1. „20 years of reunification“ -
IJP Alumni Christmas Meeting
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The British-German Bursary
The Northern European Bursary
Weimar, December 3-5, 2010

2.
IJP Alumni Christmas Meeting 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Check-in at “Dorint Hotel am Goethepark Weimar”
Location: Beethovenplatz 1-2, 99423 Weimar
Tel.: +49 / 3643 / 872-0
Fax: +49 / 3643 / 872-100
Or
Check-in at “Hotel Elephant Weimar”
Location: Markt 19, 99423 Weimar
Tel.: +49 / 3643 / 802-0
19:30 h Meeting in the Lobby Hotel “Dorint”
19:45 h Walk to the restaurant
20:00 h Welcome dinner at the restaurant “Zum Weißen Schwan”
Location: Frauentorstraße 23, 99423 Weimar
“From Schiller to Socialism. Intellectual lines in German History and their meaning in the
transformation of the East-German Society after the reunification”
Guest speaker: Prof. Dr. Lothar Ehrlich, Klassikstiftung Weimar, who will talk about
differences in reception of classics by Schiller and Goethe in East and West Germany

3.
IJP Alumni Christmas Meeting 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Breakfast
09:45 h Meeting in the Lobby “Dorint”
10:00 h City tour
Main Focus: Places of the peaceful revolution in 1989
Guided tour through Weimar in English or German
12:00 h Lunch at the restaurant “Elephantenkeller”
Location: Hotel Elephant, Markt 19, 99423 Weimar
14:00 h / Guided tour through the “Goethe-Haus”
14:30 h Location: Frauenplan 1, 99423 Weimar
Tour in English or German language
Alternative for lovers of Christmas music:
15:00 h Advent singing in the foyer of the German National Theater
Location: Deutsches Nationaltheater, Theaterplatz 2, 99423 Weimar
16:00 h Stroll over the Christmas market
Location: Frauentorstraße 23, 99423 Weimar
20:00 h Christmas dinner at the restaurant “Alt-Weimar”
Location: Prellerstraße 2, 99423 Weimar
Traditional Thuringian Christmas dinner with dumplings and roast goose
Dinner Speech: “20 years of Reunification. Inner Unity or Inner Drama?”(in German)
Guest speaker: Christoph Matschie, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Eductaton of
the Free State of Thuringia

4.
IJP Alumni Christmas Meeting 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Breakfast
Option 1:
9:15 h Meeting in the Lobby “Dorint”
9:30 h Tour through Buchenwald Memorial
Meeting point: to be announced
Visit of Buchenwald Concentration Camp and Sovjet Special Camp 2
Discussion: Differences in the reception of the Post-War period in West and East and their
meaning for the “inner reunification” 20 years down the road
(Duration: at least 2 hours)
Option 2:
9:45 h Meeting in the Lobby “Dorint”
10:00 h Bauhaus-Tour
Meeting point: to be announced
Visit of the Van-De-Velde-House where we will have a look at the office of Walter
Gropius and „Haus am Horn“, the first house built in the Bauhaus-style
(Duration: 1 hour)
12:30 h Lunch at the “Residenz-Café”
Location: Grüner Markt 4, 99423 Weimar (right next to the castle)
Individual Departure