Our meetings for 2017/8 

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2017/8 MEETING CALENDAR

Thursday 5th January 2017 -      Mystery Parcel Event

Thursday 2nd February 2017 -    LATE CHANGE - Quiz Abend!

Thursday 2nd March 2017 -        Weinproebe

Thursday 6th April 2017 -          Annual General Meeting followed a talk by Walter Bridge on his                                               German Ancestry

Thursday 4th May 2017 -           Spargel Abend

Thursday 1st June 2017 -           Cafe Culture

Thursday 6th July 2017 -            Grillabend mit Musik

Thursday 3rd August 2017 -       No Meeting - Urlaubs!!

Thursday 7th September 2017-  German Bundestag Elections - Simon Johl

Thursday 5th October 2017 -      500 years after the German Reformation – in the steps of Martin Luther

                                                         Terry Bloor   

Thursday 2nd November 2017 - Christine will run a bi-lingual activity about the Bauhau ceramicist Grete Marks, a                                                             Nazi refugee who briefly worked in Stoke-on-Trent. This will be followed by an                                                               art workshop led by local artist Debbie Windsor

Thursday 7th December 2017 -  Adventabend: The usual format with paper folding and Weihnachtslieder.

                                                        Terry Bloor will provide spiritual reflections & Insa Winkelbrandt will demonstrate                                                           making a Feuerzangenbowle

Thursday 4th January 2018  -    Games Abend - Party games - may include games such as                                                  Anagrams in English & German. Find out how to play SKAT and                                              revise knowledge of Canasta. Also the "Konfessionen", a party                                              game inspired by entries made by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Thursday 1st February 2018 -    Erlangen themed Evening Club members with Erlangen                                                    connections (Irmgard. lesley, Marian and Clive) to co-ordinate                                                contributions on Stoke's twin city

Thursday 1st March 2018          WEINPROBE

Thursday 5th April 2018            TO BE ADVISED

Thursday 3rd May   2018 -        Kaefer themed evening Based on the word-play '(Mai)Kaefer                                              and Beetle, the evening will include a VW Beetle drive devised by                                          Bryan & Christine. Bryan will also contribute a short VW related                                              piece

There are also some additional events outside of the meetings for 2017

April - Pensioners from Erlangen are visiting the area 

Saturday 17th June -       Marion will lead an Orienteering Experience on Cannock Chase

Saturday 22nd July -        An escorted walking tour around Manchester

Sunday 24th September-  Visit to the Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919 - 1933

                                      See information on the Home page of this website

Sunday 12th November - Remembrance Sunday 1200 on Cannock Chase - German Military Cemetery

2016 MEETING CALENDAR

Thursday 7th January 2016 - Mystery Parcel Event

Thursday 4th February 2016 - The German Social Work Model

Thursday 3rd March 2016 - Weinproebe

Thursday 7th April 2016 - Annual General Meeting

Thursday 5th May 2016 - Bilingual Language Games

Thursday 2nd June 2016 - Sing-Song Evening

Thursday 7th July 2016 - Grill Abend with German Food

Thursday 4th August 2016 - No Meeting - Urlaubszeit!!!

Thursday 1st September 2016 - German Learning Workshop

Thursday 6th October 2016 - Presentation by DoE candidates on their experience and history of DoE

Thursday 3rd November 2016 - Revisiting Learning Language techniques with Slow German

Thursday 1st  December 2016 - Adventabend

2015 MEETING CALENDAR

Thursday 8th January 2015 - Germany Quiz

Thursday 5th February 2015 - The Great German Bake-off

Thursday 5th March 2015 - Weinproebe

Thursday 2nd April 2015 - AGM

Thursday 7st May 2015

Thursday 4th June 2015

Thursday 2nd July 2015

Thursday 6th August 2015

Thursday 3rd September 2015

Thursday 1st October 2015 - Quiz Evening

Thursday 5th November 2015 - The History of Rolls-Royce

Thursday 3rd December 2015 - Adventabend

Occasionally, we share some German food together.

Please let us know the Monday before the next meeting, if you would like to join us for the meal.