The Average German Christmas: Food, Gifts & Arguments
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- It's Christmas time in Germany, which means three things: family, food, and fighting. But how do Germans celebrate? What do they eat? And what are their least-favorite gifts? Euromaxx reporter Clare Trelawny-Gower takes you on a German cultural safari.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:22 Preparations at home
01:11 Arrival at Steffi’s place
01:49 Christmas trees, coffee and sweets
02:43 Gift time
03:40 Dinner
04:06 After dinner arguments
04:51 Outro
#Germans #AverageGerman #Christmas
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LIST OF REFERENCES
This document lists the most important facts in our CZcams video:
docs.google.com/document/d/1Q...
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CREDITS
Report: Clare Trelawny-Gower
Camera: Neven Hillebrands
Edit: Florian Mettke, Clare Trelawny-Gower
Supervising Editor: Mirja Viehweger
Michael Müller: Mischa Wanker
Steffi Müller: Meike Krüger
Monika Müller: Susanne Kröger
Georg Müller: Peter Gross
Emma Müller: Mia Steinbrück
Sophia Müller: Ava Steinbrück
Tommy: Hendrik Welling
Special thanks to Sebastian Scherer
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Happy Heiligabend everyone! Who's enjoying potato salad and sausages this evening? 🎄🌭
Love this series with Michael! Pls continue. thanks.
More to come! 😁🎄
@@dweuromaxx Fairly sure the next one will be about dating... 🧐 Hope to learn more about Germans interest and custom for physically active date ideas (like going hiking on the first date 😮💨), cause that is definitely not common elsewhere. 😅
But this potatoe salad looks like a sad one from the supermarket - something that would never be served at Heiligabend! 😱
I wish we had the production budget to hire an Oma for the food ;)
I agree! Also the artificial Tree looks sad and everything else. I remember Christmas in Glanz und Glory! I wish I would still live at my home and would be allowed to help you with the production. However I enjoyed it ...but it does not convey how special and nice Christmas Eve and Christmas day really is for Germans.🎄❤
I am having some more Gluehwein, Nuernberger Lebkuchen and Stollen mit Sahne.
Anyway, thank you and LG aus Canada❣ Best wishes for the New Year...Cheers! 🍷
Love these series! It should inspire like series for all countries around the world. Entertainment and cultural education! Dankeschön!
Thank you for such a kind comment! Would you like us to feature some other nationalities? 😁
@@dweuromaxx I‘d watch Average [any nationality] gladly 😂
So would I!
i've suddenly had the thought that this Michael Müller is going to be a big star, great series, we're loving it in the Dresden learning English class
Also worth mentioning, the fairy tale - Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel - is shown on TV every year around Christmas time in Germany. This movie is celebrating 50th birthday this year 2023. No idea how many Germans watching it every year, but it is definitely a Christmas tradition in Germany.
Well, maybe Michael Müller is just fed up with that movie. 😄😅
And Loriot's Weihnachten bei den Hoppenstedts
Und "Der kleine Lord".
Not just Germans- Canadians, like myself, who first saw it broadcast in the 70s for a while (then for some reason got replaced by the Sound of Music- no snow even in that film! ) still watch that beautiful Czech film too religiously every Christmas with their family❤
@@BC-lp2xi I'm Czech and that's lovely.
Children having to sing for their presents! Wonderful idea. Will try it here in UK.....
Or play a song on some musical instrument. I remember getting a recorder when I was 6 or 7, so I was allowed to play sons,, with the expectation that I showed off improved playing skills each year.
One correction - Advent is what (used to) begin on St. Martin’s Day and ends on December 24.
Lent runs from Ash Wednesday to Easter.
Thank you, eagle-eyed viewer 😁🦅
The Advent used to be a time of lent, too. We just forgot in time, probably over all the Plätzchen and Lebkuchen.
@@e.458 I think there might be a translation issue here. In English, “Lent” specifically refers to the liturgical season of 40 days (excluding Sundays) before Easter. I believe this is called “Fastenzeit” in German, which literally translates to “fasting time.”
True - Advent used to be a time of fasting, but it was and is distinct and separate from the season of Lent in the spring. In English, we wound not say that “lent” or “a time of lent” ended on Christmas Eve. We would say “Advent, which used to be a time of fasting, ends on Christmas Eve.”
