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2012 is Dickens Year! The great Victorian writer was born on 7th February 1812. Reason enough for us to dedicate our first Open Meeting this year to him. Come and join us for an evening where we discuss the life and time of this author, whose work transcends his own era, language and culture.

www.dickens2012.org

Our casual Open Meetings will give you the opportunity to talk with others in English about UK & international current affairs, books you are reading, films you have seen, or any other topics or issues you have in mind. You are also invited to bring along any books, articles or other material you would like to discuss. We are also open to any suggestions for a themed evening on a particular subject. Please let us know.

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Our casual Open Meetings will give you the opportunity to talk with others in English about UK & international current affairs, books you are reading, films you have seen, or any other topics or issues you have in mind. You are also invited to bring along any books, articles or other material you would like to discuss. We are also open to any suggestions for a themed evening on a particular subject. Please let us know.

Our casual Open Meetings will give you the opportunity to talk with others in English about UK & international current affairs, books you are reading, films you have seen, or any other topics or issues you have in mind. You are also invited to bring along any books, articles or other material you would like to discuss. We are also open to any suggestions for a themed evening on a particular subject. Please let us know

The 2010 Last Night of the Proms were the subject of our last Open Meeting in July; now you have the chance to celebrate this year’s event together with like-minded folks at “England England”. (Unfortunately, due to technical restrictions, we were not able to show you the live stream of the broadcast on 10th September.)

For those of you who were not able to participate in our last meeting and are still puzzled about what the fuss is all about, a short introduction will be provided.

You may come ‘as you are’, as this is part of the promming tradition, but feel free to wear funny hats, shawls or other colourful equipment, and don’t forget to bring a whistle, a horn and a Union Jack or the flag of your own state or country of residence.

You may also bring your own food and snacks to share. Drinks – both cold and warm – will be available for purchase. Please refrain from bringing your own beverages.

Last Night Of The Proms (Photo: divinenephron/Flickr)

Last Night Of The Proms (Photo: Mark Drasutis)

Wednesday, 6th July 2011 | 7:00 pm
Location: “England, England” – Tearoom, Books & Culture
Martin-Luther-Str. 25, 01099 Dresden (Google Maps)
Public Transport: Trams 11 (Pulsnitzer Str.) & 13 (Goerlitzer Str.)

Did you ever happen to come across a strange programme on TV, usually broadcast during the last days of summer, showing large crowds of people, dressed in red and blue, fervently singing and swaying and waving flags in some kind of opera house? Congratulations! You have become a witness of one of the most famous and typically British cultural events: The Last Night Of The Proms! The BBC’s Proms (short for “Promenade Concerts”) are running for eight weeks during the summer, mostly at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and are “The World’s Greatest Classical Music Festival”.

If you would like to know more about this defining part of the British identity, please join us for our Open Meeting at the beginning of July! DBG Dresden board member Janosch Pastewka will give us an inside view of this event, based on his own “promming” experience. His talk will serve as a prelude and preparation for the actual Last Night, which takes place on Saturday, September 10th, 2011, and will be broadcast live at “England, England”, for you all to enjoy and sing along in great company! So come and share your own experience with this and other UK events with friends and like-minded people at our Open Meeting.

Our casual Open Meetings will give you the opportunity to talk with others in English about UK & international current affairs, books you are reading, films you have seen, or any other topics or issues you have in mind. You are also invited to bring along any books, articles or other material you would like to discuss. We are also open to any suggestions for a themed evening on a particular subject. Please let us know.

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The British Dresden Trust presents a plantation of roses to the City of Dresden as a symbol of reconciliation and friendship. This Anglo-German Rose Garden will be inaugurated on Monday, 16th May, 2011, at 13:00 hrs by Dresden’s First Mayor Dirk Hilbert and the Dresden Trust’s Chairman, Dr. Alan Russell OBE. All Dresdeners and guests are invited to join the ceremony, which will also be attended by a representative of the British Embassy Berlin and a group of British travellers on a cultural journey around German cities organised by the Dresden Trust.

A plaque guides the visitor to the ten different English and German rose varieties growing in the garden and informs about the Dresden Trust’s mission: “This Rose Garden is dedicated to the many Dresdeners of all faiths as well as to the refugees who died in the Firestorm of the 13th and 14th February 1945. The Rose Garden serves as a symbol for reconciliation between the United Kingdom and Germany and expresses our hope for a peaceful co-existence of all peoples.”

The Dresden Trust was founded in 1993 with the aim to support the reconstruction of Dresden’s Frauenkirche with donations from British people. The most important contribution, however, were the Orb and Cross made for the Frauenkirche after the original plans by Alan Smith, a London goldsmith, whose father was one of the bomber pilots involved in the attack on Dresden. As part of its reconciliatory work with Germany, the Dresden Trust also supports student and other exchange projects.

