Tag: Bavarian customs
Religion and customs: God’s queer host
On All Saints Day, angels are once again in high demand as heaven’s field agents. Belief in it is firmly anchored in the population, even among those who have nothing…
Pumuckl: He sticks to his guns
Rarely does the revival of old children’s classics succeed as well as with Marcus H. Rosenmüller’s “New Stories from Pumuckl”. The goblin even speaks in the original voice of Hans…
Kirchweih, venison ragout and high blood pressure – Bavaria
Better to have a belly from drinking than a hunchback from working. We know this wisdom from an old saying, but it only came from wishful thinking. How drastically hard…
About rough Bavarian customs for birth: The Bixnmacherei – Bavaria
Tin cans on the side of the road, graffiti hanging on trees, penises as a guide: the custom of the birth of a child has strange blossoms. What’s behind it?…
Oktoberfest: SZ author in traditional Arabic costume at the Oktoberfest – Munich
Of course, leather pants are elegant and give men an extra dose of masculinity. However, these trousers have a technical disadvantage that only really becomes noticeable when you have been…
Tradition at the Oktoberfest Munich: Going to the Oktoberfest – Munich for Schafkopfen
Thomas Gottschalk, of all people. You have a lot of credit for him, but that he will win the Schafkopf tournament in the crossbow rifle tent at the Oktoberfest this…
Fesch at the Oktoberfest: Where the expression dashing comes from – Munich
Wiesn, Mass and Hendl, Gaudi, Rausch and Dirndl – such nouns from the Oktoberfest sphere shape the Munich vocabulary every year at this time. There is also no shortage of…
Sandra Müller has turned her passion for traditional costumes into a career with “Trachtenpunk” – Bavaria
The mannequins wear lavish dresses, eccentric headdresses sit on white plastic heads and buttons everywhere! At first glance, the small room with the low ceilings and the creaking wooden floor…
The Bavarian dialect: between cultural heritage and disgrace – Munich
The language of academics? Can also be Bavarian, Franconian and Swabian. And anyone who speaks “according to the Scriptures” is by no means necessarily a “bastard”. Dialects are a fascinating…
SZ column Typically German: You don’t come home here
Regulars’ tables always seemed like exclusive clubs to our author. Now she has received an invitation for the first time. Should she dare? source site