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SUMMARY:Does Germany do it Better? John Kampfner in conversation with Prof Rüdiger Görner
DESCRIPTION:Does Germany do it Better? \nAward-winning author\, commentator\, broadcaster and cultural leader John Kampfner will be talking to the BGA about his new book\, Why the Germans do it Better (out on 27 August). \nJohn began his journalistic career as a foreign correspondent with the Daily Telegraph\, first in East Berlin where he reported on the fall of the Wall and unification of Germany\, and then in Moscow at the time of the collapse of Soviet Communism. \nHe went on to become Chief Political Correspondent at the FT and political commentator for the BBC’s Today programme and Newsnight. As Editor of the New Statesman from 2005 to 2008\, he took the magazine to 30-year circulation highs. He was Society of Magazine Editors Current Affairs Editor of the Year in 2006. \nJohn established the Creative Industries Federation to much acclaim in 2014\, providing a single voice for the UK’s creative sector. For eight years he was founder Chair of Turner Contemporary\, one of the country’s most successful art galleries. He is now Chair of the House of Illustration. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for his services to the arts by Bath Spa University in 2019. \nHe now writes weekly for the Times and appears regularly in other newspapers such as the FT\, Guardian and New European. He frequently appears on the BBC and Sky. He has made a number of programmes for BBC Radio 4. \nFluent in German and Russian\, he regularly speaks at political conferences and cultural festivals around the world. \nThe discussion will be chaired by Rüdiger Görner\, Professor of German with Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London and Founding Director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Director of the Institute of Germanic Studies where he founded the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature. He has published studies on Hölderlin’s poetics\, the Goethezeit\, Austrian literature from Stifter to Thomas Bernhard\, on Rainer Maria Rilke and Thomas Mann and his notion of finality in culture as well as studies on literary aesthetics. \nRüdiger is a Visiting Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and held Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Mainz\, Hanover\, Heidelberg\, Vienna and Salzburg. He is a member of various advisory boards of cultural institutions\, publishing houses and academic journals. As a literary critic he writes for some of the leading journals in Germany\, Austria and Switzerland\, including Die Zeit\, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\, Die Presse and Neue Zürcher Zeitung. \nIn 2017 he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz) in recognition of his achievements in developing Anglo-German Relations. \nThere will be an opportunity to ask questions of the speakers after the discussion. \nYou can watch the event video here: \n \n 
URL:https://britishgermanassociation.org/event/does-germany-do-it-better-john-kampfner-in-conversation-with-prof-rudiger-gorner/
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SUMMARY:Ernest Bevin and the founding of the German Federal Republic
DESCRIPTION:Ernest Bevin and the founding of the German Federal Republic \nErnest Bevin was the towering Foreign Secretary of the postwar Labour Government. In this event hosted by the BGA and the German History Society\, Lord Adonis\, himself a former Labour Cabinet Minister\, debates Bevin‘s enduring influence on modern Germany with fellow Bevin expert Professor Anne Deighton. \nLord Adonis is a Labour peer and formerly Secretary of State for Transport\, Minister for Schools\, Head of the No.10 Policy Unit\, and senior No. 10 adviser on education\, public services and constitutional reform. He pioneered key public service reforms including the Academy programme\, Teach First\, and the plan to develop a high-speed rail line from London to northern England and Scotland. \nLord Adonis’ biography Ernest Bevin: Labour’s Churchill looks at Bevin’s central role in the creation of many of the international institutions which shape our world today. \nAnne Deighton is Emeritus Professor of European International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College\, Oxford. Professor Deighton works on a number of themes relating to the contemporary history and political integration of Europe. A new research project relates to cultural activities and political power in postwar Britain. \nOn more contemporary issues\, Professor Deighton has published on European security institutions; the genesis of human rights issues; and the use\, and abuse\, of military force in the contemporary world. \nThere will be an opportunity to ask questions of the speakers after the discussion. \nYou can watch the event video here: \n \n 
URL:https://britishgermanassociation.org/event/ernest-bevin-and-the-founding-of-the-german-federal-republic/
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SUMMARY:Oktoberfest
DESCRIPTION:After a most successful party last year we are returning to the Octoberfest Pub in Fulham to enjoy the authentic Bavarian atmosphere – with traditional food\, beer and oompah-music. BGA members will have priority booking for this event\, and can book tickets for guests. Ticket prices will be announced closer to the date.
URL:https://britishgermanassociation.org/event/oktoberfest/
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SUMMARY:The road to 1990: German reunification
DESCRIPTION:Online event – A discussion with Timothy Garton Ash\, Charles Grant and Helene von Bismarck on the run-up to German reunification in 1990 \nTimothy Garton Ash is the author of ten books of political writing or ‘history of the present’ which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last half century. He is Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford\, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College\, Oxford\, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution\, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian which is widely syndicated in Europe\, Asia and the Americas. \nCharles Grant is Director of the Centre for European Reform\, which he helped found in 1996. He works on\, among other subjects\, EU foreign and defence policy\, Russia\, China\, the euro and Britain’s relationship with the EU. During the time of German reunification in 1990 he was bureau chief of The Economist in Brussels. \nHelene von Bismarck is a historian\, writer and commentator. She has published a book about British foreign policy in the Persian Gulf during the 1960s\, as well as a History of the Anglo-German Königswinter Conferences. Her political commentary has featured in The Times\, Die Zeit\, Foreign Policy\, and the BBC. She is now researching Margaret Thatcher‘s European policy. \nTogether\, they will discuss the run-up to German reunification in 1990. \nYou can watch the event video here: \n \n 
URL:https://britishgermanassociation.org/event/the-road-to-1990-german-reunification/
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