Hello Neighbour

In a series called “Hallo Nachbar” the twinning association in Oberursel is holding evenings on a number of subjects connected with the countries where Oberursel has twin towns.

When it came to the evening about the United Kingdom, guest speaker Nicholas Jefcoat from the German-British Society (Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft) talked about the effects of Brexit, the forthcoming General Election and current events in the Royal Family.

I was there for the Oberurseler Woche, click here to read my report (in German).

Hallo Nachbar - Nicholas Jefcoat with Margit Schlesinger-Stoll in Oberursel, 22nd March, 2024

Truly German – Episode 04 – 18th September 2009

Truly German is a new podcast that talks about the news in Germany.  Sometimes this will by national news, maybe political, but we will also be covering some local topics.

We want to have some fun at the same time, so part of the podcast is our Länderquiz – in which our contestant has to guess in which Bundesland three different news stories took place in.

This week we talk to Cathy Dobson – a British ex-pat living in Germany and  author of the book “Planet Germany”.

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The topics are:

  1. Elections in Germany
  2. Millions for Meerbusch
  3. Traffic laws during Oktoberfest

The quiz covers the following stories:

  1. Parking for football players
  2. Stag night mistaken for terrorist attack
  3. No refund after cat eats 500 Euro note

Listen to the episode and tell us what you think about the stories covered:

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Truly German – Episode 03 – 4th September 2009

Truly German is a new podcast that talks about the news in Germany.  Sometimes this will by national news, maybe political, but we will also be covering some local topics.

We want to have some fun at the same time, so part of the podcast is our Länderquiz – in which my contestant has to guess in which Bundesland three different news stories took place in.

This week the topics are:

  1. New and discontinued traffic signs
  2. Twitter and election results
  3. Oberursel barrel organ festival

The quiz covers the following stories:

  1. Sehler-Quetschefest (plum festival)
  2. Störtebecker-Festspielen
  3. Bahnhof des Jahres (Station of the year)

Listen to the episode and tell us what you think about the stories covered:


(Press the “play” button to listen to the podcast)

Download the MP3 file

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