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Edsel Ford High School

This year, the Edsel Ford High School German National Honor Society took a trip to the Germania Club in

Brownstown, MI. It was established in 1969 by an all German group who felt that their culture should be

promoted more in their area, and has been a working class restaurant and cultural center ever since.

On the third Wednesday of every month, the Germania Club hosts an authentic, home-cooked German meal. On

February 19th, we were able to attend the dinner and promote German culture through singing, helping set up

and run the dinner itself, and talking with the natives that were present.

An inside view of the Germania Club - the walls are covered in paintings of famous places in Germany and Austria.

We were able to assist in taking orders in the kitchen and bringing them to the customers...

We were even able to try the German cuisine ourselves!

Wiener Schnitzel, Kartoffelsalat and Rotkohl are the standard Bavarian delicacies offered on Wednesdays.

In order to promote German culture more verbally, we brought in a total of 35 students and performed a series of

songs like In Muenchen, and Muss I Denn, along with the infamously catchy modern hit, Schnappi, das kleine

Krokodil.

EFHS students center stage singing German folk songs

We were extremely pleased to learn that our performance had brought the largest crowd to a Wednesday night

dinner that the Germania has seen in 10 years.

And once we had finished singing, we chatted with the resident Germans, played tournaments on a Fussball table, and took turns using the Germania’s very own air-rifle range, provided by the club’s Schutzen Gruppe.

By the end of the night, we had successfully helped a German institution bring in more people than it has had in

years, four of which decided to become members that night, helped spread aspects of the culture, learned a bit

ourselves, and overall had a fantastic time celebrating everything German.