8 February Members’ Meeting

Sunday, 10.00am followed by Frühschoppen

21 February International Cricket

Saturday , TBC Australia vs Bangladesh

25 February International Cricket

Wednesday, TBC Ireland vs UAE

28 February Fancy Dress Karneval Party

Saturday, 7.11pm Free Admission!

1 March International Cricket

Sunday, TBC Pakistan vs Zimbabwe

8 March Frühschoppen

Sunday, 11.30am

3 April Club is closed

Good Friday

4 April AFL Brisbane Lions vs Collingwood

Saturday, 6.20pm Opening times to be announced

5 April Club is closed

Easter Sunday

12 April Frühschoppen

Sunday, 11.30am

18 April AFL Brisbane Lions vs Richmond

Saturday, 7.20pm

26 April AFL Brisbane Lions vs West Coast Eagles

Sunday, 1.10pm

Upcoming events

Karneval Fancy Dress Party

in the Hall Saturday, 28 Feb 2015

7.11 pm

Bookings essential!

Book online or

Ph 3391 2091

“Zum Kaiser” Restaurant

Bookings online or

ph 3391 2091

Gift Vouchers available

DAMEN KAFFEEKLATSCH

Wir treffen uns jeden

3. Donnerstag des Monats von 11 Uhr bis

ca. 3 Uhr in der Members’ Lounge.

Für weitere Information:

Ring GERDA 3821 7340

New!! Sunday afternoon live music

with Nick Warren

Starting 1 February 2015, noon - 4pm

Celebrate

Valentines Day at the German Club

Saturday, 14 February 2015

Bookings essential!

Newsletter No 36

Brisbane Deutscher Turnverein Inc

416 Vulture St

East Brisbane QLD 4169

Phone: 07 3391 2434

Fax: 07 3391 1948

E-mail:

brisbanegermanclub@bigpond.com

www.brisbanegermanclub.com

Club Opening hours:

Monday: closed

Tues 12noon—late

Wed—Sat 11am—late

Sunday 11.30—5pm

Frühschoppen 2nd Sunday of month

Restaurant

Phone: 3391 2091

Monday: closed

Tues to Wed

12.00—2.00pm 5.00pm—8.00pm

Thurs

12.00—2.00pm 5.00pm—8.30pm

Fri/Sat

12.00—2.00pm 6.00pm—9.00pm

Sun

12.00—2.00pm

Office

Tues—Fri 9.00—5.00

President’s Report 1

Ladies Auxiliary 1

Skat Report 2

Stammtisch Group 2

Alpenrosen Report 3

Liederkranz Report 3

Treffpunkt Report 3

News from the Bar 3

Upcoming Events 4

Inside this issue:

Brisbane German Club News Letter

FEB—MARCH 2015

From the President’s Desk

On Saturday, 28 February at 7.11pm we will have our Karneval night again. An invitation has gone out to the Gold Coast Club to join us again. Last year’s Fancy Dress Party was a huge and wonder-ful night organised by the German Club’s Stammtisch Group. Looking forward to seeing you all there. Regards, Your President Horst Langer

Dear Members and Friends,

First of all, a very happy New Year to everyone. I hope you all had a good holiday. The Board of Directors has already had its first meeting of the year. We decided that the paper copy of the news-letter will be phased out by June 2016. The newsletter will be emailed out to cut postage and printing costs. Members who have no email account can collect a paper copy from the Club. Please make sure the office has your email address.

The Club’s new roof and one of the sails suffered damaged during the big hail storm. The damage is covered by insur-ance. The houses only suffered minor damage. I invite you to attend the Spe-cial Extraordinary Members’ Meeting on Sunday, 8 February at 10am followed by the Ordi-nary Members’ Meeting. We will have Frühschoppen after. Please be aware Cricket is on as well on that day. Parking will be restricted. Our first two months of the year might be a bit quiet until the Football AFL Season starts in early April again.

