in some states of Germany (mostly in the north and east which are more _evangelisch_ / _protestantisch,_ in contrast to the more catholic south), that day is an official holiday named "Reformationstag" (look it up on wikipedia) to celebrate the announcement of Martin Luther's theses on that day in 1517, on the eve of All Hallows. thus there are several reasons for celebration for all kinds of christians around those dates at end of october and start of november, and may even cause some days in some region to fall under the rules of "silent days" (no music, dancing etc) which doesn't work very well with Halloween, ghosts and all that stuff. to celebrate the 500th anniversary, it even was a national holiday in that single one year 2017, but even when there is no holiday (and of course, again depending on region), people and pupils should be given a few hours off to be able to attend church services. several decades ago, nobody knew Halloween, then it became more known because of movies and other influences, and because of shops seeing an opportunity for additional sales. but i think that it nowadays is mostly a reason for small children (and their parents? :-) to wear funny costumes and eat candy, and also already on the decline again when children get less and less success in collecting candy from people who absolutely are not into Halloween. during the last maybe 50 years, the start of selling Xmas stuff also changed a lot. while it first was only in the week of the first _"Adventssonntag",_ it got earlier by 1 or 2 weeks every year until in one year they started selling Xmas candy and decorations already at the start of september(!). I think that most people hated this and it also made no sense to have a race which company did their Xmas sales the first and got a headstart for a few days, in the end selling "special stuff" all year long and then having no additional bigger sales near Xmas. I don't know whether this was officially decided (and by whom, maybe the candy producers themselves?), but i observed that nowadays (for a few years now), Xmas candy (Lebkuchen, Dominosteine, Spekulatius, etc) are sold starting exactly 3 months before Xmas on (or in the week of) 24 sept. about the decorations you saw: in germany, similar to Halloween, Thanksgiving is not known at all, but instead we have "Erntedankest" (which may be translated to "Giving Thanks for the Harvest"). both are intended for remembering to be thankful, but of course we don't have the history with pilgrims, indians, etc. over here, it is no national holiday, which also doesn't matter since it is on a sunday. because of that and also because of the season, you may see some "autumnal" decorations (mostly in more rural areas) which has nothing to do with Halloween, at least not directly but of course harvest time and pumpkins are in fall season, just like Xmas decorations (pine trees, wreaths, etc) are in winter, and "fresh flowers" are in spring ... *_having Erntedankfest at start of october, Reformationsfest at end of october, other holidays in november, and Xmas in december, chances for Halloween to get more prominent attention are rather slim over here, and "autumnal decorations" have nothing to do with Halloween._*
When I grew up in Germany, Halloween was just known as a crazy american tradition. Also pumpkins weren't very common. But in the last 20 years it became more common- here in Switzerland. When my son was a little boy, kids went from door to door in the neighbourhood asking for sweets. But there is an unwritten rule, that they are allowed only to ring at these doors, which have some kind of Halloween decoration or a carved pumpkin. Many people don't like the growing americanisation...
Unfortunately back home in Australia there was only a treat side, never a trick, because the only people knocking on doors were me, my siblings and friends, so if someone was tricked... it was a short list to go through for the culprit to be found 😂😂😂
@@PuntingForThePeople the trick without treat part is on the night april 30th to may 1st. halloween is treat without trick, and mostly just spooky costumes. funny costumes are for carnival
Halloween is a more recent thing in Germany. Younger Parents (some) started to dress their children up and knock on neighbouring doors in the last couple of years. But I know of many people (mostly the older generation from 40 up) who do not like this. My guess is that Halloween will become more well known here too over the years but it will take some time Decorating your house with pumpkins and stuff like that is a normal seasonal thing.
It seems fairly similar to how it is growing in Australia, but seeing as though we are more americanised in general, we have a fair bit more supplies in stores ect, but the celebration/trick or treat side is pretty much on the level Germany has ☺️
It always bewilders me how uncommon it seems to be to celebrate Halloween in some parts of Germany. I grew up (and still live) in a small suburb-esque neighbourhood in a small Bavarian town. As far as I can remember (so that's about 14 years, before that I was too young to remember), people here have always celebrated Halloween. It also always was a big deal because one of my best friends' birthday is on Halloween.
