Next year, Exeter will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of being twinned with Bad Homburg in Germany.
The town of Bad Homburg lies at the foot of the Taunus mountains, about a 15 minute drive north-west of Frankfurt. It is a beautiful spa town with a castle and splendid woodland surroundings.
It is considered to be one of the wealthiest towns in Germany and it is best known for its mineral springs and spa and most importantly, for its Casino. The Casino in Bad Homburg (Spielbank Bad Homburg) was established over 175 years ago and is one of the oldest and most famous...
Chamber Philharmonia Cologne will be Classics from Germany performing on Tuesday 23rd August 2016 at 7.30 pm in St David’s Church in Exeter
Concerti Virtuosi
Mozart
Divertimento for Strings in F Minor KV 138
Borne
Carmen-Fantasy for Flute and Orchestra
Paganini
The carnival of Venice for Violin and Orchestra op.10
Chamber Philharmonia Cologne (Germany)
We are very happy to propose you a diverse program ranging from Antonio Vivaldi to W.A. Mozart, Francois Borne, Gioacchino Rossini and Niccolo Paganini.
Recent atrocities in Syria and other Middle Eastern countries were the catalyst for a retired professor to finally chart her own childhood in war-torn Germany.
Barbara Ottaway, who has lived in the United Kingdom for the past 50 years, is one of a group of 13 friends who have relived their childhood experiences of Nazi Germany in an extraordinary bilingual biography, Memories Unlocked- Befreite Erinnerungen. The stories are presented in Barbara’s translation into English and in the original German.
Along with her Berlin-based co-editor, Renate Mehta, they have produced an...
Scrutiny of objects collected at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) during the First World War period has revealed a grim reminder of one the horrors of the First World War: the gas attacks which caused over a million casualties.
In 1919 RAMM was given a collection of German military equipment gathered by the British War Trophies Commission after the Armistice. Among the items is a gas mask worn by a German soldier in the trenches.
The mask covered the soldier’s eyes and mouth to limit injury by chemical gas, but the rest of the head remained...
Artists from Devon have been invited to exhibit their works in Essen, once a centre of the German mining and steel industry.
They will be presenting paintings of the beautiful landscapes of Devon and Cornwall. The German people are particularly interested in this part of the United Kingdom since more than a hundred of Rosamunde Pilcher's novels have been adapted for television by a high ranking German TV station, earning the German producer and Rosamunde Pilcher the British Tourism Award in 2002.
The paintings will be interpreting the colours and structures of the...
Dozens of food and drink producers from the South West will take part in a UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) trade mission this week at ANUGA, the World’s biggest food industry event, which takes place in Cologne, Germany. Companies from the South West, including Uffculme-based Willie's Cacao, Luscombe Drinks from South Devon, Proper Cornish Pasties from Bodmin and Somerdale Cheeses from Wellington will meet a range of buyers and suppliers, and visit a number of local food and drink producers. UKTI International Trade Adviser, Andrew Fraser, who is leading the South West delegation at ANUGA,...
