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Castrop-Rauxel, town park
Schungelberg Housing Estate, Gelsenkirchen
Castrop-Rauxel, old town centre
Castrop-Rauxel, Erin trading estate
Old Henrichenburg Ship Lift
Schloss Beck leisure park, Bottrop
Jewish museum, Dorsten
Zollverein pit , Essen
 Zollern Colliery II/IV, Dortmund
Zollverein  Pit,  Essen
Stairway to Heaven, Gelsenkirchen
Sculpture wood, Gelsenkirchen
Lembeck moated castle
Monastery gardens at Kamp Lintfort
Rungenberg Mining Tip, Gelsenkirchen
Schungelberg Housing Estate, Gelsenkirchen
Schungelberg Housing Estate, Gelsenkirchen

If you want to know what a Ruhrgebiet working-class housing settlement was like, and how it can be modernised, you can do worse than take a walk around here. If you've any residual energy, you can then climb to the top of the Rungenberg Mining Tip (in the background) from which there is a great view of the area, including the Schalke football arena, one of the venues used in the 2006 World Cup.
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RoyThis website will introduce you to some of the activities I am involved in as a writer and translator. I have been working in theatre since 1968 when I left Drama Centre London, where I trained as an actor. Before that I read French and Italian at the University of Wales, during which time I spent a year as a teacher in St.Etienne in the Massif Central, where I wrote a BA thesis on "Jacques Copeau, Jean Dasté et La Comédie de St.Étienne". I moved to Berlin from London in 1981 after my play Stronger than Superman had opened at the GRIPS theatre. I now live in Castrop-Rauxel, a small town in the Ruhr area of NW Germany on which I have written a tourist guide entitled Tour the Ruhr. My other activities include a one-man cabaret show in German on the area, talks, lectures, theatre criticism and workshops, and I am currently preparing an exhibition of major living European poets for the RUHR.2010 cultural capital of Europe celebrations. See www.gedichte2010.de . And take part...

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Wissenschaftler und Kulturveranstalter, die ein internationales Publikum ansprechen und über die Grenzen hinaus wirken wollen, benötigen ...

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Erin park Castrop-Rauxel

[...] After she had handed over the cheque the salesman stared at the bank details for a moment, before remarking: ”Castrop-Rauxel? ...
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