Episode 13 - Festivals in Autumn and Winter in Austria and Germany
Part 1 of a Holiday Special for Thanksgiving and the autumn time
2023-11-23 35 min Susanne Schilk-Blümel
Description & Show Notes
The topic for this episode is special days, holidays, and festivals in the German-speaking area throughout autumn and winter. Highlights include coverage of Austria's diverse traditions and the Austrian national holiday. Furthermore, language and cultural nuances concerning religious holidays, cultural festivals, and national events are discussed. Susi also compares Thanksgiving to holidays in Austria. Alongside these points, she mentions the upcoming guide for watching German TV shows and movies that will be released in the forthcoming episode.
Summary
In this episode of Better German, host Susi Blumel speaks about the festivals and holidays in the autumn and winter seasons. She discusses the public holidays in Austria, including the unique traditions of Allerheiligen (All Saint’s Day) and Matinstag (St. Martin’s Day). The episode also explores the interesting customs of Lantern-making, the colourful Carnival season and the extravagant Ball season in Vienna. Blumel also shines a spotlight on Halloween and the emergence of Christmas markets. Additionally, she teases the upcoming episodes focused on watching movies to learn German. The episode is filled with culture and personal experiences, making it an interactive Episode of the festive and celebratory spirit in the German-speaking world.
Key Points:
- The host discusses upcoming episodes about learning German through movies and TV shows.
- Various holidays and traditions are highlighted, such as Halloween, Allerheiligen, Saint Martin's Day, and the start of carnival season.
- The episode introduces the concept of the beautiful ball season, Christmas markets, and the significance of certain public holidays in Austria and Germany.
Upcoming Episode Teaser:
- Part 2 of the Festivals and Holidays Autumn Winter series: Focused on movies to watch for learning German.
- Special freebie: An interactive guide for watching German movies and TV shows.
Audience Acknowledgment:
- Susi Blumel extends greetings to her listeners in the United States and acknowledges Thanksgiving as a significant holiday for some listeners.
Winter Challenges and Festivals:
- Susi Blumel discusses the challenges of winter in Austria, with short days and cold weather.
Harvest Festivals and Traditions:
- Blumel discusses local harvest festivals in rural Austria, as well as the Oktoberfest tradition in Germany.
National Holidays:
- The German national holiday on 3rd October, celebrated as the Day of German Unity.
- The Austrian national holiday on 26th October, marking Austria's declaration of neutrality after the Second World War, with a show of the military in Vienna on this day.
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Transcript
Welcome to the Better German podcast.
My name is Susi Blümel, and I will teach
you German and everything around the
language , the countries and the culture.
Welcome to the new
episode of better German.
I'm quite excited to do this.
This episode is about all the special
days, holidays festivals at the end
of the year, starting in autumn,
going until the end of the year, in
the German speaking area in general.
I'm going to cover a few things that are
for all of Austria, Germany, not so much
Switzerland, because I don't know so much
about their traditions, to be honest.
But most things are about Austria.
So in case you heard, I was actually
planning that this episode 13 is an
episode that I'm also super excited about.
And that's an episode about watching
movies or TV shows to learn German, to
watch German TV shows with subtitles.
I have recorded this episode
and I'm very excited, it's a
very special episode to me.
I've actually been working on
this for quite a while, and there
will be a very special freebie,
that I'm really happy about.
Once this is going live, you will
be able to log in to my homepage
and have an interactive guide,
for watching movies or TV shows.
So you can choose different options,
you can say, okay, I want Netflix
because I only have Netflix, and
I want intermediate, or you can go
by subject, or you can even choose
by language of subtitles available.
So this is going to be a guide that comes
out as a freebie, with the next episode.
This is going to be episode 14.
I changed the date for that episode
because I realized that this episode
is going to air, on Thanksgiving.
And Thanksgiving is not
a holiday in Austria.
