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The Bonn Players – New Production
The Bonn Players`30th anniversary year will be rounded off with a production of one of G. B. Shaw`s initially most controversial, but now classic plays, the comedy Mrs Warren´s Profession. [Read more of this story] AKPC_IDS += "4569,";Popularity: 10% [?] Read More →
What’s happening?
Yes, that is Bonn’s Lord Mayor Mr Jürgen Nimptsch in the picture opposite. But what’s caught his eye above? [Read more of this story] AKPC_IDS += "4553,";Popularity: 11% [?] Read More →
Beethoven Festival
Celebrated Pianist Helene Grimaud with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra gets the Annual Bonn ‘Beethoven Festival’ underway this week. [Read more of this story] AKPC_IDS += "4529,";Popularity: 13% [?] Read More →
Banjo Festival coming to Bonn
Sean Moyses is not only an excellent banjo player, but also excellent at organizing other banjo players. Proof of this is the Banjo Festival 2011 to be held at The Fiddlers in Endenich. [Read more of this story] AKPC_IDS += "4518,";Popularity: 14% [?] Read More →
World Press photo 11
As in previous years the Deutsche Bahn is exhibiting the winning entries from the years World Press Photo Competition (World Press Photo 11). The ‘best of the best’ is currently on show at Cologne Main Railway Station until 29 August, and is, as always, a breathtaking experience. This years exhibition features 177 images chosen from... [Read more of this story]
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Royal Weddings R Us
Well, now it’s over I think it has to be said – Britain does these things very well indeed. I can’t judge the media presentation in the UK from here in Germany but I would guess (hope!) that the somber tones of a black and white yesteryear were replaced by something more 21st Century technicolour. Somehow, whereas Charles seemed to cry... [Read more of this story]
Currywurst Wars?
Many of us from Britain might remember the ‘Curry Wars’ of the early 70′s as restaurant after restaurant opened up to fight for the tidalwave of hungry customers emerging from pubs at closing time. It seems as if Bonn in 2010 has a variation on the theme. The ‘Bönnsche Imbiss” has been a popular ‘address’... [Read more of this story]
Summer Concerts!
To warm us up during the cold Winter the Solar World Summer Stage has announced it’s first shows for the Museumsplatz in 2011. Grammy Nominee Till Brönner (9 July) and ever popular Blackfööss (18 July) are early favourites as is comedian Kaya Yanar (6 August). Business Manager of events Martin Nötzel promises more concerts than in the previous... [Read more of this story]
Metropol meets Thalia
This week saw the long awaited opening of the Thalia Bookshop in Bonn’s Market Square. The road to this moment has certainly been a rocky one – ‘Save the Metropol’ posters and petitions finally came to nothing as the legal loopholes proved in the end to be decisive: Too many past renovations had left to little of the original Theatre/Cinema... [Read more of this story]
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