Events

Shrove Tuesday or, Little Herring

Although I love Hamburg more than any other city in the world, at times I wish I was somewhere else instead. This time is now. It’s called… right, that’s the thing! It has so many names: Karneval, Fasching, Fastnacht… When I watch those serious, often elderly people going crazy on the streets I wish I was in Cologne or Mainz. I’m not even really sure that would be fun for me but I’ve never been so I don’t know and I wanna find out and watch how the Germans sich gehen lassen (lose their self-control). And the picture is my collage on the funniest names for the last day of carnival I found: Śledzik (little herring) in Polish and Veilchendienstag (Violet Tuesday) in Mönchengladbach. The herring should remind people that the party’s over at midnight and it’s soon time to shrive!