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The English Language Journal


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October/November 2004
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Contents

Feature News and Events accent on… Children’s Corner


8 “Da sind two cats” 5 British book fair 17 …Friedrichshafen’s charm 20 Crossovers: new reading
English in Grade 1: 6 US election comes to B-W 19 …lifestyle 20 Kids on Lake Constance
Baden-Württemberg’s 7 Cinema shake-up Finding a coffee to go 21 Winnie the Witch
language first
10 Kids coping with English
12 Close to my heart Arts and Culture Labyrinth Regulars
Education Minister Schavan
in profile 14 Vaulting Ambition 26 I live here 4 Letters
Stuttgart’s lively theatre Getting a residency permit 22 accents choice

Cover photo: R. Bruhn


scene What’s on listings
16 Books for autumn 24 accents guide
16 Germans and English Clubs and contacts
cinema 25 Classifieds

Editorial

Welcome to the first edition of communication among English native English speakers living faring? Is it sensible to immerse
accents, an English-language speakers in Baden-Württemberg in Baden-Württemberg, but for six- and seven-year-olds in a
magazine for southwest since the demise four years many others who speak and foreign language? What is the
Germany! ago of The Written Word. That read English well or who use experience of native English
publication was a monthly English regularly in their jobs or speaking kids in these lessons?
We hope that accents will ‘must-read’ newsletter for social lives. We investigate.
become a forum for English- English speakers produced on a And in Baden-Württemberg, We also take you on a tour
language events, culture, volunteer basis by Steve Jacobs nearly everyone – from 6- of Lake Constance, tell you
business, literature, letters – and Anne Lenzko. When Jacobs year-old kids to the education how to register yourself (sic!)
for news and views, in English, left Baden-Württemberg in minister, Annette Schavan – and introduce you to English-
in Baden-Württemberg. 2000, The Written Word simply can speak at least a little bit of language theatre, cinema and
The idea of starting up an collapsed. Thankfully, our three English. Hence, the focus of the the delightful Winnie the Witch.
English-language magazine was drinkers didn’t suffer the same first feature story, in the very
born where many good ideas fate but organized a meeting first edition of accents: Baden- Please tell us what you think of
are born: in a pub! Early last and began planning to set up a Württemberg is the first state in the magazine. And spread the
year, three people – a media new magazine. Germany to officially introduce word: accents is here!
professor, a diplomat and a Our aim is to establish English in the first year of
publican – were having a beer accents as a magazine not school. But how is the first- accents magazine editorial team
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Letters
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Greetings Filling the Gap


From Baden-Württemberg’s Premier

Baden-Württemberg is Germany’s number one export region Baden-Württemberg, for many a holiday destination in Germany’s
and a home for education, science and the arts – it’s an open south-western corner, is renowned for its Gastfreundschaft and
and welcoming state in the heart of Europe. With the launch of Gemütlichkeit. What is less well recognised is the international
accents magazine, Baden-Württemberg now has a new, regular, outlook of this powerhouse economy which is home to almost
English-language publication to inform people about a range 1.25 million foreigners amongst its population of 10.7 million.
of events and happenings, as well as arts and cultural news. The absence of an informative, good quality English-
accents magazine provides people who are new to this language publication, focussing on topics of interest to native
state with a great opportunity to inform themselves, in English, and non-native English speakers, newcomers and long-term
about what’s going on in our society and culture. Of course, residents alike, has troubled me for some time. I am therefore
we are especially pleased when people from all over the world, delighted to be able to welcome you to this first edition of
who come here to live and work, also take time to discover accents magazine, which will I hope fill the gap that many
Baden-Württemberg for themselves – with all of its beauty, and others have remarked upon.
with all of its interesting and occasionally surprising wonders. accents aims to draw together and inform the diverse
accents magazine contributes to making the more than English-speaking groups in Baden-Württemberg, regardless of
40,000 native English speakers who live in Baden-Württemberg nationality. It will focus on business as well as cultural topics
feel even more at home. It allows them to participate in the of relevance to English speakers. And it aims to be topical,
sporting and cultural life of the community, and to establish provoking debate on issues which affect all our lives. Most
contact more quickly with the population at large. importantly accents aims to be your magazine – and if you think
I wish accents magazine every success, and I wish all of its you can contribute information of value to others the editor
readers many pleasant discoveries in and about Baden-Württem- awaits!
berg. I am very pleased to have been associated with this project
and I pay tribute to the determination of all those who have
helped to get it off the ground. With this first issue the hard
work only begins of course. The magazine will continue to need
both sponsors and readers. Please help us by spreading the
word.

Erwin Teufel
Ministerpräsident Mark Twigg
Baden-Württemberg HM Consul-General, Stuttgart

Write in and tell us


What do you miss about Christmas?

The next issue of accents will be out just You don’t have to be a foreigner – you accents magazine
before Christmas. If you’re Australian you’re might come from another part of Germany Libanonstraße 58
probably going to miss your backyard BBQ and miss your local Christmas traditions. 70184 Stuttgart
in the summer sun. Americans will be We’ll publish some of the best responses. Fax 0711 3102161
missing the Christmas television re-runs. And a picture dictionary from PONS will editor@accents-
Some of the Brits among us really miss a be sent to the writer of our favourite entry, magazine.de
good carol service (rather irreverently after so don‘t forget your name and address.
a couple of pints and mince pies at the Letters can be posted, faxed or emailed.
local!) Write in and tell us what you miss. The deadline for entries is Nov 5 th, 2004.

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News and Events

How Very British and Philip Kerr; afternoon tea and beer-
tasting events; a ‘British Crime Night’; and
an exhibition with photographs of British
authors. Other guests include Merlin
Holland, the grandson of Irish writer Oscar
Wilde, who will read extracts from his book
Books from the United Kingdom are the November 18 to December 12. The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde, and German
focus of this year’s Stuttgart Book Fair, The book fair program features readings writer Frank Günther, who will talk about
to be held at the Haus der Wirtschaft from by British authors, including Jeffrey Archer his ambitious project to translate all of
Shakespeare’s works into German. (And
you thought old Will was hard enough to
Photo: Stuttgarter Buchwochen

follow in English!)
More than 300 publishers are taking part
in the fair, and about 2,000 books from and
about the UK will be on display. A total of
25,000 books is being presented, including
9,000 new releases.

The 54 th Stuttgart
Book Fair, 2004
Nov 18 - Dec 12
Daily 10 am - 8 pm
Haus der Wirtschaft
Willi-Bleicher-Str. 19
Stuttgart
www.buchwochen.de

One English-Language School Opens the English language in the region.


“We want to create a centre here for
and another expands the English speaking community, so that
different groups of people could use the
school for meetings or other events after
school hours,” Preisig said.
A new international school, offering English- area,” Preisig said. “International firms are Meanwhile, the International School of
language classes, has opened in the Lake happier to set themselves up in a region if Stuttgart (ISS) is expanding its primary
Constance region. they know their foreign staff can enrol their school campus in Sindelfingen. It is now
Based in the Swiss border town of children into the standard programe of the offering Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2
Kreuzlingen, the International School of International Baccalaureate Organisation.” classes in a self-contained wing of the
Kreuzlingen-Konstanz (ISKK) offers courses The curriculum at the ISKK includes six Summerhofen Grundschule, a normal
meeting requirements of the International subjects: language; social studies; mathe- German primary school. The ISS, based in
Baccalaureate Organisation. Students are matics; science and technology; the arts; Stuttgart-Degerloch, opened its satellite
aged three to eleven years. and personal, social and physical education. campus last year due to increasing demand
The purpose of this cross-border project Preisig says he hopes the school will for an English-language education in the
is to make the Lake Constance region more become an important centre for promoting Böblingen-Sindelfingen area.
attractive for international businesses,
according to Stefan Preisig, the principal.
“Both Kreuzlingen and Konstanz have
recognised the need to open a school with
an English program to make it easier to
attract businesspeople with families to the

ISKK
International School
Kreuzlingen Konstanz
(photo right)
Hauptstraße 27
8280 Kreuzlingen
Switzerland
Tel 0041 71672 2727
Fax 0041 71672 2717
www.iskk.ch

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Greek Scot!

Photo: georgebush.com
Photo: johnkerry.com
When Scotsman James Carson started
working at Stuttgart Airport 26 years
ago, his colleagues’ English skills left
much to be desired. How things have
changed. Michelle Anderson asked
Carson to show her around the airport
When Every Vote Counts with its new Terminal 3.

US Election James Carson is the Stuttgart super-


intendent for Olympic Airways, the
Greek national carrier. How did a Scot
come to work in Stuttgart for a Greek
Around 17,000 US citizens live in Baden- Partisan organizations say they also airline? Well, his native language gave
Württemberg – and that doesn’t include see more interest from voters this year. him a head start.
American military personnel. As Katharine Republicans Abroad, which is not directly When he first came to work at the
Schmidt reports, their votes are being linked to the Republican Party, held an airport, Carson was employed by the
sought in a close presidential race. event in Berlin in April with former Vice airport’s catering firm. One day he
President Dan Quayle as part of an effort was asked by the manager of Olympic
American voters have been hearing for over to reach new voters. “We have had many Airways to help members of a Greek
a year now just how polarized the electorate more absentee ballot requests from air crew who were having problems
is. But there’s a positive aspect to the Americans living here in Germany than communicating in English. Later, the
sharp divisions and strong feelings in this last time,” said John W. Gerrish, chairman manager offered Carson a job at Olympic
year’s contest between President George of the Stuttgart chapter of Republicans Airways, and he’s been with the com-
W. Bush and Senator John F. Kerry. Political Abroad. At the international headquarters pany ever since.
parties and other groups dedicated to a for Democrats Abroad, the voting registration Carson enjoys life at the airport,
particular candidate are extending their reach officer said the group had registered more where he begins every morning with a
to citizens who have not been involved in Americans by the end of April this year cup of coffee and a sense of expectation.
politics before. It’s happening in the United than in all of election year 2000. Said “Everyday there’s something different,”
States and it’s happening here in Germany. Charles Keene, chairman of the group’s he says.
In the US, the anti-Bush forces have Heidelberg chapter: “We’ve had much higher It’s hard to imagine how big the air-
been swelled by artists, hip-hop musicians, attendance at events this year, double the port actually is, unless you are taken on
rock stars like Bruce Springsteen, and number in past years.” a tour by someone who knows their way
film-makers like Michael Moore, whose As in the United States, new groups around. Stuttgart is one of Germany’s
latest film Fahrenheit 9/11 can also be seen overseas have sprung up outside the orbit
in Germany. The MoveOn.org network links of traditional parties. American Voices
these anti-Bush groups via the Internet. Abroad was founded in Berlin last year by a
Meanwhile, supporters of President Bush group of Americans opposed to the war in
are reaching out to Christian groups, from Iraq. It has since opened 14 chapters from
Baptists to Roman Catholics. The Bush side Belgium to Lebanon, including one in
is also counting on entertainers like California Tübingen. In the Netherlands, a group of
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and actor American and Dutch citizens set up a
Charlton Heston to motivate voters. web-site called TellAnAmericanToVote.com,
In Germany, officials at the US Consulate which enables registration information to
General in Frankfurt have seen a surge in be sent via e-mail. The pithy rationale for
interest from voters. Requests for infor- their registration drive: “7,100,000 Americans
mation on voting began to pick up in June, live outside the USA … 537 votes put
when they rose from 7 to 10 a day to George W. Bush in the White House …
between 10 and 15 a day. “We are seeing Change the World.”
people at the window who have never Those 537 votes were counted in the
voted before,” says a consular official. state of Florida, where absentee ballots
played a significant role in helping to turn
the tide in the 2000 presidential election.
Election news: That fact has encouraged political orga-
www.georgebush.com nizers to pay more attention to expatriate
www.johnkerry.com voters than in the past.
www.nytimes.com “The overseas vote may be critical
www.washingtonpost.com in the results of this year’s election,”
www.cnn.com says Sharon Manitta, spokeswoman for
www.foxnews.com Democrats Abroad. Her political opponent,
www.pbs.org Henry Nickel, chairman of Republicans
Abroad for Germany, agrees: “Anyone
Campaign ads: who’s been paying attention to the numbers
http://livingroomcandidate. knows it’s going to be very close. There’s
movingimage.us/index.php a good chance that expatriate voters will
decide the election.”

