Since 1950, the organizers of the carnival parade in Mainz, Germany, have sold plaques to help pay for the parade. Many are on display at the museum dedicated to the city’s carnival history.

Jurgen Klopp is one of the notable subjects to have been transformed into a styrofoam float for the Mainz carnival parade on Shrove Monday. The float portrays Klopp with wings made of banknotes ...

Hundreds of thousands of revelers took to the streets across Germany Monday to celebrate Carnival dressed up in colorful costumes, amid an abundance of candy, flowers and alcohol. Popular street ...

MAINZ, Germany (AP) — The heads and bodies are gigantic, the subjects are world leaders, and the creations are irresistible to look at. All of these oversized figures are coming together for a ...

The floats for parades in Cologne, Duesseldorf, Mainz and elsewhere are notorious for their no-holds-barred satire, and also took aim at Brexit, the potential candidates to take over leadership of ...

National and international politics topped the agenda as Germany's Carnival season reached its high point on Monday, with thousands thronging the streets of Cologne and Mainz and other cities to ...

Mainz, Germany, Feb. 8, 2018: A group of revelers celebrates Weiberfastnacht, or women’s carnival, in Mainz, Germany. As one can see, not only women were celebrating. Weiberfastnacht is ...