News from the Ladies Auxiliary/Frauengruppe

LIVE MUSIC EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT WITH ANDREW FROM 6.30PM IN THE BEER HALL

Bookings essential!!­ ­

were very excited, happy and laughed a lot during the pup-pet show. The children then all received a drink and Paula sang with them ‘Jingle Bells’ as Santa arrived and presents were dis-tributed. “Thank you Paula” for all your help. It was a great afternoon for children and parents alike. Our Member’s Christmas par-ty was well attended and we supplied all those lovely Ger-

man Christmas delights again. Thanks to all our members who were supporting us dur-ing the year by buying our raffle tickets. Hoping to see you all at our next Frühschoppen on Sun-day, 8 February 2015. On behalf of the Ladies Group, Dorit

Dear Members and Friends, Hoping you all had a good start in the New Year. At our children’s Christmas Party we had a lot of well-behaved children eager to see Santa. This year we did something different. We or-ganised a puppeteer to enter-tain them. Every child re-ceived a felt-puppet which they could decorate with a little help from Paula and then take it home. They all

Club events photos

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For information ring

Werner Simke Ph 3300 2565

Mobile 0410 118 371

Skat Report

Bei unserem Januar Skat waren 15 Spieler anwesend. Den ersten Preis erspielte sich G. Ertel mit 2764 Punkten. Weitere Platzierungen wie folgt: 2. H. Nedella 2589 Pk 3. W. Bummer 2455 Pk 4. H. Mocnik 2441 Pk 5. A. March 2175 Pk Wir spielen jeden zweiten Sonntag im Monat Preis Skat, Startzeit 11.00Uhr. Jeden zweit-

Hello Skatfreunde, Bei unserem Dezember Skat waren 14 Spieler anwesend. Den ersten Preis erspielte sich A. March mit 2895 Punkten. Weitere Platzierungen wie folgt: 2. P. Kuether 2248 Pk 3. P. Sturm 2173 Pk 4. W. Koenig 2162 Pk 5. H. Nedella 2134 Pk

en Mittwoch spielen wir in un-serem Freundschafts Skat Startzeit 14.30Uhr Gut Blatt, Werner Simke

wish for on a hot summer night? Thanks to the German Club Board’s support, our Stammtisch Karneval Party will be held in the great hall, invit-ing all 600 visiting Brisbanites from last year and more to dress up, celebrate and dance – without cover charge. And on top of it - we will raffle some great German prizes, so bring your lose change. Creativity rules since there is no common theme. Photos are taken on the night and will be published at various platforms. Don’t forget to book your table early! The Stammtisch celebrated Christmas at the German Club with a full house doing “Schrottwichteln” - exchanging

secret Santa gifts – at our De-cember Stammtisch. Everyone went home with a recycled gift and had some well deserved down time. 2015 is an exciting year for many Stammtischlers as more and more of us are obtaining their Australian citi-zenship and we hope that we’ll make many new friends at our monthly meetings. Find us in the ‘Keller’ on the first Tuesday of every month. All the best for a fantastic new year 2015! Liebe Gruesse, Claudia, Mark and Katrin brisbane_stammtisch@hotmail.com

It’s Fancy Dress Party time! We are digging out our wigs and costumes for the German so called ‘fifth season’ which we will celebrate with you at the German Club on Saturday, 28 February 2014 from 7.11pm until midnight! The German Karneval has many names, faces and tradi-tions in all German and many European regions but for Bris-bane we keep it to the basics – silly season FUN. That means: costumes for the keen ones, Karnevalmusik and German Club delicacies including food and a vast range of beers for everyone and great entertain-ment from the resident musi-cian Andrew. What more to

Stammtisch Group

Stammtisch Christmas

Want to learn

Conversational

German?

For information

ring

Sabina on

0468 890 700

Classes are nor-

mally held on

Tuesday nights

from 6.30pm-

8.00pm

Members Christmas Party

Get Well wishes to all our members who are unfortunately on the sick list; have a speedy recovery!