@@leDespicable well.. you're from Bavaria. There's your answer. Bavaria = US Zone. I'm from the North. It was never introduced here beside being shown in TV. That's why it's still Alien here. And of course I also know one or two younger couples celebrating it with some kind of small Party. But that's the exception not the norm as far as I can observe
I think the coincidence of Halloween and St. Martin, with the same habit of knocking in neighbour’s doors is where older people prefer the old traditional St. Martin,
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This is a fact I only learned recently, and I have thought about making a video about, but being that most of my audience is German, I imagine it is something they already knew, but it is still in the works 😁✊🏼
@@mojojim6458 Actually, I LIKE 'em BOTH!! I don't drink a lot of it,BUT every now and then I get the urge for an orange soda, and a Fanta™ Orange quenches that thirst. Since Germany seems to have such high standards for food and beverages, I'm not surprised that the Orange Crush alternative is SO good.👍 PS It works well in a fire and water glass when paired with 🍸"potato juice " OR " brown water. "😀
@@charlies.5777 no its not true, they werent boycotted. they just had problems getting the ingredients for coca-cola and had to create another drink with the things they had.
As far as celebrating Halloween goes I know it more as a one-more-reason-to-have-a-party kinda thing. Which is also very popular around here (Uni town - lots of sudents, lots of partying) so Halloween themed stuff is there for that. The pumpkin thing has been a thing for.... ages. Remember that back in school the then-headmaster (gotta be almost 80 now) told us a story how, when he was a kid, they stole the biggest sugar beets they could find from a farmers field because they couldn't find any pumpkins. He told us we should be glad we can just go to the supermarket and buy a super big, orange pumpkin (those don't even grow where I'm from) to carve and don't have to risk a beating if caught stealing. That aside I wouldn't expect the trick or treating to become a big thing. - Because there is another tradition around here that is pretty close to Halloween (sometime in November, forget it every year, gasp and run to the supermarket to get candy the very last second - and there have been times the store was basically sold out in terms of candy then, so i had to resort to fruit and nuts [which are the things you traditionally give anyway]) - Anyhow. It's called "St. Martinstag" and it includes kids with cute lanterns (when I was in elementary school the lanterns were part of the arts and crafts class... and then took over all other classes for one or two days) going from door to door singing songs and/or reciting poems (which we practised in class while coloring our lanterns :D ) and collecting candy as a reward. I'm not sure how regional that tradition is - but where I come from (way in the west of Germany, just-under-an-hour away from the Dutch border) it's huge (as long as there are many kids, that is ^^). So whereever that is huge I guess trik or treating on Halloween won't become a big thing - simply because parents don't want their kids to drown in candy.
Never really celebrated Halloween in Germany, what we did as kids in fall / november was "Laternelaufen" (walking the lantern?). Which .... you can´t really compare to Halloween but we also got free candy (for singing on peoples doorsteps ... :D).
There was one big house in my street that always had bulk candy! But the fact there was a limited amount of people supporting Halloween, they ran out real quick 😅
As a German, yes i do celebrate Halloween. My friends too. Halloween is the time of the year to dress up super scary and scare others. I love to dress up and scare the children on my doorstep. The Pumpkins at the doorsteps are mostly showing that you can ask for treats, so that you don´t disturb others. Halloween in Germany isn´t really that known, so that you only will find Costumes and special Candys in small amounts, two to three days bevor Halloween night. We do have Halloween Candy, but we just buying a bunch of different Candys the children can chose from. We do have Partys but they are often privat ore in clubs. That´s how the people celebrate in my City. creepy greetings from Mannheim
Ten years ago there were some kids coming by to shout out Trick or Treat, but nowadays it's calm in our house. So for a few years now I meet my friends in a small community close to Berlin where every house is decorated for Halloween, and we go around as monsters, aliens, walking deads and zombies together with some kids some of us already have and celebrate Halloween really stylish.
I imagine the smaller towns that are closer community’s definitely are more open to the idea of these kinds of holiday, also these bigger towns have large apartment buildings, so I imagine that makes trick or treating almost impossible..