Beautiful to watch! Lord only you know the burdens I face give me strength to get through this Christmas. I am a single mom and it can be hard to have everything on your shoulders and receive very little support. Both of my sons are autistic they require so much from me. I’m struggling to provide for them. But I keep faith even as I struggle to pay rent every month and as I struggle to buy groceries. My health is also fading due to heart disease and lupus. Jesus please help me to find strength when I am weak, hope when I am struggling, and peace in the midst of chaos. I have faith God will provide.
Dankeschoen aus Canada und alles Gute fuer DW und Germany fuer 2024. ❤❤
Love love love. Merry Christmas to Micheal müller and family! Look forward to knowing Michael’s New Year’s Eve plans
This whole series is fun, entertaining, and well written. 👏
As this series goes on, one question keeps bugging me...what _is_ Clare? A ghost? Guardian Angel? An Alien?
Does everyone have a Clare? Do *I* have a Clare???
You have a Clare and she’s right behind you
@@dweuromaxx Congratulations, you guys just invented positive paranoia.
Everyone needs a Clare!
We just got back from Dinner at my partners sister, who is a fantastic cook. Her home made Plätzchen are gorgeous, but some on the sweeter side. Is anyone surprised that my partner told his sister that the Plätzchen are too sweet? 😊 But at the same time, a lot of Ooohs and Aaahs were given for the Rinder Rouladen, Bratkartoffeln, Rosenkohl und selbst gemachtes Blaukraut. Wow, lecker! Und als Nachtisch gab es Weihnachtsstollen Parfait mit kandierten Orangenscheiben mit Grand Magnier! Seriously! What a Christmas Day Dinner! Merry Christmas everyone!
These series are super fun. ❤
Thank you! ☺
Wonderful! So many parallels to my German family. Love it. Thank you DW and Clare 😊
The Average German New Year, next please!
Yes with Dinner for One. 😂
Emma and Sophia looked so cute in their matching holiday sweaters . . . and I loved how they cut loose with a bit of perfect English . . . "Definitely not Grandpa!" 🎅🎅🎅🥰
This is on the best series in the channel!
Thank you :)! We’ve got more coming 🎁
Thanks Clare and crew. This series is Spaß!
I really love these videos ❤
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎄🎄
Merry Christmas to you too! 🎄
the whole serie is so funny!
Thanks Clare, lovely series.
You seem to have had your own ghost behind you when the family was eating their potato salad. (3:46)
Must be the Ghost of Christmas Past..😉
Happy holidays to all typisch germans!
Happy holidays to all Michael Müllers and friends 😁🎄🎅🏻
Getting better, one episode at a time ...! ✅ ✅
Wow, inspiring!
Thank you Top Fan Lucas ❤️🎄
🎅🏻 Merry Xmas! 🎅🏻
🎅🏻 Frohe Weihnacht! 🎅🏻
DW macht bitte mal was über Loriot, Humor und so.
Merry Christmas
Happy holidays! (in summer)
LOVE this series ! ❤I'm starting to get quite attached to Michael.😅
Looking forward to every new video, hope it will continue for long !
We're glad you like it. Make sure to follow us in order to not miss out in the future 😊
This German is an atheist, home alone at Christmas and putting order i the apartment and cleaning. Long standing, personal tradition that I LOVE because people leave me alone and I have all the time in the world to myself.
Errrr…as an older German it was never our experience that we had potato salad and wieners on the 24th. We would have goose or sauerbraten. So it was throughout our large family. Seems to me this is a contemporary invention
😂😂😂 I LOVE IT.
There is also a sizeable portion of the country who "believe" in "das Christkind" ("The Christ Child") instead of Santa. Also, I never heard about any parent/ family member who dressed up as Santa. Obviously, I woudn't know that from my own family as we belong to the Christkind fraction but I never heard about it from any friends.
Here in northern bavaria it‘s all about the christkind. Never heard from a family refering to santa on christmas. But who knows, perhaps it got adopted from us families living here or even more likely from tv shows…they are all about santa 😊
@@KasiskBeing from northern Germany the Christkind wasn't anything I knew as a child, but its the Weihnachtsmann, not Santa.
