The promotion courses serve as an optimal training supplement alongside regular club training. For those whose training with their team in their club is not sufficient and would like to attend an additional training session, the promotion courses are just right. Currently, we offer the promotion courses exclusively for field players.

In our field player promotion courses, our licensed coaches focus on improving your ball control and ball movement under opponent pressure and time constraints. We teach you dribbling as an essential element to create and exploit numerical advantages, to create goal-scoring opportunities, or to free yourself from pressure situations and keep the ball securely within your own team. Dribbling, in all its facets, is increasingly important in today's modern football.

In addition to dribbling and ball control, we also teach you the technical elements of passing and first ball touch.

To properly apply all technical skills, we develop your spatial awareness and decision-making ability, so that you not only have technical but also tactical solutions at hand to effectively deal with even the most challenging situations.

Age restriction: Children between 6 and 14 years old
Participation fee per session: 15 Euros
Training times: Friday 15:00 - 16:30
Training location: Sportpark Höhenberg

For a promotion course to take place, a minimum of five children from the respective age groups of F/E/D youth is required!

During school holidays, promotion courses will not take place due to our holiday camps.

A brand new Original & Fälschung city tour with true and false stories about none other than Trude Herr! This is my tour number 10, meeting point Overstolzenhaus, the next bus and train stop is the Heumarkt stop. It is planned that we will end at the Severinstorburg, but this is only one hundred percent certain shortly before the first tour, because the old hands among you know that I like to let the stories carry me along....

City tour with a twist: During your smartphone-guided scavenger hunt, you'll puzzle over a few riddles along the way. And after solving each question or task, you'll receive interesting information about the corresponding safari station.

By the way: During your tour, you should aim to hunt down as many safari points as possible. So, every shot counts! Um... we meant, of course: Every answer counts!

Your route will take you to various safari stations. Along the way, you'll discover not only historical sites but also sights and hotspots off the beaten tourist paths. The Safari team has made sure that you'll encounter a few surprises along the way!

Find out in a fun and amusing way new and astonishing things about your city. Here, you'll get exciting insights beyond the classic sightseeing tours and learn interesting facts about your Safari-City on the side.

By the way: The Safari is available 24/7, all year round and lasts approximately 90 minutes.

A fabulous piece for children aged 3 and above about the wonderful diversity of all animals and humans and the connecting power of music. Everyone contributes: the loud, the quiet, the big, the small, the fast, and the not quite so fast.

Donkey Fridolin and squirrel Eische are good friends. Today, like every Wednesday, they have arranged to meet in the forest to play. But Eische doesn't feel like running, hiding, or playing anything else they usually play. No, today they will make music, with a real band! But who gets to play in the band? Perhaps the mute cricket or the slow chicken? This can sometimes lead to arguments in the supposedly peaceful forest. Could the reclusive mole turn out to be a real rock star, or might one discover what surprise is hidden in each animal?

Cast: Thandiwe Braun, Joachim Uerschels, and Jenny Winkler
Duration: Approx. 40 minutes

Admittance from 2:15 PM

The children want to rock! HEAVYSAURUS are four dinosaurs and a dragon who bring rock music for the whole family to the stage - a real live experience with child-friendly lyrics and a bombastic show. In February 2024, a new album will be released, and the band will embark on a big "POMMESGABEL TOUR"!

Once again, HEAVYSAURUS offers powerful riffs, great melodies, and catchy drum beats that the little (or big) listeners can sing, dance, and go wild to as they please. Real rock music, sometimes wild, sometimes gentle, with lyrics made specifically for the littlest biggest fans. The first taste has already arrived with the single "Luna - unser Hund," with the next song "Flugsaurier" to follow at the end of July.

Four dinos and a dragon, with real instruments on a grand stage, featuring light shows, fog, showers of sparks, balloons, and confetti. And of course, with the songs that many kids (and parents) can already sing along to like "Kaugummi ist mega," "Stark wie ein Tiger," and of course "Rarrr," the battle cry of the dinos that many laughing mouths eagerly shout out loud. All five green-scaled musicians are also looking forward to finally playing new songs from the "POMMESGABEL" album.

