At this guidance with a Cologne dialect about the Melaten cemetery we called: “Dreimol Melote – Alaaf”. This guidance is for all Jecken and Kölsche and for those who want to be one.
This special carnival guidance at the Melaten cemetery provides you a unique insight to the world of the Cologne carnival. This tour is more than just a journey through the history of carnival. Get to learn more about carnival with its’ numerous songs and personalities, which branded the Cologne carnival for almost 200 years. This op Kölsch guidance is going to explain to you, what the role of the so called ‘Festordnende-Comitee’ was playing when the medieval carnival turned into a Rhenish carnival. Who was the carnival hero? Where is the prince of carnival coming from and the Cologne triumvirate? Why is the virgin always male?
Of course, the Cologne personalities are not going to come off bad. In the well-known cemetery in Cologne, personalities such as famous carnival speakers, musicians and composers as well as founder of the Fastelovend are resting there. Such as Willi Ostermann, whose songs for example “Heimweh nach Kölle” or “Och, wat wor dat früher schön doch en Colonia” are still played in pubs when it’s time for “Ja wenn dat Trömmelche jeht…”. With typical Cologne manners you may be able to read the graving on gravestones and notice that one or other deceased ones where Jecke to the core.
PUBLIC DATES: Feburary 15th and February 22nd. at 11:30 o’clock – registration advisable!
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