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WHAT IS CARNIVAL?• Carnival is typical for lots of regions in Germany• It is called „ the fifth season of the year“• The people like to be crazy and funny• They dress up themselves and they wear coloured costumes and
masks• In january and february there are lots of carnival parades in
Germany• The children like to watch the parade because they often get
sweets• Some participants have great and beautiful waggons
HISTORY OF CARNIVAL• Carnival is the time before the people fast for 6 weeks
• they have to fast from ash Wednesday to easter
• They have to fast because jesus died, kids fast - sweets
- fighting with brothers,
sisters or parents
- electronic things
(mobile phone,computer)
• Since the 19 th century carnival exist
• Every year on 11 th of november at 11 o‘clock and 11 minutes the carnival time begins
FOOD AND DRINKS IN CARNIVAL
• „Krapfen“ are delicious pastries
• In carnival time beer is often drunk
• „Granatsplitter“ are made of cake rests
• Lots of sweets are eaten
• „Bratwurstsemmeln“ are sausages in a bun with ketchup or mustard
Krapfen
Bratwurstsemmel
Granatsplitter
beer
OUR CARNIVAL COSTUME PREPARATION
• We made masks of gips or plastic …• And drew on them and stick feathers and
pearls on them• After this ,we tailored costumes from bed
sheets• We stuck stickers on our own sweets to give
them to the children on the carnival parade
CARNIVAL PARADE• We arrived in the morning in Pleinfeld and ate
there our breakfast
• After this we all danced with our exchange partners with typical german carnival music
• Then we took place on the carnival parade
• It was a really great adventure for us
• The viewer were happy and thanked us for the sweets
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
That was a presentation of Barbara Volkert and Ronja Gerner