Germans do strange things on New Years Eve
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It's called "lead-pouring" because the tradition initially involved lead but since lead is poisonous, selling pouring kits with lead was banned a few years ago and they were instead replaced with tin (but it is still called "lead-pouring" because of the tradition)
Also, some use wax instead
@@MissTaraCottaUnfortunately, when wax hits the water, it behaves completely differently than metal.
@@herrhartmann3036Should use sodium instead. That's a metal that doesn't behave like wax in water.
Based on this video, the interpretations are different between Germany and Finland😄
@@bjorntantau194 Instructions unclear my house is now on fire.
*Karambolage* (translated as collision) is a fixed segment on ARTE, a tv station that joins forces between German and French national TV. It is one of the best channels in Germany, has many excellent movies and reports, as well as political analyses and works actively at German-French collaboration and understanding. So, Karambolage is a segment that explains customs, traditions, language features etc. of the other culture to Germans and French viewers. Great program!
Yes!
Also: they have „arte. tv documentary“, their English Channel here on TH-cam.
You (Ryan) could watch an America themed documentary and tell us what you think about it.
Früher war arte gut, heute ist es unübersichtlich.
@@Wildcard71 Ich finde, Arte ist noch meilenweit vor den Privaten!
Yes, ARTE Deutschland is transmitted in German with French subtitles, and ARTE France is transmitted in French with German subtitles.
Karambolage is very interesting programme by French-German Public Broadcast Channel ARTE. They explain customs, words, foods and other things you might find in one of the countries. I love to watch it. If the subtitles work well, you might be interested in more Karambolage videos too, they are available in German and French
Love it 👍
like the wegbier
@@tilmanarchivar8945 away beer?
@@Wildcard71 no, way-beer :) the one you drink on your way to somewhere.
I´m a simple man, I see Karambolage and I press like.
Here in Austria we also have "Bleigießen". In my family it is a tradition to do it. It is always great fun because you need a lot of imagination, the shapes are not that clear.😂
Yeah, half of the time it's just shapes we can't identify 😂
Bleigießen isn't actually done with lead anymore, especially since the ban in 2018. It's now tin
Or wax in some cases, but let's just say that doesn't work 😅
We also have Pechkekse which translate to unfortunite cookies. They insult you in hilarious ways. 😂
When i was a child in the 70s, we did this only 2-3 times at new years eve, it was fun for us kids. Today it seems to be a little bit old-fashioned.
The most important and widespread tradition for the last decades is looking the "Dinner for one" sketch on TV. It´s aired multiple times on many TV-stations and gets even funnier year by year.
As northern German, I never understood "Bleigiessen" and only knew it was a thing in a few families when I was in my early teens. Almost no one I know practices it. And those who do I can count on one hand.
As a guy from the Ruhrgebiet I heard about it but I've never done it, will never do it and don't know anybody who's ever done it.
Maybe you are too young? In the 70s and 80s it was everywhere - even Bremen and Niedersachsen where I grew up
As someone from Nidersachsen, we did it every year when i was a child..
But nobody does it anymore really..
you can still buy the sets though
I´m also from Niedersachsen and we used to do it almost every year too when I was little. I always assumed it was common all over Germany.
@@oldeuropemyhome76 I am from Hesse, 26 years old and have never in my life ever heard of that, first time now actually.
As a German, I love these videos
Ja same ich liebe sie auch
aber bei #4:00 schlau als schlauch übersetzen ist nicht die feine Art LUL
@magnusjahn5342
Er stand da eben auf dem Schlauch.
In northern Germany there is a tradition on New Years Eve very close to Halloween. It's called "Rummelpott laufen". Kids wearing costumes are ringing at your door, telling a Rummelpott-poem in lower german language to the person which answers the door and then receive a little gift, usually sweets or chocolate. Years before I heard of Halloween I knew Rummelpott. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummelpottlaufen
You have to watch "Ein Herz und eine Seele" "Silvesterpunsch"
Also you have to watch "Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter" "Silvester"
I have to push this 👍👍
My friends and I added a little twist to fortune cookies... after you read your fortune to the group, you have to read it again and add "in bed"
It can get quite amusing, I once had a fortune that originally said "Cast your worries aside, have fun"...
