Posts tagged ‘British’
Useful Lists on English Contacts
Recently I started a little research to get a list of English roundtables in Ruhr. I wrote an Email to all four contacts and the result was a surprise. Wolfgang Wosmann from The Social Club Mülheim an der Ruhr sent me a list with a lot of them. (Many thanks!) But he also added that not at all of them native speakers take part. Anyway, it will add a lot of items to my list.
The list of ‘English Speaking Clubs in NRW’ is provided by the British General-Consulate in Düsseldorf. It is last updated in April 2008. The website of the General-Consulate contaings further ‘Useful Lists‘. Have a look at them.
Is there something like this from any other English speaking country, it’s embassy or a consulate?
Boring ‘Very British’-Festival
Here’s my report on the ‘Very British’-Festival at the Rhein Ruhr Zentrum shopping mall in Mülheim an der Ruhr. I had announced it here. It was only okay and not really worth going there. The trick worked – we did shopping 
The British Bed And Breakfast in Dortmund
Due to its website, it’s a ‘British run Bed & Breakfast. Unique in Germany! World-Famous’ in Dortmund.‘ Its only a few kilometers away from Dortmund Airport and the owners offer a shuttle service “for guest arriving”.
I had a look at the pictures on the website. It looks very typical for ‘bed & breakfast’. Even if I live, I might consider it when I’ll have to take an early flight out from Dortmund.
British German Club Duisburg
Surfing the internet and looking for a page with the word ‘British’, I ran into the page of the British-German Club Duisburg, an officially registered club. Here’s how they describe themselves:
We call our association the British-German Club Duisburg (officially listed as: Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft Duisburg). In fact, we are open to anyone, regardless of nationality.
What ever your roots may be, we look forward to welcoming you to one of our meetings or events. So pop by, or join us regularly, for instance, for the opportunity to converse in English and take part in a variety of activities, ranging from talks on current affairs to contemporary and traditional cultural events and get-togethers. We are, of course, glad to embrace nationals from other English-speaking countries worldwide. People from all walks of life who either come to our city on a brief stay or to live here on a permanent base, attend the meetings of the British-German Club Duisburg. Why not come and have a look for yourself in order to both enjoy and add to the scope of activities our club has to offer.
They seem to have a monthly meeting. Looks like it is each month on the first Thursday at the pub Hundertmeister in Duisburg-Dellplatz. They list their planned acitivties on their webpages. There is more than just round tables.
British Movies at the Cinemaxx in Mülheim
Yesterday I wrote about the “Very British” festival at the Rhein-Ruhr-Zentrum shopping mall in Mülheim. The festival also contains at least two English movies per day at the Cinemaxx cinemas there. Here is a list of the movies in English language between July 2nd and 11th:
- Dead Poets Society (3pm on July 11th; 6pm on July 2nd,7th; 8pm on July 5th, 10th)
- The Queen (3 pm on July 5th; 6pm on July 4th, 6th, 10th; 8pm on July 2nd, 4th, 8th)
- The Full Monty (6pm on July 3rd, 8th, 11th; 8pm on July 6th, 9th)
- Notting Hill (6pm on July 5th, 9th; 8pm on July 3rd, 7th, 1th)
There’s no guarantee for the correctness of this information.
Very British – Festival At Rhein-Ruhr-Shopping Center
From July 2nd to 11th there will be a “Very British” Festival at the shopping mall of ‘Mülheim an der Ruhr‘, not far form the city limits of the city of Essen. The mall is called ‘Rhein-Ruhr-Zentrum‘. There will be several events. I assume that most of them will take place on a stage, i.e.
- a visit of the “Queen” (sounds like a look-alike),
- British live music,
- British movies in original languages, at least two per day, and
- a restaurant offering Fish’n'Chips.
There is a printed program which is also available as a PDF document here.
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