GERMANY: MILLIONS OF VISITORS HAVE TURNED UP FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO WATCH THE TRADITIONAL CARNIVAL STREET PROCESSIONS IN GERMANY

Record ID: 647503

  • Title: GERMANY: MILLIONS OF VISITORS HAVE TURNED UP FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO WATCH THE TRADITIONAL CARNIVAL STREET PROCESSIONS IN GERMANY
  • Date: 3rd March 2003
  • Summary: (EU) ROTTWEIL, GERMANY 2003 (MARCH 3, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV OF HORSES AND PEOPLE IN TRADITIONAL DRESS COMING THROUGH BLACK GATE OF TOWN (2 SHOTS) 0.08 2. LAS/TV OF FOOLS SKIPPING DOWN STREETS (2 SHOTS) 0.22 3. MCU OF A FOOL IN TRADITIONAL DRESS PAN TO JAPANESE TOURISTS LAUCHING 0.31 4. LAS OF FOOLS IN TRADITIONAL DRESS 0.37 5. MCU OF FOOLS IN TRADITIONAL DRESS HANDING OUT CHOCOLATES TO PUBLIC IN COSTUME PAN DOWN TO CHILD IN FOOLS COSTUME 0.54 6. LV PEOPLE LOOKING FROM THEIR WINDOWS 0.57 7. TV OF FOOL DRESSED AS A HORSE PRETENDING TO BE WHIPPED (2 SHOTS) 1.09 8. CU CHILD DRESSED IN BEAR COSTUME WATCHING FROM FATHERS SHOULDERS 1.14 9. MCU/SLV OF SPECTATORS BEING TOUCHED BY COW TAIL ON A POLE (2 SHOTS) 1.31 10. SV OF FOOL WAVING HIS COW TAIL AT THE CAMERA 1.36 11. TV OF SPECTATORS BEING TOUCHED BY COW TAIL ON A POLE 1.50 12. LV OF THE FOOLS SKIPPING THROUGH THE CITY GATE 1.56 13. SLV OF A FOOL DOING A JUMP AND THEN SLIDING DOWN HIS POLE 2.14 (EU) COLOGNE, GERMANY 2003 (MARCH 3, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 14. PAN FROM COLOGNE CATHEDRAL TO PEOPLE WALKING PAST IN TRADITIONAL DRESS 2.24 15. SLV HORSE AND COACH COME PAST 2.39 16. SV OF PEOPLE THROWING FLOWERS FROM THE TOP OF THE COACH 2.45 17. CU OF MODEL HEAD WITH BAND PLAYING IN BACKGROUND 2.54 18. MCU OF MAN IN SILVER COSTUME DANCING 2.59 19. SV WOMAN DRESSED AS A WITCH BEING TRICKED INTO GIVING MAN IN TRADITIONAL COSTUME A KISS 3.05 20. CU/SV OF PARADE FLOAT DEPICTING GERMAN CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHOEDER AS A PIRATE (2 SHOTS) 3.25 21. SV OF CROWDS CHEERING AND SHOUTING FOR SWEETS TO BE THROWN AT THEM 3.30 22. SV OF PEOPLE IN COSTUME THROWING FLOWERS AND SWEETS 3.40 23. CU/SV OF PARADE FLOAT DEPICTING THE OPPOSITION CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS SNAILS (2 SHOTS) 3.53 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th March 2003 12:00
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  • Location: ROTTWEIL AND COLOGNE, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA13LSNOZUZAPRWA4X2RUHNG83K
  • Story Text: Millions of visitors have turned up from all over the
    world to watch the traditional carnival street processions in
    Germany.



    The German carnival started in the southern town of
    Rottweil on Monday (March 3) while the rest of Germany was
    still
    sleeping after their weekend parties.

    At eight oclock in the morning the fools come out in
    Rottweil, where they have jumped down the streets using long
    sticks since 1888. This year 4,000 fools jumped down the
    streets to the delight of more than 35,000 spectators, the
    vast majority tourists, and handed out sweets and strokes of
    their cows tails on poles.

    The more famous traditional highlight of Rose Monday is
    the street parade in Cologne with its bright traditional
    costumes and satirical floats (carnival wagons). At exactly
    11.11 (CET) 10,000 people dressed as fools made their way
    through the town centre, among them 129 music bands. The 6.5
    kilometer long procession took seven hours to pass through,
    but they were cheered along the entire way by around a million
    revellers from all over the world.

    Carnival has various origins, stemming from the Roman
    tradition of celebrating the onset of spring and ancient
    Germanic fertility rites, which were later adopted by
    Christians as a way to usher in the fasting period before
    Easter.

    It also has a tradition of poking fun at authority with
    parades of carnival floats satirising the political parties.

    The German Chancellor Gerhard Schoeder was mocked over
    election promises this year, but he got off lightly, the
    opposition Christian Democrats were depicted as snails.


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