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Sommermärchen
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German
Etymology
From de Sommer Märchen. In the football sense an allusion to the poem Germany. A Winter's Tale Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen by Heinrich Heine (1844), itself a reference to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale (1623).
Noun
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summer fairy tale
de Wintermärchen
de Germany soccer colloquial the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany
René Hamann Fußball-EM: So war unsere Meisterschaft 2024-07-14 https://taz.de/Fussball-EM/!6020874/ Vielleicht lag es am Wetter, das nicht annähernd so toll war wie damals beim „Sommermärchen“, vielleicht lag es überhaupt an der Erinnerung, also am Alter. https://web.archive.org/web/20260115025924/https://taz.de/Fussball-EM/!6020874/ 15 January 2026
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