UOW celebrates GerMANY connections
22 May 2008 | Nick Hartgerink
Bavarian beer tasting, a presentation on flesh-eating disease and a discussion with the daughter of a German counter-intelligence officer who was executed for attempted assassination of Hitler will head up a program of events highlighting connections between German culture and research and the University of Wollongong.
German Consul General Dr Guenter Gruber will officially open the event, which will run from noon until early evening on Friday (May 23).
GerMANY Innovations will begin with an open discussion with author Wibke Bruhns, who was the first female journalist to present the evening news in Germany.
The discussion will cover Bruhns’ book My Father's Country, which follows her private and reporting life and covers her discovery that her father, counter-intelligence officer HG Klamroth, was executed in 1945 for high treason related to the attempted assassination of the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
GerMANY Innovations is a joint initiative of the German Consulate, German industry and cultural organisations and the University of Wollongong. The mix of serious and social events on the program is designed to allow students, staff and the general Illawarra community to get involved.
Organisers hope that the event will bring industry, the University and the local community together and provide job opportunities and scholarships for students at UOW.
Three UOW researchers who are working with German industry partners will present mini lectures, including Professor Mark Walker, whose research looks at flesh-eating disease and has significant collaborations with the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany.
In the evening there will be trade displays involving German companies including Siemans, Volkswagon and Lufthansa, followed by Bavarian beer and food tasting and music. The evening will wrap up with a screening of the German film Goodbye, Lenin!
For a full program of events visit germany.uow.edu.au
Media Please Note
Author Wibke Bruhns’ discussion will be held at 12.00pm in the Moot Court (McKinnon Building). The Official Opening of GerMANY Innovations will take place at 1.30pm in the McKinnon Building, room 104.
Further information: Contact coordinator Dr Melissa Thompson on (02) 4221 3512 or 0403 525 684 (m.)
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