Our “Social Evening” looked as colourful as this

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At first the Dutch participants with their interesting action-ideas and -experiences built a transition between the mere listening to the country-reports before and our home made culture program after. Then the social evening started:

  • A party game to move the limbs, with Yan-Christoph Pelz.
  • Two songs by the famous international Conference Choir under the direction of  Gudrun Rehmann at the piano:
  • Psalm 58 by Cornelius Becker / Heinrich Schütz, 16th century, and
  • The Ruins of Berlin by Friedrich Holländer, 1945.
  • Singers: Irene Auerbach, Gertie Brammer, Alan Gamble, Henriette Naehring, Yan-Christoph Pelz, Larry Rosenwald, Katharina Rottmayr, Brunhilde Stötzner, Wolfgang Steuer und Bernhard Willner.
  • Different songs with all participants under the direction of the German/US-American guitar-duo Friedrich Heilmann and Alan Gamble.
  • A cabaret interlude: recitation of the text The General by Georg Kreisler,
  • a Viennese cabaret artist between the two world wars.
  • Recitation: Gertie Brammer; at the piano: Gudrun Rehmann.
  • Recitation of the text: An adventure of someone who lives with very few money, written and recited by Gudrun Rehmann in German and English.
  • A quiz about the history of Belgium, designed and performed by Jan Hellebaut, Hilde Mariên and Dirk Panhuis.

Afterwards some people sang to their heart's content at the guitar of Bart Horemann, whereas others discussed in small groups over more or less fermented fruit and cereal juices, among them donated organic wine from Heidelberg.