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fastest-growing airports. The building of
the new Terminal 3, at a cost of 150
million euros, allows Stuttgart to process
up to 12 million passengers a year.
Carson says that Terminal 3 was long
overdue.
“This project certainly gives the
Stuttgart region a boost internationally –
maybe not right now, but in two or three
years’ time when, I hope, the travel and
tourism industry will pick up again,” he
says.
Working at Stuttgart Airport has
brought Carson into contact with many
famous visitors, including Margaret
Thatcher, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Clinton,
the Pope, and – not to be left out –
Scotland’s best football teams. Both of
the big Glasgow clubs, Celtic and Rangers,
along with their respective armies of
Cinema Shake-up
fans, have trailed through the airport
over the last few years for games
CinemaxX picks up where Europa leaves off
against VfB Stuttgart.
“I wasn’t needed on-hand for the
arrival of those teams. But I didn’t pass Like a sleight-of-hand trick in a Harry However, a major cinema chain has
up invitations to watch the matches Potter film, English-language cinema has stepped in to partly fill the breach left by
from the VIP lounge in Stuttgart!” disappeared from downtown Stuttgart. For the Europa’s closure. CinemaxX says an
And when he needs a break from the last four years, the Europa Cinema in experiment it started in May to test the
Stuttgart? Carson says he mostly looks Königstraße was the only place in the city English-language market at its Bosch Areal
forward to visiting Greece. “Greek cul- centre which exclusively screened original- complex has proved successful. Although
ture and Scottish culture are very much language films. But it didn’t attract enough the majority of English-language films shown
alike. The temperament is very similar film-goers. “I did hope to capture an inter- so far have been dubbed into German,
and family ways are similar.” nationally-oriented, multicultural public assistant theatre manager Sascha Diener
living in the city – to entice them to see a says CinemaxX will – “with 80 percent
film in English. But it just didn’t happen,” certainty” – continue to show films regularly
says Christiane Niewald, who managed in English. Diener says while demand is
the Europa until it closed earlier this year. not overwhelming, and decisions about
Niewald says she intended to shut down screenings are still made on a week-by-
the cinema at the end of this year. How- week basis, there has been a better-than-
ever, a Stuttgart City Council order for expected response to English-language
fire safety improvements, which would screenings. Films are now shown in English
have cost 15,000 euros, forced her to three or four days a week at the complex.
close the Europa earlier than planned, in
Photo: Stuttgart Airport

mid-April. (The council says it has nothing Why are Germans generally reluctant to
against English-language cinema; the safety watch films in English? An interview with
improvements were ordered after a routine Christiane Niewald on page 16 in our Arts
building inspection.) and Culture section.

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Feature

We can do everything – even speak English!

The people of Baden-Württemberg might have trouble speaking ‘high’ German,


but not English. Even first-graders are now learning English. Accents reports on the
success of an ambitious experiment.

At first the seven-year-old girl is confused. taught. (The launch of first-grade English Climbing water spouts
“Could you close the door, please?” was preceded by a two-year test program
repeats the teacher, this time pointing to at more than 400 primary schools in the Incy Wincy Spider is the star of today’s
the door. The child looks from the door Stuttgart region. Stuttgart’s primary school lesson at Neuffen Primary School. The
back to the teacher, and stands up. The kids have therefore completed three years children are gathered on the floor around
teacher acts out the motion of pulling a of English.) their teacher, Birgit Gegier, who’s showing
door shut. “Yes, that’s right,” she says Primary school English involves a new them a picture book. “Where are the
encouragingly, “close the door.” Now the approach to language teaching in B-W. The spider’s legs? Can you count them? What
girl walks over and closes the door. “Very idea is not to teach children the structure colour is his body?” she asks the children,
good. Thank you,” says the teacher. of the language but to immerse them in testing out previously learned words. After
Today’s English lesson hasn’t even started what linguists call a “language bath” – reading through the story of Incy Wincy
at Neuffen Primary School, at the edge of to familiarise children with everyday English Spider, without any translation, she puts
the Swabian Alps, south of Nürtingen. But in a relaxed way. Grammar is not taught. the book aside and teaches the children
already a child has revealed a basic under- German, in general, is not used. the actions that go with the nursery rhyme.
standing of English, and the teacher has “The first year of English in primary She doesn’t explain any of the English
demonstrated the modern way of teaching schools has been an absolute success,” words she’s using – she simply lets her
English in Baden-Württemberg’s primary says the initiator of the program, Baden- movements speak for themselves. The
schools. Translating is a thing of the past. Württemberg Education Minister, Annette children then stand in a circle to copy the
With music, movement, song and dance, Schavan. “Experts tell us the earlier child- teacher’s actions, while saying the nursery
six- and seven-year old children are being ren begin learning a language the easier it rhyme as best they can. They are then
taught English. And they’re having a lot of is. And anyone who visits a primary school taught the song to go with the actions.
fun in the process. sees how much fun the children have with The class then listens to the Incy Wincy
Baden-Württemberg is the first state English. You see that it’s so much easier Spider song from a cassette player, and
in Germany to introduce the compulsory for them to learn English than later on in the actions are repeated and sung to music.
teaching of a foreign language in the first high school … Many teachers actually say Back at their desks, the children draw a
grade. As of September 2003, every primary we could go even faster with the program spider.
school in the state began teaching English, – children are catching on so quickly.” “The building blocks of English for first
with the exception of a number of schools (Full interview with Dr Schavan on page 12) graders are stories, games, songs, music
along the French border, where French is and actions,” says Gegier. “I avoid concrete
translations. I try to allude to the meaning
through gestures, movement and pictures.”
The aim of the English program is to get
six- and seven-year-olds to listen to English,
to begin to understand it, and then to get
them to use words or phrases themselves.
There is no reading or writing of English in
the first and second grades. That only begins
in the third and fourth years of primary
school, so that children have a grounding
in written German first, before they’re
confronted with spelling, word recognition
and reading texts in English.
“Children possess a highly efficient
capability for learning languages in natural
surroundings,” says Professor Erika Werlen,
a linguist at the University of Tübingen.
“We really only need to give children a
thought-provoking, relaxed, high-quality
language ‘bath’ – based on real situations
and actions – and they learn the basic
structures of a foreign language. They don’t
need to build up complex sentence struc-
tures – they mainly need to understand.”

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English teacher, about the new language, which they are The complete English program, through
Birgit Gegier, with continually testing and correcting when four years of primary school, covers six key
a Neuffen Primary
School first grader. something new is added.” topics: In the School; My Family and My
One key finding of the Tübingen Uni- Friends; My Body; My Pets; My Toys and
versity research project: B-W’s first graders The Year. These topics are introduced in
feel much more quickly at home with Grades 1 and 2, and repeated and expanded
English than linguists originally anticipated. upon in Grades 3 and 4 in what Birgit
“Da sind two cats” “The children are ready to begin speaking Gegier calls an “upward spiral” learning
English after an incredibly short space of program.
At the Institute for Educational Science in time,” says researcher Stephanie Manz. “For example, we talk about dogs and
Tübingen, Werlen leads a team of special- “It was thought they’d actually want a long cats and other pets in first and second
ists monitoring the progress of B-W’s ‘silent phase’ in the beginning. But we class, and then expand on that in third
primary school English. With the help of found that wasn’t necessary.” Manz and class to talk about farm animals, and in
video recordings of lessons, over the last her colleagues have yet to observe one fourth class we can introduce zoo animals.
year the team has observed how six- and class of children who appeared to be In each year, we are broadening the child’s
seven-year-olds develop their own strate- unmotivated to learn English. They attribute English understanding of animals and
gies for communication. Werlen and her this to the fact that English lessons are consolidating what they’ve already learnt.”
team have found that by thinking about a seen as something of a ‘play-break’ by the
new language young children develop a children, due to the heavy focus on singing, Investing in the future
type of ‘in-between language’, which differs games and movement.
from both their mother tongue and the “The great majority of children enjoy The B-W government has created 1,760 new
new language. The sentence “Da sind two English lessons. You hear that from a lot teaching positions for the primary school
cats”, which might have been seen in past of teachers,” confirms Neuffen Primary English program and invested several million
years as a mistake, is now interpreted by School’s Birgit Gegier, who’s also an euros in English training programs for
linguists such as Werlen as an advance in instructor of primary school English teachers. teachers. Minister Schavan says it’s a worth-
the learning process. The sentence is not “Whenever you get kids to stand up and while taxpayer investment in future inter-
correct but the child has developed enough move in the classroom – get them out national relations.
of an understanding of the rules of English of their seats – they like it. And English “In a global world English is of enormous
to communicate by borrowing from German involves a lot of that.” importance … It’s something that is close
forms to make him- or herself understood. Primary school children receive two 45- to my heart to see that where languages
“Kids are not computers. They don’t learn minute lessons a week. But teachers are are a barrier, that education plays a role in
a language parrot-fashion – by repeating or allowed a degree of flexibility as to when helping to break down those barriers. For
imitating what the teacher says,” explains they teach English, many opting to do up me, learning English has an element of
Werlen. “They very quickly develop their to 20 minutes of English a day, rather than international politics about it – it’s not just
own thought structure, a kind of ‘hypothesis’ one or two longer, heavier lessons a week. about education.”

