PROGRAMME 2025/26

Highland German Society
Programme for 2025/26.

Here is our programme for the coming session.

1st October 2025: Neil Campbell will talk about the life and work of German author Karl May. May is one of the best-selling German writers of all time, with about 200,000,000 copies sold worldwide, but he remains largely unknown elsewhere.  He is probably best known for his western novels featuring Old Shatterhand and Winnetou, but his output was prolific and his life colourful.

12th November 2025: From 1985 to 1987, Paula Kirby lived and worked in Dresden, then part of the GDR. In this talk she will share some anecdotes, memories and impressions about life in the GDR, and she’ll also bring along some mementos from her time there, including a copy of her Stasi file!

3rd December 2025: our traditional celebration of Christmas in the German style.

7th January 2026: an open session in which members are invited to talk briefly about a place in Germany, Austria, Switzerland or other German-speaking territory.  All are invited to contribute and to bring photos and other memorabilia to illustrate their talk.

4th February 2026:  Birgit Mackie will talk about the Hanoverian dynasty, which progressed from being rulers of a small German state to the sovereigns of Britain and its Empire.

4th March 2026: Richard Baxter will give the second part of the talk that he gave last April about popular music in the main German-speaking states and how it crossed over with music from Britain and the USA.  Part two moves forward from 1970 to the present, starting with James Last and running via Kraftwerk, David Bowie, Nena, Peter Schilling and AnnenMayKanenreit (among others), focussing on electronica and the dance phenomenon of techno.

15h April 2026: as usual, we end the season with the AGM.

We hope that there is plenty here to interest you and look forward to seeing you.

All meetings will start at 1900. 

Our venue is the clubhouse of the Inverness Highland Bowling Club in Auldcastle Road, Inverness, IV2 3PZ.

 

Richard Baxter (secretary)

M: 07711548971

E:  richbax52@yahoo.com

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