World Happiness Day: What “Happiness” Means in Other Countries – Panorama

For example Korntal-Münchingen. On Sunday, the United Nations World Day of Happiness, there will be the lecture “Instructions for Happiness” by therapy clown Hans-Martin in the town hall (5 to 7 p.m., there are still places available). The connoisseur knows immediately: The title is an allusion to the book “Instructions for Unhappiness” by the Austrian-American philosopher Paul Watzlawick (1921-2007). A standard work in matters of luck! The only problem is that happiness has to be worked for over and over again. Not only in Korntal-Münchingen (please don’t forget your mouth and nose protection). And since the times are anything but happy right now and four-leaf clover in the shadow of war and Corona is just as little help as outdated German idioms (shards, blacksmiths), we asked SZ correspondents and foreign experts for World Happiness Day how it is in other countries just looks like that, with luck. Martin Zips