And I was looking at the episodes, the
podcast statistics, and I saw that I
have a lot of listeners, in the United
States and I'm very glad about, so hello,
shout out to all of my Us listeners.
I'm very glad that you're there.
I've also been.
lucky to spend Thanksgiving in
the United States in the past.
And I loved it.
It was a very lovely holiday.
And when I looked at that, I realized
there's so much, you could say
about the different holidays and
festivities and things going on
from around September to the end
of the year in Austria and Germany.
It's quite an interesting time.
And I also realized it's quite different
to what it is in other countries.
Maybe you're going to listen to
it on Thanksgiving maybe later.
I hope you're going to be in holiday mood.
So happy holidays, maybe you are
listening to this much later,
then I hope you enjoy it anyway.
At the very end of this episode, there
will be a word list, because after
all, this podcast is about learning
German, so at the end, I'm still
giving you quite a lot of nouns that
are around the whole topic of what
are we going to cover in this episode.
However, I think learning a language,
is not so much only about learning
what do the words or the sentences
mean in another language, but it's
also about understanding a culture.
And I think it's a very nice approach
towards any culture to look at their
festivities, to look at their traditions.
This is quite a subjective thing,
Austria and Germany are very diverse
countries, we have people of,
different religions, different degrees
of religiousness, or no religions.
I obviously I can speak for all people
that live in Austria, I'm just trying
to give you my very subjective view,
on these different kinds of things that
are going on at this time of the year.
I have to say.
It's actually not my favorite time
of the year, I'm a summer person.
I'm a spring and summer person.
And at the very beginning
of the winter every year.
I'm like, how am I going
to survive this winter?
Not everybody, that listens to this
is going to have the same, time zone.
Of course not, so I'm also going to give
you a little bit of a reality, how it is.
So we have real winters.
of course nothing.
Like, I don't know, Alaska or Siberia.
But it's pretty cold here and it's dark.
It's really dark.
We are having the middle of November
now, and up until the 21st of December,
the days are actually getting shorter.
until on the 21st of December,
we only have eight hours of
daylight, so it's pretty dark.
So let's get started with the
actual calendar of events or
however you want to call it.
The first thing, I want to
mention that's a local festivity
and it doesn't have a set date.
Around September, in many areas
of the more rural Austria, not so
much in Vienna, we have harvest
festivals "Erntedank" we call it.
so yeah, this is usually
when the harvest is complete.
In Vienna, there is a harvest
festival in the beginning of
September, and it it's nice.
They have floats and a big party on
one of the nice big places in Vienna.
However, it's not a traditional
thing for our family or for
people that live in the cities.
If you're however, visiting a village
in the countryside, or if you are from
a countryside, then that is a big thing.
Okay, good.
So that's harvest festivals,
these are local festivities.
And then, that's a more recent
development for us in Austria, in
Germany, there is a big tradition,
particularly in the Munich area or
actually in the whole Southern area.
There is a tradition called Oktoberfest.
So that's October festival.
And, you probably have heard about that.
It's a big thing.
And it's a.hugeot festival.
Where people drink, beer,
they eat traditional foods.
Most people dress in
the traditional clothes.
or a modern version of
the traditional clothes.
So the, the female version of the
traditional clothes is called It's a
dress, it's a nice dress and it's also
the name for girl in many regional areas.
Then the next holiday that I want
to talk about shortly, just shortly,
because I really don't have so much
personal experience with it, but I
wanted to, add it to nevertheless.
On the 3rd of October, there's the
German national holiday and it's
called "Tag der Deutschen Einheit".
It's the day of the German
union or unification.
After the second world war East
and West Germany were separated.
So East Germany.
kind of was controlled by
Russia, and Western Germany was.
The Republic of Western Germany,
And then after the break of
the Berlin wall, In 1989.
I mean, it took some time, but
that started to the events.
And then after Western Germany and
Eastern Germany were combined again.
And this, This is celebrated on that day.
That's the 3rd of October.