This was always one of my highlights as a kid and I still do it every year ☺
Good Video form Karambolage! It's not lead, but tin that's been melted nowadays, and it is fun to do this in company and letting everyone do the guessing of the shape. You can buy "Bleigiess-Sets" only between christmas and New Years Eve. The outcome of the figure is your new years prediction. I have heard that it is also able to do with a piece of wax instead of tin, for those who are concerned. But the metal aspect here to me is like a proverb saying "forging your future". That's why it was metal.
And for Berlin- yes it is the apocalypse. There is a video on YT about a motorbiker in Berlin- pretty scary. The Berlin senate commanded extra police forces for that day.
There is also a movement to ban fireworks totally in Germany which is discussed heavily controrversal
Also, metal makes more interesting shapes from round to spiky, whereas molten candle wax will always solidify into some variant of rounded blob shape.
My German father came from Silesia, now Poland, at the war's end and his family had another tradition for New Year’s Eve fortune-telling. It was called “lunschen”, to find out something secretly. I have no idea if that is still practised anywhere nowadays.
Take 4 coffee cups and hide a piece of bread, a ring, a coin and a scrap of cloth under these cups. Then move the cups with the hidden contents around quickly like in the 3 cup shell game. Then pick a cup for Spring, move cups again and pick one for summer etc
Bread means you will be ok, there will always be enough food in the house
The ring means you or someone close to you will get married
Money means good fortune
Cloth means hard times are ahead for you
Happy New Year!
Nowadays Bleigiessen is a partygame done with wax or tin, because lead is considerd toxic. It is still done at the evening on the 31.12 (Sylvester) to predict the future. I think it is more common in the southern regions of Germany an in Austria.
Not just "considered" toxic, it _IS_ damn toxic.
I live near the German Austrian Border and until COVID we met always with another family and did it before we started shooting the fireworks in the air. We did it with lead I think also in 2019 because we had an old Kit for it.
We did this, when I was a child. Lots of fun. The Chaos was in Cologne some years ago on New Year's Eve.
i think he isn't talk about the "grope / touch / grab events" in cologne which was a scandal not 'chaos' ;)
Another very important tradition in Germany is, to watch "Dinner for One".
He literally said that in the beginning.
And by the way, since 2018 lead is no longer allowed in the commercial sold lead pouring sets (according Wikipedia). So no there shouldn't be any lead in your lead pouring set any longer if you bought it in a proper shop.
It's not about the end result that everyone sees, but about what the person asking about her/his fate recognises in the cast and what meaning tlshe/he attach to it.
Happy 2024 to us all!💫
arte is a Franco-German public TV channel. You can choose between French and German audio. Karambolage is a show, that describes cultural quirks, that only exist in one of the two countries.
"arte" is a TV cooperation of the french and german public law T.V. (state TV). And "Karambolage" means some like: collision (of two cultures views).
0:12 lol that actually has at least some truth to it ... since dinner for one is repeated throughout the evening on a bunchload of channels. and i remember at least one new years eve where i watched it 2-3 times for sure.
Actually you are supposed to hold the thing in front of a candle and interpret the shadow instead of the object itself.
It varies.
At New Years Eve Berlin turns into a battlefield 😅
Lead pouring is an oracle. You read out the shadow and the symbolism announces the event for the coming year
As for the fireworks in Berlin: i live there and every year theres quite the discussion about banning fireworks all together, as a ban would have sooo many benefits. Less airpollution (really bad on new years), less plastic pollution (most people dont clean the fireworks up), fewer accidents (especially with corona and the risk of emergency services being stretched thin), and fewer animals being scared for basically two whole days. The last one moght not seem as important, unless you have a cat at home, like me, but other than pets, we also have a lot of wild animals in parks and everywhere that get frightened and then killed because they ran onto the street.
