If Johann Hinrich Wichern knew where his idea would lead, who knows whether the theologian would have set up these candles in a children’s home in Hamburg in December 1839 – thickness for each of the four advent Sundays and thin for any other day. 24 in total, as a counting aid until Christmas Eve. This was one of the first advent calendars for children. In more and more families, such homemade calendars came up in the 19th century, and in 1903 the publisher Gerhard Lang finally had the first Christmas calendar printed in a row with Christ Child. Because it can be that we are experiencing the beginnings of the Easter calendar. Few will come up with the idea in the family to do one themselves. There is enough to do in the weeks before Easter. Paint Easter eggs, bake Easter lambs, stock Easter nests. At the same time, the Easter stress is limited compared to Christmas stress. This also makes Easter a nice festival. From the end, the Christmas dispute is an issue in many family biographies. In rather few of the Easter dispute, the industry is still in the process of introducing another ritual with the calendar. We are still far from the advent calendar product flood, but the variety of products is already there. There are calendars with chocolate and sweets, with coloring pages, with skin seren, depending on what you like. Nevers 24 days: There is a candy time behind every door of this personalized calendar. Or just from January, if many do without alcohol or sweets regardless of the Christian calendar for a month. You can see it differently: The Ramadan calendars, which came up a few years ago, show us as a further turn of the Advent calendar madness. When Muslims celebrate the sugar festival from this Sunday, all thirty doors of the calendar are open, whether by the industrially provided or self -made. For children whose parents fast for a month and eat together in the evening, a Ramadan calendar can be a ritual to understand this time as something special. Not everything that comes up with industry is bad. And at least as a counting aid, whether at Easter or Ramadan, the calendars also serve. Just as Johann Hinrich Wichern had in mind at the time. The question of when Easter is unnecessary.