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The Good, the Bored and the Ugly
Native English speakers in German primary schools*

What do you do as a teacher in a German language books to school. The child feels that we called it a ‘gherkin’. She said that
primary school if you suddenly find you accepted and welcomed in the classroom, pickle was the American way of saying it,
have a native English speaker in the class? and is still open to learning new words. but if it was called a gherkin in Australia
Do you leave the child in a corner to do then that was fine. And the class could
nothing? Do you ignore him and hope he “The teacher often asks me to come out call it a gherkin or a pickle.” Amy, Grade 3
doesn’t pick up on your mistakes? Or do to the front and act stuff out for the class
you integrate her into your lessons by or I get to sing a song. I still have to do Boredom
getting her to sing or demonstrate things the class work but that’s OK. The teacher
for her classmates? asks me how to say certain things – we Some children find they are more or less
Accents has encountered a wide variety had the word ‘pear’ once, and she wasn’t ignored by the teacher. The teacher knows
of classroom experiences among native sure. She talks with me in English some- the child is a native speaker but doesn‘t
English speaking children. No clear instruc- times and it’s fun.” Ann, Grade 2 know what to do with him or her. They are
tions appear to have been given to primary left to their own devices and generally find
school teachers as to how they should “I love English lessons. I get to say some English boring.
handle good English speakers in the class- things to the class. The teacher asks me
room. The experiences of kids generally to help her. It’s not boring at all.” “I know the words we’re learning. The
fall into three categories. Mark, Grade 1 teacher doesn’t ask me anything. I just sit
there.” Eric, Grade 2
Good integration “My kids feel involved in English. I go in
and read English stories to classes and “My daughter really just sits at her desk
Some teachers find it a great relief to hear you can tell the teachers welcome the twiddling her thumbs.” English mother
from a 7-year-old that ‘pear’ is pronounced involvement of native speakers – whether of second-grade child
the same as ‘bear’, and not ‘peer’. With they’re adults or kids.” American mother
self-effacing humour some teachers ask of two primary school children “I went to the teacher once to ask whether
English speakers to lead the class in a my son could be set something else to
song or to bring their favourite English- “One day the word ‘pickle’ came up. I do, or to be involved in the lessons but
hadn’t heard that word, and told the teacher
called a ‘sweater’ or a ‘jumper’ or a ‘snugly’ different from American or British English
somewhere else. Primary-school-aged but the teacher just doesn’t accept that.
children don’t feel confident enough to Now he’s afraid to say anything, because
challenge a teacher. Once they have been he feels criticised every time he offers
put down they rarely contribute to English something.”Australian mother of primary
classes at all. school child

“My daughter simply didn’t get on with “My daughter is not at all appreciated in
her teacher. One day she was asked to English. She hates it. One teacher she
point out a colour, and when she replied had didn’t seem to be aware of what she
‘lilac’ the teacher told her it was ‘purple’ understood. One day when a (German)
and ridiculed her lack of knowledge in child made a mistake in English, the child
nothing happened. He just has to sit there front of the class. She kept on insisting was told to go to the open window and
and put up with it.” American mother of Carolyn was mispronouncing things. shout out: ‘I’m silly, I’m silly, I’m silly.’ The
second-grade child I think she was just an insecure teacher.” poor girl did so without knowing what she
American mother of primary-school child was saying, until my daughter enlightened
Ugly stories her afterwards.”English mother of third-
“Patrick was often scolded in class. grade child
Some native-speaking kids are confronted He’d say ‘pants’ instead of ‘trousers’ and
with ridicule, scolding and unnecessary the teacher would insist he didn’t know *Includes comments from primary school
correction in English lessons. Misunder- what he was talking about. She couldn’t children in the Stuttgart schools where
standings can leave children feeling demo- pronounce words properly and, I think, felt English was introduced earlier than in the
ralised. Some teachers insist on one ‘correct’ threatened by having a native speaker in rest of Baden-Württemberg, and is now
way of naming something, unaware that the class.” American mother being taught in Grades 1 to 4. Note: child-
English is an international language in ren’s names have been changed.
which a ‘pullover’ in one country might be “My son is always corrected on his pro-
nunciation. As an Australian, his English is
The weakness of the previous curriculum,
in which children began learning English
in high school, was that there was way
too much grammar. It was all about
‘What are the rules and how do we
teach them?’ Actually speaking English
was not seen as important. Now it’s
different. I believe the new program
leads to a much more relaxed encounter
with a foreign language.

Have special provisions been made in


schools for children who are native
English speakers?
There’s no official, special curriculum
for these children. But we value the idea
of children learning not just from the
teacher but from each other. And where
native English speakers are in a class,
they can support their classmates who
have difficulties. The teacher also has
an extra helper at hand. The English
speaking child can be integrated into the
teaching program.

Anglo Annette Kids from non-German speaking


families often have trouble with German

In profile in school. Now these kids have to


learn yet another language, English.
Isn’t this too much?
There was a lot of scepticism about how
these children would cope. But English
is actually one subject where German
native speakers have no advantage in
the beginning: Turkish, Croatian, Italian
and German kids all begin with zero
She got a 2 in English in high school. Not bad. But she wants the next generation knowledge. Secondly, the experts say –
of Baden-Württembergers to speak “the world language” better than she does. and this has been confirmed in practice
Accents talks with B-W Education Minister Annette Schavan (pictured above) – that learning another foreign language
about first-grade English. doesn’t lead to confusion for the child.
I must say that some of the criticisms,
accents: You place great value on How successful was it? And how do about overloading kids and so on, emerge
the need for school children to learn you measure that success? from a general scepticism about what
English. Why? It’s been an absolute success. I measure children are capable of learning. I think
Schavan: English is almost a second it by the fun and the joy that one sees we underestimate their abilities and fail
language in Germany. In a global world kids having in English lessons, and also to trust what’s actually inside them.
it’s of enormous importance – it’s the on the reports back from teachers. Many
language of science, the language of teachers actually say we could go even You’ve been mentioned as a possible
economics. Therefore, no young person faster with the program – the children future president of Germany. Is English
should leave school here without being are developing and catching on so quickly. in Grade 1 something you’d push to
able to speak English … It’s important I also measure the success by the satis- have taught throughout the country, if
to give the next generation the chance faction of parents, who were rather you were president or a federal mini-
to learn this world language. sceptical in the beginning as to whether ster?
their kids might be overwhelmed by I’m a passionate federalist and I believe,
But why do kids need to start learning the whole thing. They now see that it’s in general, that these things can be deci-
English so early on, in the first grade? something they enjoy and learn from. ded at the state level. But I think that
Language experts tell us the earlier whatever we do in education has to be
children begin learning a language, the Are children having too much fun in seen in international terms … Future
easier it is. And I’m convinced we English? Some experts say that there’s generations will be even more strongly
should give them this chance as early as not enough grammar in the program affected by international developments
possible. Anyone who visits a primary – that you can’t just give children a than we are, and will play more of a role
school to observe children learning language ‘bath,’ but rather, there has in shaping the future internationally. And
English sees how much fun they have. to be some grammatical context. so it’s something that is close to my
You can see that it’s so much easier for Teaching has to be based on the age of heart to see that where language is a
them to learn English in the early grades the child. That’s why the new program is barrier, education plays a role in helping
than later on in high school. different from high school English. The to break down that barrier. For me,
first thing is for the child to ‘step into’ learning English has an element of inter-
The first year of teaching English the language, to get a feel for it – liste- national politics about it – it’s not just
in the first grade is already behind us. ning to the language is very important. about education.

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Arts and Culture

Vaulting Ambition
Macbeth didn’t lack it, and neither do Stuttgart’s English-language theatre groups.
Arts Editor Stuart Marlow surveys the past, present and future of English speaking
theatre in Baden-Württemberg’s capital.

Bridging the gap between amateur and The Story So Far Stuttgart University, the old Amerika Haus
professional theatre is a growing challenge. (now Filmhaus), the Irrlicht Theater in
Increased financial pressures on theatre The basic pattern for today’s scene was set Stuttgart, the Schloßkeller in Nürtingen and
management, plus less-predictable working in 1991, when two American members of the Universitäts Theater in Tübingen. The
hours for non-professional actors have an itinerant group ‘Open Minds’, Charles first play to be staged as a NEAT produc-
created added difficulties for amateur theatre C. Urban and Brett Harwood, went their tion was Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy.
groups. Given that sources of English separate ways. Urban concentrated on More recent successes include Macbeth,
speaking actors are limited, English-language stage plays, founding NEAT (New English the Beckett classics Waiting for Godot and
groups have to fight harder to build up a American Theatre) in 1991, whereas Krapp’s Last Tape, and Chris Durang’s
pool of stage performers. As if this wasn’t Harwood, who now runs the Stuttgart Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All. Under
enough, the military based theatres have Theatre Center at Kelley Barracks, pursued Urban’s guidance, NEAT has also developed
had to implement post-9/11 security his interest in mainstream musicals. Then original plays such as The Elvis Monologues,
measures with the result that the number in 1997, producer-director Eileen Tiller made and with the input of Sophie Chaumette
of visitors to places like Kelley Barracks, a further impact on the English-language and John Doyle has staged community
for example, has almost halved. English- performance scene when she introduced theatre events such as the popular “Irish
language theatre in Stuttgart therefore finds Outcast International. Finally, ACTS was set Evenings” and The Priests of Craggy Island.
itself at a crucial stage of development. up in 2001 as a multi-media, campus-based When Eileen Tiller’s Outcast International
How far has it come and where does it go documentary theatre project, linking stage established itself, the group added a wel-
from here? and screen actors with trainee technicians. come element of competition by offering a
In setting up NEAT, Charles Urban wanted wider range of entertaining theatre. Under
to provide people in Baden-Württemberg Tiller’s talented and dynamic direction 13
with the kinds of plays they would find on productions were staged and attracted an
offer in New York or London. Over the last impressive following. Among these plays
A scene from the fourteen years NEAT has built up a pool of were Woody Allen’s Don’t Drink the Water,
ACTS production regular supporters. In 1994 it established the pantomimic comedy Robin Hood, the
Ghost Writing Hamlet .
Above right: Sophie a firm base at the KKT community theatre classic farce Cash on Delivery, the powerful
Chaumette as Lady in Bad Cannstatt. Before then, NEAT per- anti-Wall Street drama Other People’s
Macbeth. formed at venues like the Corso Cinema, Money and the story of a suicide in Night
Mother. Since Tiller’s return to the United
States in 2002, Outcast has staged Plaza
Suite and English Made Simple. It’s now
re-launching itself under the management
of Linda Keller.
ACTS is a collaborative venture between
students at Stuttgart’s Media University
(HdM), trainee actors, and trained as well
as amateur performing artists. ACTS special-
izes in multimedia, documentary drama.
For example, the 2004 production Ancestors
deals with the link between AIDS and
colonial history. At the 2002 International
Festival of Anglophone Theatre (FEATS)
in Brussels, ACTS won the ‘Best Original
Play’ award for Pricing Freedom, a dramatic
exploration of the issue of political asylum.
At the 2003 FEATS festival in Bad Hom-
burg, ACTS picked up a further award for
the comic exposure of the real genius
behind the name William Shakespeare (The
Shakespeare Myth).
The Stuttgart Theatre Center (STC)
staged its first performances in 1980 when