Waiting for the thing to melt drove me crazy.
No, in Germany we don't have fortune cookies for Silvester. Instead, we use Knallbonbons! Wikipedia translates them as Christmas crackers - but in Germany, they are only for New Years Eve!
at least you have something traditional for new years eve, here in Czechia, everyone is just drinking until they vomit and then they don't remember anything 😀
Yes Bleigießen. I did it. AND of course "Dinner for one" watching. This year the loop was 14times. And it was an anniversary. now its was the 60year of doing this.
melting tin over fire then pouring it in a cold water bucket to se what shape you get its a form of new years lucky charm
Bleigießen was a fun New Year Eve's thing back in the 1970s-80s, but even though the toxic lead lumbs were replaced by tin even back then, it fell out of fashion. I don't even know if such sets are still being sold. The idea was similar to inkblot tests: You dropped the molten metal into the water bowl and then pondered what the random shapes it solidified in looked like, and there was this list of shapes and what they were supposed to mean for "fortune telling" (which noone took seriously). If you dropped the molten metal into the water bowl from higher, say 20 cm height, it would splatter more create these really bizarre and often filigree shapes, much more interesting than just pouring the metal in near the surface.
It's still being sold, I did it just a few years ago.
I was born in the 90s and we did it every year
We did this in finland too. Sauna fire or baking oven fire. Loved that,no idea what shapes meant but it was sharp edges and cool shapes
- Bleigießen ..when you try to speak German you don't have to shout out words in an exaggerated way.
- Germany and France have a common cultural channel called ARTE. The show "Karambolage" comes from there.
Greetings from Leipzig Germany, i have also fun to see your reactions to germany. Carlos
The fact that no one I know knew that you actually hold the wax figures into the candlelight and what you see in the shadows will tell you future
What, i saw you month ago with around 1000 subcribers? And now, you rised Up to nearly 100.000🎉 you are my daily Content 🥳
I've been living in Germany for almost 30 years and have never head about Bleigiessen until today.
Arte is a transnational TV station (like PBS I suppose) funded by tax-payers' money from Germany and France. One of its regular series is "Carambolage/Karambolage" (hitting one ball with another when playing billard) where certain cultural peculiarities from one country are explained to viewers from the other country. They also sometimes show a (street) scene from either Germany or France and the viewers have to guess which country it is which can be difficult as the two countries are very similar in certain things but small things can be very different (e.g. a plug in the wall with a third round hole above two round holes is definitely French, without the third hole it can be either, different shapes of traffic lights, different markings on streets).
Arte is the best TV channel ever. And it actually takes its education mandate very seriously. You can find anything on there. Children's movies, documentaries, artistic abstract movies, concerts from opera to death metal, blockbusters, hardcore pornography. If you can think of it Arte will broadcast it at least once in about 5 years or so.
Bleigiessen ist ein bisschen aus der Mode gekommen. Als Kind habe ich das am Silvesterabend immer gemeinsam mit meiner Oma gemacht. Wir haben dazu "Blei" in einem Esslöffel über einer Kerze geschmolzen und die so entstandene Masse in eine Schüssel mit Wasser gegossen. Es war stets sehr lustig und gemütlich. Das Erraten was für eine Figur man gegossen hatte war für uns ein kleines Abenteuer. Liebe Grüße
Rita
I never heard about.... Bleigießen. in all my 30 year old life in Germany o.o then again, I often am out of the loop. so interessting. Looks fun.
We did this with our daughter this year and she loved it. :) But we dont use lead since afew years. Now its wax colored in silver. Still looks the same but not so toxic.^^
love your videos and looking forward to seeing german vacation vlogs from you once you finally get araound to flying here. And FYI the ie in german words ussualy is pronounced as a long i (iiii) xD
we used lead in the past, but now-a-days we have replaced the lead with another metal that isn't poisonous (but it isn't working as well as the lead did).
greetings from germany! :D
I'm Austrian, so we also did "Bleigießen" on new years eve. I don't know how, but the shape my dad created looked like Homer Simpson 😂
"Azizi" - this English translation made me laugh.
