The fools are loose and indeed since November 11, 11.11. Clock. But Ash Wednesday is approaching, and before it's all over on February 18, the "Tollen" want to really get going. As a North German, my celebration experience is limited to elementary school, where I showed up more as an old hippie with cut-up jeans and a headband than with a crazy costume. Didn't have a frog bouncing around for miles either. It was only enough for a disguise once - as a garbage bag. The effort was to find blue plastic. Let me tell you, I wasn't born a fool. That's why I like the Frankfurt way of carnival very much. Even though Their Majesties Prince Marcus I. and Princess Ingrid II. have already been enthroned, everything is rather unexciting; everyone finds his little room here where he can enjoy himself according to his own whim. Some are colourful, others continue their daily routine unaffected.
But for those who want to plunge into the centre of excitement, "Klaa Paris" is recommended. In the district of Heddernheim, the carnival is already raging for the 176th time, the parade through the idyllic narrow streets is traditionally part of the highlight of the "Frankfurter Fassenacht". Since the Great Council of the city was founded only in 1949, they found a Solomonic solution as Rainer Kreutz, President of the Great Council told the Rundschau - the Heddernheimer provide governor and procurator, the Frankfurt the prince and princess.
Even if I don't belong to the party beasts, I like the idea of carnival, which was already widespread in antiquity: with different customs, everyone lets off steam satirically against the authorities, celebrating the idea of equality of above and below, before the six-week Lent begins on Ash Wednesday in preparation for Easter. Thus on 14 February the storming of the city hall at the Römerberg lines up, in order to "disempower" the mayor Peter Feldmann symbolically by key removal. Before that, on February 12, the "Weiberdonnerstag" will take place on the Main.
Whoever finds all this too colorful or chaotic, who prefers to look at colorful and unusual things from a distance, is recommended to visit the<link http: www.kunstmessefrankfurt.de _blank> art fair , which will open its doors on 31.01.2015 opens its doors and shows fine art from antiquity to modernity .
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