Anglo-German Rosegarden of Friendship (Photo: Michael Müller)

Das Leben auf einer Insel prägt einen Menschen, beeinflusst sein Weltbild und verleiht ihm eine gewisse Feinfühligkeit für die Fragen menschlicher Existenz. Durch Themen wie zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen oder die Suche nach der eigenen Identität erreicht man die Tiefen der menschlichen Seele. Die irischen SchriftstellerInnen Kilroy, McCloskey und Hamilton werden die Leser auf eine Reise voller Gefühle und Abenteuer mitnehmen.

Claire Kilroy, geb. 1973 in Dublin, hat drei Romane veröffentlicht: All Summer (2003), ein literarischer Thriller über ein gestohlenes Gemälde, Tenderwire (2006), eine Liebesgeschichte über eine junge irische Geigerin und eine alte italienische Geige, und All Names Have Been Changed (2009), ein Campusroman über einen Schriftsteller und seinen Kurs in Kreativem Schreiben am Trinity College Dublin, ihrer eigenen Alma mater. 2004 erhielt Kilroy den Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Claire Kilroy lebt in Dublin.

Molly McCloskey, geb. 1964 in Philadelphia, lebt seit 1989 in Irland. Ihr Roman Protection (2005) über den rasanten sozialen und ökonomischen Wandel Irlands ist auf Deutsch u. d. T. Wie wir leben (2006) erschienen. Eine Auswahl ihrer Erzählungen, für die sie u. a. mit dem RTE/Francis MacManus Award ausgezeichnet wurde, findet sich in Liebe (2011). Im Juni 2011 erscheint Circles Around the Sun: In Search of a Lost Brother, die Geschichte der Schizophrenie ihres Bruders. Molly McCloskey arbeitete von 2006 bis 2008 in Kenia und Somalia für die UNO und schreibt regelmäßig Rezensionen sowie politische und kulturelle Essays für Zeitungen und Zeitschriften.

Hugo Hamilton, geb. 1953 in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, als Sohn einer deutschen Mutter und eines irischen Vaters, ist Autor von sieben Romanen, einem Erzählband und zwei Erinnerungsbänden, Gescheckte Menschen (2004) und Der Matrose im Schrank (2006). In Die redselige Insel (Luchterhand, 2007) begibt er sich auf die Spuren Heinrich Bölls in Irland. Sein Roman Legenden (2008) behandelt den deutsch-jüdischen Identitätskonflikt eines Berliner Musikers, sein neuester Roman Der irische Freund (2011) das Schicksal eines serbischen Immigranten in Irland. Hugo Hamilton ist Träger des Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, des Prix Femina Étranger und des Guiseppe-Berto-Preises sowie Mitglied der irischen Künstlerakademie Aosdána.

Eintritt: frei. Für landestypische Verpflegung ist gesorgt!
Ort: Erich Kästner Museum, Antonstraße 1, 01097 Dresden

Für Rückfragen steht Ihnen die Geschäftsstelle des Literaturbüros unter Tel. 0351 804 5086 gern zur Verfügung.

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Our casual Open Meetings will give you the opportunity to talk with others in English about UK & international current affairs, books you are reading, films you have seen, or any other topics or issues you have in mind. You are also invited to bring along any books, articles or other material you would like to discuss. We are also open to any suggestions for a themed evening on a particular subject. Please let us know

Vox Motus (Photo: Laurence Winram)

Dates: 7th – 22nd May 2011
Location: Societaetstheater | An der Dreikönigskirche 1a, 01097 Dresden
Public Transport: Alberplatz (Trams 3, 6, 7, 8, 11), Neustädter Markt (Trams 4, 8, 9)

The Societaetstheater Dresden presents a spectacular festival of contemporary Scottish theatre and (performing) arts. The 17 different events and performances include award-winning contemporary plays (many of which were winners at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival), dance theatre, documentary and short films, literature and music. The Festival also features a new interpretation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, designed as an audiowalk through the Botanical Gardens.

More info: http://www.societaetstheater.de/SCHOTTLAND.html

If you are in Leipzig, check out The English Room, which is also planning an Ascot / Royal Wedding Event.

But there’s no need to fall into despair if you can’t make it to any of these locations. The Royal Channel on YouTube will broadcast the event live on the internet and there’ll also be live coverage on some major German TV channels (ARD, ZDF, SAT1, RTL), which will make it hard to avoid the event

Here’s a schedule for the day: http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/specials/hochzeit-william-kate/article13288857/Das-ist-der-Zeitplan-fuer-Kate-und-Williams-Hochzeit.html

The not-so-royally inclined might just wait until it’s over or use one of these