Traditions in Germany · Oktoberfest • Funfair and folk festival • Last 2 weeks of September...
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Traditions in Germany Pascal Kurpiela Richard Leonhardt Timo Selbach Patrick Weilandt
Transcript of Traditions in Germany · Oktoberfest • Funfair and folk festival • Last 2 weeks of September...
Traditions in Germany
Pascal Kurpiela
Richard Leonhardt
Timo Selbach
Patrick Weilandt
Table of Contents • Drinks
• Food
• Festivals
• Religion
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Drinks
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 3
Soft drinks• lemonade - short Limo
o non alcoholic, sugared drink with fruit flavor
o water with lemon juice
• mixed drinks with lemonade are :
o Schorle
o Spezi
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 4
Tea
• tea
o Water with flavour
o Warm or cold
o Tea for different seasons
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 5
Coffee
• Water with grounded coffee beans
• Warm or cold
• Coffee with milk, coffee with sugar
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 6
Alcoholic drinks• Second highest beer intake in world
• Traditonal beers: Kölsch, Altbier, Weißbier
o Kölsch oldest one
o Must be produced in Cologne
• Wine typical German drink
o Tafelweine, Landwein ,Qualitätswein
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 7
Food
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 8
Customs
• Sauerkraut and solid meat meals
• Origin of the customs is wintertime
• German cuisine influenced byo Danish
o Polish
o Czech
o Slowakian food
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 9
Per capita consumption
• Meat consumption per year
o 60 Kg per person
o two out of three is pork (sausage)
o chicken 20%
o beef and veal 15%
o other types of meat are specialities
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Per capita consumption
• Vegetable consumption in Germany
o potatoes 65 Kg
o tomatoes 10 Kg
o carrots 7.8 Kg
o cucumbers and onions 6.2 Kg
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Typical pork meals
• Pork meals such as pork roast
• From leg and back
o Fresh or porked
• Porkfeets
o Knuckle of pork or hock
o Cooked or stewed
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Typical meat meals
• Minced meat(„Hackfleisch“)
• Meatloaf („Hackbraten“)
and meatballs („Fleischball“)
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Typical sausage meals• Sausage meals
o Blood sausage and liverwurst
o Scaled sausge
o Raw sausage
• knockwurst
• Bratwurst and Currywurst
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 14
Typical feast-day dishes
• Christmas on 24 December
o Christmas goose
o Gingerbread
o Speculoos
• St. Martins Day 11 November: goose
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 15
Typical soups & desserts• Soups
o Stew
o Beans – and pea stew
• German desserts and pieso Frankfurter Kranz (Frankfurt Crown Cake)
o Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (Black Forest Cake)
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Festivals
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 17
Beginning of CarnivalSeason
• 11 November at 11.11 o‘clock called „Jäckezeit“
• Celebrated
o in clubs
o in party tents
o on the street
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Street Carnival
o Thursday (Weiberfastnacht-Women‘s Carnival)
o costumes
o Kölschen music
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 19
Street carnival• Carnival procession
o Begins at 11 o‘ clock
o Route of 6km
o approx.10.000 participants and 100.000 spectators in Cologne
o 100 carnival floats
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 20
Carnival foods & drinks
• Typical food
o Berliner filled with cherry marmelade
o Currywurst and French fries
o Halver Hahn
• Typical drinks
o Beer (Kölsch 0,2l)
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Oktoberfest
• Funfair and folk festival
• Last 2 weeks of September
• In Munich at the
Theresienwiese
• Approx. 6 mill. visitorso Traditonal Clothing
• Leather pants and
Dirndl
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Party tents and highlights
• Party tents of breweries & gastronomy
o 150.000 seats
• Typical Bavarian food
o „Mass“ (one litre) of white beer
o Schweinshaxen (pickled ham hock) with Krautsalat
o Weißwurst (Bavarian sausage) with sweet mustard
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 23
Attractions• The most spectacular attractions
o Power Tower (Freefall Tower)
o Around the World (swing carousel)
o Olympia Looping (Rollercoaster)
• Price
o From 4-15 euros
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 24
Quarters• Hotels
o Sold out one year before
o prices up to 80 % higher than normal
• Apartments
o Holiday / private apartments
o Sold out half year before
o Higher prices
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1. May• Begins the evening before
• Traditionso Young birch trees are decorated
• „Maibaum“ as gift for girl friend
• Dance in Mayo 30.April
o Traditional festival in villages & cities
o Clubs celebrate May dance, too
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Christmas• Advent calender
o 1. – 24. December
o Filled with chocolate or toys
o Open one door every day
• Advento Advent starts 4 weeks before
• Every Sunday one candle is lighted
o Starts from the 1. Sunday
o Ends onlast Sunday before Christmas
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Christmas
• Christmas treeo A fir gets decorate
• Christmas Eveo church
o get-together of family
o presents
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New Years Eve
• 31 December
• Typical foodo Fondue
• Meat gets cooked on the table
o Midnight
• Fireworks
• Touch glasses with champagne
Drinks Food Festivals Religion 29
New Years Eve
• Traditionso Moulding lead
• Pieces of lead get melt over a candle
• Freeze through cold water
• Objects and figures pop up
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Religion in Germany
31Drinks Food Festivals Religion
Confessions and atheistsMembership Amount Percent Stand
Unaffilated withany religion
28.000.000 34.5% 2014
Roman Catholicchurch
23.939.472 29.5% 2014
Evangelicalchurch
22.630.000 27.9% 2014
Sunnis 2.640.000 3.25% 2006
Other (Hindu, Zeugen Jehovas..)
3.935.811 4.85% 2014
atheist 27.185.502 33.5% 2014
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Secession from church -rate
o Ten year prediction
• deaths & entries
o 337.000 decedents
o 174.000 have set in
• Rekord outlet 2010
o 181.000 escapes
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Churchgoer rate• Church rate
o Churchgoer drops
• Churchgoer rate on holidays
o Sunday - 0.5% all Protestants
o Good Friday - 0,1% all Protestants
o Christmas Holidays -3.3% all Protestants
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Belief• Believes in Germany
o East - Germany
• 8.2%
• Religion freest region of the world
o West-Germany
• 32.0%
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Atheists• Comparion between countries
o Germany 33.5%
o Czech Republic 83.9% 2
o France 81.3% 3
o New Zealand 65.8% 15
o Phillippines 8.1% 30
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Thank you for your attention!
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