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Berlin Bar: 23.10.2009
A piece of Berlin in Melbourne – that’s exactly what the Berlin Bar tries to contain behind its secretive door. Oliver Heuthe and Katharina Kerzdörfer went to find out what makes the Bar, Berlin itself and the publican tick.
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Im Gespräch – Lebensgeschichte Holger Scholz 1: 16.10.2009
In „Im Gespräch mit Trudi Latour" you’ll hear the start of a new series of “Lebensgeschichten”, life stories of older German-Australians. My conversational partner today is Holger Scholz, who saw the bombing of Dresden as a 4 year old, fled the GDR in 1961 and has been living in Australia, PNG and Indonesia since 1962. This is the first part of his adventurous life story which takes us up to his first unsuccessful attempt to flee the GDR and his agreement to work for the Stasi in order not to be sent to a prison which he might never leave alive.
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Die Fantastischen Vier - German Hip Hop has grown up: 7.10.2009
Just 20 years ago, Rap was still mostly an underground phenomenon in Germany. Then all of a sudden, four fellows from southern Germany entered the lime light. They called themselves ‘Die Fantastischen Vier’ – and with them they brought a new brand of Hip Hop that would grow into one of the strongest musical phenomena in recent German history. Just a little while ago, they celebrated an incredible 20th anniversary – with a massive party in their home town Stuttgart. We were there.
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Nico Suave & Reckless - Rap at the German Day Out: 17.9.2009
Rap in the name of cultural dialogue - that’s what the two German rappers Nico Suave and Reckless do. That mission has taken them around the world. 1500 lucky ones were there to catch their performance on Federation Square as part of the German Day Out '09, organised by the Goethe-Institute in Melbourne. Kathleen Wächter took them aside for an interview with Switch:On.
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Exchange for your future: 15.7.2009
Four German guests came to visit us in our Switch:On studio: Three young German participants of the Society for Australian German student exchanges (SAGSE) came to visit us in the Switch:On studio. Also in the studio was the president of this long-running program, Egon Vetter. They spoke to Patrick Wauthier about the program, what teens like in either country and other relevant topics.
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Being an Au-Pair: 8.6.2009
Three young women and one young man decided to follow their hearts and went to seek new things in a faraway country: As Au-Pairs in Australia. Sabrina Schweller, Wiebke Mügge, Valentina Zingg und Gregor Becker all became temporary members of families in Melbourne, helping out around the house and catching up with locals and fellow Au-Pairs in their spare time. Pamela Rauleder met with them and wanted to know about the ups and downs of doing the Au-Pair thing.
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Musical Profile Thomas Böhmert: 9.4.2009
Today, we visit Thomas Böhmert in Croydon Hills, Victoria. Originally from the GDR, he tried to defect from his native home, but was caught by East Germany's secret police, the Stasi. His arrest was followed by imprisonment. After negotiations between East and West, he was “sold” to the FRG. In 1986, he went to New Zealand. Because of the nuclear accident in Chernobyl he refused to go back to Europe. In Australia, he found a new purpose in life: Being a Lutheran pastor. Oliver Heuthe paid him a visit.
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Im Gespräch - Allambie Heights Retirement Home 1: 30.3.2009
In „Im Gespräch mit Trudi Latour“ you’ll hear the first part of a series about the life stories of the overwhelmingly German people living in the Allambi Heights Lutheran Retirement Village. Today an overview, for which you are invited to the Lunchkreis, compered by pastor Dirk Wnendt, and hear frrom Admin Officer Christina Hofmann, the first contact person you’ll encounter at the village. Hildegard and Walter Eckardt, who are only just able to introduce themselves, will be entertaining you with their story next week.
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German Internment Camps in WWI (pt2): 30.3.2009
In the series “Im Gespräch mit Trudi Latour” we’ll hear from Marc Viner from the Historic Houses Trust and from dramatist and writer Nadine Helmi, who are planning an exhibition about the internment camps of WWI together with the Power House Museum. I met them on the opening of the exhibition about the internment camp in Berrima, which we discussed last week.
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WWII Berrima Internment Camp pt 1: 30.3.2009
In the series „Im Gespräch mit Trudi Latour“ we’ll join organisers and guests at Berrima, where an exhibition about the internment camp for Germans in WWII was opened by the Berrima District Historic and Family History Society. Over 200 Germans were interned in the little Southern Highland town, but they enjoyed unheard of freedoms for prisoners of war, and were able to build boats and huts and even produce theatre plays and concerts. With the voices of German Consul General Hans Gnotke, curators Lyn Halem and Bob Williams and many others.
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