I don't know exactly how they're
celebrating it because I've never
been in Germany around the time.
I do see, or I have seen many
Germans taking the day off, because
this is a public holiday, so
most people don't have to work.
And sometimes it means that a lot
of Germans come to Austria because
many Germans like to come to
Austria for shorter or longer trips.
So the 3rd of October is the day of the
German union, "Tag der Deutschen Einheit".
And now we're getting really
into the Austrian things.
The 26th of October is the
Austrian national holiday day.
"Nationalfeiertag".
So 26th of October, it's our
Austrian national holiday.
And there is actually a few events that
happened around the 26th of October 1955
and these are what we're celebrating.
So on the 25th of October, The
last, allied soldier left Austria.
So, Austria was on the losing side
of the second world war being like
into cahoots with Germany and so on.
So, after the second world war
for 10 years, the allies, meaning.
Russia, England, the United States and
France, were controlling Austria, while
the government was rebuilt and so on.
And, so that was going on for
10 years, until 1955, like the
war was over 1945, and 1955 the
last soldier left, on the 26th of
October, we declared our neutrality.
Wow, that is a hard word to say
in German it's "immerwährende
Neutralität", so everlasting neutrality.
That means, that we're saying we're
not going into any wars more or less.
There are a few other countries
in Europe that are as well,
Switzerland, Sweden, Finland.
I think that's it.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
These are the neutral countries in Europe.
They're not taking sides in wars.
They're not supposed to do that.
And we declared that we're not doing that.
So that's why the 26th of
October is our national holiday.
We do have a military we're neutral, but
we have a military, I guess for defense
purposes, and, the 26th of October is
quite a big display, of the military.
So like, there's this huge place in Vienna
called the Heldenplatz . The heroes place.
It's a very beautiful place, by the way.
You have a very nice park on one
hand, on one side and you have.
For the most part, the
Imperial palace D also.
The Viennese Imperial
palace, which is huge.
It's an entire part of the city.
And that's there.
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So that's the 26th of October.
to be honest, we don't have big
parades, it's not like the 4th
of July in the United States.
It's not like everybody's going out
we're not meeting up to have a barbecue
It's we know that that's what it is.
Everybody learns at school,
why we're having this holiday.
We kind of, enjoy a time off.
It's a public holiday, so most people
don't work unless they work in.
hospitality, so in a restaurant or a
hotel, mainly, but shops are closed.
By the way, that's probably not
as bad in Germany, but in Austria
shops are closed every Sunday, and
shops are closed on public holidays.
Yeah.
So for example, what I told you before,
what I was talking about, the harvest
festivals, these are not public holidays.
maybe there is regional ones, but they're
not bank holidays or public holidays.
However, the 26th of October is
an actual public holiday, that
means all schools are closed.
All public offices, banks are
closed, and most shops are closed.
The only thing that is open, on
Sundays or on holidays are a few shops
for tourists, like where you can get
souvenirs, gas stations are open.
Usually on train stations or, on the
airport, there is a few shops that
are open, like small supermarkets,
but the supermarkets are closed.
So that's what I mean, when I
say it's a public public holiday.
So that's what we do on the
26th of October, pretty much we
enjoy having a public holiday.
Some people like to go.
so the places where there is.
military displays and you can look at
tanks or helicopters and things like
that, there are usually some flight shows.
But in my family, we we're just
having a day off, basically.
On the last Sunday of October, we have the
time change we call it, "Zeitumstellung",
or actually the changing of the clocks.
So, we change the time, or
the clocks two times a year.
Once in the last weekend of October.
Or the last Sunday of October and
once on the last Sunday of March.
I think it's outdated, I'm
not the only one that does.
The original idea was to, to save money
on electricity, but, there are scientific
studies and it's, it's pointless.
So on the 31st of October,
obviously is Halloween.
Now Halloween, as it is celebrated
in in the United States, like people
dressing up and doing trick or treating
and things like that, that is a
relatively new development in Austria.
