{"id":2836,"date":"2011-10-31T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T13:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:06:17","slug":"happy-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/happy-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 31 October is very well known throughout the USA because it is Halloween \u2013 one of the most important holidays in the USA. The 31 October is also a holiday in Germany but unlike Americans we Germans celebrate, first of all, the Reformationstag<\/em><\/strong> (Reformation Day), which is a Protestant holiday.<\/p>\n

According to tradition, the M\u00f6nch<\/em><\/strong> (monk) Martin Luther had posted up Ninety-Five Theses \u2013 which made Ablass<\/em><\/strong> (indulgence) and Bu\u00dfe<\/em><\/strong> (repentance) subjects of discussion \u2013 against the gate of the All Saints\u2019 Church in Wittenberg in 1517, one day before Allerheiligen<\/em><\/strong> (All Saints\u2019 Day). Luther basically attacked the vorherrschende Ansicht<\/em><\/strong> (prevailing opinion) that one can be delivered from sins by paying a L\u00f6segeld<\/em><\/strong> (ransom). He therewith instigated the reformation of the church.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Halloween actually is not a German Brauch<\/em><\/strong> (custom) but it became more and more beliebt<\/em><\/strong> (popular) during the last years. Germans like to verkleiden<\/em><\/strong> (disguise) and feiern<\/em><\/strong> (celebrate) and, thus, there are nowadays Halloween parties all over Germany in clubs, bars, and discotheques.<\/p>\n

There is also the custom that children run from door to door and ask for sweets. I remember the first time (maybe six or seven years ago) when children were ringing my doorbell and shouted \u201cS\u00fc\u00dfes oder Saures\u201d (lit. sweets or sours), which is the German version for \u2018Trick or Treat\u2019. The German saying means something like: \u2018Give me sweets or I let you have it\u2019. There is the German idiom jemanden Saures geben<\/em><\/strong> (to let someone have it), which literally means \u2018to give someone sourness\u2019.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I was completely surprised finding children at my door who were asking for sweets because I wasn\u2019t prepared for that. I only had an open bar of chocolate at home, so I didn\u2019t open the door and waited for them to go away. That was a learning experience to me. Since then I buy a lot of sweets every Halloween to give them away. But I unfortunately had to learn another lesson. Collecting sweets seems still not to be very common in my town because there were also years when I was left with all the sweets. Nevertheless, I don\u2019t give up hope that children will ring my doorbell tonight \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Vocabulary:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

der Reformationstag \u2013 Reformation Day<\/em><\/p>\n

der M\u00f6nch \u2013 monk<\/em><\/p>\n

der Ablass \u2013 indulgence<\/em><\/p>\n

die Bu\u00dfe \u2013 repentance<\/em><\/p>\n

das Allerheiligen \u2013 All Saints\u2019 Day<\/em><\/p>\n

die vorherrschende Ansicht \u2013 prevailing opinion<\/em><\/p>\n

das L\u00f6segeld \u2013 ransom<\/em><\/p>\n

der Brauch \u2013 custom<\/em><\/p>\n

beliebt \u2013 popular<\/em><\/p>\n

sich verkleiden \u2013 to disguise<\/em><\/p>\n

feiern \u2013 to celebrate<\/em><\/p>\n

jemandem Saures geben \u2013 to let so. have it<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

and some sweets:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

die Schokolade \u2013 chocolate<\/em><\/p>\n

das Bonbon \u2013 sugar candy<\/em><\/p>\n

der Lutscher \u2013 lollipop<\/em><\/p>\n

das Kaubonbon \u2013 soft sugar candy<\/em><\/p>\n

die Gummib\u00e4rchen \u2013 gummy bears<\/em><\/p>\n

die Lakritze \u2013 licorice (mostly black licorice, red licorice is not very well know)<\/em><\/p>\n

die Kekse \u2013 cookies<\/em><\/p>\n

die Waffeln \u2013 wafers<\/em><\/p>\n

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The 31 October is very well known throughout the USA because it is Halloween \u2013 one of the most important holidays in the USA. The 31 October is also a holiday in Germany but unlike Americans we Germans celebrate, first of all, the Reformationstag (Reformation Day), which is a Protestant holiday. According to tradition, the…<\/p>\n

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