Friday, September 3, 2010

Happy Birthday America

July 4, 2010 by GW Editorial Staff  
Filed under Customs

July 4th 1776 the Declaration of Independence (die Unabhängigkeitserklärung) from the Kingdom of Great Britain was adopted.
Words of the day:
to BBQ – Grillen – ich grille, du grillst, er/sie grillt, wir grillen, ihr grillt, sie grillen
fireworks – das Feuerwerk
flag – die Flagge
And at the movies, nothing showed independence day so entertainingly as Will Smith under [...]

Classic Childrens’ Series

June 16, 2010 by GW Editorial Staff  
Filed under Customs

Barbapapa

Wikki und die Starken Männer

Heidi

Pumuckl

Die Biene Maja

Die Sendung mit der Maus

Der Rosarote Panther – Paulchen Panther

Tao Tao

Pinocchio

Kalimero

Alfred J. Kwak

Das Sandmännchen

The best good night song ever: La Le Lu

German Mayfest in New York

April 26, 2010 by Andreas Fuchs  
Filed under Customs, EVENTS

German Mayfest in New York

“The place for all things German in New York” cordially  invites everybody to its very first Mayfest on May 4, from 6:30 to 9:30pm at Deutsches Haus at New York University.
Consul Jochen Wolter, president of the presenting German American Community Project writes: “This event will benefit our successful website GermanyinNYC.org, the colorful, events-centric information platform that brings [...]

Alles Walzer at the Original Viennese Opera Ball 2010

February 9, 2010 by GW Editorial Staff  
Filed under Customs

Alles Walzer at this year’s Ball Season final high note, Viennese Opera Ball. Comparable to the Academy Awards the Viennese Opera Ball ends the season with a comfortably predictable bang.
Excentric 77 year old Austrian business man Richard Lugner invites a Hollywood starlet every year, this year his daugher got to pick, she wanted Lindsay Lohan [...]

Recipe: Faschingkrapfen and Orange Jam

February 4, 2010 by Barbara Gasser  
Filed under Customs, Recipes

Recipe: Faschingkrapfen and Orange Jam

Fasching ends on February 16th. The climax of carnival is Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday. Festive costume parades on Faschingsdienstag end the winter throughout Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It also is the last day of feasting which means lots of meat, eggs, cream and deep fat fried pastries such as the Faschingskrapfen or carnival doughnut. [...]

Advent und Weihnachten in Wien

December 1, 2009 by Sonia Laszlo  
Filed under Customs

Advent in Wien ist immer eine ganz bezaubernde Zeit. Die ehemalige Reichshauptstadt versprüht besonders in diesen Tagen ihren weltbekannten Wiener Charme.
Christkindlmarkt und Adventzeit
Nicht verpassen sollte man den Besuch bei einem Christkindlmarkt.
Der größte und bekannteste Christkindlmarkt ist vor dem Wiener Rathaus, bemerkenswert ist das wunderbar beleuchtete Rathaus in dessen Fenstern ein Adventkalender zu sehen ist. Sehr [...]