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the US military increased its investment in Americans linked to the US military; and
theatre shows. Performances have always English-speaking employees at international English Language Theatre
been open to both members of the Armed firms and their partners, who may have in Stuttgart
Forces and the general public. The STC a limited knowledge of German. Equally
moved to Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart- important are higher-education students, NEAT
Möhringen in 1992. Since then, the STC has school teachers and school students, as New English American Theater
provided a consistently high level of both well as language trainers and their students www.neat-theater.de
entertaining musicals and serious drama. from private language schools. Unfortunately,
The creative contrast has been clearly German audiences seeking exposure to the ACTS
represented this year with the success of English language are not regular theatre Anglophone Collaborative
The Diary of Anne Frank as a stage play goers. This is a factor the theatre groups Theatre of Stuttgart
and the New York musical The Last Five cannot afford to ignore when selecting and www.acts.hdm-stuttgart.de
Years. Theatre-goers should not be put off presenting their material.
by the security checks at Kelley, as the Outcast International
quality of the performances makes a visit The Future www.outcast-theater.de
well worthwhile.
The STC and NEAT both have regular access Stuttgart Theatre Center
Too Few Actors? to fixed venues. The other groups must Kelley Theatre
take the dates offered by arts-centre venues www.kelleytheatre.de
The point is often raised that the available such as Theaterhaus, Theater der Alstadt
pool of acting talent is too small to support and Kulturwerk. The dates offered are
so many groups. Although theatre ensembles not always ideal, as theatres have to give
do often split and compete with each other, priority to resident ensembles and visiting
they also exchange ideas and co-operate. professional groups. Commercial pressures
Notable examples include Charles Urban on all venues have increased as subsidized
and Brett Harwood’s 1995 production of theatre in Germany suffers cutbacks and
Cabaret. ACTS’ award-winning productions sees a slow decline in audience numbers.
Pricing Freedom and Ghost Writing Hamlet The chance to stage new work is becoming
featured NEAT regulars, Greta Redmond, increasingly limited.
Cathie Mullen and John Doyle. In 2003, This does not mean that life is easy for
Eileen Tiller directed David Auburn’s Pulitzer those with fixed venues. Although Kelley
Prize-winning play Proof at Kelley. Many old is generously subsidized by the US military,
regulars as well as up-and-coming actors Brett Harwood needs to maintain good
have always appeared in plays produced by audience figures. According to Harwood,
more than one of the four theatre groups. Kelley’s average bookings of 95 seats per
As far as the actors are concerned, working show are “just about acceptable” by US
for different groups often helps to widen commercial standards but “very good” by
their range of skills. local German standards. Given that about
70 percent of Kelley regulars prefer to see
The Audience musicals and only 30 percent prefer plays,
Harwood has adopted a strategy of staging
Who goes to see English language theatre? popular musicals to finance theatre pieces.
There are a number of different audience A strategy that strikes a balance between
groups, including: native English speakers commercial and artistic theatre may well
in the Stuttgart region; local people with offer Stuttgart’s English-language theatre
excellent English skills who are generally scene the best chance of survival.
interested in English-language cultures;

accents magazine Arts and Culture 15


Autumn Reading leading the group through the book, when
they discover a series of murders that
two thousand years of Western history
packing in lots of action scenes and anagram
A choice of three follow Dante’s verses. The convincing
characterizations of historical figures, the
searches. Professor Langdon and Sophie
Neveu, the main characters, do remain
academic politics, the gently paced prose caricatures rather than believable figures.
set against the backdrop of Puritan New But there is enough in this book to make
England, and the exploration of the fear of one wonder whether a trip to the Louvre
Americans call it fall. Other English Catholic immigrants make this book more should be penciled in for the next holiday.
speakers calls it autumn. Whatever you than just a thriller. There is no strain, no
call it, there’s no better way to while questionable deus ex machina to help The Curious Incident of the
away the months before winter than by resolve narrative problems. The book is a Dog at Night Time by Mark Haddon,
curling up on the sofa with a hot drink pleasure to read. Jonathan Cape, 272 pages
and a good book. But which novel should Fifteen-year-old Christopher, the narrator,
you choose? To help narrow the selection The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, which
here are three possibilities. Corgie Books, 593 pages is also known as autism. He is puzzled
Again, a Harvard professor plays amateur by the murder of his neighbour’s dog and
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl, detective, this time working with a crypto- starts his own investigation in the form of
Vintage, 367 pages logist from the French police. The setting a diary. What he discovers is a way to
Boston, 1865. The end of the American is the present, but the mystery is centuries express his thoughts about the very private
Civil War. A group of Harvard scholars is old. What secrets did Leonardo da Vinci world he inhabits. People suffering from
hoping to produce an English translation of conceal in his paintings? And what difference Asperger’s syndrome cannot form normal
Dante’s Divine Comedy. Henry Wadsworth does it make in the 21st century? This is a emotional attachments. Instead, they develop
Longfellow, the great Harvard poet, is non-stop thriller that roller-coasts through an affinity for numbers or a repetitive
sequence of actions or, as in Christopher’s
case, with colours. This is a book that touches
raw nerve endings. Funny incidents are
interspersed with agonizing realities to
produce an endearing, thoughtful read. Not
surprisingly, this novel was written with
both adults and children in mind.

If you’re interested in reading any of these


books you can order them through accents.
For more information, turn to page 27.

Ms Corso see a film with its original sound. But the


other 50 percent are not all native speakers.
understand the language well enough?
I must say I don’t really know. Is it because
Christiane Niewald We do get British people and Americans
coming here, but we also get a lot of
we’re too lazy? I don’t want to sound too
mean, but we Germans are simply pig-
Japanese, Chinese and others who under- headed when it comes to watching films:
stand English better than German. we just prefer watching the dubbed,
If there’s anyone working in Baden- German version. In many other countries
Württemberg who knows anything about Three years ago you took over manage- films are shown in the original language,
English-language cinema, it’s Christiane ment of the Europa Cinema in Stuttgart. with sub-titles. Why it doesn’t happen here,
Niewald. She’s the manager of the Corso It became the only cinema in the inner I can’t say. It’s not a new phenomenon –
Cinema in Stuttgart-Vaihingen, which city to show nothing but foreign films in it’s always been like this. I’m not the only
has featured English-language films in the original language. Why did you shut one in Baden-Württemberg who’s tried
its program without a break since 1986. it down earlier this year? English cinema – it just doesn’t have a big
Accents spoke to Niewald (pictured bottom With the takeover of the Europa Cinema market.
right) about the past and the future of I hoped that I might be able to capture an
English-language cinema. internationally-oriented, multicultural public But analysts talk about original-language
living in the inner city – people who stream films being a viable niche market?
When and why did the Corso start down Königstraße – who might be enticed It is a niche market, but it’s still very small.
showing films in English? into seeing a film in English. But it just I mean the Corso still gets by, but I wasn’t
We have two cinema halls at the Corso, didn’t happen. Instead, regular customers able to maintain two cinemas. In the north
and in 1986, with one of them empty, we who normally came to the Corso found out of Germany the English cinema market is a
decided to put on original language films. the Europa was closer to where they lived little better, but in this part of the country
It became a success and word started to and started going there. So I found I wasn’t it’s harder.
get out. At the time we also had a lot of getting many new customers, just losing
American soldiers on military bases nearby old ones from the Corso. I had planned to
and they used to make up around 80 per- close down the Europa on December 31
cent of the audience. By 1995, most US of this year. But late last year Stuttgart’s
bases had shut down but by that time we Building Code Office told me I needed to
had built up our German customer base, do some fire-safety work on the building,
and Germans started coming more regularly. which would have cost me 15,000 euros. I
couldn’t afford to invest that money and had
Who comes to your cinema these days? to shut down in April.
Native speakers of English or Germans?
Around 50 percent of my customers are Why don’t Germans want to watch films
Germans – a core of people who want to in English? Don’t many, if not most,

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accent on…

Friedrichshafen
Germany’s southern gateway

Thomas Ravel has been bowled over by Sea. But as a place for a weekend break, pean countries are a lifeline, supporting
this peaceful harbour city on the northern a long weekend of cycling or just relaxing our economic development and providing
shore of Lake Constance. in the Mediterranean feel of the lakefront, business with a viable alternative gateway
what could be better? in Baden-Württemberg.” Büchelmeier is
When I leafed through the section on Lake Mid-way along the northern shore of keen to expand cultural connections with
Constance in the obligatory guide book, I Lake Constance, Friedrichshafen is home European partners and is interested in
thought I was being smart by skipping the to around 58,000 people. The town has identifying a suitable twinning arrangement
page on Friedrichshafen. Wrong. Three grown substantially since it was destroyed with a British town.
visits later, after a flight in a Zeppelin air- in a British air raid on the night of 28 April, So, if you have the time, drive to
ship, good food, cheap air travel to the UK, 1944. It is now home to many medium- Friedrichshafen, as I did, have a pleasant
and a slight sun tan I know better. I even sized companies, making it one of the most overnight stay and fly to Stansted the follow-
almost became the 65,000,001st person innovative towns in Germany. It also boasts ing day. I booked what turned out to be
in Germany to own a bicycle! state-of-the-art exhibition grounds and a an extremely pleasant double room in the
So why does seeing the name Friedrichs- regional airport with flights to the UK and centre of Friedrichshafen through the
hafen on the signpost often provoke a other European destinations. tourist information office (Tel. 07541 30010
Pavlovian reaction, making your co-passenger So you didn’t know Ryanair has a daily or www.friedrichshafen.de) It was only
(frequently bawled at for holding the map budget flight between Friedrichshafen three minutes from the lakefront and the
the wrong way up) frantically search for a and London-Stansted? It was news to me panoramic view of the lake was spectacular.
way to avoid the place and get to Lindau, too. Josef Büchelmeier, Friedrichshafen’s Since Friedrichshafen has long been a
Meersburg or Konstanz instead? I can’t forward-thinking mayor, has no doubt about tourist destination, the service industry is
deny that Friedrichshafen isn’t as gemütlich the value of his direct air link to the UK. prepared for your visit, and the choice of
(cosy) as other locations on Lake Constance, “Tourism is an important revenue earner restaurants is good. (Friedrichshafen even
and that it hardly rivals Aqaba on the Red for us” he says, “but air links to other Euro- boasts a passable Indian restaurant.) But

accents magazine accent on 17


ally I liked the sound of the ‘banana boat’
Photos courtesy of Stadt Friedrichshafen

hire. This must have lost something in the


translation as I didn’t get very far when I
telephoned to try to hire one, but with the
exception of paddle boats, information
on all other water sports can be obtained
from DAS Boot Gmbh (Tel 0178 32726684
or www.das-boot-gmbh.de).
There is a network of ferry journeys
radiating from Friedrichshafen to various
points along the lake, including one to
Switzerland. (Don’t forget your passport.)

From the air


Balloon flights? Forget it, ten a penny.
However, Friedrichshafen offers something
truly unique – at a price. For 335 euros you
can actually take a flight in the Zeppelin NT
(New Technology). With roots dating back
to the first flight of Count Ferdinand von
Zeppelin’s airship creations in 1900, these
flights cover the entire lake area and are a
truly amazing experience. I’ve tried to find
for those who love fish – especially local, the Seehotel offers a tempting package other companies in Europe offering a simi-
lake fish offered in a variety of mouth- entitled 2 Days or 9 1/2 Weeks, which lar experience, but failed.
watering ways – there is no better place to includes satin sheets, a complimentary Use Friedrichshafen as a base to explore
be. There are plenty of restaurants offering bottle of bubbly and “bath balls with bath the surrounding lake area. The advantage
fish on the menu, but as I’d just been to sponge in the bathroom.” What more is that this larger town has much more to
the Zeppelin Museum I decided to try the could you want? keep everyone occupied – even the kids.
Museum’s restaurant, particularly since Theatre, musicals and concerts as well as
their terrace offers a breathtaking view of Two wheels not four seasonal open-air performances (the Kultur-
the lake, of which I never tire. ufer festival in the summer) are all avail-
For those who want to get away for a Not everyone enjoys travelling on four able. Teenagers will be delighted to know
romantic break that doesn’t break the bank, wheels, of course. For those who favour there is a night life with several discos
pedalling on two, there’s a choice of bicycle operating all year round (actually I think
tours combined with boat and rail trips in they’re called clubs these days!)
the area. A really great tour is southeast All the contact information above, and
along the coast from Friedrichshafen to more, is available from the Friedrichshafen
Lindau, with a ferry ride back to Friedrichs- tourist office. I recommend you obtain a
hafen. Bike tours around the town range copy of their free Holiday and Leisure –
from about 35 to 70 kilometres in length. The Useful Town Guide and set sail.
If you can’t be bothered strapping bikes
to your car you can hire them in town.
Check that your bell works and off you go!
Further information on tours from 07531
98280 or www.velotours.de.
So what of that bicycle I nearly bought?
Well, as many business people already
know, Friedrichshafen has well-laid-out
trade fairgrounds. The speciality is outdoor
life and many of these fairs have public
days and are well worth a visit. At Eurobike,
the international bicycle fair, the choice
of equipment and accessories on offer is
incredible. I could almost see myself in a
pair of those glitzy cycling shorts and I
eyed up a pretty mean-looking sports bike
for a while. Other trade fairs are Interboot
(international water sports exhibition) and
Outdoor (European outdoor life exhibition –
trade visitors only). Further information is
available from the fairgrounds website:
www.messe-fn.de.

