Go to Cologne Carnival they said: THIS is how our Australian reporter reacted

[@pulkitgera8509]

Went yesterday and it was the craziest party i have ever seen. Full street at Alt Markt on the banks of Rhine in costume, dancing and having fun. One of the best experiences of my life

[@dweuromaxx]

Glad you had a blast!

[@eiscremefrauneumann6285]

Glad you had fun! So.. see you next year? 😃

[@ShahidKhan-rx2ry]

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[@ShahidKhan-rx2ry]

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[@NeoViny]

Alter Markt ;-)

[@SteveMarksMusic]

I'm an Aussie and I have been a Karneval DJ since 2016. It is absolutely INSANE!!! Better than any festival I've ever played in the world. Also, getting a medal is a huge honour, I think that was massively underplayed..!!

[@frederikhein4195]

Carnival is a huge deal in Germany (at least in parts of it) and Cologne is one of the places where it’s celebrated the most. I‘d love to visit their carnival one day but for now I stay at my hometown Fulda (eastern Hesse). Though much smaller, we‘re also known for carnival, in local dialect called “Foaset“. The other famous place in Germany with a deep carnival tradition is Mainz. So what about visiting that city’s carnival (there called “Fastnacht“) next? With that being said, Helau, Föllsch Foll Hinein and Kölle Alaaf!

[@Stoldt112]

Greetings from the Rhön☺️I was there this Year and plan to visit it next year again 🎉

[@paulsj9245]

Well done Brant, but this is not madness but well-(German)-organized celebrations. Madness is on the streets, yesterday (Wieverfastelovend) and Sunday to Tuesday (including Rosenmontag)! Cheers from a Cologne ex-pat with a tear in his eye!

[@dweuromaxx]

🍻🥳

[@ShahidKhan-rx2ry]

4200 - 3100 education people limits travel crossing hurtable block table waste free time

[@ShahidKhan-rx2ry]

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[@MrProthall]

Immigrant is the word you're looking for. Ex-Pat is a meaningless term designed to make Americans think they're better than anyone else.

[@paulsj9245]

@@MrProthall I beg to differ - I only knew English ex-pats in Spain, and, above, it's me, and I'm not an immigrant from Cologne but an ex-pat in Bavaria! 🤣

[@NeovanGoth]

"Ey it's not bad" might be one of the most positive things I've ever heard of Kölsch. xD

[@wandilismus8726]

Bavarians: We have Oktoberfest Swabians: We have the Vasn Rhinelanders: We have Carneval Northern Germans: We have Common Sense

[@dweuromaxx]

😅

[@lenakohl2339]

We have Kieler Woche and Hafengeburtstag (Hamburg).

[@wandilismus8726]

@@lenakohl2339 Too bad

[@MeriloLB]

North Germany: Schützenfest

[@lenakohl2339]

@@MeriloLB Kenn ich nicht. Laut google gibt es das in Norddeutschland wohl nur in Niedersachsen.

[@antje8303]

Well done! However, the Carneval most Germans know is outside on the streets and in the pubs with huge parades, music, dancing and costumes. The Sitzungskarneval like in this video is only known to relatively few, hardcore carnevalists hehe.

[@SteveMarksMusic]

Agreed!

[@D0MiN0ChAn]

0:19 If it's any consolation, I was born and raised in Germany, live right within the Karneval region between Cologne & Düsseldorf and still couldn't care less about celebrating 🤫 But as we say "jeder Jeck is anders!"

[@dweuromaxx]

So you live in the eye of the hurricane, so to speak - it is said to be very quiet there..-🥳😇

[@bartmann1_]

My dancing skills have now dramatically improved 😅

[@dweuromaxx]

We need to see more 👀

[@kaddy0306]

The more the people drink (and you too) the easier it will be xD - for both parties. Hope you don't think too weird about the Niederrhein Region and Köln now 😂😂😂

[@madhatter9322]

I was born in Cologne and live here. I've been celebrating carnival for as long as I can remember. Here it is ingested with breast milk. one must not take the carnival too seriously. Even if the girls here are often dressed "hot", it is strictly forbidden to touch them indecently and most of them react aggressively to it. flirting is of course allowed. But nice that you liked it.

[@bigernie9433]

Cologne has a very marked talent in identifying occasions for wild parties.

