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Our Party Gift |
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The Party 2005 |
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The Party 2008 |
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Grusel Party in der Nacht zum Totensonntag |
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Germany has many holidays. Quite a few are Catholic but this one, “Totensonntag” is attributed to the Evangelic faith going back to King Friedrich Wilhelm III in 1816 who made the last Sunday of the church calendar year a day to remember the dead. This is the equal of the catholic holiday known as All Souls Day. Some people consider it just another business day for the florists or an excuse to buy tombstone wreaths. Nevertheless, it is a popular day to visit the graveyard. Tina, Susi and Daniel are involved in a family owned business of raising trout in the southern Black Forest village of Schweighof. The family Villa is a beautiful Art Nouveau home snuggly resting in the valley surrounded by trees and rolling hills of green. |
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Tina, Susi and Daniel |
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Each year on the night before Totensonntag, they turn this villa into a “Spook Castle” and invite their friends to a creepy party centered around the macabre theme of “death” . Everyone comes together for food, conversation, wine, martinis, punch, snacks and food, dancing and partying, sharing the grotesque atmosphere that the three of them create in this fantastic villa. Their decorations which awed me from the minute I entered the grounds and was greeting by a ghoul hanging between two pillars aflame, then strolled past tombstones lit up with graveyard candles and on into the house entrance to see the bizarre display of a skeleton lying in a coffin. Immediately I knew I was in for a special treat and this feeling didn’t leave me until I left the spook castle sometime after the witching hour which made it officially the day called “Totensonntag”. |
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