Doors open: 2:00 PM

'Furzipups, the Rumbling Dragon' is a brilliantly rhymed dragon adventure by cult author and songwriter Kai Lüftner and illustrator Wiebke Rauers, perfect for singing along, laughing, and wanting to watch again and again. The two wonderfully comically address taboo topics like farting, burping, and belching, making them "socially acceptable".

Marcel Höfs has written the stage adaptation and directs the piece with music by Matthias Kaufmann, not only for audiences aged 3 and above but for the whole family.

Crazy Freilach - Klezmer Ensemble
Simon Boos - Clarinet, Emma Fridman - Violin, Julian Hilgert - Guitar, Daniel Hessel - Double Bass, Jeannine Engelen - Vocals

The five Leverkusen musicians have been carrying the passion of Klezmer music within them for two decades. With great enthusiasm, they dedicate themselves to contemporary Klezmer music and Yiddish singing, with the aim of keeping this fantastic musical "Yerushe" (Yiddish for heritage) of Eastern European Jews alive. Several concert tours to Israel, regular performances at the Leverkusen Jazz Days, as well as collaborations with WDR and the Philharmonie Köln have made the quintet known nationwide and allow the audience to experience the diverse facets of this dreamy and captivating music.
Photo: Crazy Freilach © Marc Schelwat

The Polish Institute Düsseldorf, the National Library of Poland in Warsaw, and the Foundation House of History in Bonn invite you to the presentation of Paweł Bownik's "The Urn." The event will start to commemorate the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising 80 years ago on August 1, 2024 at the House of History.

August 1 to December 1, 2024

Lounge, House of History Bonn, Willy-Brandt-Allee 14, 53113 Bonn

Paweł Bownik's work consists of a large-format photograph of an urn containing the ashes of books from the Krasiński Library in Warsaw that were set on fire. German occupation forces destroyed this library - along with many other cultural institutions - after the capitulation of the Warsaw Uprising in October 1944. The urn is now displayed in a glass case in a room of the reconstructed Krasiński Palace in Warsaw, a branch of the National Library of Poland. The remains cannot be clearly identified, making the urn a symbolic monument to all books, archives, and collections destroyed during the war.

Movements and vibrations contribute to the slow decay of the urn and its contents. In the photograph, Bownik captures the state of this ephemeral monument and symbolically protects it from further decay. The urn and its contents, through photography, become a new, more permanent object.

The presentation will be accompanied by a 3-minute film featuring statements from Dr. Tomasz Makowski, Director of the National Library in Warsaw, and the artist Paweł Bownik.

On November 28, 2024, at 6:00 p.m., an artist talk with Paweł Bownik and a panel discussion on the theme "Remembering Culture 80 Years Later" will take place. The discussion will involve Dr. Jacek Kordel, Head of the Library and Reading History Laboratory at the National Library of Poland, Warsaw, Prof. Dr. Anke Hilbrenner, Historian, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and Prof. Dr. Katja Makhotina, Historian, Göttingen/Bonn. Dr. Magdalena Gebala from the German Cultural Forum Eastern Europe will moderate the event, which is part of the accompanying program for the rotating exhibition "After Hitler. Germany's Confrontation with National Socialism."

Presentation in the Lounge: August 1 to December 1, 2024, www.hdg.de

Opening hours: Tue-Fri 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sat, Sun, Holidays 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

See www.hdg.de

Finally: WDR2 Lachen Live is back! With the new program "The 90s Comedy Show," the WDR2-Gag-Street-Boys from the radio are switching from the airwaves to the stage: Tobias Brodowy and Uli Winters (the creators of the "Ampel-WG") and Henning Bornemann (Lurch-Peter Hansen). And: they have invited GUESTS! In Bonn, Barbara Ruscher will be there along with Live-Music-Comedy by Dr. Pop! Laughing about the 90s - until the Tamagotchi explodes!