[@elkampinski]

Bartmann so sympathisch 😃😃

[@dweuromaxx]

We agree! Such a cutie!

[@ankem4329]

Missed street carnival. So experienced half of Köln carnival

[@timoleon2903]

Well done, Brant!

[@j.mcgyver5541]

As a girl born into the Cologne Carnival and celebrating it from the bottom of my heart ( not the "drink till you drop and wake up in the hospital several days after" - part), I have always wondered what a foreigner might think finding himself in the middle of all of this

[@dweuromaxx]

Haha! Well, we hope Brant didn't disappoint :D

[@j.mcgyver5541]

@@dweuromaxx not at all😅

[@lollipop3105]

I am from the east of German and learned almost only new stuff 🤭

[@aoofmg6684]

He said Helau in Cologne and lived to tell the tale O.O

[@juli_rex3408]

Einfach mein lehrer

[@SavageKRUB]

Max is my teacher 😂 mr. Rudolff

[@kennikitty]

Kölsch and "quite good" in one sentence... My Düsseldorfer heart is bleeding. Have you been to the Rosenmontagszug? The "Züge" (basically parades) that are taking place between Sunday and Tuesday typically are the highlights of german street carneval and Rosenmontag (Rosemonday) is when the two biggest carneval cities Düsseldof and Cologne have their Rosenmontagszüge go through their inner cities. It's an awesome time. People get dressed in silly costumes, listen to silly music, kids eat candy (participants of the Züge throw candies and flowers into the spectatos) and adults get drunk. It's literally the best time of the year. There's millions of people out on the steets during the week of steet carneval celebrations between Altweiber and Aschermittwoch. Düsseldorf and Cologne both claim to celebrate the best carneval, which leads to a very well known fun rivalry between the two cities and they both make fun of each other all the time during carneval.

[@stillx1211]

Ich denke mal dass man alleine an der Musikauswahl erkennt wo Karneval besser gefeiert wird

[@jamesdoyle5405]

It seems there as big a difference between the north and south as between east and west. Fun video.

[@dweuromaxx]

Many Germans would agree with you on that ;). Thanks for watching!

[@johaquila]

The north-south difference is greater, actually. It's much older. The east-west difference was just a temporary phenomenon that has left some traces, but nothing too deep. When Germany united in the 19th century, the 'German Question' was whether the first modern German national state would consist only of the Protestant north, all German-speaking areas plus the non-German-speaking parts of the Austrian Empire, or something in between. In the first case it would have been dominated by Prussia, in the second case a fierce conflict between Prussia and Austria would have been built in. Prussian Chancellor Bismarck solved the problem by manufacturing the war of 1870/71 with France, with a coalition consisting of all the German states except Austria. By proclaiming the German Empire consisting of all the members of the coalition (but not Austria) in the Hall of Mirrors of Versailles Castle after a quick and decisive victory, they bamboozled the population of the Catholic southern German states into accepting a Prussia- and Protestant-dominated state without Austria. (Things have changed since then. Germany lost a lot of northern territory to Poland in 1945, and today neither the north nor the south really dominates.)

[@jamesdoyle5405]

@johaquila Thank you for the well written history. I appreciate your having taken the time to provide such a detailed post. Best wishes to you.

[@Ray-lm4nj]

Greeting from Max's favorite AG, the Clara Pfandis 😂😂 No but seriously, this is gonna haunt you forever, Mr. Rudloff 💀

[@emmaorlich7427]

Do you know the Nick Name of the Nippeser Bürgerwehr? "Appelsinefunke". But we also got "Spinat und Ei" and some more. Living at Bavaria let me go insane. I lost every thing. Hurts too much, miss it too much. 😞

[@j.mcgyver5541]

Same here 😔 Bavaria is a whole different world

[@ingo_8628]

By the way, carnival starts at 11:11 a'clock at the 11. of november.

[@jayjinho1981]

🔥🔥🔥

[@HenryAusLuebeck]

Bin als Teenager mit unserem Fanfarenzug den Rosenmontagsumzug mit marschiert und habe getrommelt. Für uns Norddeutsche ist das echt zu verrückt. Aber Spaß gemacht hat es trotzdem. Gruß aus Schleswig-Holstein, der einzig wahre Norden. Edit: Kölsch ist kein Bier! `tschuldigung, liebe Kölner. ;)

[@andreash656]

Entschuldigung angenommen.