"Un zizi" is French children's language for "a penis".
My late grandmother in northern Germany used to have the tradition of baking New Year`s cakes on New Year`s Eve in an old iron made specifically for New Year`s cakes. If you filled them with cream , they tasted even more delicious. 😋☺
Eiserwaffeln. Interestingly, that only translates to "ice-cream cones" even though no ice-cream is involved. So, ice-cream cones stuffed with whipped cream.
Where in Germany does this "lead pouring" happen widely? I've never even heard of it (or anything even resembling it) and I've celebrated Silvester many times in many different areas of Germany.
I think like in Upper Bavaria many families I know do or did it and in Rural areas I think it's more publicly done and known because they "want to preserve German Culture"
Ryan just FYI, ARTE is a tv channel jointly ran by the german and french governments. So their programmes are usually multilanguage. On the real tv channel, you actually get 2 audio channels for french and german respectively.
ARTE is not run by the governments, except you believe in conspiracy BS.
Yes, ARTE Deutschland is transmitted in German with French subtitles, and ARTE France is transmitted in French with German subtitles.
and we open our chistmas presents at december 24 ;p
ARTE is German French public broadcast, the best TV Station for Documentarys and Culture stuff.
Concerning Berlin I've heard in the news that police in Berlin are already preparing themselves for New Years Eve. So hopefully there'll be a bit less chaos than last year.
Well, it _was_ a tradition, I know no one that still do this, but.. Anyway, lead is not a material you want to play with often, but it's also not that poisonous as you think. The raw metal is not much of a problem, but its salts (eg. lead sugar..). It is still used to seal roofs and other things.
Heard of it, but never done it myself. I think where I live, some people may rather do it because they heard about it at some point in their life, not because they've done it in their childhood.🤔
The ARTE tv channel is a nice example for the French-German friendship being practiced.
Yes, in some areas people go crazy with fireworks, not only in Berlin. In my city people actually aimed firework at others. In a sense it's a bit like war. It's sad and frightening, especially since I remember (watching) fireworks being something really nice and fun.
Btw., some comments say a more important tradition is to watch Dinner for One, but this too is something that was never really done in my family and I think I never really heard of anyone who actually loves the show and must watch it every year (honestly to me it rather seems like a show some older people probably like - even though many people apparently grew up with it being a New Year's Eve tradition in their homes). If you turn on the tv on New Year's Eve, of course you can't not see it, because all public broadcasters show it, or a version of it. I think I even saw it on private channels. Most of the time I try to ignore it and watch something else. What I definitely have to watch is the New Year's Eve episode of "Ein Herz und eine Seele", which is also shown on the public channels.
we maybe do strange things at one day in the year,
but Americans cover the rest of the year with more strange things!
2:10 That poor guy can't even run away from that lottery win anymore, he now wins even if he doesn't play.
"Friends" and family that he hasn't seen since decades will come to him and want some money/stuff. He gets exploited very hard. That lottery win will ruin his life.
We germans watch "dinner for one on a loop" dont get this wrong
Ha... just bear with me for a second..10 guests... after midnight... all tipsy... e v e r y b o d y "reads out" something else at the Bleigießen !! Fun, fun and fun...and even more tipsy!
Interesting that they do lead pouring on new years even, here in Czechia we do it on christmas eve, but it's pretty much dead tradition, nobody does it anymore.
You should check videos about fireworks in germany on new years eve :P
for example: th-cam.com/video/fHvp48YGCKw/w-d-xo.html :P
Lead Casting isn't done so often any more because lead is poisonous, and when you melt it, you get vapours.
German has a lot of Gallicisms. Which is fancy speak for french words used in another language, much like anglicisms.