 

www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr2/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungstermine/90er-comedy-show118.html

The Polish Institute Düsseldorf, the National Library of Poland in Warsaw, and the Foundation House of History in Bonn invite you to the presentation of Paweł Bownik's "The Urn." The event will start to commemorate the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising 80 years ago on August 1, 2024 at the House of History.

August 1 to December 1, 2024

Lounge, House of History Bonn, Willy-Brandt-Allee 14, 53113 Bonn

Paweł Bownik's work consists of a large-format photograph of an urn containing the ashes of books from the Krasiński Library in Warsaw that were set on fire. German occupation forces destroyed this library - along with many other cultural institutions - after the capitulation of the Warsaw Uprising in October 1944. The urn is now displayed in a glass case in a room of the reconstructed Krasiński Palace in Warsaw, a branch of the National Library of Poland. The remains cannot be clearly identified, making the urn a symbolic monument to all books, archives, and collections destroyed during the war.

Movements and vibrations contribute to the slow decay of the urn and its contents. In the photograph, Bownik captures the state of this ephemeral monument and symbolically protects it from further decay. The urn and its contents, through photography, become a new, more permanent object.

The presentation will be accompanied by a 3-minute film featuring statements from Dr. Tomasz Makowski, Director of the National Library in Warsaw, and the artist Paweł Bownik.

On November 28, 2024, at 6:00 p.m., an artist talk with Paweł Bownik and a panel discussion on the theme "Remembering Culture 80 Years Later" will take place. The discussion will involve Dr. Jacek Kordel, Head of the Library and Reading History Laboratory at the National Library of Poland, Warsaw, Prof. Dr. Anke Hilbrenner, Historian, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and Prof. Dr. Katja Makhotina, Historian, Göttingen/Bonn. Dr. Magdalena Gebala from the German Cultural Forum Eastern Europe will moderate the event, which is part of the accompanying program for the rotating exhibition "After Hitler. Germany's Confrontation with National Socialism."

Presentation in the Lounge: August 1 to December 1, 2024, www.hdg.de

Opening hours: Tue-Fri 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sat, Sun, Holidays 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

See www.hdg.de

The promotion courses serve as an optimal training supplement alongside regular club training. For those whose training with their team in their club is not sufficient and would like to attend an additional training session, the promotion courses are just right. Currently, we offer the promotion courses exclusively for field players.

In our field player promotion courses, our licensed coaches focus on improving your ball control and ball movement under opponent pressure and time constraints. We teach you dribbling as an essential element to create and exploit numerical advantages, to create goal-scoring opportunities, or to free yourself from pressure situations and keep the ball securely within your own team. Dribbling, in all its facets, is increasingly important in today's modern football.

In addition to dribbling and ball control, we also teach you the technical elements of passing and first ball touch.

To properly apply all technical skills, we develop your spatial awareness and decision-making ability, so that you not only have technical but also tactical solutions at hand to effectively deal with even the most challenging situations.

Age restriction: Children between 6 and 14 years old
Participation fee per session: 15 Euros
Training times: Friday 15:00 - 16:30
Training location: Sportpark Höhenberg

For a promotion course to take place, a minimum of five children from the respective age groups of F/E/D youth is required!

During school holidays, promotion courses will not take place due to our holiday camps.

Germany's most famous literary critic takes us on a literary journey through the highs and lows of the German reading landscape: In his new book, Denis Scheck fearlessly passes judgment on the SPIEGEL bestseller lists of the last 20 years: Which books are annoying time-wasters, and which are joyful companions? Scheck's Bestsellerbibel teaches how to distinguish chaff from wheat, swine from pearls – and establishes the Ten Commandments of Reading. From the question of how to fall in love with a book to the significance of literature in times of loneliness.

Admission: 7:30 PM

The event is unfortunately canceled.

City tour with a twist: During your smartphone-guided scavenger hunt, you'll puzzle over a few riddles along the way. And after solving each question or task, you'll receive interesting information about the corresponding safari station.

By the way: During your tour, you should aim to hunt down as many safari points as possible. So, every shot counts! Um... we meant, of course: Every answer counts!

