Entrance artwork

Speaking christmas tree

Anyone can have a Christmas tree. Sure, in the past there was more lametta, but today it’s just a few colorful baubles, plus the light show from the wall socket, and at the top sits an angel.
But a Christmas tree that talks and sings? Only Tollwood has that. A considerable tree, decorated with all kinds of colorful accessories, is emblazoned in the entrance area of the winter festival, and regularly at 6 and 8 p.m. it comes to life.

A tree shows face and speaks – stories from all over the world in original language

Then it talks to the audience, then a living face appears on the dark fir, it sings Christmas carols from all over the world. And every day at this time, the Christmas tree tells a Christmas story, each day in a different language.
With this Christmas tree, Tollwood wants to show how colorful Munich is, that Christmas is a global phenomenon and that the Tollwood Winter Festival is a multicultural mirror of this world.

The interactive Christmas tree:
It chimes and sounds: the Christmas tree chats and sings. Listen and join in – that’s how it comes alive.
From 23.11. to 23.12. from 5 to 9 p.m.

Christmas stories from around the world:
Stories about the Christmas season around the globe – read by speakers of the Intercultural Magazine of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation – from 23.11. to 23.12. at 6 and 8 pm.

Stories and speakers

Mondays – Turkish:

Özlem Sarikaya: “The celebration of a migrant worker family”

Spoken by Özlem Sarikaya

Tuesdays – French (Benin):

Clemént de Dravo: “A childhood in Benin”

Spoken by Clemént de Dravo

Wednesdays – Ukrainian:

Maria Soltys-Smirnova: “Christmas has come to us”

Spoken by Maryna Balaban and Julia Smilga

Thursdays – Greek:

Eleni Torossi: The Christmas tree of my childhood

Spoken by Eleni Iliadou and Fanny Atheras

Fridays – English:

Dylan Thomas: “A childhood Christmas in Wales”

Spoken by Julia Cortis

Saturdays – Swedish:

Lotta Lundberg: “The Feeling Christmas Tree”

Spoken by Tanja Zieger

Sundays – Spanish (Latin America):

Gloria Stolk : “Regalo de Navidad”

Spoken by Constanze Alvarez

We would like to thank SchauHoer Verlag for providing the story.

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