Thank you again for the pefect match up of season, sights and sound in your intro. My favorite this time: the raindrops on the leaf of grass. Then, later on, I saw the dog. Pumpkin soup? That's not Halloween. That's the misuse of an asset. I hope a lot of you who are searching for the perfect birthday gift for our boy follow his suggestions. We would all welcome you aboard to take part in all the fun.
I found it almost blasphemous they put pumpkin soup recipes even near these kinds of pumpkins! But they are still learning and I’ll let it pass because of the calming nature of the local cats and puppies 😁 The birthday list is small, but hopefully at least a couple pop through 😁🤞🏼
@@PuntingForThePeople Have you seen the pumpkin carvings that Choice on Nalf's Discord does? All done with a knife and a spoon. On the Art channel there. You'd have to scroll up quite a way. She did a Unicorns one and a Knoppers one.
@@gerdahessel2268 I would NEVER insult YOUR pumpkin soup, Gerda. LOL I've never had pumpkin soup. I'm accustomed to pumpkin pies and carving faces in pumpkins for Halloween. Recently, many products add pumpkin flavoring for the holiday, such as cakes or Startbucks stuff.
@@mojojim6458 Recipe: - a small hokkaido-pumpkin - 2 potatoes - 1 onion - 1 liter chicken bouillon roast the cut onion, add the peeled and cut potatoes, add the cut pumpkin, roast a bit while stirring add the bouillon and let it cook 20 minutes smash it all until its an orange, soft creme, add 250 ml liquid cream, salt, pepper, tabasco, a sip citron juice and half a teaspoon sugar.
My first thought on your topic was: Germany Halloween? Okay from the perspective of Australia Wien might be a German city. But to help you out of your trouble. All hallow evening is originated in Ireland and did make it to the US with the Irish immigrants. In Germany, it was totally unknown until the US soldiers in the Frankfurt area did find out, that close to Darmstadt is an old castle ruin, named Frankenstein. After that, the US soldiers did start the big Halloween party at Burg Frankenstein every year and from their plus US cinema/TV shows it did crawl slowly into German society. But that did mean here in the Rhein/Main area it is a much bigger thing, than in the Rhineland or in parts of Lower Saxony.
Ahhh that makes sense, if there was a place called Frankenstein and they weren’t bigger on Halloween there... I’d be shocked! But I think I just got another place on my list of things to visit! 😅
Personally, I love Halloween, it's one of my favorite holidays, and I also love dressing up, so I celebrate it every year. As a whole, though, I got the feeling that Halloween is actually already in decline in Germany. Five to ten years ago, there used to come around a dozen groups of children to our door to trick or tread, but it has since first reduced to half a dozen and less, in some years even none at all. For the grown-ups, it doesn't help that All Saints' Day is a so-called "silent holiday" in Germany, which means that it's forbidden to dance and play loud music out of religious respect. Meaning, all parties would legally have to shut down at midnight (sometimes later, depending on the state).
Because of my birthday celebration I always love this time of year, I love the Halloween movies and the idea of trick or treating, it’s a different kind of holiday to most, and I’m a little different, so it works 😅
This. I thought I'm the only one to notice the decline. I still remember when I and my friends used to go trick-or-treating and there were so many other kids and parents on the streets, and quite a few parties being held all over the neighbourhood. Since it's one of my best friends' birthday and we always did it, it has become sort of a tradition so we still go trick-or-treating, by now it's less sweets and more alcohol, of course :P But there have been less and less decorated houses in recent years, less and less children on the streets and, as far as I can remember, no parties in recent years. It's kind of sad tbh.
Halloween and even Valentin's Day are no german traditions. For many years the traders try to make them public in Germany to earn more money but hardly one german did know the tradition behind them. In the countries that have been british colonies they are popular because they are British Festivals. We in north Germany have something similar on new years eve, we call it " Rummelpott laufen " the kids are dressed up and walk from door to door to get some sweets and they say:" süsses oder saures! "
In our area we do it during carnival. I think in some regions it is done during St. Martin. I always have some issues with people doing it during Halloween because it clashes with how we culturally see All Saints day and All Souls day. And I am not even catholic, but I always liked the idea to remember the death on those days.
