Gut half an hour has passed since the honor guard of the city of Cologne was deployed. And although it is only shortly after 11.11 a.m., the marching band, the corps dance group with the regimental daughter and dance officer as well as the young cadets of the traditional corps are in such a good mood that it is as if they had marched straight from their evening meeting to a carnival morning pint on Cologne's Roonstrasse: a medley with them The refrains of old and new carnival songs get the 140 or so visitors singing along straight away.
The ceiling of the stage turns out to be almost too low for the dancers of the company, which can be recognized from afar by its colors of green and yellow (“spinach with egg”), but now there is no stopping them in the hall: instead of Rhenish marching music caricaturing Prussian militarism The cadets and the dancing couple whirl across the stage to sounds that ultimately make everyone fall from their seats: “Hava Nagila” (“Let us be happy”) is the name of the song, and every one of the many old and young Jews here in the hall has already heard it a wedding or a Bar Mitzvah celebration, and now it becomes the highlight of “Falafel and Kölsch” – the start of the session of the first and only Jewish carnival club in the world, the “Kölschen Kippa Köpp of 2017”.
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