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Clowns, musketeers, prisoners and devils take to the streets of Berlin exactly 12 hours before the year ends for the annual Berlin New Year's Eve Run. It begins and ends opposite the Mommsenstadion.
Every year Berlin's Potsdamer Platz is transformed into a giant Winter World. Visitors can enjoy the surreal experience of skating and sledging in the city centre, before warming up with a…
The Hornschlittenrennen (literally, "horn runners race") is "a Gaudi", Bavarian for fantastic fun, as four-person teams career down an iced piste at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on ancient peasant…
The Tower Run sees competitors racing up the 465 stairs to the top of Germany's highest residential building, the IDEAL-Hochhaus in the Gropiusstadt neighbourhood of south-east Berlin.
Arschleder Sledding World Championship
Neudorf, in the Ore Mountains of south-eastern Germany, stages the world championship in sliding down a ski slope protected from the ravages of nature by nothing more than a pair of leather…
Carnival in Düsseldorf is one of the biggest and most ebullient party seasons in Germany. The climax is the Rosenmontag parade, when more than 6000 revellers dressed in screaming colours and…
International German Bus Pulling Championships
Taking tug-of-war to the extreme, Schwarzenegger wannabees in Wolfenbütttel battle it out at the weird and wonderful International German Bus Pulling Championships. The aim is simple: teams…
Lawn Mower World Championships
Tractor-size vehicles go head to head at the Lawn Mower World Championships on Krautsand island, around 60 miles north of Hamburg. Begun as a bet, it's now taken very seriously and around 8000…
Leipzig's Wave Gothic Meeting offers an impressive range of concerts, historical markets, theatre and cinema. A huge number of bands, mostly influenced by punk, industrial and other "dark"…
No, you're not mistaken, this is a catwalk show on an underground train. Hop aboard Berlin's Underground Catwalk to watch young models strut down the gangway for the duration of the 45-minute…
The whole world and his mistress turns out for the Schlagermove festival in Hamburg's Heiligengeistfeld. The highlight is the truck parade, where people with bouffant hairdos, sequins and…
Mambach village recreates medieval Germany for the Germane Fescht. Expect local food and beer, heaps of community spirit and competitions like the legendary Sackschlagen, where people hit each…
If you're in your element just rolling around in some good, honest mud, head for Brunsbüttel on the River Elbe for the annual Mud Olympics. Teams slip and slide about competing in all kinds of…
The Dragonboat Festival brings nearly 100 teams and a big crowd of spectators to Hamburg's Binnenalster lake. The shortest race is 250 metres long and the longest 1500 metres. The best place…
Taking the "eat your greens!" nag to heart, the north German region of Dithmarschen grows around 80 million cabbages in preparation for the Dithmarschen Cabbage Festival. Expect food and…
Fed up with bathtub confinement, around 6000 bright yellow ducks bob along the tree-lined River Neckar during the Tübingen Duck Race. The ducks race from Alleenbrücke to Neckarbrücke in front…
If you have a soft spot for pumpkins then the Pumpkin Exhibition at Ludwigsburg's Blühendes Barock gardens provides 500,000 of them. Believe it or not there are over 450 pumpkin varieties, and…
Every year Berlin's Potsdamer Platz is transformed into a giant Winter World. Visitors can enjoy the surreal experience of skating and sledging in the city centre, before warming up with a…
Carnival in Düsseldorf is one of the biggest and most ebullient party seasons in Germany. The climax is the Rosenmontag parade, when more than 6000 revellers dressed in screaming colours and…
The World's Biggest Cuckoo Clock chimes every hour on the hour in Schonach, a dinky village buried in the heart of the dense Black Forest. Measuring four metres and weighing about six tons, it…
