In the Christmas world of Lebkuchen-Schmidt, you'll find not only tasty recipes and craft instructions but also the best movies, shows, books, and songs for Advent and the Christmas holidays. Because holiday-worthy entertainment that sets the mood can't be missing during the Christmas season.
Christmas movies and shows for the whole family
Christmas movies for kids and adults
Three Wishes for Cinderella, Home Alone, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and many, many other Christmas classics are on the TV channels' lineup year after year. And we still enjoy watching them! Most of them we can watch in cozy togetherness with the whole family, including the kids. Even if things get a little darker in films like Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. The little ones, though, are much happier with Disney-brand Christmas movies: Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, Disney's A Christmas Carol, or The Muppet Christmas Carol. The adults wait until the kids are in bed to watch Bad Santa, Die Hard, and Scrooged with Bill Murray. Everyone has their own favorite list of Christmas movies, and year after year they're watched on TV, popped into the DVD player, or simply streamed over the internet via Netflix and the like.
Christmas in shows: the best Christmas episodes
Christmas is a spectacle, and that's true on TV, too. Fans of series therefore also look forward each year to a very special episode of their TV shows: the Christmas episode, also fondly called the 'Christmas Special.' From ALF to Friends to The Simpsons - many TV episodes of popular shows are now considered true classics of television history and therefore also air year after year. But are there real Christmas shows that are about nothing other than Christmas? Yes, there are. Maybe you still remember the productions called 'Christmas series' from ZDF, produced by the German broadcaster for children and teens between 1979 and 1995: Timm Thaler, Silas, Nonni and Manni, or Ron and Tanja, as well as many other shows. For the little ones, the cartoon series 'The Christmas Company' (Weihnachtsmann und Co. KG) also airs every year on Super RTL, and has for almost 20 years. So anyone who turns on the TV during the Christmas season definitely can't avoid the holiday.
From Cinderella to A Christmas Carol
In the pre-Christmas Advent season, and of course especially at Christmas, we put on festive Christmas music again, plan the shared movie night with our loved ones, and watch together the most beautiful, funniest, and most romantic Christmas movies of all time. Before going to bed, we then read the classic Christmas novels of our childhood once more and enjoy the festive Christmas mood that spreads throughout the whole house.
Over the years, though, we keep losing sight of a few gems of film and music history, have long forgotten one book or another, and no longer remember the lines of traditional Christmas songs. That's exactly where we help out: Lebkuchen-Schmidt brings the best Christmas movies and shows, Christmas songs, and books back to mind once more.
Reading under the Christmas tree: literary Christmas classics
On the cold, hopefully snowy and cozy evenings in December, there's nothing nicer than a thick wool blanket, a full cup of hot chocolate, some Nuremberg Elisen gingerbread on the side, and a good book in hand. Many wonderful Christmas stories have been and are written about the season of love. From stories for children to love stories to adventurous novels.
You surely know the story of the old miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three ghosts at Christmas - not only from the funny Christmas movie with Bill Murray. After all, it's one of the best-known tales by the English writer Charles Dickens. But when did you last read Dickens's classic Christmas story?
As one of the oldest Christmas customs that still hold today, the Christmas story of the birth of Jesus is also gladly read aloud at Christmas, usually on Christmas Eve. That also serves as a reminder of why we celebrate Christmas in the first place. Fittingly for the holiday, it's surely time again to refresh your literary memory: put together a list of literary Christmas classics and start reading!