The lake at your toe tips


Land-lovers read no further. Swimming,
canoeing, kayaking, sailing, water skiing
and paddle boat riding are all possible
during the summer months although person-

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Caffeine on the Run
Finding a quick fix

Take-away, to go, carry-out, take-out –


whatever you call it, it’s food that leaves
the shop in a plastic or paper container.
But take-away coffee? Beth Howard looks
at an American trend that is catching on
in Baden-Württemberg.

“Double-tall, non-fat latte,” I tell the girl Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum


behind the counter. “Zum Mitnehmen?” James-F.-Byrnes-Institut e.V.
she asks, without a blink. This is what Charlottenplatz 17
happens when cultures mingle. You have (Inner courtyard, entrance 3)
two languages for one concept. That is, 70173 Stuttgart
coffee to go. “The reason,” explains Starbucks repre- Telephone 0711 228180
Take-away coffee is a relatively new idea sentative Kirsten Windhorn, “is that offices www.daz.org
in continental Europe, let alone in Baden- in Germany have good coffee machines
Württemberg. But the arrival of the leader so people don’t need to go out. But we’re
of the international caffeine pack, the starting to see more and more of them
American company Starbucks, is a sure sign come in for an afternoon break and a coffee
that the trend is catching on. The first Star- to go.”
bucks opened in Heidelberg in September
2003 and a second has just opened in Drive-in coffee
Freiburg.
In Stuttgart, Café Nescafe on Calwers- Car manufacturers in Baden-Württemberg –
traße began selling coffee to go in 1999. as opposed to those in the USA – haven’t
Says owner Theo Soferis: “We have a yet taken to the idea of drinking coffee
Nescafe shop in Frankfurt and the take- on the run. DaimlerChrysler engineers, for
away concept was instantly popular there. example, who are known to pay exquisite
It has taken longer for people in Stuttgart attention to detail, do not receive good
to get used to it, but it’s gradually becoming reviews for their design of cup holders. “It
more accepted.” Today, lines of caffeine seems like an afterthought,” says one car
freaks can be seen waiting in line in Calwer- reviewer. “And there’s only one cup holder
straße for their frozen cappuccinos and at that.”
their hazelnut latte machiatos in plastic or Maybe when Starbucks opens its first
insulated cups. drive-through coffee house in Germany in a
But although these new coffee houses few years time, test drivers will start lining
offer coffee to go, only a small percentage up for an espresso fix, report how their
of business is carry-out. Starbucks estimates coffee cup handles in the car, and convince
that only one-fifth of its customers take German automotive engineers to embrace
their coffee with them. the “zum Mitnehmen” idea.

In search of a coffee to go
Starbucks Cafe Nescafe
Hauptstraße 137, Heidelberg Calwerstraße 64, Stuttgart
www.starbucks.de
Marché Mövenpick
Starbucks Klettpassage 33, Stuttgart
Kaiser-Joseph-Straße 147-149,
Freiburg Café Felix
www.starbucks.de Breitscheidstraße 4 a,
Bosch-Areal, Stuttgart
Kaffeebar Katz
Marktplatz 6-8, Pforzheim Holanka Bar (Hochland)
Kirchstraße 6b, Stuttgart
www.hochland-kaffee.de

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Children’s Corner

Lake Constance
Photo: Pfahlbaumuseum, Unteruhldingen

for families

Lake Constance – known in German as


the Bodensee – is Germany’s largest lake.
It is located at the southern end of Baden-
Württemberg, which shares the lake’s
shoreline with the state of Bavaria and with
Austria and Switzerland. Hannah Riordan
(aged 8) and her sister Sophie (5) live near
Lake Constance, and together with their
mum, Marianne, they have put together a
selection of their favourite things to do on
the German side of the lake.

Outdoor Activities
Insel Mainau
www.mainau.de
Open daily
Families: 21.00 March-October
Crossovers he is drawn into one world, the problems
of the other one demand his attention.
Other months: adults 5.50, children free
This beautiful island, owned by a family
for kids AND adults Straddling these two worlds, Tom learns
to trust his own judgment and the often
of Swedish nobles, is famous for its plant
displays, especially the rose garden and
confusing decisions of those around him. palm house. There’s a butterfly house,
You might be forgiven for believing that This book raises questions of life and animals to see and pet, a kids’ treasure
before Harry Potter hit the bookshelves, death, the past and the present, the banal hunt and an enormous playground.
it was unheard of for adults to be caught and the very special.
reading – and actually enjoying – children’s Affenberg
books. But ‘crossovers’, as these books Stop the Train by Geraldine McCaughrean, Mendlishausen GmbH, Salem
are known in the publishing world, are not Oxford University Press, 238 pages www.affenberg-salem.de
new. It’s the 1890s, and towns are springing up Open daily, March-November
Treasure Island, Oliver Twist, Around the on the plains of Oklahoma. One such town, Families: 17.50
World in Eighty Days, The Secret Dairy of Florence, has the misfortune of becoming Affenberg is, literally translated, a “monkey
Adrian Mole and Sophie’s World were all an enemy of a railroad tycoon, who refuses mountain.” Small apes and monkeys wander
written for adults as well as for children. to let his trains stop there. Without the freely around you, through a forested area.
Children – or ‘young adults’ as they are railroad the town’s lifeline is cut. Cissy, her They’ll even take food right out of your
called by publishers – are, in fact, more family, and the other settlers must find a hand! There are also deer, water birds,
demanding than adults. Kids’ books need to way to make the train stop. The whole a frog swamp and storks on the entrance
be easy to read, without being condescend- town, adults and children alike, come up buildings. There’s also an Imbiss (snack
ing; well thought out thematically, without with ideas both mad and brilliant. But stand), a playground and a beer garden.
being too ‘adult’; imaginative without will the train stop? And what happens to
being unrealistic; and interesting enough to Florence and Cissy if it doesn’t? Open-Air Museums
compete successfully with all other forms
of entertainment. Crossovers are also per- Starseeker by Tim Bowler, Freilicht Museum
fect for people learning English, whether Oxford University Press, 323 pages Neuhausen ob Eck, Tuttlingen
they are teenagers who find normal class- Adolescence is never easy but if your father www.freilichtmuseum-neuhausen.de
room texts too boring, or grown-ups who has recently died and you’re a musical prodigy, Open April-October
find conventional adult novels too difficult. the difficulties can mount up. Confronted Families: 10.00
accents has reviewed three crossover with these pressures, Luke also becomes A collection of 19th and early 20th century
books whose subject matter varies consider- exasperated by his friends, who engage in buildings from the region. Houses, farm
ably, but which are all a great read. borderline criminal activity after forming buildings and even a school were taken
a gang. This book may seem conventional, apart at their original locations and pieced
Follow Me Down by Julie Hearn, but the ambitious treatment of plot and back together again at the museum, stone
Oxford University Press, 269 pages characters make it engrossing and emotion- by stone. There are also farmyard animals
Tom discovers something mysterious about ally powerful, without allowing it to become and displays of cooking and crafts. A cosy
his grandmother’s basement. Somehow he brutal or sentimental. restaurant offers traditional local food.
is able to jump back through a gap in time
into the 18th century. Not only does he If you’re interested in reading any of these Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen
befriend freaks from a fair, but he is con- books you can order them through accents. Uhldingen-Mühlhofen
fronted with his family’s own secrets. As For more information, turn to page 23. www.pfahlbauten.de

20 Children’s Corner accents magazine


Open January-November
Families: 17.00
Bring on Halloween
A reconstructed village of houses built on
stilts rising out of the water at the edge of
An Interview with Winnie the Witch
Lake Constance. Experience first-hand how
people lived in the Stone and Bronze ages,
by taking a look inside the 20 dwellings. You’ve never heard of Winnie the Witch?
Winnie is the creation of Australian writer There are five Winnie
the Witch books:
All-Weather Activities Valerie Thomas and illustrator Korky Paul.
Winnie the Witch,
Her stories have been translated into 20 Winnie in Winter,
Erlebniswelt Sipplingen languages and she is loved by children of all Winnie Flies Again,
www.erlebniswelt-sipplingen.de ages. Accents has been granted an exclusive Winnie and the
Open daily, April-November interview with Winnie and her faithful cat New Computer, and
Winnie’s Magic Wand.
Families: 12.00 Wilbur, in order for you to get to know To order them
Includes a motorbike museum, a model them a little better. see page 27.
railway exhibit and a toy museum with dolls
and teddy bears like the ones your Grandma Winnie, we assume black is the colour all
played with – all under one roof. A pizzeria witches adore, but you’re rather colourful
next door has views over the lake. in your choice of dress. Don’t you like travelling behind me.
black?
Sea Life Centre Konstanz I love the colour black but I’m a very, very Has Wilbur ever been afraid to ride with
www.sealife.de messy witch and I have enormous difficulty you, or are you good at flying brooms?
Open all year round finding my clothes every morning. If my Well, I have to admit I’m not good at flying
Adults: 10.50 Children: 7.00 clothes are brightly coloured it’s much and sometimes Wilbur gets very scared.
The highlight of this underwater world is easier for me to find them! He often closes his eyes and he might buy
a glassed-in “water-tunnel” where sharks a bicycle helmet for future journeys.
swim beside and above you. Also included We heard a rumour that Wilbur had dyed
in your entry ticket is a visit to the Boden- his fur. Was this his idea of a Halloween We’ve also heard that you now have a
see-Naturmuseum next door. The souvenir costume, to go as a rainbow? computer! Are there some fun, online
shop is excellent and the restaurant has No, Wilbur is quite content being a normal websites you can recommend?
special menus for kids. black cat. But I have other ideas for him. Unfortunately, I only know sites that are
I have accidentally turned Wilbur blue, accessible with a special witch computer.
Schloss Sigmaringen green and even multi-coloured, which he Sites with titles like spellsforbeginners,
www.hohenzollern.de found most embarrassing indeed. In broomsticksforsale and wandsforeveryone
Open daily, February-November Wilbur’s opinion, cats aren’t supposed to are my favourites. But with a normal
Families: from 12.00 be multi-coloured! computer you can check out our website
An old castle, dating from the 15th century, at: www.oup.com/winnie.
which has been beautifully restored to its Winnie, do you have a favourite season?
former glory. Kids are especially welcome: I love the summer because it is hot and Halloween occurs in October and this
as part of a guided tour (also in English) sunny but I like winter too because you can must be the best time of the year to
the guide assigns fun tasks or quizzes for snuggle up with a mug of hot chocolate party. Do you and Wilbur have favourite
children and allows them to try on armour and a muffin. Once I made a spell to change party activities?
or sit on a throne. winter into summer but things became I love pin the tail on Wilbur. He is not a fan!
very confusing.
Erlebniskarte We were also curious to know if you
Do you need a license to fly a broomstick? dress up in costumes at Halloween or is
This special ticket covers entry to all of the No, but it would be very wise to have your your holiday celebration simply a gather-
above attractions (apart from Affenberg eyes tested first. ing of family and friends?
and the Pfahlbaumuseum). Also included is No, I dress up in my fanciest clothes at
free entry to almost 200 attractions around Can a witch have a ‘broomstick accident’? Halloween. Last year I wore a beautiful
Lake Constance, including parks, swimming Yes. I’ve had several accidents and poor party dress with yellow stars and moons
pools and museums. For more information: Wilbur has already lost two whiskers, had and red ribbons. Unfortunately, however,
www.bodensee-tourismus.com his tail bent, and lost a whole clump of fur I spilt red jelly on it. Ooops!

