GA English on Sunday News in Brief from Bonn and the region
BONN · There’s hope for Bonn’s opera to be fully operable by 2020 again, a traditional bar is being turned into a new carnival meeting place, the entire teaching staff of a vocational college for physiotherapists has resigned, the ADFC turned parking spaces into a living room and the Akademische Kunstmuseum had to be closed indefinitely due to a weak roof - here’s our news in brief on Sunday.
There’s hope: Opera to be fully restored for Beethoven anniversary
BONN. The future of the opera in Bonn wasn’t clear, but, by the Beethoven anniversary year 2020, it is planned to be fully restored and operating. The city council is investing to repair particularly serious deficiencies. „After the summer break 2019 we will have finished with most of the works“, says head of cultural affairs, Martin Schumacher, who will be in office until the end of November. 7.25 million Euro will be spent for repair works, almost half of that amount (3.4 million Euro) will be used to reconstruct the stage machinery. Other important priorities will be the fire protection in the building.
(Original text: Andreas Baumann)
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Traditional bar in Bonn: The „Elefant“ is getting ready for carnival
BONN. The traditional bar „Gequetschte“ is being turned into the „Elefant“. Located in the Sternstraße, it used to be a major meeting spot during carnival season. Even with a new name and after some renovations the owners still want to be ready for the opening of the carnival season on November 11, they plan for it to be more of a restaurant than a pub. „We would like to be ready just before carnival“, says Oliver Diaz. But the building works schedule determines the re-opening date.
(Original text: Holger Willcke)
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Colossal trouble at the Rheinkolleg: Entire teaching staff resigns
MECKENHEIM. After manipulations in the state examination at the Meckenheim college for physiotherapy, the vocational teachers have resigned collectively. The teachers want to found a new school. The authorities are investigating matters in relation to one former lecturer. The new school is supposed to be called „Eurofisiomed“ and will be located at the Meckenheim Heidestraße in the business park Kottenforst.
(Original text: Mario Quadt)
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„Park(ing) Days“ in Bonn: ADFC turns parking spaces in Beuel into a living room
BONN. For the initiative „Park(ing) Days“ as part of the European Mobility Week two parking spaces at the Konrad-Adenauer-Platz were turned into a living room on Friday. The ADFC wanted to create attention to their request to turn inner cities into areas for humans instead of cars. According to the organisers, a car is parked for 23 hours a day on average and blocks 11.5 square meters of valuable city space.
(Original text: Stefan Hermes)
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Weak roof: Akademisches Kunstmuseum closed with immediate effect
BONN. As if the Bonn people didn’t have enough calamities amongst their public buildings at the moment, more bad news occurred on Friday. The Akademische Kunstmuseum was closed indefinitely due to its weak roof. In a conversation with the GA newspaper, BLB press spokesperson Frank Buch said: „Theroetically it is possible that parts of the roof could fall down.“ Due to safety reasons, the adjoining middle section of the building has been closed too.
(Original text: Rüdiger Franz; Translation: Mareike Graepel)
