The Average German Christmas: Food, Gifts & Arguments

[@dweuromaxx]

Happy Heiligabend everyone! Who's enjoying potato salad and sausages this evening? 🎄🌭

[@shahlabadel8628]

Love this series with Michael! Pls continue. thanks.

[@dweuromaxx]

More to come! 😁🎄

[@mmppbb77]

@@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. 😅

[@CaspianSh]

Love these series! It should inspire like series for all countries around the world. Entertainment and cultural education! Dankeschön!

[@dweuromaxx]

Thank you for such a kind comment! Would you like us to feature some other nationalities? 😁

[@CaspianSh]

@@dweuromaxx I‘d watch Average [any nationality] gladly 😂

[@barrilha]

So would I!

[@parachute5274]

Children having to sing for their presents! Wonderful idea. Will try it here in UK.....

[@sabinemuller6490]

But this potatoe salad looks like a sad one from the supermarket - something that would never be served at Heiligabend! 😱

[@claregowerfilms]

I wish we had the production budget to hire an Oma for the food ;)

[@sonjagatto9981]

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! 🍷

[@hanshartfiel6394]

You obviously have never tried or had the misfortune of eating my mothers potato salad. The taste was just about acceptable but it stuck to the roof of the mouth.

[@jdvannoy99]

This whole series is fun, entertaining, and well written. 👏

[@kimyang8492]

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. 😄😅

[@arnodobler1096]

And Loriot's Weihnachten bei den Hoppenstedts

[@sabinemuller6490]

Und "Der kleine Lord".

[@Cc-lp2xi]

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❤

[@slouberiee]

​@@Cc-lp2xi I'm Czech and that's lovely.

[@Jasonslittlesister1]

You can't forget to mention Aschenbrödel! It's tradition to watch it during the holidays!

[@Callmenothing000]

Love love love. Merry Christmas to Micheal müller and family! Look forward to knowing Michael’s New Year’s Eve plans

[@santiagogonzalezbenjumea9880]

These series are super fun. ❤

[@dweuromaxx]

Thank you! ☺

[@vanessajuercke1578]

Wonderful! So many parallels to my German family. Love it. Thank you DW and Clare 😊

[@sonjagatto9981]

Dankeschoen aus Canada und alles Gute fuer DW und Germany fuer 2024. ❤❤

[@barrilha]

This is on the best series in the channel!

[@dweuromaxx]

Thank you :)! We’ve got more coming 🎁

[@jamesdoyle5405]

Thanks Clare and crew. This series is Spaß!

[@farmboy_bry]

The Average German New Year, next please!

[@citroniron8861]

Yes with Dinner for One. 😂

[@ChildofGod98765]

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.

[@ClementineLimone]

Missing Stenkelfeld ""Weihnachtsbeleuchtung " and Loriot " Weihnachten bei Hoppenstedts"

[@wakeupcall2665]

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!

[@pigoff123]

My mom had us sing German Christmas songs. We lighted the candles on the tree then sang a few songs. Then we blew them out and turned the electric lights on. We opened half our packages Christmas Eve. The other half Christmas mornings. I still have stollen.😊

[@johnmc3862]

Incredible eyebrow work! 1:14😂

[@B_Y92]

I really love these videos ❤

[@GUTOMOFFICIAL]

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎄🎄

[@dweuromaxx]

Merry Christmas to you too! 🎄

[@ksinfl]

This looks a little miserable looking at it from the outside, but I loved it growing up. I loved the candles on the tree. As kids, we would sing, recite a poem, or play a Christmas song on our flute or violin. The whole family would then sing Christmas songs together. When we got a little older we would go to midnight mass, which I always enjoyed because the church was lit only by candles.

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

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!" 🎅🎅🎅🥰

[@m0mgf]

Thanks Clare, lovely series. You seem to have had your own ghost behind you when the family was eating their potato salad. (3:46)

[@dweuromaxx]

Must be the Ghost of Christmas Past..😉

[@siavashsafari3795]

the whole serie is so funny!

[@K__a__M__I]

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???