Wilbur, do you need to be a special kind


Christmas Competition of cat to live with a witch?
Yes, a very, very patient cat. And of course
you need to be able to talk.
The next issue of accents will be out there’ll be a prize for our favourite.
just before Christmas. We’d like you to Don’t forget your name, age and address. And finally, we hope there will soon be
tell us how you celebrate Christmas in Letters can be posted, faxed or e-mailed: a new adventure for us to read. Is there
B-W and what makes your Christmas one in the planning?
different from a traditional German Children’s Corner I’m planning on going to the seaside.
Christmas. Are there things that your accents magazine Watch this space for more wacky Winnie
German friends don’t have or do, such as Libanonstraße 58 adventures!
putting out a glass of sherry for Father 70184 Stuttgart
Christmas or eating mince pies and Fax 0711 3102161
candy canes? Do you open your presents editor@accents-magazine.de
on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve?
We’ll print some of the best letters and The deadline for entries is Nov 5 th, 2004

accents magazine Children’s Corner 21


with the Stoke Boat Promenaders
accents Oct 8, 7:30 pm, d.a.i. Tübingen
Treffpunkt Rotebühlplatz,
tickets 0711 6607120,
Hiking Tour to an Organic Farm www.treffpunkt-rotebuehlplatz.de
choice With the Naturschutzbund,
Oct 16, 10 am - 1 pm,
Jon Lord & The Gemini Orchestra
Oct 23, 8 pm,
info d.a.i. Tübingen Theaterhaus, see above
Election Night Party Irish Folk Festival
Nov 2, 8 pm - 8 am, Kino Museum “Celtic Legends Tour”
Thanksgiving Dinner 30 years jubilee program:
Nov 27, 7:30 pm, Hotel Krone Solas – Irish-American Super Group,
Jim Hayes – Ballads from the rare
Ludwigsburg old times, Carlos Nùnez Band –
Events Kürbisausstellung im Blühenden Galicia’s leading Celtic Band,

Stuttgart
Event Barock (Pumpkin Exhibition)
Fri Sept 3 - Sun Nov 7,
Ludwigsburg Castle Gardens,
www.blueba.de, 07141 924241
Ian Smith & Stephen Campbell –
Fiddle Tunes & Songs from Donegal,
Oct 24, 7:30 pm,
Theaterhaus, see above
159th Cannstatter Volksfest The Corrs –
Annual beer festival Mannheim Borrowed Heaven Tour 2004
Sept 25 - Oct 10, Halloween at the Luisenpark Oct 25, 8 pm, Schleyerhalle
Cannstatter Wasen, Stuttgart Oct 31, starting 5 pm, The Celtic Tenors
8th German International Luisenpark Mannheim, Nov 2, 8 pm, Liederhalle, Mozartsaal
Poetry Slam www.stadtpark-mannheim.de Sting
High-powered poetry competition Stuttgart, Siemensstraße 11, Nov 7, 8 pm, Schleyerhalle
Oct 29-31, Theaterhaus, Pragsattel, Heidelberg tickets 0711 4020720, Swing Time Special 2004
www.theaterhaus.com 9th Heidelberg Tap Dance Festival www.theaterhaus.com The Count Basie Orchestra
3. Stuttgarter Kulturnacht Oct 30 - Nov 7, Oliver! Nov 11, Liederhalle, Beethovensaal,
Giant night of the arts www.heidelberg-tapdance.de By Lionel Barth, musical based www.swing-time-special.de
Oct 23, 7 pm - 2 am, on Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” Canadian Brass
tickets 0711 6015444, 53rd International Film Festival Dec 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, Nov 14, Liederhalle, Hegelsaal
www.stuttgarter-kulturnacht.de Mannheim and Heidelberg, please confirm dates! Branford Marsalis Quartet
U.S. Presidential Elections: Nov 18 - 27, Kelley Theatre, see above Nov 18, 8 pm,
The Party www.mannheim-filmfestival.com 42nd Street (in German) Theaterhaus, see above
We will watch CNN, discuss All year Tue, Thur, Fri 8 pm, Anne Wylie Band
the election with our guests, Baden-Baden Wed 6:30 pm, Sat 3 and 8 pm, “Songs and Sounds of Ireland”
and toast the new President Festival der Nationen Irish Festival and Sun 2 and 7 pm, Nov 28, 8 pm,
Nov 2, 11 pm - open end, Oct 8 - 10, Kurhaus Baden-Baden Apollo Theater, SI-Centrum, Theaterhaus, see above
DAZ Stuttgart tickets 0711 2228246 Bryan Adams Tour 2004
Rust Mamma Mia (in German) Dec 3, 8 pm, Schleyerhalle
SWR3 Halloween-Party Musical with 22 songs by ABBA, Ian Anderson
Photo: andriz.de

at the Europa-Park All year, Tue, Thur, Fri 8 pm, plays Orchestral Jethro Tull
Oct 31, Europa-Park Rust Wed 6:30 pm, Sat 3 and 8 pm, Dec 6, 8 pm,
www.europapark.de Sun 2 and 7 pm, Liederhalle, Beethovensaal
Palladium Theater, SI-Centrum, The Nokia Night of the Proms
tickets 0711 2228246 Dec 20, Schleyerhalle,
Stage www.notp.com

Stuttgart
Stage Freudenstadt
To Dance on the Moon III
Irish tap dace show,
Nov 23, 8 pm, Theater im Kurhaus
Esslingen
The Tarantinos
“Kill Bill Party” Oct 7, 8 pm,
Barefoot in the Park die Halle, Kanalstraße 10,
Neil Simon’s romantic comedy Heidelberg Reichenbach/Fils, www.diehalle.de
Oct 1, 2, 3, opening weekend, An Evening of One Act Plays VitaminX (reggae)
Oct 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, Suburb , a musical comedy Oct 8, 9 pm, die Halle, see above
all shows 7:30 pm, Stuttgart by David Javerbau and Top Girls , Long John Baldry
Theatre Center – Kelley Theatre, by Caryl Churchill, acoustic blues trio,
Kelley Barracks, Vahingen Oct 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30 at 7:30 pm Oct 9, 9 pm, die Halle, see above
general public welcome, Oct 24 at 3 pm, Roadside Theater, Gordon Haskell
tickets 0711 7292825, Patton Barracks, Bldg 109, “How wonderful you are”
www.kelleytheatre.de general public welcome, Oct 16, 9 pm, die Halle, see above
The Provocative Oscar Wilde tickets 06221 175020, Percy Strother Band
On the occasion of Wilde’s www.roadsidetheater.com blues from Mississippi,
Holiday on Ice 150th birthday, Oct 22, 9 pm, die Halle, see above
Dec 8-12, Schleyerhalle Stuttgart theatre with Brian D. Barnes, Mannheim
54th Stuttgart Book Fair Oct 16, 8 pm, Theater der Altstadt The Vagina Monologues Tübingen
Guest Country: United Kingdom Mrs Jellybelly Eats Breakfast by Eve Ensler, Oct 15, 16, 17, 8 pm, If Music be the Food of Love
Nov 18 - Dec 12, Haus der interactive play for kids from Theaterhaus TiG7, German-American Evening
Wirtschaft, Willi-Bleicher-Straße 19, 6 - 10 years, Oct 26, 27, tickets 0621 154976, www.tig7.de Barig Nalbantian (Soprano),
www.buchwochen.de 10:30 am and 3:30 pm, Carl Davis (piano), Oct 21, 8:15 pm,
10th Baden-Württemberg kommunales kontakt teater, Freiburg Silchersaal, Museum,
Film Festival Kissingerstraße 66a, Bad Cannstatt, Romeo and Juliet 07071 795260, d.a.i. Tübingen
Dec 1-5, Filmhaus, Stuttgart tickets 0711 563034, Performed by American Drama Group,
www.kkt-stuttgart.de Oct 21, 3 and 7 pm, Heidelberg
Fellbach THE GOAT or Who is Sylvia? Bürgerhaus Seepark, Enjoy Jazz Festival
57th Fellbacher Herbst by Edward Albee, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Straße 1, Heidelberg, Mannheim and
Thanksgiving and Winefest, Parade Directed by Charles C. Urban Info Carl-Schurz-Haus 0761 31647 Ludwigshafen, Oct 2 - Nov 13,
Oct 8-11, downtown Fellbach Nov 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, www.enjoyjazz.de
and Dec 9, 10, 11, all at 8 pm,
Leinfelden-Echterdingen kommunales kontakt teater, Music Freiburg
Filderkrautfest
Germany’s biggest cabbage fest
Oct 16-17, downtown Echterdingen,
Leinfelden, Musberg, Stetten
see above
ACTS Presentation Evening
Nov 28, 7:30 pm, Hard Cut Theatre,
Hochschule der Medien,
Music
Stuttgart
Gordon Haskell
“How wonderful you are”,
Oct 21, 8 pm, Jazzhaus
America on Broadway
www.acts.hdm-stuttgart.de Wave Music Allstars Kathryn Magestro (soprano), Derrick
Tübingen Musical meets ballet – Oct 1, 8 pm, Lawrence (baritone), John Ferguson
6th Tübinger “Rubber-Duck” Race Sphaera Gala Theaterhaus, see above (piano), Melodies from George
Rubber-ducks race down the Neckar with Adam Cooper, Ivan Cavallari, Irish Folk Concert: Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim,
Oct 2, 2 pm, Neckarinsel Tübingen Randy Diamond, Geraldine MacGowan Band Leonard Bernstein and Jerome
Let’s Square Dance Nov 28, 7 pm, Theaterhaus Oct 14, 8 pm, Robert-Bosch-Saal, Kern by three American artists.

