Where to go trick-or-treating - Berlin

I will definitely not forget Halloween. it is my fav holiday and if I have to I will pass candy out to the Berliners in the street but I need to celebrate it. Where do we go to trick or treat?

there are a few streets off of clayallee near roseneck (I think Goldfinkweg is the main drag) where the houses do trick or treating. its quite a scene and can get pretty packed. kids and parents dress up and the house owners sometimes do mulled wine stands and decorate their houses.

my boyfriend is a berliner and he said people barely celebrate it and i was shocked!! i love halloween and making haunted houses and stuff. if anyone else is into this i would totally be down for a costume party!

I threw a pumpkin carving party last year and my German friends got really into it. You should throw your own costume party Halloween is becoming more & more popular in Berlin and I had a handful of kids over the last few years at my door, trick or treating. The focus is more on the "spooky" side so you get a lot of witches & goblins.

plan something on your own.
Put up flyers in the buidings close to you and explain it.
or, get a sport halle close by and throw your own party or a near by bar/pub.

Halloween is the best day of the whole year. The Energizer bunny was my best costume. (without logos or anything "commercial" of course)

This custom is catching up also in Germany, probably influenced by American films the kids see: at least in the two places I have lived in the past several years (Eastern, not very "hype" or full of Americans: Alt Treptow and a Plattenbau area in F'Hain) there have been kids (not every 3 minutes, but at least 2-3 times during the evening) coming up. Last year I think I saw even that the local children club (or whatever you call those neighbourhood afternoon activity clubs in Germany), has organised a collective ToT.

Some of the older "Ossi" neighbours here seem not to understand (but since the grannies here seem to be stereotypical German grannies, who always have *something* for kids at home, they give them candies anyways); For me, as a non-American (who doesn't anxiously wait and remember Halloween in any case), it is always the other way round: "*&^%! Have I forgotten (again) to buy sweets for today? Should I be the nasty auntie that gives them some health stuff instead?"

By the way, not being American I have no idea how to compare traditions (certainly the one here pales in comparison to the US/Canada) but I have yet to encounter a kid saying something else than sorry if the person tells them that they have no idea what they're about/haven't any sweets.

ahhh awesome! i cannot wait for trick o treating. ill keep checkin back for more information on halloween. is anyone throwing a party?

Be careful who the kids visit. Let them to go houses you know have young families. IMO there's a bit of a generational thing going on in Germany with Halloween. It's a US import which isn't that appreciated by some of the older generation - seen as tantamount to demanding with menaces.

trick-or-treating = Halloween no way.

Halloween in Ireland is like Christmas with games poems and story's. A candle in the window for all the houses to help the dead soul to return or and find there way back to the houses. Where they once lived that is also bram brack with a ring in it to predict who gets married first and there is also money in the cake as well to see who gets luck or money later in life also there is pixie bread and there is liberal spilling of whiskey for the dead or the devil called àn poca in Gaelic and all mirrors are covered in black cloth and mirrors on doors are removed. I have seen in my aunts house salt spilled along all window sills and doorways and the next day we show the children where the devil or soul touched it.

Trick-or-treating kids dress up and collect sweets. or rap your house in toilet paper .. We do that in Ireland to but not so much as people are a bit worried about letting there kids out at night.

Trick an tretin is great i used to throw dog crap at windows and wait for old mac the local wierdo to come out of his house and start threating us with his pump action...those were the days eh.Guess that kinda stuff doesnt hapen round here much now.Cany and sweets are the name of the day.Have fun kids

in the UK, the kids came around and wanted money, if they didnt get it or you didn't answer your door, you were likely gonna get your car scratched or your garden destroyed. One year I tried the sweets thing and they just chucked them on the street outside.

That is a real shame about uk.

Had a few groups of kids around last year, all dressed up as witches and ghouls - but Mums wre not far off supervising them.

Harmless enough, I suppose - and I can get rid of bags of 1, 2 and 5 cent coins which otherwise just collect in the bottom of my pockets.

I live in Friedenau, btw.

We went last year to Goldfinkweg and environs with a couple of 8 year olds. Have heard that they are being overwhelmed by kids from all over Berlin. I'd gladly donate a crate of sweets or decorations or whatever. I'm sure this is deeply impractical, but I feel like a heel because we're taking without giving...