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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Castrop-Rauxel, Erin trading estate
The Erin trading estate is a very attractive area designed in the style of an Irish landscape and built on the site of the old Erin colliery, founded by William Mulvany. The locals like to stroll here on Sunday afternoons: there are two artificial lakes, which attract a lot of model boats, not to speak of young swimmers when the weather gets too hot. At night the pithead tower is illuminated a radiant green. (The Irish connection!)
The Erin trading estate is a very attractive area designed in the style of an Irish landscape and built on the site of the old Erin colliery, founded by William Mulvany. The locals like to stroll here on Sunday afternoons: there are two artificial lakes, which attract a lot of model boats, not to speak of young swimmers when the weather gets too hot. At night the pithead tower is illuminated a radiant green. (The Irish connection!)
Family matters
My wife Dagmar is employed as a Wissenschaftliche Referentin at the LWL Industrial Museum in Dortmund. She is a world authority on the English Victorian Music Hall. Her book "The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and Conflict" is available from Cambridge University Press. Her other main areas of research are mining history and culture in Germany, working-class leisure in Germany, and women workers in English and German industrial areas.
I have two great daughters.
Martha (born 1987) has just graduated with a First Class BA degree in communication sciences at the University of Münster and is about to take up an MA course in Marketing at the University of Nuremberg.
Paula (born 1990) left her United World College in Norway in June 2008 and has just completed her second year at Princeton University, the second half of which she spent at Barcelona University to polish up her Spanish and learn Catalan.
For United World Colleges see: www.uwc.org .
My wife Dagmar is employed as a Wissenschaftliche Referentin at the LWL Industrial Museum in Dortmund. She is a world authority on the English Victorian Music Hall. Her book "The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and Conflict" is available from Cambridge University Press. Her other main areas of research are mining history and culture in Germany, working-class leisure in Germany, and women workers in English and German industrial areas.
I have two great daughters.
Martha (born 1987) has just graduated with a First Class BA degree in communication sciences at the University of Münster and is about to take up an MA course in Marketing at the University of Nuremberg.
Paula (born 1990) left her United World College in Norway in June 2008 and has just completed her second year at Princeton University, the second half of which she spent at Barcelona University to polish up her Spanish and learn Catalan.
For United World Colleges see: www.uwc.org .
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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Other activitiesOne of my favourite voluntary activities is providing a new poem every week for the local organic food shop “Löwenzahn” in Castrop-Rauxel. This gives me a good opportunity to get acquainted with classical German poetry..
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