Video here: Dresdner heiratet seine Katze: Paketbote krönt seltsame Liebe zu seinem Haustier | Regional | BILD.de
English take on it: BBC News - German man 'marries' his dying cat
The few German news reports on this that I have found seem all to derive from the Bild article. The actress named as ‘officiating’ does not seem to be all that prominent.
If factual, it would generally considered be a case of harmless eccentricism without any legal relevance (all wedding ceremonies other than a those before the designated municipial official are legally void in Germany - weddings in church are preceded by the ceremony in the municipial registry office, with only the latter counting in law.)
So he wouldn’t be viewed as a bit of a pervert, as he comes across to me?
A bit odd and perhaps more perverted than most of us - but there are a lot of other marriages without sex.
Now this Swedish lady who is still in love with the Berlin Wall and considers herself married to ‘him’ since 1979…
She has 8 cats too.
And a Finnish name. :dubious:
I hope they get married and have lots of Katzenjammer Kinder.
To put the story in a context: *Bild *is the worst German tabloid (and, of course, the most read), and stories like this are the main reason I sometimes browse it, to have a good laugh. As a German citizen, I can assure you that there is no way of a legal marriage between a human and a cat (or any other non-human species) in Germany.
There’s a sizeable population of Finnish speaking people in Sweden. Sweden Finns.