Tag: Bavarian customs
Who is stepping out of line here? About the Schäffler dispute in Mühldorf – Bavaria
Recently, the Mühldorfer Schäffler danced again, namely for the club’s anniversary of the Altmühldorf brass band, which always so faithfully blows the march and also makes all the other movement-related…
Schäffler dispute in Mühldorf – Bavaria
Recently, the Mühldorfer Schäffler danced again, namely for the club’s anniversary of the Altmühldorf brass band, which always so faithfully blows the march and also makes all the other movement-related…
Kratz’s vocabulary: Hemada, Haferlschuhe and Tote Hosen – Bavaria
Traditions, such as clothing, may seem strange to one or the other. It’s easy for an assignment to go completely haywire. shirt “I raised all oide Hemada!” an acquaintance recently…
Tradition in the English Garden: Kocherlball in a wet dirndl
The big traditional event at the Chinese Tower in the English Garden begins with a downpour, but 11,000 guests still challenge themselves to dance. source site
Miesbach: Bavarian Championship in Fingerhakeln – Bavaria
It’s about power. Head to head. Magnesium for the hands like when climbing. Sometimes a kind of fall, but not over rock faces, but only backwards from the stool. According…
“A relic of masculinity”: The pile of wood as a cultural monument – Bavaria
There are things that have to be done, like that with Wilhelm Koch’s book about piles of wood. “Time has run out,” says the Amberg publisher on the phone, so…
Kratz’s vocabulary: Gfeide children and watery soups
In addition to its many timbres, the Bavarian dialect has another special feature: some attributes experience a shift in meaning, depending on whether they are given to a young or…
Happy children and watery soups – Bavaria
A gfeids Mädl An acquaintance recently said that he gets the greatest joy when he watches his granddaughter because she is “such a daring girl”. Gfeid – that’s what they…
Corpus Christi: let citizens determine public holidays – Munich
For me, Corpus Christi is usually a long weekend when I sometimes have visitors, sometimes go away, often lie around somewhere in the sun and keep asking myself: Why exactly…
The difference between fraternities and Kerwa boys – Bavaria
Anyone who has ever been a guest at court has an idea that humor is not one of the core phenomena there. Involuntary humor occurs, but can cause stomach ache…