Perfect timing as im doing my halloween vlogs lol the problem here in the states is that halloween while it is celebrated by some gets overshadowed by christmas you may even see christmas items out on the shelves in october depending on the store. I imagine that the UK has more of a connectiong to this time of year than the other european countries
In Germany you see the first Christmas items in late September in the grocery (lebkuchen, domino-"stones" and other sweets). Nevertheless Halloween (has no real tradition in D) is catching up! :P
Hi, im from the south of austria near italy and we didnt celebrate halloween. Cool vids guy! Have seen the most of your vlogs at the last two days. Good work from (i think) an authentic, sympathetic and emotional guy. Football is a great sport, love it! Life is like a camera, focus on what's important, capture the good time and if things don't work out, take another shot. --- no matter where you life!
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A place where you find halloween celebrations is the Anholter Schweiz at the Dutch-German border, unfortunately not this year. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anholter_Schweiz ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wvH_Bg0HLSE.html
Haha yes😂, kitchen knives work, but normally places sell little kits with things like files to carve out smaller spaces, and even some kind of stencils and things to really up your game 😁😁
Halloween's my fave holiday, and of course I used to decorate my house when I was in the US. Where I live in Frankfurt, nobody has decorated. Well, except me. 😀 I did it for my nephew though since I still haven't found an apartment, but once I have my own digs, it'll be on! Lol Stores like Aldi and Rewe do carry some Halloween candy, and there are other stores carrying deco items, props, and costumes, but it's nothing like in the US. On one hand, I miss the going-all-out in the US; on the other hand though, I've realized that you can do a lot with a little, and it fosters creativity (and is better for the environment in quite a few respects). So, I'm cool with the status quo.
What Kinda candy RU giving out,ma'am?! See ya next Thursday!! Btw, I'm going out as a male supermodel, so I won't be wearing a 🎃 costume!!😀 PS Do I know you from somewhere?!😎
@@charlies.5777 What kinda candy?! Hot Tamales of course, so the Trick-or-Treaters get fired🔥up! No costume, eh?! Wait, where do you live again? 😇 Btw, I wanna see pics afterwards, or it never happened! 😜 Yeah, you know me probably from your nightmares! 😈
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Halloween is the favourite holiday for me and my daughters. We just love it! We‘ve been celebrating it for years now. And it became really BIG - now after all those years our whole house is celebrating together. We decorate huge, love to dress up and go trick or treat in the neighborhood. Here in Berlin it‘s already a thing! You can see Halloween everywhere in town 🎃
@@januarmama2012 Bin 2012 ins grüne und ruhige Marzahn gezogen ;-) Da hab ich bei meiner Wohnungsgenossenschaft mit der Miete nie wieder ein Problem ;-)
Halloween isn't a big thing for me. But if some witches or vampires knock at my door, I'll have some candy. Usullay I take the rest of the sweet stuff to work, because i've bought too much (again).
~5:50 As a child I loved to run through the fallen leaves (especially ankle-deep piles of leaves [there's a funny "Flying the nest"-vid about], that was a fun for any janitors). But now I'm annoyed and I just kick the stuff out of the jogging path! :)
@@PuntingForThePeople Interesting, coz (in my opinion) especially small childs in Germany, who have never seen or experienced something like this are so fascinated by the wirling leaves. :) BTW I found the leaves in your vid absolutely great!
Halloween is not really a thing here in Germany, it only became a party theme in the last 20 years. In Pegan times it was however one of the 4 high feast called Samhain. The 31st of October however is a public holiday in parts of Germany as Reformation Day, remembering Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses against the Catholic Church on the door of Cathedral in Wittenberg in 1517. This started the reformation and started the Protestant Church.
