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Current Events Berlin

Harvard Club Event in Berlin: Fireside Chat with Dr. Gregor Schmitz

The Harvard Club of Berlin invites members of the Ivy Circleto the Fireside Chat – “Turning Point. In the World. In the United States? In Germany ?” with Dr. Gregor Peter Schmitz scheduled for Wednesday, 28 May 28, at 18:30 at the Marriott Hotel on Potsdamer Platz. in Berlin.

About Dr. Gregor Peter Schmitz:

Gregor Peter Schmitz, born in 1975, is Chairman of the editor-in-chiefs of STERN, GEO and Capital. He is also responsible for the joint digital offering Stern +. A lawyer and political scientist with degrees from Cambridge and Harvard began his professional career as head of the Brussels office of the Bertelsmann Foundation. He spent six years as SPIEGEL’s USA correspondent in Washington before he took over as European correspondent in Brussels. After heading the capital city office of “WirtschaftsWoche” in Berlin, Schmitz spent four years as editor-in-chief of the “Augsburger Allgemeine”, one of the highest-circulation and most-cited German daily newspapers.

He has received numerous awards for his journalistic work, including the Henri Nannen Prize, the Theodor Wolff Prize, the Arthur F. Burns Prize and several times as “Editor-in-Chief of the Year”. His first book, “Wetten auf Europa: Gespräche mit George Soros” published by Random House, was a SPIEGEL bestseller and was translated into numerous languages. Schmitz is a regular guest on national and international TV and radio programs, such as Markus Lanz, Anne Will, Maischberger, the Presseclub, Deutschlandfunk and the BBC. At the end of 2022, after his first year as the new editor-in-chief at STERN he has been awarded by both a 100-member jury of the “Medium Magazin” as well as by the trade magazine Kress as “Editor-in-Chief of the Year”.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you at our Fireside Chat!

Tickets: Members & partners: 25 € p.p.

Non-Members: 35 € p.p.

Soft drinks and finger food are included.

Registration here: Registration Link

Payment options:

  1. Transfer: Please transfer the ticket to the account: 

Harvard University Alumni Club of Berlin e.V.

IBAN: DE33 1007 0848 0036 7532 00

BIC: DEUTDEDB110

Reference: your name & Gregor Schmitz

  1. Paypal: frohn@pwwl.de  family and friends

Reference: your name & Gregor Schmitz

This promises to be a great event.

Cheers!
Carl Kruse
Ivy Circle Berlin

Current Events Berlin

Ivy Circle Berlin Stammtisch

by Carl Kruse

The Ivy Circle Berlin Stammtisch takes place every first Tuesday of the month.

Its current location is at the lobby bar of the TELEGRAPHENAMT HOTEL, located at Monbijoustr. 11 in central Berlin.   We meet there from 6pm-9pm with the next Stammtisch slated for June 3, 2025.

 Our Stammtischs have been beautiful gatherings.

Cash bar and complimentary wine. while it lasts.

The TELEGRAPHENAMT dates from 1910 and was formerly Berlin’s main telegraph center and widely considered Germany’s most elaborate postal building.  It has been beautifully repurposed as a hotel.

Come meet old and new friends alike.

While the last three Stammtischs have taken place at the Telegraphenamt, we expect to rotate the Stammtisch location through various locations in Berlin. Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, see you at the TELEGRAPHENAMT on Tuesday!

Cheers,
Carl Kruse
Ivy Circle Berlin

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Former events include Champagne and Art with Jade Cassidy, and the Boros Bunker Sammlung Tour.

Current Events Berlin

Theater Reading Group in Berlin

by Carl Kruse

Niraj Welikala, a member of both the Oxford and Cambridge alumni societies in Berlin, founded a play-reading and theater group in Berlin last summer and is looking to expand the group to fellow thespians and those who love the theater.

The group’s objective is recreational play reading and perhaps putting on a production one day.  Details from Niraj below. You can contact Niraj directly at niraj.welikala@gmail.com or fellow co-founder Nigel Luhman at nigel@luhman.de

Cheers,
Carl Kruse
Ivy Circle

P.S. Carl Kruse ia also involved with Renselear Polytechnic Institute’s Milkyway@Home project.

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An Actor Prepares…

Calling actors and theatre enthusiasts!

We are a play reading group (in English), originally formed from members of the Oxford and Cambridge alumni clubs in Berlin and we are looking for new people to join us. We meet every 2 weeks on a weekday evening from 6-8 pm (usually on a Monday) at the Theaterhaus Mitte Berlin (https://www.theaterhaus-berlin.com/).

We aim to select and read a diverse range of plays. Plays we’ve read so far include Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, J. B. Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’,  ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ and we are currently in the middle of ‘The Crucible’.  We usually start with a few minutes of warm-up exercises. During the reading, we switch characters to give people a chance to explore different roles and also experiment with different acting and directing techniques.

The play readings are meant to be recreational although we hope to put on a production as well. We have a range of experience in the group (from little or no experience to some with years of acting and directing experience). If you are interested, please email Nigel or Niraj mentioning any previous acting experience (but this is not required) and we will send you more details including our WhatsApp group that we use to organise readings. You are welcome to come to a session and see if it’s for you.

Hope to see you there!

Niraj, Nigel, Kaya and Justin 

The Berlin Play Reading Group committee