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On Monday February 24th we had our now traditional Karneval celebration, otherwise known as Rosenmontag! We were delighted to welcome the Lord Mayor, Cllr Jos Clark, once again, and as the photos show, she and everyone else had a great time, singing Karneval songs, some of us wearing funny hats, eating delicious German food and enjoying ourselves before the privations of Lent (for some of us) set in!

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An art exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons signed by the USA, the then Soviet Union and the UK in 1968, was opened on February 3rd by Mayor Marvin Rees at the Vestibules, City Hall. The exhibition was initiated by the Mayor of Hiroshima, site of one of two nuclear bomb attacks in 1945, working with its (and our) partner city Hannover, and it has travelled around the 50 Mayors for Peace cities over the past two years. The concept of the Stuttgart artist Klaudia Dietewich is to show small everyday traces of human activity in these...

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We were delighted to be able to arrange for the Lord Mayor, Cllr Jos Clark, to visit the Bauhaus Exhibition, which was earlier reported after the Evening with Crofton Gane in October.  The Lord Mayor was most interested in this important aspect of Bristol’s artistic history.  After an introduction to the present day gallery by Julia Donnelly, the Centre Manager, we were given a fascinating history by Chris Yeo first of the building on Park Row, which used to be the confectionery shop for the Princes Theatre, which was sadly destroyed by bombing in the Second World War.  Ken Stradling, a lifetime...

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It may have been a bit damp and cold outside, but we were nice and cosy inside the Jägerbarn again – 37 of us – and enjoyed the traditional lunch of Wurst, Kartoffelsalat and Sauerkraut, well washed down with a couple of beakers of delicious Glühwein! The Lord Mayor, Cllr. Jos Clark, was delighted that her hectic Christmas schedule allowed her and her consort to have a hearty meal before moving on to her next event! Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr wuenschen wir unseren Mitgliedern und Freunden!

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On January 8th, Paul Seath, son of Edward Seath, had his 80th birthday.  Edward Seath was one of the Famous Five men who went to Hannover in 1947 to extend the hand of friendship to the Hannoverians, and thus started the now 72 year old friendship between the two cities.  Paul’s daughter Fiona and his wife Elfriede organised a party for him to include his many friends, especially from the music world, and kindly invited the Hannover Chair, Ann Kennard and her husband Tony, to come along as part of the family’s past.  It was a very enjoyable social occasion, with delicious food thrown in. ...

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Nov 28th – Dec 1st 2019 This was the 42nd year of our annual exchange with VFL Eintracht. Once again a great weekend was had by all with a busy programme. On Friday we visited the Zoo, which is always popular: walked across the Suspension bridge; lunched at McDonalds and shopped at the Mall, Cribbs Causeway.               As our parents had to work on Friday and the gymnasts had school we had to hire a minibus to drive the German girls around. This was made possible by a generous donation of £200 from the Bristol-Hannover...

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We recently had a visit from Raimund Menges and Klaudia Dietewich, who are leading a very significant Art and Peace project, with an exhibition, which is to come to Bristol in February 2020. It has travelled around America and various countries of Europe, with Hannover as the lead city in Germany. Mayors for Peace was founded in 1982 by the Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan, and registered as a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in 1991. The member cities are dedicated to preventing the global proliferation of nuclear weapons by carrying out activities and campaigns, ultimately calling for their total...

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Thomas Hermann, Mayor of Hannover recently met in Bristol with representatives of OTR Bristol's Freedom, OTR’s gender and sexuality social action project. They are keen on setting up an exchange with Queer Unity in Hannover. Watch this space. Mayor Hermann meeting Henry and Natasha from Freedom

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at The Folk House, 30th October 2019 featuring Oliver Kent, Cleo Witt and Max Gane, great-grandson of Crofton. Many members of the Bristol Hannover Council will recognise Crofton Gane as one of the five original pioneers from different spheres of life who, early in 1947 brought about the first twinning between a German and English city post the Second World War by embarking on the Goodwill Mission to promote the special friendship we still enjoy today between Hannover and Bristol. Crofton Gane owned the furniture company, Gane’s of Bristol. An Evening with Crofton Gane provided insights...

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The last week of October saw the second leg of the Erasmus+ funded project “Politik zum Anfassen” (Grasping Politics, as a loose translation?), where 20 young people aged 14-15 visited their partners in Bristol’s Youth Council, and had 3 days learning about the British political system. The Bristolians visited Hannover in May/June and learned about the German system, including the fact that in Germany, young people can vote in the local elections at 16 years old. This was the subject of one of two debates which rounded off the visit to Bristol, where in the Council Chamber of City Hall, this...

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