From my point of view. I had a "vampire" themed Halloween party a few years back and most of the people showed up in "traditional" Dracula or Nosferatu clothing. one guy just sprinkled some glitter on his baldy and said "twilight". Sooooo Halloween is a thing, and it's not. it depends on how desperate you are to throw a party and maybe get some chicks in a tight skirt something :D
Halloween isn't really a German thing. Like, we do the knocking on the door thing during Carnival, same with the dressing up. But thanks to the influence of the American media some have started to adopt the tradition, though I guess the knocking on the door thing doesn't really work that well if people are not ready to give something/haven't bought sweets in advance. Halloween parties have become more common though, or Halloween movie nights. For the older generation Halloween kind of clashes with their tradition, because for us All Saints Day (the day after Halloween) is a day to remember the death, not dance on their graves. Well, technically, that's what All Souls Day (the second of November) is about, but since the first is a holiday and the second is not, it's celebrated usually on the first already. If you to the cemeteries on the first of September, you'll see a lot candles burning on the graves. THAT is our tradition, at least if you are catholic. I think in parts of Southern Germany there is also the tradition that godparents gift a specific kind of pastry to their god child (which is just sooooo German). I am kind of torn on the issue. Like, I am okay with the Halloween parties, but I don't think that we should adopt the American version of Halloween. Partly because we already have our own version, and partly while having a small party doesn't disturb anyone really, people roaming on the street kind of clashes with our own traditions.
Dear Jacob, I don't celebrate Halloween, I'm actively boycotting it by not buying anything remotely related to it. It's not a German tradition after all, but the massive influence of American mass media of the past 50 years has brought it to Germany, where it is exploited by greedy corps, who want to sell you crap at all costs (the same with St.Valentine's day and mother's day). Yes, kids love to costume themselves and go for trick n' treating, so it's creeping more and more into our society, but I just don't like it. It doesn't help, that I just can't stand the taste of pumpkin. In our region we celebrate St. Martin (November 11th) with a lantern march of kids in Kindergarten and primary school ages and at the end a reenactment of the Roman soldier Martin slicinng his overcoat in half and giving one half to a beggar. As the rural year ends with this date (e.g. rent for fields and meadows is due on "Martini") this is celebrated with a meal of roasted goose, most likely stuffed with diced potatoes and apples, accompanied by potato dumplings, chestnuts, red cabbage and Preiselbeeren (cranberries?). CU twinmama
I have come to a compromise...I am okay with Halloween parties or movie nights, I don't like the begging for sweets because it is more intrusive and we have other days to do that already. Love St. Martin.
Germany isn’t a good place for Halloween The reason is that Germany isn’t really celebrating Halloween and nobody is going trick or treating. In my city it‘s even worse then Germany itself for Halloween. And my mom said I can’t go so far away. But still I was trick or treating for the past 4 years and it was fun. Hope Germany is celebrating Halloween in the future 😄
I live in south Germany. We don't celebrate Halloween. But the Kid's in Age of 4 till 6 (Kindergartenalter) collect candy in the neighborhood. In my area most of the people don't like it. A bunch of people geting angry because everyone rings their bell on the door. After WWII my area was under control of the United Staats. In my youth (born and raised in the 80's) i first heard from Halloween because i Love the comics of Charles M. Schulz the Peanuts. I did not understand what it is about Halloween. A question to you. Cats or Dogs? 😄
Its here a relativ new event , in year 1999, 2000 & of course all years before noone here didn't know halloween or how on wich date it is. I know it cos the confuised reactions of all persons in my lernd job in that millenium years & before when i spoke from halloween , wished the persons happy halloween & go out with a halloween makeup. The first halloween started in germany first time rout a bout before 10years ago from this year now!!!
This is true, it’s especially hard when you have things falling on the same day or close by, it often makes them clash and one always has to suffer.. but thanks for watching ☺️☺️ and the comment 🙏🏼
Punting For The People Don't be surprised: NEXT GREAT THING isn't Halloween. It's the "ZEITUMSTELLUNG" (my translation: the great clock desaster)! Wirst sehen! (you will see!) :P
I think in Australia we base our celebration of Halloween on the americanised Verizon of it, especially with all the influence from TV and Film, but we are still so far behind in the celebrating, maybe only a small level ahead of Germany with the exposure of Halloween as a whole.
Hard to believe the comments. When I was stationed in Germany in the early 1980's, the Germans were solidly embracing the adult side of Halloween. Several castle throughout the country had adults only settings straight out of a horror movie. People being hung, guillotined, witches flitting around, real animal organs on display....It was as though you had walked onto a serious movie set with a genuine 17th century castle.
U call your self a vloger?? why don't u just add your voice over the steer view? you're a handsome man ok but I think most people would prefer to see the fall view instead of a guy speaking in a small room
