Hotel City Ost

ANNA FESTIVAL (THE BERG)

by kmohandas

Anna festival, called "The Berg" is a 12 day gala beer festval held in Erlangen during end of May/early June every year. This beer festival is the second largest in Germany after the famous October festival of Munich. The festival was started in 1755 AD and was dedicated to the mountain church on the outskirts of Erlangen.
A very high quality of beer called "Bergkirchweth" is specially brewed for this festival. The people of Erlangen and from nearby towns forget every thing and enjoy the festival drinking beer and dancing till late night. Over 1 million people from all over Germany attend the fesival every year. As the festival is not so famous like "Oktoberfest", very few foreigners come for this. Many men and women come here in their traditional dress. It is nice to see women in traditionaldress called "Dirndl".
The beer is served in 1 litre traditional mugs and sold at a price of Euro 7/-. If you return the mug, you get back Euro 5/-. But the mug is worth preserving as a momento. Here you can dance to the wonderful rythem of traditional music sipping beer.

Once upon a time in ...

by kasandra_et

" Jolanta`s Party-Cellar "

Koennt ihr euch noch erinnern? ;-)
gute, alte Zeiten, gel?

from left to right:

Yakup - "my big brother" from Turkey,
Jolanta - my dear friend from Latvia,
Katja - my dear friend - "meine liebe Luza" from Russia,
Alexandre - Alex - an angel from Brasil,
and I - Aleksandra - Aleks from Poland

" Alexandrinum "

Ich glaube es war Alexandre`s Abschiedparty?

from left to right:

Christian - a friend from Germany,
Necati - Neco - my friend from Turkey,
Romana - Romi - Romeczka - my dear friend from Czech Republic,
Alexandre - my dear friend from Brasil,
I - Aleks - trying to look like an angel ;-)
in the front: Davide - my dear friend - my gemini brother - mein Zwillingbruderchen from Italy

My friends, I miss you very much!

I regret so much that I didn`t bring my Erlangen photo albums with me to the States, so that I could scan our pictures!

The important persons, which are missing on the pictures:

Annamaria - my dear friend - meine liebe Schwester, Kumpel und Mutter from Hungary,
Justyna - my dear friend, my motivation and inspiration from Poland
Milan - my dear friend - Bubasvaba from Yugoslavia

Also in my memories:

Ferhat - my gemini brother from Turkey,
Alex - a good friend from England,
Oezguer from Turkey
Alejandro from Nicaragua,
Greg from USA
Christoph from Germany,
Poliane from Brazil,
Rolf from Germany
Naeem from Pakistan,
Ross from England,
Anja from Germany,
Ralph from Germany,
Andrea (Andi) from USA,
Gillian from USA,
Jared from USA,
Ola from Poland,
Laszlo from Hungary
Ania from Poland,
Theodore from Greece

DAAD-scholarship-holders in German Philology at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen; winter semester 1998/99 :

Annamaria (Majka) from Hungary,
Ekaterina (Katja) from Russia,
Jolanta from Latvia,
Davide from Italy,
Andrzej from Poland,
Nadja from Russia,
Olga from Russia,
Natalja (Natascha) from Russia,
Johanna from Finnland,
Jirina from Czech Republik,
Lenka from Czech Republik,
Gabriela (Gabi) from Czech Republik,
Joanna (Asia) from Poland,
Anna Maria (Ania) from Poland,
Margarita (Rita) from Russia,
Julia from Russia,
Maja from Russia,
Olesja from Ukraine
and ... I from Poland :-)

Our tutor and good friend back then was Ph. D. Markus May.

I`ll always remember you!