The public library of Bochum is going to offer English Readings for Childeren. Due to an article in today’s edition of the local newspaper WAZ Wattenscheid, Dana Sczendzina will read for children every 3rd Thursday at 16.30 at the banch of the libary in Getrudiscenter, Wattenscheid. The reading called “It’s story time” will last an hour.
At the first session Eric Carle’s “From Head to Toe” and Peter Nickl’s “The Story of the Kind Wolf”
The public library of the city of Bochum already offers readings for Children in Russian and Turkish language. The projects shall ease to learn the languages early in lifetime.
As you surely have heard, Ruhr will be European Culturual Capital in 2010, calles Ruhr.2010. The Ruhr.2010 company is in charge of developing and coordinating the program for 2010. You can follow it activities and plan on the website www.ruhr2010.de. The website is available with a complete English translation. The program will also be printed in several books. ‘Book one’ is available since autumn 2008. A PDF document can be found under ‘Downloads’. The English version of the website contains the translation of book one – the international version.
If you have friends who want to visit Ruhr, tell them to come now or in 2010. The programme book gives a brief overview what is happening here and is hoing to happen for the next years. The book is an advertisment for Ruhr and its vived cultural development. It’s fun to read and to decide where to go and what to see.
The picture on the front cover, title and the first paragraph clearly define what this book is about: the history of the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen.
The Zollverein colliery and coking plant in Essen is a unique architectural monument and a testimony to mining history in the 19th and 20th century. At the same time it is now a new venue for art, culture, design, education, research and tourism. The Zollverein mining complex (comprising shaft site 12, shaft site 1/2/8 and the coking plant) was inscribed into the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2001. Is is one of three industrial World Heritage sites in Germany and one of only 41 technical and industrial history World Heritage sites throughout the world.
This article is not about the Zollverein World Heritage Site. It is about a book with this title which gives a tour through the history of this historical industrial site which is part of the regional Route of Industrial Heritage (Route der Industriekultur) and the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH). The special thing about this book is, that it is bilingual. On the left of each page you’ll find German language and the other half shows the English translation. Maybe it is a gift for people who are learning German?
I cannot recommend this book for people who just look for a short summary about what Zollverein actually is. It shows the history of coal mining, especially of coal mining in Ruhr and at Zollverein with its connected coking plant. It doesn’t deal with the industrial heritage of Ruhr in general but it focusses one of its most important relicts. I recommend this book if you want to compare living in Ruhr yesterday and nowadays.
The development of Zollverein since the pit was closed down in 1986 and the coking plant in 1993 is a prime example of the structural transformation of the Ruhrgebiet. Just as the pit and coking plant reflect the development phases of the golden age of industrialisation, the transforamation of the industrial complex to a venue of arts, culture, the creative economy and research is a model for the radical economic and commercial upturn in the region.
The book is published by Klartext Verlag, Essen for the price of € 17.90.
Welterbe Zollverein World Heritage Site, published by the Zollverein Foundation in cooperation with the Foundation for the Preservation of Industrial Monuments and Historical Culture, bilingual: German & English language, Klartext Verlag. Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-8441
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