“Short circuit” on ARD: Matthias Brandt and Anke Engelke on New Year’s resolutions

Matthias Brandt and Anke Engelke made a funny New Year’s Eve film and realized: They like each other – but not New Year’s Eve.

Ms. Engelke, Mr. Brandt, how do you celebrate New Year’s Eve?
MATTHIAS BRANDT: Ritualized celebrations are rather alien to me. I’ll probably go to bed at ten o’clock on New Year’s Eve. That’s pretty much the only day of the year that I do that.

Why? Do the firecrackers bother you?
BRANDT: I live in the suburbs, we hardly ever fire, it’s bearable. But this accounting by date is alien to me, I always thought it was stupid. It probably has its roots in the fact that at the age of 18 or 19 I noticed at New Year’s Eve parties that the celebrations were mostly full of catastrophes.

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