Your route will take you to various safari stations. Along the way, you'll discover not only historical sites but also sights and hotspots off the beaten tourist paths. The Safari team has made sure that you'll encounter a few surprises along the way!

Find out in a fun and amusing way new and astonishing things about your city. Here, you'll get exciting insights beyond the classic sightseeing tours and learn interesting facts about your Safari-City on the side.

By the way: The Safari is available 24/7, all year round and lasts approximately 90 minutes.

'Furzipups, the Rumbling Dragon' is a brilliantly rhymed dragon adventure by cult author and songwriter Kai Lüftner and illustrator Wiebke Rauers, perfect for singing along, laughing, and wanting to watch again and again. The two wonderfully comically address taboo topics like farting, burping, and belching, making them "socially acceptable".

Marcel Höfs has written the stage adaptation and directs the piece with music by Matthias Kaufmann, not only for audiences aged 3 and above but for the whole family.

The Polish Institute Düsseldorf, the National Library of Poland in Warsaw, and the Foundation House of History in Bonn invite you to the presentation of Paweł Bownik's "The Urn." The event will start to commemorate the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising 80 years ago on August 1, 2024 at the House of History.

August 1 to December 1, 2024

Lounge, House of History Bonn, Willy-Brandt-Allee 14, 53113 Bonn

Paweł Bownik's work consists of a large-format photograph of an urn containing the ashes of books from the Krasiński Library in Warsaw that were set on fire. German occupation forces destroyed this library - along with many other cultural institutions - after the capitulation of the Warsaw Uprising in October 1944. The urn is now displayed in a glass case in a room of the reconstructed Krasiński Palace in Warsaw, a branch of the National Library of Poland. The remains cannot be clearly identified, making the urn a symbolic monument to all books, archives, and collections destroyed during the war.

Movements and vibrations contribute to the slow decay of the urn and its contents. In the photograph, Bownik captures the state of this ephemeral monument and symbolically protects it from further decay. The urn and its contents, through photography, become a new, more permanent object.

The presentation will be accompanied by a 3-minute film featuring statements from Dr. Tomasz Makowski, Director of the National Library in Warsaw, and the artist Paweł Bownik.

On November 28, 2024, at 6:00 p.m., an artist talk with Paweł Bownik and a panel discussion on the theme "Remembering Culture 80 Years Later" will take place. The discussion will involve Dr. Jacek Kordel, Head of the Library and Reading History Laboratory at the National Library of Poland, Warsaw, Prof. Dr. Anke Hilbrenner, Historian, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and Prof. Dr. Katja Makhotina, Historian, Göttingen/Bonn. Dr. Magdalena Gebala from the German Cultural Forum Eastern Europe will moderate the event, which is part of the accompanying program for the rotating exhibition "After Hitler. Germany's Confrontation with National Socialism."

Presentation in the Lounge: August 1 to December 1, 2024, www.hdg.de

Opening hours: Tue-Fri 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sat, Sun, Holidays 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

See www.hdg.de

Benefit evening "Kabarett macht Schule" for the Kölner Förderschule Kolkrabenweg
Dagmar Schönleber – Sabine Domogala – Robert Griess – Torsten Schlosser – Sandra Niggemann

Since 2003, the support association of the Lions Club Köln-Laetitia e.V. has been organizing an annual cabaret benefit event. Following a tried-and-true concept, the motto this year is again "Kabarett macht Schule," and the following renowned artists present the best entertainment for every taste:

- Dagmar Schönleber - Clever cabaret with heart, attitude, and joy in silliness
- Sabine Domogala - Quirky cabaret of the highest class
- Robert Griess - Triple-A cabaret: Current. Absurd. Outrageous.
- Torsten Schlosser - Absurd comedy and stage anarchy delivered bluntly

The event will be hosted by Sandra Niggemann with "pediatric cabaret."

The proceeds go to the Förderschule Geistige Entwicklung Kolkrabenweg e.V. in Köln-Vogelsang.

Doors open at 6:45 PM