The Americanization of Christmas Trees

Amerikanisch rätseln
um den Weihnachtsbaum

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Nicht nur Hintergrundinformationen rund um den Weihnachtsbaum, sondern auch noch ein Rätsel in englischer Sprache bietet der Beitrag von Jill Schneller und Birgit Ziegenmeyer vom Englischen Seminar der Universität Hannover.

Die volle Punktzahl erhält, wer alle Lücken im Text fehlerfrei ausfüllt.
Dafür einfach den Rest des Wortes, ohne den vorgegebenen Anfangsbuchstaben eintippen.

Mit dem Button „Check“ lässt sich der Tipp überprüfen, wer nicht weiter weiß, kann sich über den Button „Hint“ mit einem weiteren Buchstaben des Wortes helfen lassen oder auf das ? klicken und einen Hinweis bekommen. Das gibt allerdings Punktabzug.

Viel Spaß beim Rätseln!

The first letter of each word is given. Your task is to fill in all the gaps with the letters that are missing. Do not retype the first letter. Press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "?" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

For A who celebrate Christmas, the yearly ritual of decorating a Christmas tree has become a timeless, t American tradition. Yet the c of decorating homes with evergreens dates back to the Romans. Early Christians, however, transformed the p symbol of fertility into a Christian one representing religious rebirth. Centuries later, Martin Luther was supposedly so awestruck by a German f one Christmas Eve that he cut down an evergreen and took it home to his c.

The first reliable records of Christmas trees date to the e seventeenth century and prove that the custom of decorating evergreens was c in Strasbourg. By the early nineteenth century, this custom was widely practiced by German Protestants. Christmas trees symbolized their f in God.

More than likely this German tradition spread across E and over the Atlantic Ocean in the early nineteenth century. German i took this tradition with them to the United States. Christmas trees reminded them of their h. The first Christmas trees probably appeared in Pennsylvania, a s where many Germans immigrants lived. Other Americans were immediately intrigued with the German immigrants’ custom of decorating Christmas trees. By the 1830s and early 1840s Christmas trees were popping up in homes of w Americans in Boston, P, and New York. Despite their popularity, there were Calvinist c who viewed the tradition as too Germanic. Nevertheless, Christmas trees grew in popularity because they were a cheery contrast to the gloomy w and tied in well with notions of romanticism and domesticity. Christmas trees soon started appearing in even more h as well as c. Americans also started decorating them with things like ribbons, popcorn, ornaments, and c.

The first Christmas tree was displayed in the W House in the 1850s. And according to Penne L. Restad, a Christmas e, by 1900 approximately 20 percent of all Americans had a Christmas tree and by 1930 Christmas trees were nearly a u sight throughout the United States. They had become truly Americanized and were also an index of cultural assimilation. G department stores b to put up Christmas trees in their store windows, and cities too decorated trees to support a sense of community, thus, making the tradition a commercial and a s one.

These days stores have their Christmas displays in place before T. Many families, churches, and cities put up trees right after Thanksgiving so that Americans can enjoy Christmas trees from late November to 1 J, New Year’s Day.

Based on Stephen Nissenbaum, The Battle for Christmas. New York: Knopf, 1997, and Penne L. Restad, Christmas in America: A History. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.

This exercise was designed by Jill Schneller and Birgit Ziegenmeyer, Englisches Seminar, Universität Hannover.
The software, Hot Potatoes, used to construct this exercise can be found at: www.hotpotatoes.net.



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