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Munich Clubs & Info
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There's quite a few English & half English speaking
clubs in Munich, look in Munich English language magazines in
bars, & the international press stands at main railway
station, or ask the people at various groups, about other
groups they know of. Here's some clubs I know of (mail me about others to add):
- Deutsch-Irischer
Freundes-Kreis Bayern e.V.
- Emerald
Dancers Adult coordinator:
Simon.Woods@_ERASE_mch.sni.de
- English-Speaking
Union Bavarian Branch e.V.
- European Patent Office Irish Connection
- GEA: German English
Association
- English-Speaking
Union Bavarian Branch
- Gesellschaft Fuer Auslandskunde Not an English speaking
group, as such, but sometimes they get in a native English
speaker.
- Munich Irish
Rovers Football Club e.V.
- Munich
Business Speakers & Munich Toastmasters
On same promotional leaflet
- Gtev D'Taubnstoana
- MAPC: Munich American
Peace Committee
- MECC: Munich
Electronic & Computer Contractors Computer Group,
Bilingual, Technology's the thing here, not language.
- Mary Murray School Of Irish Dancing
- MELTA: Munich English
Language Teachers Association
- Munich
Caledonians
- Munich Dip-N-Divers Square Dance Club
- Munich
International Ski Club
- Munich Scottish
Association (Dancing)
- NIM Nicht Raucher
Initiative Muenchen
No they're not English speakers (though some may happen to
be somewhat). So why are they listed ?
If you'r likely a non smoker, & you've noticed that the
Germans are a much sicker race than the Brits & Americans
& Aussies etc: much keener to smoke themselves & all
are nearby to death, than our lot are, (& you won't be
the first to make that observation ! ) ... You may have
thought it necessary to avoid the much higher ratio of
smokers among the natives, but that needn't stop you
socialising with all locals. NIM people hate smoking too,
particularly passive smoking forced on others. They also do
outside events EG weekend walking, rather like the GEA do. I can't point at their
activities page though, ' cos they've got a Stupid web site
that doesn't change URL title when you click on a new page
(& a hard to read front page too), but if you speak
German, & are a non smoker, NIM are people you might not
seek to avoid meeting, unlike your average local native,
who's more likely to be a smoker than your average English
speaker.
- Skiers Some of
them are GEA &
Several other groups.
- Toy Town
Munich Not kiddies toys, Not active events, just boozers/
eating/ party/ anonymous web chat-ers. For Active events eg
Skiing, Walking, Mountains, Cycling, Day & Multi day
trips away etc, See at GEA though a few GEA events now
get posted on toytown too.
- Also look at list of Technical
Stammtisch dates
- Also see page 118 of New In The City 2004/2005 (Yearly
Magazine).
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Other Groups I don't know formal names of, if they even
have any. But here's some
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Linguists Stammtisch They
haven't got a web or mail list to point at (so ask
around at beer garden
group, as some members are common to both. Here's a
quote from their May 2007 venue announcement
What is the Linguists´ Stammtisch?: The
group is open to anyone working in a language-related
field - editors, interpreters, proof readers,
secretary-linguists, teachers, translators etc.
It´s an informal set-up - we meet once a month,
on a different day (Mon-Thurs) each time, and at a
different restaurant. There´s no formal agenda,
people simply come along for the chance to network
and talk shop.
- There's a "Stitch & Bitch" group Steph goes to/
organises - ask at the Linguists
Stammtisch about that.
There's also a bunch of Irish pubs, an English Pub, & an
Australian pub - ask about pubs at the Beer gardeners group (which runs all
year not just summer)..
Other Munich information
- Muenchner
Kultur-Referat (Munich cultural office)
- Tourist Office, Munich, Fremdverkehrsamt, Muenchen,
Bayern.
- Stabi: Staats-Bibliothek. (by Hugh
Casement)
Die Bayerische Staats-Bibliothek. It's a copyright library
for Bavaria, so receives a copy of every book published in
the Frei-Staat. A high proportion of the many books it buys
are in English or American. It has bound copies of many
periodicals going back to 1830 or so. Not quite on the scale
of the Bibliothèque Nationale (or even the British
Library), but still a most useful library. A reader's ticket
to it or the University Library or the library of the
Technische Universität entitles one to use the other two
as well.
- Deutsches Museum (by Hugh
Casement)
The Deutsches Museum has its own library which is the only
one I know to open on Sundays. Strong on science and
technology, of course, but also not bad for biography. It's a
reference library (non-lending), so its entire stock is
available for consultation, either on the open shelves or at
about 20 minutes' notice from the stack. No charge for using
it, but you'll need some form of identity to get in. If
you're a member of the Deutsches Museum (DM 80 p.a.) you just
show your card, which incidentally also allows self plus two
children to visit the museum any number of times in the year,
so anyone with technology-hungry sons would find it pays for
itself. The Deutsches Museum has a very fine collection of
musical instruments, and gives recitals on Sunday mornings:
no additional charge. Recently re-opened section on Bridges
and Canals
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Universities
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The 2 state owned Universities:
- TUM: Technical University of Munich
- LMU: Ludwig Maximillian University. Main building
is at Geschwister Scholl Platz near U-Bahn (subway)
station "Universitaet" (U3/U6).
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Others
- The University of Maryland Munich Campus used to
exist (maybe still does?).
- There are some private Universities, mainly
business schools. These are often listed in "Munich
Found" magazine. One is maybe "Munich Business
College".
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