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.
Find out what the World Beard and Moustache Championship is, and learn German words and idioms around “Bart”.
You always thought Kegel meant bowling pin, or maybe a cone, but going somewhere with child and a cone doesn’t sound right. In the following post, I’ll explain some German so called irreversible binomials.
Den Post gibt es auch auf Deutsch, “Mit Kind und Kegel geht’s drunter und drüber”.
I was watching one of my favorite German TV shows “Mord mit Aussicht” which is a crime comedy show set in the little village of Hengasch in the Eifel, a low mountain range in western Germany. Some episodes can be watched on youtube or in the mediathek of Das Erste. So while I was enjoying […]
Studentenfutter mögen nicht nur Studenten*innen! Aber warum heißt die Mischung aus Nüssen und getrockneten Früchten überhaupt so? Und seit wann gibt es sie?
Post auch auf Englisch.