[@snoopy1952]

Kölsch ist das einzig wahre ;) Aber jedem das seine

[@HenryAusLuebeck]

Schön, danke für euer Verständnis. 😉👍🥁🎵🎶♥️

[@emmaorlich7427]

Jein, ein Kölsch ist langweilig, aber dabei bleibt es selten. Die Bedienung ist verdammt fix und am Ende weißt du nicht mehr, wie viel du eigentlich getrunken hast. Da wird es dann langsam lustig. Komme aus Köln, lebe in Franken. Hier sitzt man mehr auf dem Trockenen wie alles andere, trotz der Größe des Kruges. 😅

[@rmdebora]

Laughing in Brazil ❤😂

[@rachelglenn4821]

AAAH I died every time his English was a bit funky I might be fluent but I would totally start talking gibberish in front of a camera so I can't blame him

[@dweuromaxx]

What's so "funky" about his English? 🥳

[@TheBlueZoe]

I am from Germany. And I didn't get the point of Karneval/Fasching untill now.

[@edsontransports9400]

What is the music at 0:49? Sounds like Zillertaler Hochzeitsmarsch.

[@TomNook.]

Brant is quickly becoming a meme

[@dweuromaxx]

😅

[@tina00017]

Hahahaha “after five or six Kölsch” ;)

[@kamlog]

or thirty ... 😁

[@norbertgabler8267]

Mit Drei/Acht im Kessel is alles EEEJAAAAAAL. Kölle Alaaf. Dä Prinz kütt ... Kamelle, Strüssjer, Bützjer ... un e Stängsje Kölsch.

[@hoehere_Gewalt]

He could form proper sentences in the end so he missed a crucial part of Karneval, which is getting wasted drunk before 11:11 AM.

[@cheeseboi9951]

Carnival is the best thing in the world (im from cologne)

[@Steven91637]

Hahaha welcome to Cologne Germany 🇩🇪 🎉

[@yasemindemirci1343]

A real "Jeck". Greetings out of Cologne!

[@Morte_n]

The most absurd part about carnival in Cologne is how it was meant to be against the strict rules of society, to just have fun and enjoy life. Now it has some insanely strict rules, nepotism (called Klügel in Cologne and sadly a bit "celebrated") and is just often old white men taking themselves WAY too serious. As an outside it just feels really weird agree on that!

[@wilhelmeder1273]

Ist schon schön anzusehen wie die globale Welt zusammen fasching feiert 😂

[@Gol_D_Enko]

why is he making such a big deal out of it. Australia and Germany are direct neighbors after all...

[@gingerdude]

If you think without a continent in between, for sure

[@Aurora2097]

He was thinking Austria 😂

[@gingerdude]

@@Aurora2097 I hoped he'd notice😂

[@OliverBusse]

@ryanwass strange things happening in February here in Germany...

[@antoni.1129]

That’s my teacher 😂

[@Ray-lm4nj]

Same 😂

[@Vallederking]

Team CFG🔥

[@milospollonia1121]

Rudloff abi

[@Pomoscorzo]

Try Venice Carnevale next. 😉

[@zweispurmopped]

You didn't just join Colonian carnival, you now are one from the Schääl Sick and will be thus all your life. 😊 Don't mention it when you are in Düsseldorf, though. Hostile territory!!1! 🤫

[@votecthulhu9378]

did ... did he accidently join a gang or something?!?

[@zweispurmopped]

@@votecthulhu9378 YESSSSS!!1! 🤯

[@EngelinZivilBO]

Carnival is just weird ngl I'll never got used to it

[@stefanbeyer7391]

Rule 1 : Drink everything someone puts in ur Hand Rule 2 : Drink everything someone puts in ur Hand Rule 3 : .....

[@Mostrichkugel]

Dass Orden "medal" und nicht "order" heißt, hätte man schon wissen können. Brant rätselt jetzt tagelang, was denn sein Befehl ist.

[@Mostrichkugel]

@@toatatoa Doch. Wenn er einen Orden im Sinne der Zugehörigkeit zu einem exklusiven Club meint wie Order of Bath oder Order of the British Empire, müsste dann der entsprechende Zusatz genannt werden.

