Rheine. Visitors to the “Europanacht” can experience a “fairytale” evening next Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Falkenhof. The European Fairytale Society, the music school and culture award winners Otto Pötter and Strauhspier will be organizing the long evening in the Bürgersaal. Beforehand, however, Michelle Adam from the Falkenhof Museum invites you to a short guided tour at 6:30 pm. Her topic: “Europe on the table”
Whether pizza, oranges or haddock: today we can buy goods from all over Europe in the supermarket every day. They enrich our diet and are particularly popular with us. This makes you wonder whether there was already an international exchange of goods in the 18th and 19th centuries. This can be proven by the history of the Morrien family. On her guided tour of parts of the Falkenhof, Michell Adam presents the family’s glassware and tableware that was used in the Falkenhof centuries ago and was produced in many different European countries.
At 7.30 pm, this will be followed by a “Fairytale Hour with Music” in the Falkenhof’s Bürgersaal. The European Fairytale Society and the music school Rheine invite you to attend. As always, storyteller Christel Bücksteeg promises an exciting evening of storytelling, enriched by the string orchestra and the recorder ensemble “Alegria”.
At 9 p.m., it’s also time for “Drinnkieken uohne antekloppen -Strauhspier sägg’n hiärtlick Willkuemmen!” in the Bürgersaal. Friends of Low German language and music are familiar with the award-winning “three straws”, which all those who don’t want to let the Low German language die cling to. Even after more than 40 years of stage experience, the group has not lost its love of the Low German language and making music. As Nikolaus Evers says, the audience has grown with the group over the years and today they connect generations with each other. But who doesn’t like the “tragicomic banality, the stories about love, lust and kale”.
Life coach and writer Otto Pötter, who observes and describes our everyday life, our society and the times, has written a poem especially for this evening. “Europe” is the title of his thoughts on the present day and gives us courage for the future that Europe can guarantee us