Women's Wet Night: Carnival participants brave the rain. In Bavaria, Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) had his tie cut off in the State Chancellery on Nonsense Thursday.

In Konstanz on Lake Constance, the “Schmotzige Dunschtig’ or “Gumpige” Thursday was rung in with music, bells and rattles. For the first time, a prevention campaign was also run under the motto “It's a dress not a dress!”