Like when I was a kids,
we didn't do that at all.
My first contact with Halloween
personally was probably when I was
the first time in the United States.
So.
Basically.
Until like 25 years ago or something.
There wasn't much going on in
Austria with Halloween and it
has become a more usual thing.
So people do dress up, it's more
just the spooky thing, because we
have something else, where people
dress up and this is "Fasching".
"Fasching" or carnival.
I, you probably have heard of carnival
it's, in the United States locally,
but it's not a national thing.
However in Austria, we
have "Fasching", carnival.
It starts on the 11th of November.
I'm going to talk about that.
Once I'm there in my date list.
So if people dress up for
Halloween, it's pretty much
exclusively like as witches, devils.
Demons, or anything, spooky
ghosts, things like that.
There is no big trick or treating thing.
Actually, I've never seen anybody
personally trick or treating.
We do have a holiday around that time.
Meaning on the 1st of November, So 1st of
November in German is "Allerheiligen".
And that would be all Hallows.
If you look where the word Halloween comes
from, It's a version of all Hallows Eve.
So an all Hallows is an old English or an
older English way of saying all saints.
And, that's exactly what
"Allerheiligen" means "all saints".
So that is a holiday
on the 1st of November.
It's also a public holiday.
So another day, just a week, pretty
much, later from the 26th of October,
where everything is closed and what
many people do traditionally on that day
is, they go and visit the cemeteries,
they visit their deceased relatives
or dear ones on the cemeteries.
Not everybody in Austria does
that, of course, but it's a big
thing a lot of people do visit.
the graves of their deceased relatives.
I think from my observation,
generally, this is more.
a thing that like older people do.
So that's the 1st of November.
What for many people the tradition
is now between the 26th of
October and the 1st of November.
In recent years, like really
recent years schools have
started to have an autumn break.
so.
Around that time, there was a week or
even 10 days off So many people use it
to take a short break, take holidays,
particularly people with, that have
kids that are in school age because
they don't have school around that time.
So, the next thing coming up in that
area, we're really going play by
play here is the 11th of November.
So the 11th of November
is not a public holiday.
However, there's quite a lot of things
going on and starting around the time.
So first of all, it's called "Martinstag".
So the day of St.
Martin of the, of the Saint Martin, I'm
not going to go into the story of St.
Martin.
I just want to say so much: a lot of
these days, or some of these days,
they're named after saints, because
in the Catholic tradition, and
Austria is traditionally a Catholic
country, Germany is more protestant.
So there is a few traditions that
are a little different, but in
Austria, all the saints have a day.
This is assigned to them, that is usually
their birthday or their dying date.
So if you look at the calendar
in Austria, very often, you find
names written next to the date.
And in case you ever wonder, these
are the days when the saints in the
Catholic religion are being celebrated.
So very often when we refer to
special days, not necessarily only
in a religious context, we refer
to it by the names of these saints.
So the 11th of November is
"Martini" or "Martinstag",
the day of the "Saint Martin".
And, there are many, many different
traditions that're connected to this.
So one of the traditions is that
on that day, or not even only on
that day, but usually in a week,
or even in the weeks around that.
we like to eat.
a "Martinsgans".
So "Gans" is a goose.
So we eat a festive meal, that is not
dissimilar to Thanksgiving, actually.
but we don't eat turkeys, we eat
geese and it's not exactly a light
meal, because geese are relatively
fat, That's kind of more heavy than
Turkey, but anyway, it can be very
good if it's well done, it's very good.
And the traditional meal is this goose
and, red cabbage, we eat red cabbage.
It's kind of like.
Sauerkraut, but in red and not sour.
I don't know if that makes sense.
So it's made by red cabbage, cabbage comes
in different colors, one of them is red.
and it's called red cabbage
"Rotkraut", in some areas in, in
Germany, particularly, we also call
"Blaukraut" that means blue cabbage.
