->
           key = key.replace( /@/g, 'data.' )
           varString = "#{key}" + ''
           #console.log( "tag replacement env: ", data)
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/app/models/text_module.coffee b/app/assets/javascripts/app/models/text_module.coffee
index fa25271bc..cf90b9d96 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/app/models/text_module.coffee
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/app/models/text_module.coffee
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ Create Text Modules to **spend less time writing responses**. TextModules can in
 
 Examples of snippets are:
 
-* Hallo Frau <%= @ticket.customer.lastname %>,
-* Hallo Herr <%= @ticket.customer.lastname %>,
-* Hallo <%= @ticket.customer.firstname %>,
+* Hallo Frau #{@ticket.customer.lastname},
+* Hallo Herr #{@ticket.customer.lastname},
+* Hallo #{@ticket.customer.firstname},
 
 Of course you can also use multi line snippets.
 
diff --git a/db/migrate/20160211000002_migrate_text_modules2.rb b/db/migrate/20160211000002_migrate_text_modules2.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fa53ed8f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20160211000002_migrate_text_modules2.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+class MigrateTextModules2 < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def up
+    TextModule.all.each {|text_module|
+      text_module.content.gsub!('&lt;%=', '#{')
+      text_module.content.gsub!('%&gt;', '}')
+      text_module.save
+    }
+  end
+end
diff --git a/test/browser/agent_ticket_actions_level0_test.rb b/test/browser/agent_ticket_actions_level0_test.rb
index 2adff64a6..39ca9e073 100644
--- a/test/browser/agent_ticket_actions_level0_test.rb
+++ b/test/browser/agent_ticket_actions_level0_test.rb
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ class AgentTicketActionLevel0Test < TestCase
       data: {
         name: 'some name' + random,
         keywords: random,
-        content: 'some content <%= @ticket.customer.lastname %>' + random,
+        content: 'some content #{@ticket.customer.lastname}' + random,
       },
     )