22 accents magazine
Oct 24, 7 pm, Historisches Kaufhaus, Karlsruhe Mittelalter- und Weihnachtsmarkt
tickets 0761 50137 or 0761 31647 This is just the beginning... Film night Medieval- & Christmas Market
Karan Casey Band “The Englishman Who Went up a Nov 25 - Dec 22, 11 am - 8:30 pm
Nov 11, Jazzhaus Send info about Hill But Came Down a Mountain” 2. Advents-, Kunst- und
Canadian Brass English-language events Oct 14, 7:30 pm, Landesmedienzen,, Handwerkermarkt
Nov 15, Konzerthaus Freiburg in your area to Moltkestraße 64, hosted by the Adventsmarket, Arts & Crafts
choice@accents-magazine.de German-English Friendship Club Dec 4-5, Hafenmarkt
Lörrach Our next issue is Dec/Jan English Conversation Circle
Prague Chamber Orchestra Deadline for info: Nov 15 Rose Schrempp talks about Ludwigsburg
& Sol Gabetta “The Lost Generation” in Australia Barock-Weihnachtsmarkt
Nov 11, 8 pm, Burghof Nov 16, 7:30 pm, Haus der Jungend- Baroque Christmas Market
verbände, Anne Frank Haus, Nov 25 - Dec 22, Marktplatz
On Tour in the Region Moltkestraße 24, Room 4
Glenn Miller Orchestra, Karlsruhe
100th Birthday Tour Weihnachtsmesse
Oct 9, Lauffen a.N., Stadthalle Sports der Kunsthandwerker
Oct 10, Freudenstadt,
Theater im Kurpark
Oct 11, Filderstadt, Filharmonie
Oct 26, Waldshut-Tiengen,
accents
magazine
Sports
Stuttgart
Nov 27 - Dec 5, Museum beim Markt
Christkindlesmarkt
Nov 25 - Dec 23

Stadthalle 20th German Masters Bad Wimpfen


Oct 27, Rastatt, Badner Halle International horse show, Altdeutscher Weihnachtsmarkt
All shows at 8 pm, Nov 17-21, Schleyerhalle, Nov 26 - Dec 12
tickets 06185 818622 President Elect – What to Expect? www.stuttgart-german-masters.de
Fisher Z Nov 3, 12:30 pm, DAZ Stuttgart DTB Gymnastics Cup Heidelberg
Oct 2, Jazzhaus, Freiburg From Picture Books to Crossovers Nov 26-28, Schleyerhalle Weihnachtsmarkt
Oct 9, Substage, Karlsruhe Lecture and discussion Nov 26 - Dec 20, Universitätsplatz,
Oct 11, Villa Berg, Stuttgart for the Stuttgart Book Fair Filderstadt Marktplatz und Kornmarkt
All shows at 8 pm by Maki Kuwayama, CLiC, Dec 11, Porsche-Tennis Grand-Prix
The Harlem Gospel Singers & Band 8:15 pm, Haus der Wirtschaft, International Women’s Tennis, Mannheim
Dec 17, Johannes Brahms Saal, Willi-Bleicher-Straße 19, tournament, Oct 2-10 Weihnachtsmarkt
Karlsruhe www.buchwochen.de Nov 24 - Dec 23, Friedrichsplatz
Dec 25-26, Rosengarten, Mannheim Ludwigsburg
Jan 1, Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden Tübingen Harlem Globetrotters Tour Konstanz
Jan 20, Liederhalle, Stuttgart Study Group Oct 23, 8 pm, Rundsporthalle Christmas Market on the Lake
Feb 2, Konzerthaus, Freiburg Imperial Democracy: The Domestic Nov 26 - Dec 23
Lionel Richie Factors of Empire, with Laurence Karlsruhe
Oct 18, Schleyerhalle Stuttgart Stallings and Scott Stelle, Best of Martial Arts Tour

Photo: Stuttgart-Marketing
Nov 13, Neue Messe, Friedrichshafen Oct 29 and Dec 17, 6:45 pm, Nov 13, 8 pm, Europahalle
Nov 14, DM Arena, d.a.i. Tübingen
Messegelände, Karlsruhe An Evening with a Good Book Mannheim
All shows at 8 pm Literature with Walter Nilson Best of Martial Arts Tour
Status Quo & Oct 1, 6:30 pm, d.a.i. Tübingen Nov 18, 8 pm,
Manfred Mann’s Earthband Talk at Eight: Discussion Group Rosengarten, Mozartsaal
Oct 2, 8 pm, on Current Issues
Schwarzwaldhalle, Karlsruhe with Laurence Stallings,
Oct 16, 8 pm, Liederhalle, Stuttgart Oct 12 and Nov 10, 8:15 pm, Christmas Markets

Tickets can be bought at


booking-offices, by calling
Easy-ticket service 0711 2555555,
d.a.i. Tübingen
Workshop:
Intercultural Communication
with Vanessa Cisz,
Xmas
Stuttgart
www.easyticket.de Oct 23, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Weihnachtsmarkt
SWR1 ticket service 01805 929211 d.a.i. Tübingen Nov 26 - Dec 23, Marktplatz
Dying in the Dark and other Opening ceremony on Nov 25,
Tamara Hayle Mysteries 6 pm, inner courtyard, Altes Schloss
Lectures/Discussions Reading with Valerie Wilson Weihnachtsantikmarkt

Lecture
Stuttgart
Wesley, New York,
Nov 15, 8:15 pm, d.a.i. Tübingen
No One Tinks of Greenland
Reading with John Griesemer,
Christmas Antique Market,
Nov 26 - Dec 23, Karlsplatz

Böblingen Region
The People’s Choice: Lyme, New Hampshire, 30th Sindelfinger Weihnachtsbasar
How the Voter Makes Up His Nov 23, 8 pm, Osiandersche Nov 6-14, Messehalle Sindelfingen Kids
Mind. New York 1944
Discussion, Prof. Friedhelm Kröll,
Oct 5, 7:30 pm, DAZ Stuttgart
Brown Bag Lunch Discussion:
Buchhandlung, Wilhelmstraße 12

Freiburg
The German Element –
Adventsmarkt
Nov 27-28, Dorfplatz Darmsheim
Christkindlesmarkt
Nov 30, 8 am - 6 pm, Stuttgart
Kids
Deutsche Einwanderer in den USA downtown Herrenberg CEL Halloween Party
Reading of Christoph Schenck’s Weihnachtsmarkt Oct 23, 2-5 pm Children’s English
new book, Dec 4, 9 am, Library, Etzelstraße 25-27,
accents forum Oct 4, 8:30 pm, Schwanhäuser downtown Weil der Stadt www.celstuttgart.de
Bookstore, Bertoldstraße 23 Weihnachtsmarkt Mrs Jellybelly Eats Breakfast
Let us hear your accent! Words and Images: A Dialog Dec 3-5, downtown Herrenberg English play for kids –
This informal meeting is Lynne Tillman, New York, reads see STAGE for listing
open to anyone, who would from her short stories “This is Tübingen
like add their voice to our not it” (2002). Reading/Panel Weihnachtsmarkt Sindelfingen
magazine. Comments, Discussion with Lynne Tillman, Dec 10-12, old town Tübingen Baby+Kind Messe (trade fair)
criticisms, and contributions Prof. Peter Dreher, Dirk Görtler, Mittelalterlicher (Medieval) Oct 22-24, 9 am - 5 pm,
are all welcome. Oct 15, 7 pm, Elisabeth-Schneider- Weihnachtsmarkt Messehalle Sindelfingen,
Stiftung, Wilhelmstraße 17a Dec 18-19, Kloster Bebenhausen www.baby-messe.de
Friday, Nov 5 & Dec 10, “Why the West Loves Bush…
8:30 pm Sometimes” Reutlingen Freudenstadt
o’reilly’s irish pub Lecture with Benjamin Shors, Weihnachtsmarkt Flying Danish Superkids
Reuchlinstraße 27, Stuttgart journalist with ”The Spokesman Nov 26 - Dec 19, Marienkirche Dec 6, 8 pm, Theater im Kurhaus,
Review“, USA, www.superkids.dk
accents Oct 18, 8 pm, lecture room 3042,
KG III, university campus
Esslingen
1. Advents-, Kunst- und Lörrach
magazine Handwerkermarkt
Adventsmarket, Arts & Crafts
Flying Danish Superkids
Dec 7, 8 pm, Burghof,
Nov 27-28, Hafenmarkt www.superkids.dk

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accents Libraries Is your group missing?
Pro Country e.V. Deutscher
Country & Western Dachverband

guide Librari
Children’s English Library e.V.
Then tell us all about it!
info@accents-magazine.de
07150 33212 Ralf Russig,
www.pro-country-ev.de
English-Speaking Circle Starzach
07478 8290 Kevin MacInerney-May
Etzelstraße 25-27, Stuttgart, Schorndorf English Club
Tue 4-6 pm, Fri 3-6 pm, Sat 2-5 pm, 07181 64440 Marion Rube
www.celstuttgart.de Deutsch-Amerikanisches
Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum Institut Heidelberg
Charlottenplatz 17, Stuttgart, 06221 60730, Sophienstraße 12,
Tue-Thu 2-6 pm www.dai-heidelberg.de
Emergency Deutsch-Amerikanisches German-English

Police 110
Emerg Institut Tübingen
Karlstraße 3, Tue-Fri 1-6 pm
Karlsruhe American Library
0721 72752, Kanalweg 52,
Friendship Club Karlsruhe
0721 74623 Christa Fuß,
info@def-karlsruhe.de,
www.def-karlsruhe.de
Fire Department 112 Tue-Fri 2-6 pm, Wed 10-12 am, accents International Women’s Club
Ambulance & Emergency
Medical 19222
Sat 10 am-2 pm,
www.amerikanische-bibliothek.de magazine Karlsruhe e.V.
Annemarie Frenzel, Postfach
Poison Hotline 0761 19240 Deutsch-Amerikanisches 110448, 76054 Karlsruhe
English Speaking Poison Institut Heidelberg Verein Deutsch-Amerikanischer
Control 06131 232466 Sophienstraße 12, Mon-Fri 1-6 pm, Freundschaft Pfullendorf
Doctor for House Calls Wed 1-8 pm, Sat 10 am-2 pm 07552 6249 Dr Gary Anderson
0711 2628012 Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg Clubs & Organizations Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg

Consulates
Kaiser-Joseph-Straße 266,
Mon-Fri 11:30 am - 1:30 pm, 3-6 pm
Clubs & 0761 31647, Kaiser-Joseph-Straße
266, www.carl-schurz-haus.de
Network of English-Speaking

sulates Kids & Playgroups


Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum /
James-F.-Byrnes-Institut e.V.
Women e.V.
07664 962450 Candice Siegenthaler,

Australia
030 8800880, Wallstraße 76-79,
Berlin
ygroups
English Playgroup Stuttgart-West
0711 228180, Charlottenplatz 17,
Stuttgart, www.daz.org
Metropolitan Club e.V.
0711 9980124 Mathew Dorrman,
neswomen@gmx.de
Deutsch-Irischer Freundeskreis (dif)
0711 2361736, www.dif-bw.de
Verband der
Canada 0711 6361169 Bryan Groenjes, 18-35 years, www.metclub.de Deutsch-Amerikanischen Clubs e.V.
0711 2239678, Lange Straße 51, EKiZ Ludwigstraße 41-43, Stuttgart Conversation Club 07156 29164 Mi-Kiyoung Wöhler,
Stuttgart 0-6 years, Wed 4-6 pm 0711 8892252 Ed Wilson, www.verband-dt-am-clubs.de
Ireland English Playgroup Stuttgart 35 years and up, www.metclub.de
030 220720, Friedrichstraße 200, 0711 613955 Oona Roxburgh, Stuttgart Book Club
Berlin Schubartstraße 12/14, 0-9 years Helen@StuttgartBookClub.de Theater Groups
New Zealand
030 206210, Friedrichstraße 60,
Berlin
South Africa
www.englishplaygroup.de,
English Playgroup at the DAZ
0711 228180 Kirstin Fuchs,
4-8 years, Tue & Thu 3-4 pm
German-American Club 1948
0711 814270 Eberhard Stein
German-American
Women’s Club Stuttgart
Theate
A.C.T.S. Anglophone
030 220730, Friedrichstraße 60, English Playgroup Böblingen info@gawc-stuttgart.de, Collaborative Theatre of Stuttgart
Berlin 07031 287647 Stefanie Spence, www.gawc-stuttgart.de 0711 6858370 Stuart Marlow,
United Kingdom 0-7 years, Wed 3:30-5 pm Anglo-Stuttgart Society smarlow@hdm-stuttgart.de
0711 162690, Breite Straße 2, English play- and activity group 0711 568113 Günther Jaumann, Kelley Theatre
Stuttgart in Altdorf www.jaumann.de/ass Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart,
United States of America 07031 818763 Liane Kamin, British Club Stuttgart 0711 7292825, www.kelleytheatre.de
069 75350, Siesmayerstraße 21, 0-7 years, Thu 3:30-5:30 pm 0711 455464 Alison Seyerle N.E.A.T.
Frankfurt St. Georg MKK English International Choir of Stuttgart New English American Theater
Playgroup in Bonlanden 0711 769600912 Carola, 0711 634320, Stuttgart,
07127 960046 Mhorag Heger, int_choir_stuttgart@hotmail.com urban.spy@z.zgs.de,
Schools & Preschools 0-7 years, Tue 3:30-5:30 pm Stuttgart Singers www.neat-theater.de