Carambolage is one of them, they´re quite prominent in the Rhineland Region, since we were French territory for a while after WW2
Can we thank Napoleon for a part of the French vocabulary?
You can still buy the "lead-pouring" kits but I don't know very many people who still observe that tradition. We did it a number of times just for fun but mostly it resulted in weird tadpole like shapes looking like something I'm probably not allowed to mention here. 😀Our reaction was the same as yours ("Pregnancy!").
Funny, I did it the first time the new years day before I got pregnant and saw the same things.
Sounds like you may have poured it too slowly.
@@oldeuropemyhome76 Yeah, we figured that as well but if you pour it in fast, you often just get a blob or lots of small bits. Probably you need practice. 😀
In that Videolink on that Website sprechen sie auch über Berlin und die Ausschreitungen...
Lead, in my opinion, is now banned since 2018. Now wax is used for this.
In Poland a candle wax is used. And at Saint Andrew's Day not New Year’s Eve
07:16 Lead is now a days forbidden to sale to the people as a new year eve special, Normaly they use wax and make the same thing. yesteray i saw a package with tin also for doing the same.
I have literally never heard of this tradition. Probably not a thing in Baden-Württemberg? That, or I was just never taught about it, as my family isn't big on local traditions and customs.
lots of older buildings around the developed world that still have lead water pipes.
"Heroin?"😂😂😂😂
by this time, also tin is prohibited and has been replaced with wax...
I do this since my childhood and i dont know why. But its fun
Contrary to the french video clip, you're supposed to hold your "sculpture" against the shine of a candle or small torch and interpret the shape of the shadow, not the piece itself.
I was born and raised in Germany and i am 38 Years old, but i never did "Bleigießen". xD
In my family we always use wax instead of lead. I like the wax way better cause one its not poisonous and two it comes in diffrent colours.
Oh yeh, i forgot abut this custom in Germany, i was familiar with it somewhat watching german tv channels. Quite interesting.
Lol, you should watch the video " how to survive Dutch fireworks" it's funny
Oh yes, we have fortune cookies, they are produced and manufactured in Germany and then sent to the USA. Chinese people (inside China) actually don´t know that they exist 🤗
I just watch Mr. Bean on Super RTL for 4 hours straight on new years eve and drink copious amounts of alcohol
we did that every new year too when i was little
“Dinner for one” is watched on New Year’s Eve.
This was an English actor who is unknown in England. But very well known in German-speaking countries.
Ryan reacted to that last year
Gotta be honest ive never seen anyone do that nor do i or my family do that. Idk maybe its in other parts of germany? I live in a small town near Frankfurt so idk
As a german, I’ve never seen this before 😂
Yes, lead is poisonous, but don't worry about doing this once or twice a year. You might survive. Just don't chew on it and wash your hands afterwards.
2:28 they are melting lead
Bleigießen = lead pouring
Do more Karambolage videos. Please. They are great. Check the "Bild Lilli" episode. You gonna love it.
Nen guten Rutsch und alles Gute für 2024
my family and friends never did this~
so - Bleigießen isn't a thing outside of german-speaking countries?
Btw - we never had an interpretation sheet, we just freely associated
I like that tradition
As German I hear it for first time. Lol, so weird...
Lead has not been used since the 1980s because it is toxic. Today tin is used, but the term “lead casting” has remained.
Fun fact: the Chinese fortune cookies, is a german invention as well...
US Citizens do strange things all day long.
Fortune cookies are an American invention:)
Kinda? It was a japanese guy coming to the US.
this is called casting lead. fun for the whole family.😂
People still go to church and prey even though there is no verifiable outcome😂 so this is basically the same reasoning
We have that tradition in Finland too 😮 Apparently it camenfrom the Germans?
@vinninator6187 ur correct ...im from nrw and here they take wax instead
Only one destrict in Berlin went crazy last year. Neukölln is not representative for Berlin.