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We are making important changes to the way we deliver British passports. We are writing to your organisation to make you and your members aware of these changes.

It has been the UK government’s goal to ensure that all British nationals living overseas receive a consistent, trusted, secure and efficient service whilst keeping the costs as low as possible. In order to do that, responsibility for issuing passports overseas passed from the Foreign and…

directed by Wiebke Störtenbecker and Sonny Pathak

It is 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian war. Wealthy young Raina Petkoff impatiently awaits the return…

We give away two tickets for 15 November to the 15th person to write an e-mail titled The King’s Speech to heiner@designonlocation.de. The winner will be notified by e-mail and their name will be published here.

The King’s Speech

- Die Rede des Königs -

Von…

Missing out on the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee? No tickets for the London Olympics? All is not lost. Head for British Flair at the Hamburger Polo Club on 4-5 August 2012 and be in the front-row for a weekend of British shopping, sport, food and fun – and raise money for a good cause, too. The proceeds from the tombola run by Friends of Britain e.V. and lots of other activities by British clubs will be going to the Förderverein Erlenbusch e.V., which supports people in Hamburg with severe…

Hi,, im Dan,, living in Hamburg, Rauhes haus for the last 2 months, my girlfriend is from here, so i want to stay,, but i cant find work,, anybody can help me,, tnx 017671813963

Last week at Kultwerk West we celebrated the 60th jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. I used Skype to set up a video link with four people I know from my time in Birmingham or through work, and was really proud to show Britain as a diverse, internationally oriented, and quite relaxed country.



I baked some scones, which went down well; people even…

Kultwerk West, the "öffentliches Wohnzimmer", will be celebrating the Queen's 60th Jubilee on 31st May at 20.00. We will be having an informal evening of beer, bunting and Berridge's British goodies.

I'll be showing a couple of videos from throughout the Queen's reign, and will be chatting via video link to Abigail Kelly (soprano singer, abigailkellysoprano.com), Wasseem Zaffar (local Councillor from Birmingham), Andy…

Have you ever wondered what the Merchant Adventurers were up to in Hamburg 400 years ago and why a British engineer was responsible for so many civil engineering projects here in the 19th century? This Friday, 11 May, there's a special chance to trace on foot a number British people who have left their mark in the development of Hamburg, from the foundation of the English Church in 1612, through architecture and engineering to media and music of the 20th century. Please register via the…

It's sometimes elegant, sometimes rough, sometimes courtly and sometimes fiery, and occasionally all of the above, at once! Canadian baroque flautist, Brian Berryman, gives us a view into the traditional music likely to have been heard by the early members of the congregation of the English church in Hamburg in the next concert in the 400th…

In June 2012, the Hamburg Players perform Proof, David Auburn's exciting probe into human relationships and the need for trust where proof is impossible.

After Robert, a once brilliant mathematician dies, his daughter Catherine is worried that she may have inherited not only her father's genius but also his mental illness. Older sister Claire is convinced she has and wants to take her to New York to be looked after. Meanwhile, Robert's former student Hal is searching through Robert's…

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Most of you will probably know the wonderful Lühmanns Teestube in Blankenese - just about the only place in Hamburg where you can get a good scone! 

I will be reading there on Friday, April 20, 19.30. Please call to reserve tickets:  Tel. 040 863441, www.luehmanns-teestube.de/

There will be cheese and wine, tea and scones - and me reading from my novel, 'Ein Einziges Jahr'...

We will drinking…

Have you also noticed that many successful Baroque composers who made their careers in England were actually foreigners? With its unique free-market concert landscape, 18th century London was the city of endless possibilities for musicians of continental Europe’s more restrictive courts.



The ‘English’ works by French, Italian and German composers in this Saturday's…

Yotin Tiewtrakul, choir master at St Thomas Becket, welcomes experienced choral singers to join in a performance of John Stainer's oratorio, "The Crucifixion", at 5pm on 31 March - see events. If the excesses of Victorian romanticism make you swoon, then this date is a must for you. Rehearsals take place on 24 and 25 March and there will be a general rehearsal on the evening before the…

Just been there and forgot EC card, more important than anything else.

So Take it or waste of journey

Please can anyone tell me if there is a cheaper way of getting 5 different tablets per day in Germany.

I have a prescription at the moment in UK and have an arrangement where I pay only £120 per year. This covers all my prescriptions for the year which are normally £7.50 per item on the British NHS.

On discussing the costs with an Apotike in Bergedorf, I have discovered that to buy these tablets will cost € 150 per month or €1800 per year.

If I am…

Good morning everyone.

I have been seeing a lovely German Lady for the past 12 months and we are at the stage in our relationship where I am looking at moving to the Hamburg District of Germany sometime toward the end of this year. In Particular a place called Bornsen, in-between Bergedorf and Geesthacht.

I only speak enough Deutsch at the moment to be polite, I have ventured alone by bus to a shopping centre and was able to undertake a menial shopping task. I feat I…

February 25 promises to be a real feast for the senses to brighten up the greyest winter day. The Michel, one of the finest Baroque churches in northern Germany, will be the venue for a performance of Handel's great oratorio, The Messiah, composed in 1741. Sung in the original English by the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg, it's an event not to be missed. If you're planning to take part in the Scratch Messiah on 2 December as part of the…

This Saturday, 28 January, is the first concert in the series to celebrate 400 years of the Anglican Church in Hamburg. Given by Ensemble Schirokko, it promises to be a feast of Baroque music from around the time the Merchant Adventurers, who founded the church, were flourishing in Hamburg.

The young ensemble's CD, Schirokkos Seereisen, was selected ‘CD der Woche’ by NDR and captures the listener with its 'extraordinary sense of sound, imaginative playing and great precision'. This is…

Poppies are available from now until Remembrance Sunday (13 November)

-  the British Consulate (Fehlandtstr. 6), British Shopping (Hegestrasse, Eppendorf), Kemp's English Pub (Mittelweg),    St Thomas Becket Church (Zeughausmarkt) and The Hamburg Players at Marschnerstr…