And then with this, goose and
cabbage we like to eat dumplings.
"Knödel".
There's a lot of different variations,
but the two that I know the best or I've
seen the most are "Kartoffelknödel"
or "Erdäpfelknödel", so these are
potato dumplings, or "Semmelknödel".
"Semmel", is a piece, it's a roll,
it's a small piece of white bread.
And, when this is dried up, basically
in order to not have things go to
waste, we make different things
out of it, among other things
you can make dumplings out of it.
So these are "Semmelknödel",
they're actually quite tasty.
So that's the traditional food.
Most people that I know now, they will
go to a traditional restaurants that will
serve "Martinigans", and you actually
see the lot in traditional restaurants.
So I think most people these days,
if they do that, they go to the
restaurant and have this nice meal.
And it's not really a family tradition.
However, another very cute traditional
actually, and that is definitely a
family tradition, is "der Laternenumzug".
So, a "Laterne" is a lantern.
So little kids in kindergarten or
in school, they will usually make
their own lanterns out of paper.
When I was small, we
used to use real candles.
Now we don't use real candles
for, because it's a fire hazard.
I think that's a good thing.
And we made our own little lanterns and
we were walking around with these lanterns
on a little stick and we were singing.
And it's very cute.
It's actually one of the first
memories I have in my life.
So we were all going around, and
singing this song about walking
around with our little lantern.
And that's something that we
do on this 11th of November.
And there used to be a
tradition of having big fires.
and at some point that tradition,
was forbidden in some areas.
And I think these lanterns are what
is leftover from that tradition.
on that day, we're still on the 11th
of November, which by the way, is not a
public holiday, everybody works there.
It's the official
beginning of the carnival.
It actually starts on the 11th of
November at 11:00 AM and 11 minutes.
So, 11.11.
11:11.
That's the 11th of the 11th.
That's how we say the 11th of
November, 11 Uhr 11 11 o'clock
and 11 minutes 11.11, 11:11.
That is when carnival starts.
Now carnival.
as I said, Starts on that day.
I don't know if you have no idea
about carnival basically it's a time
from the middle of November until.
February, middle of February, beginning
of March, The exact ending it's determined
of the date when Easter is in that year.
and I think only catholic countries
probably have that tradition.
Because even though a lot of
things that are happening in that
time are not Catholic at all.
and actually most of the traditions
predate the Catholic tradition,
they're older than caseloads system.
However, some point they were merged
so much into the Catholic calendar,
that I think they only exist in, in
countries that are that are catholic.
So anyway, on the 11th of November, it
starts, there are different traditions
alive, and I think that's very nice.
we have a lot of things, people are
dressing up, we have a lot of parties.
However most children's carnival
parties, they're usually like after
Christmas in January and February.
But still, carnival will actually
starts in November and is interrupted
only by the Christmas holidays.
In the Austrian Alpine areas and some
part of the German Alpine areas, you
have something called "Perchtenläufe".
So "Perchten", there is nice and
ugly versions of that, but they're
considered demons or ghosts.
And they have them, like they're
doing floats, they're doing, parades.
of these "Perchten".
And for example, I'm in
the "Salzkammergut" area.
Like.
"Ausseer" area that's an mountain
area in the mountains of Styria,
Upper Austria and Salzburg.
And in that area, they have a tradition
of parades with these "Perchten".
And variations of them.
And these, as far as I can
tell, they're representing.
ghosts or demons anyway there
are groups that are parading and
it's pretty wild and exciting.
And that's the carnival, time.
In the city, carnival or "Fasching",
we call it "der Fasching", it's mainly
about having parties, having a good
time, dressing up, maybe dreaming
a little bit of what could be.
and it's probably the biggest for kids.
Not all adults go to a carnival party.
It's been quite a while
that I was the last time.
On a carnival party.
but I used to go a lot when I was a kid
and we had carnival in school and in
kindergarten and with friends and so on.
And people can dress up as everything.