[@dweuromaxx]

You have a Clare and she’s right behind you

[@marcromain64]

@@dweuromaxx Congratulations, you guys just invented positive paranoia.

[@stillerbinichnicht]

Everyone needs a Clare!

[@karincope3019]

I start my shopping in Jan if not after Christmas sales . My son’s bday is Dec 14 so I had things done months in advance. I save the shop of Stocking Stuffers in Dec .

[@B27-o2c]

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.

[@dweuromaxx]

Thank you, eagle-eyed viewer 😁🦅

[@e.458]

The Advent used to be a time of lent, too. We just forgot in time, probably over all the Plätzchen and Lebkuchen.

[@B27-o2c]

⁠@@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.”

[@f5faiz]

Happy holidays to all typisch germans!

[@dweuromaxx]

Happy holidays to all Michael Müllers and friends 😁🎄🎅🏻

[@mmppbb77]

LOVE this series ! ❤I'm starting to get quite attached to Michael.😅 Looking forward to every new video, hope it will continue for long !

[@dweuromaxx]

We're glad you like it. Make sure to follow us in order to not miss out in the future 😊

[@remaguire]

My German wife always buys Lebkuchen (Lecker!) at Christmas. Now that I think about it, I don't remember seeing it sold any other time of year. I was a little surprised you didn't mention it.

[@JostSchwider]

🎅🏻 Merry Xmas! 🎅🏻 🎅🏻 Frohe Weihnacht! 🎅🏻

[@johnmc3862]

Nollaig Shona!

[@johncameron4194]

Merry Christmas

[@dweuromaxx]

Happy holidays! (in summer)

[@শাহমাইদুলইসলাম]

Finally all these episodes about Michael we find he has a family. :)

[@lucassilbernagel5330]

Wow, inspiring!

[@dweuromaxx]

Thank you Top Fan Lucas ❤️🎄

[@mayukhbagchi5629]

Getting better, one episode at a time ...! ✅ ✅

[@arnodobler1096]

DW macht bitte mal was über Loriot, Humor und so.

[@OrangeTabbyCat]

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.

[@BooksOnSlides]

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.

[@Kasisk]

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 😊

[@juliar1225]

​​@@KasiskBeing from northern Germany the Christkind wasn't anything I knew as a child, but its the Weihnachtsmann, not Santa.

[@hmvollbanane1259]

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)

[@juliar1225]

@@hmvollbanane1259 Historical this may be right, but we do have the Nikolaus in protestant aereas, and than the Weihnachtsmann brings the gifts at Christmas.

[@Wa3ypx]

Lent precedes Christmas and not Easter in Germany??

[@dweuromaxx]

Well, unlike Lent before Easter, there isn't a set fasting period before Christmas in Germany. But some traditions during the Advent season, particularly on Christmas Eve, involve fasting or simpler meals.

[@MrLynch-ei4dc]

Claire should give Michel somr love. 🤓🫶👈

[@GiusiSilipigni]

😂😂😂 I LOVE IT.

[@lukodaian]

In November 😂 why the hurry Germans over plan😂. I love the series

[@SomePotato]

I've only ever seen family members dress up as Saint Nicholas on December 6th, but never as Santa at Christmas Eve.

[@romanakipper7713]

NO, in some regions and families poato salad and sausages really are a staple (I was 20 and horrified when I heard of that 😂 as a German). In other regions a more elaborate meal is tradition. To me, „the“ Christmas meal is lamb lettuce, soup, braised red cabbage, dumplings, greens, gravy, mushroons and a roast (as we are vegan, a vegan roast for us), then dessert / often sth with apples. Duck or goose on the second day.

[@poorwotan]

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... :(

[@Ian-dn6ld]

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

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

Georg looks like a right laugh...😅

[@ericstrahler5767]

I love christmas in germany. Every year...wigs for everyone!!!

[@nenitaschmidt7197]

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!

[@hollyroberts8307]

Much better Christmas than the UK!

