Cultural Activities in Berlin

Experience Berlin!

TANDEM Berlin is here to help you discover at first hand the new Berlin and the special sides of this fascinating city!

Experience Berlin through TANDEM and, in addition to our summer courses, you are automatically enrolled on a cultural program which includes seminars on history, architecture, art and other relevant topics here in the German capital. Together we'll visit Berlin's well-known (and some not so well-known) attractions, attend cultural events, and enjoy a few surprises we have planned as well! These activities take place 3 times a week.

Our intensive cultural program takes place only during the summer. From September to June there are only individual activities such as theatre visits and excursions twice a month.

What's happening in Berlin?

Culture, Events, Nightlife and more:

• Karneval der Kulturen - Three day party! The Love Parade is gone - no problem. In its place is a three day parade of people, music and costumes from all corners of the world!
• Zitty Magazine - The online version of Berlin's bi-weekly city magazine with a complete list of events in Berlin.
• Kulturbrauerei - A former brewery (only 100m from TANDEM) was transformed into a huge cultural and event centre. Every week concerts, parties and more.
• Berlinale - The International Berlin Film Festival in February

Cultural Activities in Bremen

Learning a new language also means learning about a different culture and way of life. That's why we organize a wide range of activities to allow you to obtain deeper insight into the German way of life and give you a chance to get to know Bremen and the surrounding countryside.

All German Intensive Courses are complimented by an interesting leisure program that includes films, theatre, museums, exhibitions and city tours.

Language, culture and lifestyle contribute to one unit. Therefore, we organize a wide variety of cultural activities during the intensive and summer courses, such as:

• Excursions to Hamburg
• Visits to different museums
• Visits to the companies Airbus and/or DaimlerChrysler
• Tours of the pubs and bars in Bremen
• Sightseeing program
• Summer party
• Barbecue at the Werdersee
• Trip to the coast and the beach
• Film evenings

Bremen is an ideal starting point to set off to the North Sea Isles, to Hamburg, Lübeck, Lüneburg, the Netherlands or Denmark.

Cultural Activities in Hamburg

There's so much more to language learning than just learning German in a classroom situation. We are giving you the full package. Experience Hamburg and the Hamburgians during our cultural program in the afternoons and evenings. We are taking you to museums, art exhibitions, on guided walks, pub-crawls and outings to the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and other places of interest, as for example the old Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Our Culture Program with its wide range of activities takes place every week; as many activities are led in German, they give you further opportunity to practice and improve your knowledge of the language.

All activities are structured and guided by a TANDEM Hamburg «specialist» – come along and meet her!

Here's a quick glance to give you some idea of what we offer:

• Walk from the historical Fish Market in St. Pauli along the river Elbe to Jenischpark, picnic, football, etc.
• Guided sight seeing tour by bus, stopovers at interesting sites, followed by a walk through the old tunnel under the river Elbe (built in 1911) to the free port and back.
• «Town Quiz Hamburg-Altona»
• The students are solving tasks in town in small groups, and are getting to know this part of Hamburg with a guided walk and talk on the history of the two «sisters» Hamburg and Altona.
• The pub scene in St. Pauli and Altona – pub quiz, disco and live music. See the Große Freiheit, where the Fab Four started their career.
• Visit to one of Hamburg´s major football clubs FC St. Pauli or Hamburger Sportverein (HSV).
• Visit to Hamburg´s main theatre «Schauspielhaus», with a view behind the stage and curtains.
• Guided excursion to the concentration camp memorial of Neuengamme and its outpost at the school «Schule am Bullenhuser Damm».

Accommodation Options in Munich

The most effective way to learn a foreign language is to live in the country and talk with native speakers - in this case, with Germans in Germany! This is why we offer participants in our German Intensive Courses the opportunity to stay with local people in their city homes. These living arrangements will get the student involved in everyday German life.

Our homestay flats and houses are all centrally located - a maximum of 30 minutes' commuting time from the school; some flats are only a few minutes walk from the school. Students have there their own fully furnished room (with bedding) and the use of a shared kitchen and bathroom.

Students are expected to arrive at their accommodation on the Sunday before the start of the course and leave on the Saturday after the end of the course. The rooms are inspected and regularly controlled by the secretary in charge of student accommodation.