And they will usually more dress up
in things they consider is like their
heroes or something, they really like.
So, they will dress up as princesses
or as firemen, or as, I don't
know, probably in the, in the more
modern days as Marvel characters.
and things like that.
So, That's that's what we have
for Fasching, I wanted to add
it, because it does officially
start at the 11th of November.
but these kinds of parties
in Vienna after the new year.
However, there is other parts of
Austria and Germany, where Fasching is
starting to be, there is a pun intended,
quite a serious thing in November.
It's it's the time when people are going
crazy and they have their own traditions
of like, parties with sort of like
comedic parts and they're making, there's
a lot of making fun of, of politics and
politicians and people in power around
that time and then there's traditions with
different parades and different figures.
One last thing that starts on
the 11th of November and that's
connected with carnival and
Fasching and that's very Viennese.
That's the beginning of the ball season.
So a ball is a formal party.
It's a formal dance, where people,
in older days used to just ballroom
dance in modern days, you usually
have a big mixture of dances,
but still it's ballroom dancing.
And then many people like to go to
balls, not everybody dances on a ball.
But there is a big tradition of balls and
they really start on the 11th of November.
And the season again goes until The
middle of February or beginning of March.
and, in Vienna we have about
450 balls, every year, some
of them are really famous.
The world famous, like the
Vienna state opera ball.
Is world famous and I think they
even export it to the United
States, there's a Viennese opera
ball now, or there used to be.
In New York.
I haven't been to any of them because
for my taste, this particular one is a
little bit too formal, but I have been
to other balls and it's a very nice.
activity, if you like that kind of thing.
And, we have a lot of
beautiful buildings in Vienna.
And most balls are held in one
of those beautiful buildings.
And it is quite an experience to spend,
an evening in like in the ballroom where
you have these, beautiful traditional
buildings, people are dressed up in
nice dresses and, suits and you dance.
It's nice, most of these
balls have live music.
And as I said, I don't think
that they're super stiff.
And even if you don't like to
ballroom dance or you don't know
how to ballroom dance, it is quite
an experience So that season starts
also on the 11th of November.
And now we're through with what's
happening on the 11th of November.
It's quite an exciting day.
I have to say.
What we have, in the middle of November,
so right after this 11th, of November.
The first Christmas markets are starting.
So, and Christmas lightings will go up.
In Austria, I think we have a tendency
to start many of the Christmas
markets even earlier than in Germany.
Most places in Germany, don't
start a Christmas markets
until the end of November.
So we start our Christmas markets
at the middle of November.
So basically when everything in the us
is in the full things, giving mood, we're
already in the Christmas side of life.
And until the end of November, all of the
Christmas markets in Vienna have opened.
We have about 15 Christmas markets in
Vienna, that's just the bigger ones.
I think there's like you will find
different booths on all sorts of places,
but the bigger markets there are about
15 and some of them are very, very nice.
So, as this has become such a
long episode, I'm going to leave
you on this extreme cliffhanger,
of the information about all the
Christmas markets in Austria.
I've decided to split this episode in 2.
We're pretty much at the half of it.
I will publish the second part of this.
holiday season special very soon,
definitely before Christmas.
The episode 14 will come next Thursday.
So stay tuned.
Together with the second part of
the, of this episode, there will
be a freebie, which is a PDF.
It's a downloadable PDF.
I'm just remodeling the whole freebie
delivery on my homepage or actually
it's going to be on my homepage then.
So stay tuned.
I hope you've liked what you heard so far.
And happy Thanksgiving if you're
in the US or if you're American or
Canadian, and celebrate Thanksgiving.
Happy holidays, do,
well, wherever you are.
And I hope to hear you soon.
And definitely.
come back next Thursday, because with
that next day posole, where I'm going
to talk about movies and which movies
to watch to learn German, to help you on
your German learning experience, there
will be also a great freebie, which is
an interactive guide, that will help
you to find movies that you can watch.
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