[@rajo741]

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

[@marinafishspakoln8488]

Ich würde auch nie Kartoffelsalat und Würstchen zu Weihnachten essen. Es gibt immer ein großartiges Essen. Wie du schon sagst. Eine Gans mit Knödel und Rotkraut. Oder Rouladen mit Knödel und Rotkohl. Oder einen Braten

[@SomePotato]

I don't know what's considered older, but I'm in my 40s and I know families that have been doing this for decades.

[@rajo741]

@ I’m much older. Weiner# and potato salad are delicious and common but NEVER on holidays.

[@deep.space.12]

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.

[@bernardite]

my german aunts would make us cookies, i still remember the taste

[@ericbar4185]

Das is goot 😂

[@fraubogard]

Was? Der amerikanischer Santa kommt mit Geschenken???? Nie.

[@Alienwolf777]

🥰

[@derniederrheiner4518]

We made the Christmas rum balls last Saturday. Hiccup! They are not for children. . .

[@marinafishspakoln8488]

An Heiligabend wird sich schick angezogen. Wir tragen keine peinlichen Weihnachtspullis. Sondern ein schickes Kleid oder einen Anzug mit Krawatte.

[@juanDE1703]

Abendbrot

[@bernardite]

$507 on gifts!! OMG

[@atroyz]

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.

[@dweuromaxx]

Crazy, right?! Surely it should be a herbal tea to prepare for the coming madness 😉

[@hmvollbanane1259]

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

[@marinafishspakoln8488]

@@hmvollbanane1259 das klingt großartig

[@IrinaEn-fo9oh]

The Germans call Christmas- Weihnachten🎉

[@johnmc3862]

You should be substituting the word ‘average’ with ‘typical’!

[@sutirtharoy]

05:00

[@johncameron4194]

We have puff pastry

[@JoeSmith-y7k]

Advent, not Lent.

[@kapuzinergruft]

Kids have to earn their gift... 😮

[@manojkanth10]

not just Michael, I am also looking for love 😶

[@spike16965]

My Oma ist Deutsch

[@graceannegalvan5169]

Now I know I saw Germans buying stuff during November.

[@SrinivasanR-nd1uy]

Is this presenter married? Please post your reply thanks God bless you

[@weirdshibainu]

Clare is as fine as they come.

[@boydmarquardt6383]

Is what is with this guy's beard???

[@sandraschlichten]

On Christmas eve the Christ Child comes or the Weihnachtsmann Christmas Man. Not Santa Claus. On December the 6th Sankt Nikolaus visits the children. And puts them sweets, nuts and apples in their polished boots.

[@marga0673]

😂🇩🇪

[@joseph40ninjas88]

Haha socks

[@firmangobi6477]

Those potato salads and sausage look bland 🎉

[@dweuromaxx]

🙃

[@Joaosousa_guiana]

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?

[@dweuromaxx]

The more lavish meal is served on the 25th. Potato salad and sausages are for the 24th ☺️

[@marinafishspakoln8488]

Ich kenne niemanden in Deutschland, der Kartoffelsalat und Würstchen zu Weihnachten niest. Es gibt immer ein großes Festessen

[@marinafishspakoln8488]

@@dweuromaxx das habe ich in Deutschland noch nie gesehen. Ich kenne es so aus meiner Familie und den Familien meiner Freunde, dass an Heiligabend, erster Weihnachtsfeiertag und zweiter Weihnachtsfeiertag immer ein aufwändiges Essen zubereitet wird. Zum Beispiel eine Weihnachtsgans mit Rotkraut und Klößen. Kohlrouladen oder Rinderrouladen. Immer mit Vorspeisen, Salat, Vorspeisen,suppe und einem Dessert danach. manchmal auch Sauerbraten. Oder einen Karpfen. Ich kenne niemanden, der jemals Kartoffelsalat mit Würstchen zu Weihnachten gegessen hat. Es gibt drei Tage lang den ganzen Tag essen und Plätzchen. 😂

[@narnaudov0]

oho, a BEYONCÉ household.

[@dweuromaxx]

Good eyes :)