Gute Besserung für alle Mitglieder, die auf der Krankenliste sind.

Members Christmas Party

Choir Practice:

Tues 6.30-9.00pm

For information ring:

Karl 3848 9650

Monika 3393 0640

mkortz@optusnet.com.au

Practice:

Wed 7.30—10pm

For more information

ring

Rae Onger

3359 0260

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Christel Essebier, who will turn

80 years young.

It is always exciting when our

Conductor, Leo Keller an-

nounces the music he has cho-

sen for the new year. I heard a

rumour that it will have a Ham-

burg theme. The Choir will be

very busy practising for our

Annual Concert in July (Date

TBA in next Newsletter). We

received some sad news recent-

ly. One of our ladies in the

Choir, Heidi Read passed away

on the 2 January 2015. Our

sympathy goes to her Family.

Diana Becker, our Assistant

Secretary has decided to retire

from the Choir and take it easy

in the future. Thank you for all

your hard work over the years

and all the best.

Please join us at our choir

practice and sing along on

Tuesday evenings from 6.30-

9.00pm. at the German Club.

Monika Kortz

Dear Music Lovers, Happy New Year!!

Our Christmas Concert was

very well received by a full au-

dience on 14 December and

the following Tuesday Choir

Members enjoyed an evening

of good food and much im-

promptu singing for our end of

year break-up party. After 8

weeks recess, the Choir returns

on 10 February. On the 30

February we will celebrate a

Member’s special birthday -

Liederkranz Report

Alpenrosen Folk Dancing News

German Club Happy Hours

Tuesday to Saturday

12pm—2pm

Alpenrosen News Zum Neu-

jahr.

Hopefully everyone enjoyed

‘Ein guten Rutsch ins Neu-

jahr!’ I certainly did – complete

with snow and fireworks in

Bayern. Rae put me to work

to shop for updates for our

Trachten to have us looking

our best for the upcoming

National Tanzfest in be held in

Adelaide this Easter 2015. We

will be visited by guests from

Austria in March, before they

too join us in Adelaide. Al-

ready the team is back training

on Thursday night at the Club

– the boys and I will be back in

a few weeks to catch up!!

On behalf of the Alpenrosen

crew,

Paula (Greetings from a very

chilly Düsseldorf!)

Bar Report

Schwarz-Bier, Atlantik-Ale,

Bernstein-Weizen, Roggen-

Weizen and a Keller-Bier. We

also now carry their Strand-

Räuber “Beach Robber” Lem-

on Radler which has proven

very popular as well as their

Cherry Radler.

Tschüss, Tony

“Drinking rum before 10am

makes you a pirate not an alco-

holic” Anon.

Dear Members and Guests,

I am pleased to announce the

return of the North German

brand Störtebeker to our fridge,

filling a large hole in our geo-

graphical portfolio. There is a

Contacts:

Mario

0414294568

Lucas 0408069033

Chris

0403701637

Treffpunkt

Anyone interested in

participating in the Tenterfield

event, here are some details for

your information. Our group is

planning to go on Saturday,

7 March 2015 where the

Beerfest starts at 5pm to

midnight at the Bavarian

Beerfest Memorial Hall at

Tenterfield, featuring the

“Original Bavarian Brass Band”

from the Unter Allgäu region

of Bavaria Germany. Our

group will be staying overnight

in a motel and will organise the

car pooling to go to the event.

The cost for the tickets to

Saturday’s event will be $40.00

plus accommodation.

The group is meeting every

Thursday night from 6pm for a

game of darts in the old choir

room which now has a dart

board installed.

For future activities, watch this

space or contact Mario our

event organiser.

Next meeting will be held on

1 March 2015.

Regards,

Monika (Secretary)

Participants for the

Tenterfield’s 8th Biennial

Bavarian Music Festival &

Beerfest

From the 4—8 March 2015

For details regarding this event,

please contact Mario, Michael

or Chris.

Our Member Heidi Read

Our deepest sympathy goes to her family