Saturday, October 17, 2015

German Ambassador knows it's better late than never

The German Ambassador to Ireland Matthias Höpfner and his wife Christina, held a reception yesterday at their residence at Danesfield, Seaview Terrace in celebration of 25 years of German unity.

October 3 is the Day of German Unity but the ambassador was unable to mark the day as he was back in Germany celebrating his mother's 100th birthday.

On display in the garden were pictures capturing the events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of  the country.

There was also a collage of personalities and events which are considered 'typically German'.

German food and German wine was served.

Among the guests at the event were Minister for Communications and Dublin South TD Alex White, and the Papal Nuncio, Charles Brown.


4 comments:

Andreas said...

I often get ask what typical German food is - so i'm really wondering what they have served on that reception? Was it 'Sauerkraut' ;-)?

I have sometimes the feeling that German officials are very shy in showing their cultural routes - German history starts usually after WW2 without showing what was before!

Michael Commane said...
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Michael Commane said...

Probably nothing 'typical' of any place or any person. Spätzle may not be 'typical' German, but it's as close as you get to that 'nice typical;' German 'thing'. Or is it?

What about 'German song and German wine' in Das Deutschlandlied? And that's away before WW2? Didn't see any 'Suaerkraut". DId see one or two people with a different Weltanschauung than I.

Andreas said...

You are right, Spätzle is a typical food down from the south (schwäbisch).

There is for instance nothing in the chancellery (which looks like a washing machine designed from a spanish architect) which remembers of the German history before WW2 like statues, monuments or paintings. I'm suprised that they didn't put Mc Donald's into it, ha ha!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQB9A6YhSJg

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