I think it's a Catholic/ protestant difference. Here in the Rheinland (Catholic) it is also the Christkind. Saint Nikolaus is the bearded old man that brings presents or twig-whips in his sack and puts them into the children's shoes during the night, but his celebration is earlier during advent (I think the Weihnachtsmann/ Santa evolved in protestant regions from the Sankt Nikolaus celebration as they no longer venerate the saints and hence couldn't celebrate it anymore)
@@hmvollbanane1259 Historical this may be right, but we do have the Nikolaus in protestant aereas, and than the Weihnachtsmann brings the gifts at Christmas.
In November 😂 why the hurry Germans over plan😂. I love the series
Georg looks like a right laugh...😅
As an "Ausslandsdeutscher" (we generally keep traditions alive more intensely and multi-multi generationally IMO), I can attest to this video. For people in the US, Thanksgiving seems to be the big "family get together" day but for us it was/is Christmas Eve. At home we still gift on the 24th and, in lieu of a religious service, we read some Bible passage and do a family prayer before Bescherung.
Although Lutheran, I remember that we did Sankt Nikolaus and the whole Advent season was important. Even if, overall, we weren't hugely religious at home. I miss that my mom no longer bakes cookies; she made such good ones. Now, it's all Aldi stuff... :(
It’s interesting kind of. Reading this as someone from a German part of the US, Christmas Eve (before my family began moving around and cousins began moving out) was the start to the big event. Being Catholic, Christmas eve mass was ALWAYS the move (didn’t realize it was a German American thing until I read about it in a small ethnography about the area). We’d all go, and would have to wait til morning when we’d all have piggies in a blanket and then would be allowed to open things. Christmas day was the day when the extended family in the area would come by and we’d all spend time together. Thanksgiving for us was more like grandparents maybe would be invited or if anything neighbors who were friends with my parents
I spent 20 years christmas eve in the Altenheim looking after the seniors, and these is what I get for serving them ZOO. Now I heard voices telling me to mve from my flat paying 80 percent o my salary all those years. maybe frau Mer... is angry because I didd not share her on my facebook. Still the same as before. Bavaria!
Das is goot 😂
I love christmas in germany. Every year...wigs for everyone!!!
my german aunts would make us cookies, i still remember the taste
Claire should give Michel somr love. 🤓🫶👈
$507 on gifts!! OMG
Abendbrot
🥰
It was already awkward telling your friend the bread was "Stollen" (despite already emphasized the "Sh"). Then you have to explain that this bread you are slicing into pieces was supposed to represent baby Jesus wrapped in cloth.
Was? Der amerikanischer Santa kommt mit Geschenken???? Nie.
The Germans call Christmas- Weihnachten🎉
I love love love the subtle dig about Germans stuffing themselves with coffee and sweets right BEFORE dinner (“apparently all this caffeine and sugar helps calm them down”). I lived there for years and could never understand this. Not only did it ruin my dinner (no appetite) but it kept me up all night.
Crazy, right?! Surely it should be a herbal tea to prepare for the coming madness 😉
In my area it is customary to go out afterwards and meet friends at the local pub to also wish them a merry Christmas, that is when the Coffein and sugar is needed. Basically everyone goes back to their hometown/ village for the holidays, so that is where and when you meet up with your old buddies from childhood and school.
So a typical Christmas here would be breakfast, no lunch but cookies and coffee at around 4 when everyone starts to arrive, church at around 6, caroling with the family while the head of the house makes the final preparations at around 7, ringing of the bell and storming into the living room to just have missed the Christkind for the 30th time in a row, dinner, then we read from the bible the Christmas story, followed by the Christmas letters (basically extended family and friends give an update about what happened in their year) while drinking wine and/or coffee and liquor and eating even more cookies, exchange of presents, a couple of hours of relaxing together, coffee and then off to visit friends/ family and go with them into the town. This year we got into bed at around 6am, so the Coffein and sugar reserves were put to good use
We have puff pastry
05:00
Kids have to earn their gift... 😮
not just Michael, I am also looking for love 😶
Clare is as fine as they come.
Haha socks
Is what is with this guy's beard???
Those potato salads and sausage look bland 🎉
🙃
Lavish meal for Christmas? Poatto with a hot dog? Seriously? Boy, Christmas in Germany is depressing... Well, appparently they took the birthday person from the celebration, how can it be joyful?
The more lavish meal is served on the 25th. Potato salad and sausages are for the 24th ☺️
oho, a BEYONCÉ household.
Good eyes :)