diff --git a/src/pretix/control/views/search.py b/src/pretix/control/views/search.py
index 68067d239..388749bea 100644
--- a/src/pretix/control/views/search.py
+++ b/src/pretix/control/views/search.py
@@ -34,11 +34,4 @@ class OrderSearch(ListView):
         if self.filter_form.is_valid():
             qs = self.filter_form.filter_qs(qs)
 
-        if self.request.GET.get("ordering", "") != "":
-            p = self.request.GET.get("ordering", "")
-            p_admissable = ('event', '-event', '-code', 'code', '-email', 'email', '-total', 'total', '-datetime',
-                            'datetime', '-status', 'status', 'pcnt', '-pcnt')
-            if p in p_admissable:
-                qs = qs.order_by(p)
-
         return qs.distinct().prefetch_related('event', 'event__organizer')