What is Oktoberfest? When does it happen? What should I wear? What is there to eat and drink? You’ll find the answers here.
Author: Anika Rieper
Germerican (Schleswig-Holstein, Pennsylvania)
Master's in German Literature and Social Psychology
Avid Reader and Bookseller
German Teacher
Speak like a native (Northern) German or sailor with these German expressions revolving around the sea. Beim Klabautermann!, Landratte, die Fische füttern, …
Am 19. September ist Speak like a Pirate Tag und zu diesem Anlass entführe ich euch heute auf die sieben Weltmeere. Wenn wir über Piraten sprechen, denken wir meistens an Blackbeard, Pirates of the Caribbean, und haben generell eine romantische Vorstellung vom Piratenleben, von den freien Männern, und einigen Frauen, die keinem gehorchen und dem […]
Do you know what a myboshi hat is? It’s a crocheted beanie, made popular and sold by Thomas Jaenisch and Felix Rohland from Bavaria.
Every year on the second weekend in September, the city of Zurich (Zürich) holds a shooting competition called “Knabenschiessen”, along with a carnival.
It is Sunday and that means cake time. Many Germans have cake with their afternoon coffee on Sundays. They do drink coffee also during the week, often between 3 and 4:30pm, though it varies. They might not always eat cake with their coffee but maybe just a cookie or some fruit. But Sundays are different. […]
Guess where plum or prune tart is eaten today? 🥮 It’s in Geneva, Switzerland for the yearly celebration of the Genevan Fast, Jeûne Genevois or Genfer Bettag. Unlike the Eidgenössische Dank-, Buss- und Bettag 🙏 in the rest of Switzerland which falls on the third Sunday in September, Jeûne Genevois is celebrated on the Thursday […]
The teddy bear! Who doesn’t have one or had one as a child? The Teddybär has been around for over 100 years and shows no signs of stopping. Collectors, conventions, magazines, … there even is a Teddy Bear Day in US, which is celebrated on September 9th. There are many reasons why we think of […]
September 6th is Read a Book Day and September 7th is Buy a Book Day! And if you are interested in contemporary German language literature but either can’t read German or don’t have access to German books, then look at the following list of German speaking authors whose books (or at least some of their books) have been translated into English.
Did you ever ask yourself why the Bienenstich is called that? I asked myself that when I got stung by bees and realized that Bienenstich is a Teekesselchen (or homonym) but also wondered how this delicious cake got its name. The Bienenstich origin story comes from Andernach, a town by the Rhine, and is rich in details that can be neither proven nor disproven.