[@milospollonia1121]

lass rudloff in ruhe

[@Mostrichkugel]

@@milospollonia1121 Welchen Rudloff?

[@TheAdrianaPolari]

If he thinks that's madness, I would like to see his reaction in Rio Carnival.

[@Supermatsch]

This clip doesn't show the whole Cologne Carnival, just one single stage show. The real Carnival here in Cologne is on the streets for five days with a very big parade on Shrove Monday and many other little parades on Saturday, Sunday or Tuesday. This year the Shrove Monday parade took 8 hours. On the streets is the real madness. ;-)

[@TheAdrianaPolari]

@@Supermatsch Still, nothing can be compared to the Brazilian Carnival.

[@dweuromaxx]

As Timon said, this isn't the full picture of Carnival. It's Brant training for a stage ;). However, we'd love to see him amidst the madness of carnival in Brazil! Maybe next year!

[@katii1997]

It's not a competion :)

[@mediagirl]

Heeeeey, to Germans this IS madness! *LOL* (But seriously, street Karneval and this indoor Karneval are two VERY distinct different sports. ;) )

[@nicolasblume1046]

Did you also party in the streets? Thats much more fun than these boring Events!

[@stephensmith3111]

Is it Cologne or Koln (viva Keith Jarrett!)?

[@AndersHenke]

Mostly all of this is correct 😉 Around 2000 years ago, when the Romans founded a settlement in this area, which shortly developed into the Roman-colonial city known as “Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium”. Over a long time, this name monstrosity was shortened to „Cologne“ (English) and „Köln“ (German) or „Kölle“ (the local dialect in Cologne).

[@AndersHenke]

Regarding the name thing in general, Cities often have a different name in their own language than what they’re being called in other languages. Think about “Munich” and “München”, “Venice” and “Venezia”, “Rome” and “Roma” or “Moscow” and “Moskva”. Or an even more special case: the German city of “Aachen” is known as “Aix-la-Chapelle” in French.

[@12tanuha21]

Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium -> Colonia -> Coellen -> Cöllen -> Cölln and Cöln -> Köln

[@goldflo91]

​​@@AndersHenke And "Regensburg" (Bavaria), called "Ratisbonne" in French, too

[@dweuromaxx]

Anders explained it perfectly!

[@Izanuela22]

Oh yes…carneval… I lived in Mainz for 12 years… every year the whole city would reek of piss and vomit for four days… such lovely times…

[@eedragonr6293]

Let 's start a little war between the Catholics and the Protestants. Oh Bismarck

[@bsfoxo3329]

❤️🇩🇪❤️

[@kamikazestryker]

Koks in da nas Kölle Allaf ;)

[@stapelchips6559]

3:17 verdünntes Wasser

[@haze4622]

I hate Karneval.. Im working in a kindergarden and have to do the whole thing every year for days including town hall performances with the children. Is it weird that i love halloween though? Edit: Also, for an authentic experience, go to a Schützenhalle or Dorfdisse for karneval.

[@ShahidKhan-rx2ry]

block systematicly jj regard tregade harmon:

[@oliverkorner1716]

wenn die halbe verwandschaft in nem video von nem australier vertreten is ^^

[@dragons4thchild]

3:29 lies nothing but lies :D

[@Steven91637]

One thing about Germany I dont like is that germans are always so serious.take it easy Germany 😊

[@dweuromaxx]

Not taking things serious can be a serious thing here!😁

[@Steven91637]

@@dweuromaxx so so 🧐

[@Steven91637]

@@dweuromaxx Germany is a weird country

[@simonsays2774]

3:29...Nicht sein Ernst.

[@Smudgie]

Germany's official fun time. Jetzt wird Spass erlaubt!!! Danach, zurück in euer graues Leben.

[@steffenrosmus9177]

The most useless 3 days in the qhole year. Totally overrated. Organized happiness with an band playing special tunes during the speech to wake up the people and point out they have to laugh now. Typical for the Rhineland.

[@SteveMarksMusic]

Go party somewhere else, its carnage...

[@whitex4652]

You learned of Kölner Karneval in one day? Oh, yeah, you Australians have your dream time ... 🤣 ... come back for the next 20 years, then we talk. 😄