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The German-Maltese Circle is again offering German language revision courses during summer for students who are in Forms 1 to 4.  These courses consist of 18 lessons of one and a half hours each and will start on the 9^th July.  Also on offer are short courses of 10 sessions for children in Years 5 or 6 in Primary Schools who wish to get familiar with the German language.  A similar course is being organised for the first time in Gozo.  Applications are still being accepted.

Members who sat for the Goethe Institute examinations at the end of the 2008-2009 language courses are informed that the results are being mailed to all candidates.  It is expected that all results will be issued by mid-July.    

Applications received for Goethe Institute Examinations 2009

In the meantime please note that applications for the 2009-2010 German language courses are already open. 

For information on ALL courses which are being offered – click here !

Members with a good knowledge of the German language are reminded that Dr Jacobs will be leading his conversation / discussion meetings at the Circle on Fridays, 3rd, 17th and 31st July.  All sessions start at 6.30p.m.

The Gesprächsrunde will resume after a short summer break on the 2nd September.
 

The German-Maltese Circle’s Language Department secured contracts for group and individual courses during the summer months with Air Malta plc, Lidl Group and FTI Accounting Services Ltd.  Cooperation has also been extended to the Valletta Local Council in the organization of German Language Awareness classes for children attending their Summer School.
 

Our Translation Department has also been quite busy throughout the previous months with more clients requesting our services, which are considered of very high standard and reasonably priced.  We recently were contracted to carry out technical translations for a well-known Austrian Company.  Persons wishing to avail themselves of this service can contact us online.

The German-Maltese Circle’s Newsletter will not be published for the month of August.  Instead, members will be receiving the brochure containing information on our language courses for adults, which will start in October 2009.

Use the Library this Summer:  Ask the front office for assistance.  We are open mornings and evenings.  Contact us to get your password in order to browse online through our collection of books, CD’s, DVD’s and Videos.

 

The German-Maltese Circle salutes RALF DAHRENDORF

Professor Ralf Dahrendorf played a key role in strengthening Maltese-German relations through the German-Maltese Circle. During a visit to Malta in 1971 as Parliamentary Secretary of State in the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prof Dahrendorf met officials from the German-Maltese Circle and being an astute politician, he immediately realised the influential potential of our Association in the Island State of Malta as an effective means of promoting German language and culture amongst all strata of Maltese society. Through his direct intervention, the German-Maltese Circle started receiving regular financial assistance from the German Government.

Professor Dahrendorf has been the German-Maltese Circle’s Honorary Patron since then. 

Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, KBE, FBA, born in 1929 was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. During his political career, he was a Member of the German Parliament, Parliamentary Secretary of State in the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Commissioner for External Relations and Trade, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Education and Member of the British House of Lords, after he was created a life peer in 1993.

Dahrendorf was a leading expert on class divisions in modern society, and has been described as "one of the most influential thinkers of his generation".  He served as director of the London School of Economics and Warden of St Anthony's College at the University of Oxford. He also served as a Professor of Sociology at a number of universities in Germany and the United Kingdom, and was most recently a Research Professor at the Berlin Social Science Research Center.

Prof. Dahrendorf died in Cologne, Germany, aged 80, on June 17, 2009, after suffering from cancer. (C.V. extracted from Wikipedia)

The German-Maltese Circle welcomes the new Ambassador

According to the official website of the Maltese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Mr. Bernd Braun has been instituted as the German Ambassador Designate.  Mr. Braun is expected to assume office some time in July. 

Mr. Bernd Braun, born 1946 in Berlin, read Law at a University in his hometown and in Tübingen.  He rounded off this phase of life with a year of studies at the École Nationale d'Administration in Paris. In 1979, after finishing his preparatory service at the Foreign Office he first served as First Secretary at the German Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, and thereafter he was deployed at the German Representation at the UN in New York (1983-1987). The next assignments took him to the German Embassy in Hungary and to the German Embassy in Kiev. From 1998 to 1999 Mr. Braun presided over the OSCE mission in Tallinn, Estonia. Afterwards, he was appointed Head of the Department 'Southern Caucasus and Central Asia' at the Foreign Office in Berlin. Between 2004 and 2006 Mr. Braun was Ambassador in Kenya, with jurisdiction over Burundi and the Seychelles.  His last post was that of Consul General in St. Petersburg.

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