Zinzinnati
Zinzinnati or also called Zinzinati or Cincinnati, is a generic term for festivals of German immigrants in the USA and Canada. Linguistically, the term Zinzinnati is based on the pronunciation of the German-Americans for the region of Cincinnati , Ohio , USA . There they tried very early on to celebrate festivals that were supposed to bring German customs to their new homeland. A proper name for parties of German descent in general quickly developed from this in US English.
Since some of these festivals now play a major role in the cultural life of the organizing regions, the term is now also used in Germany, especially by tour operators, and is thus used as anglicism in German language.
Germanfest
The Germanfest is celebrated every April in Muenster (Texas) .
Cincinnati May Festival
The Cincinnati May Festival has been a choir festival since the 1840s and has been held in Ohio every May since. It was originally called the Singing Festival . The Bock Festival is also celebrated in Cincinnati every summer . Here a drinking competition between two knights in the Bavarian Middle Ages is thought, in which bock beer was drunk until one of them could no longer stand on one leg.
Oktoberfest Zinzinnatis
Oktoberfest Zinzinnatis are celebrated in many cities to commemorate the Cannstatter Wasen and the Munich Oktoberfest . With a slight misunderstanding of the roots of these German traditions, these festivals are now often only referred to as beer festivals . The biggest Oktoberfest celebrations are the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest in Ontario , Canada , which has been celebrated since 1969 , with around 700,000 visitors, and the Zinzinnati-Oktoberfest in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, which was founded in 1976 , with around 500,000 visitors.