on our social calender is carnival. Officially, each year’s “campaign” (that’s what it is called) starts on 11/11 but then it’s on the backburner because of Christmas. Soon after New Year, carnival starts in earnest (and believe me, the people involved take it very seriously). There will be public sessions or meetings with performances ranging from dances, songs and more or less political satire skits.
It will all culminate in the week before Shrove Tuesday with parades and parties. And everything is all over on Ash Wednesday. Until the next year.
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Our first Mardi Gras parade here is tomorrow.
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Parades will come later (usually on the weekend or Monday before Shrove Tuesday). Now is the time for “Sitzungen” (irreverantly translated as sit-ins). They can be either considered as “forced humour” or they can be very funny, and often very topical (depending on the organisers, either local, national or international politics).
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It looks as if you take having fun seriously. That’s as it should be.
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Not me – but Germans. Once a week or so I’ll sing (melody national anthem): Germans have no sense of humour, this is true it’s not a rumour. We can laugh. – But we don’t. – It’s inefficient.
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A friend of mine has fairly recently acquired a German partner. I haven’t met him yet, but those who have exclaim ‘… and he has a sense of humour!’
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