ools
International School
English Playgroup
Herrenberg/Nebringen
07032 77452 Erika Laudenbach,
0-5 years, Mon 3-5 pm
07159 44991 Kathy Williams,
ckwilli@t-online.de,
www.stuttgartsingers.de
Stuttgart German-American
Outcast International
0711 634409, Stuttgart,
www.outcast-theater.de
Anglo-Irish
of Stuttgart e.V. Meet, Chat and Community Chorus Theatre Group Tübingen
0711 7696000, Sigmaringer Straße Playgroup Waldenbuch 0711 463463 David A. Beckner 07071 67968 David Hegarty,
257, Stuttgart, www.international- 07157 8561 Elaine Rauhöft, German-American Seniors Club dave@anglo-iren.de,
school-stuttgart.de Mon from 4 pm onwards 0711 2560867 Hildegard Göhrum www.anglo-iren.de
Internationaler Montessori English on a Friday Afternoon German Conversation Group Roadside Theater
Kindergarten e.V. Tübingen 07032 77919 Elena Fieres Patton Barracks, Heidelberg,
0711 93150510, Sulzgrieser 07071 930466 Günter Henke, International Toastmasters Club, 06221 175020,
Straße 114, Esslingen Fri from 3:30 pm onwards Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, www.roadsidetheater.com
Little English House Gerlingen Freiburg, Ulm Theaterhaus TiG 7
English & Art for kids 3 and up presentational skills in English, 0621 154976, Theater Trennt e.V.
0711 816253, Hauptstraße 18/1 www.toastmasters-stuttgart.de G7, 4 b, Mannheim, www.tig7.de
European School Karlsruhe English-Speaking Stammtisch
0721 683001, Albert-Schweitzer- S-Untertürkheim
Straße 1, Karlsruhe 0711 3041337 Derek Evans Political Groups
Little English House Aalen
English & Art for kids 3 and up,
07361 610165,
Stuttgarter Straße 116
Friends Club International e.V.
Böblingen-Sindelfingen
07031 806522 Jan W. Boon
“Here We Are”
Political
American Voices Abroad Tübingen
English Garden International Group Esslingen fritz.hackert@arcor.de,
English and music lessons, 0761 07163 8580 Alison Unrath www.americanvoicesabroad.org
8866181, Hasenweg 34, Freiburg English Morning Tea Aidlingen Democrats Abroad
Oberlin Kinderuniversität 07034 7339 Ellen Zeller, 06221 3780
0761 85648, Wed 10 am - 12 pm Charles Keene, Heidelberg,
Am Mühlbach 13, Freiburg, Deutsch-Amerikanisches www.democratsabroad.org
www.oberlinkinderuniversitaet.de Institut Tübingen Republicans Abroad
International School 07071 795260, Karlstraße 3, 07146 20677
of Kreuzlingen Konstanz www.dai-tuebingen.de John W. Gerrish, Stuttgart,
0041 71 6722727 Anglo-German Club Pforzheim www.republicansabroad.de
Hauptstraße 27, Kreuzlingen, 07231 472155 Dr Maurice Claypole,
Switzerland, www.iskk.ch www.agc-pforzheim.de

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www.stuttgartanglicans.de St Columban’s
Business Organizations City Chapel e.V. Stuttgart Mission Karlsruhe Sports

siness
American German Business Club
0711 6142956 Roland Krumm,
Marienstraße 12, www.citychapel.de
International Baptist Church
Stuttgart-Vaihingen:
(Anglican) 0721 28379
Dr Hanns Engelhardt
Calvary Chapel Freiburg e.V.
0761 7071333 David Pham,
Sports
American Football Verband
e.V. Stuttgart, Heidelberg, 0711 6874365 Pastor Jay McFadden; www.ccfreiburg.de Baden-Württemberg e.V.
Karlsruhe Heidelberg-Sandhausen: 0621 7624567 Andreas Stehle,
07025 911340 Peggy Stinson, 06224 51516 Pastor Richard Blake; www.afv-bawue.de
President, stuttgart@agbc.de, www.ibcstuttgart.de Movie Theaters Baden-Württembergischer
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American Chamber of Commerce
in Germany e.V.
0711 1667156 Prof Dr Roderich
First Church of Christ, Scientist
0711 6207921 Heinz Clauss,
www.christian-science-stuttgart.de
Evangelical Methodist Church
Movie
CinemaxX Bosch-Areal, Stuttgart
Baseball- und Softballverband
0711 705682 Jan van den Berg,
www.bw-baseball.de
Basketballverband
C. Thümmel, Regional Chairperson, Stuttgart: 0711 251984 0711 22007979, www.cinemaxx.de Baden-Württemberg e.V.
www.amcham.de Dr Hans-Martin Niethammer; Corso, Stuttgart-Vaihingen 06224 975150 Roland Dopp,
British Chamber of Commerce Reutlingen: 0711 734916, Hauptstraße 6, www.bbwbasketball.net
in Germany e.V. 07121 78546 Harald Rückert; www.corso-kino.de Heidelberg International
0700 10081944 Prof Helmuth Karlsruhe: 0721 43721 Peter Vesen; Kommunales Kino Stuttgart Ski Club Charter
Jordan, Regional Chairperson, www.emk.de 0711 221320, Friedrichstraße 23 A, 06221 767539 Margaret McGinley,
www.bccg.de Church of Jesus Christ www.koki.de / filmhaus www.heidelbergski.com
USA forum Tübingen of the Latter Day Saints Kommunales Kino Esslingen Rugby Association
07071 55970 Bernd Zeutschel, Stuttgart: 0711 310595, Maille 5, of Baden-Württemberg
www.usaforum.de 0711 3419240 Ralf Gierschke; www.koki-es.de 0172 7384207 Jimmy Collins,
Mannheim: Scala Filmhaus Mühlacker www.rugby-bw.de
06223 809040 Dr Frank Heckmann 07041 3884, Bahnhofstraße 65
Religious Services Church of the Nazarene Kino-Center Weil der Stadt

St. Catherine’s Church


Reli 0711 551147 Mary Schaar,
Friedenskirche, Bad Cannstatt
Evangelical Students
Community Tübingen
07033 2241, Badtorstraße 21
CinemaxX Freiburg
0761 20281400, Bertholdstraße 50
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Labyrinth

Permanent
Extensions

When I tell people that I have lived in


Germany since 1990 and I still don’t have
an unbefristete Aufenthaltserlaubnis (per-
manent residence permit), they look at me
in disbelief. I do have a cancelled passport
filled with one-, two-, and three-year stamps.
But I have yet to receive the golden seal
of approval from the German government.
It’s my own fault really. Germans are such
sticklers for punctuality.
“Your Aufenthaltserlaubnis has expired,”
said the woman from the Ausländerbehörde
Registering given a confirmation of your registration
(Anmeldebestätigung.) That’s step one.
(immigration office), getting up from her
desk. “Yes, but only by a year,” I replied.
Yourself But beware: any time you change address
– whether you move to the other end of
Without laughing, she entered another office
and closed the door behind her. Would I be
Germany or even just next door – you’ll deported? Would they make me take the
need to report your move to your old and next boat back to America? The woman
This section of accents is dedicated to your new registry office, and get another returned and handed me a stack of very
helping newcomers cut through German Anmeldebestätigung. This is not a policy familiar looking paperwork. (I would rather
red tape, and to helping everyone else aimed at frustrating foreigners. Germans have had a boat ticket.)
see the bureaucratic maze from a new have to go through the same process, “You’ll need to fill out these forms and
perspective. In each edition we focus on every time they move. (The difference is we’ll need a recent passport photo.”
one aspect of living in Germany. In this that they secretly enjoy it!) “But you have all this in the file in front
very first edition we start with your The second step in the registration of you,” my husband said.
arrival here. process can be a little trickier. You have to “Yes, but this paperwork is from the
take the Anmeldebestätigung to your local expired Aufenthaltserlaubnis,” the woman
Any foreigner who wants to stay in Germany immigration authority (Ausländerbehörde.) replied.
for longer than three months, including This is the place that actually issues My husband filled out the papers, and
European Union citizens, must obtain a residence permits for foreigners. But you’ll I ran off to the photo booth at the train
residence permit (Aufenthaltserlaubnis.) also need to bring along a bunch of other station. I received another three-year
It’s a piece of paper that is glued into your documents, depending on your status. permit, and was told to arrive PROMPTLY
passport. To get it, you’ll need to follow a You’ll certainly need your passport and three years later.
number of steps. proof that you can support yourself. How- Due to forces beyond our control (our
First, go to your local registry office ever, at some immigration authority offices three children) we arrived late. Again.
(Einwohnermeldeamt.) Every town has one you might need to bring along a marriage We filled out the same paperwork. Again.
– just ask at the local police station. (Or at certificate, proof of employment and a I submitted a passport photo. Again. And
your local Irish pub!) You’ll need to have collection of passport photos. The best just so we didn’t think we were reliving the
your passport with you, as well as a copy way to find out beforehand about all the same bad movie, a new twist was added.
of your lease or proof of your address. documents you need is to ask at your local We had to provide proof we were indeed
After answering some questions you’ll be registration office (commonly referred to as the owners of our house. It was at this
the Meldestelle) or citizens’ service centre point that I threw my hands up in the air
(Bürgerbüro). These are listed in the city and said: “You caught us! We don’t have a
Children’s English Library e.V. services section of your telephone book. house, the children are rented. And as for
Etzelstraße 25-27 EU nationals don’t have to pay a fee for the ‘weiblich’ (female) box I keep checking
70180 Stuttgart residence permits and their applications off on all those forms…”
e-Mail celstuttgart@hotmail.com can’t be refused, as a rule. But they are My new passport has two more of those
Opening hours: Tuesdays 3-5 pm still required to apply for residence permits. pretty pink Aufenthaltserlaubnis stickers.
Fridays 3-6 pm, Saturdays 2-5 pm Non-EU nationals may have their appli- My file at the Ausländerbehörde is filled
(Closed on school holidays) cations refused for good cause, such as a with at least five copies of the same forms.
www.celstuttgart.de criminal record or inability to support them- (I checked the ‘männlich’ – male – box on
selves. the last form just for fun.) I am hoping that
Residence permits must be renewed anyone reading this will send me an e-mail
every year or so at the outset. After a few message in January 2007, reminding me to
years, depending on your situation, you renew my Aufenthaltserlaubnis. Better yet,
can apply for permanent residency (an remind me in 2006.
unbefristete Aufenthaltserlaubnis or Auf-
enthaltsgenehmigung). Now you’re allowed by Liz Gaiser
to stay in Germany forever!

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