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Osnabrück: Hops,malt and yeast. And much more...

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Tagungs- und Kongressbüro Osnabrück – Marketing und Tourismus GmbH
Tel. 0541 323-3074
Fax 0541 323-2709
E-Mail: kongressbuero@osnabrueck.de
www.osnabrueck.de

Culinary Night-watchman patrol. In 1913 when the last nightwatchman made his rounds through the city, a nearly 250-year-old tradition ended. For a few years now, the night-watchman patrols have again been wandering through the dark streets and presenting Osnabrück to you in candlelight. These city tours by night are provided with culinary stations according to your wishes – have the courses of your meal at three different locations or surprise your participants simply with a warming drink in a historic fortified tower.Your night-watchman escorts you and knows the most exciting stories about all the places in the old part of the city.

Backstage. Theatre, opera, dance – the numerous stages of Osnabrück leave nothing to be desired. The municipal theatre has two venues, the off-scene presents puppet and improvisation theatre as well as contemporary pieces and own productions. If you want to be more than only spectator, talk to us about your personal bill of fare. Take a glance behind the scenes, get a taste of the props, talk to actors and directors, follow a rehearsal? In Osnabrück, dreams come true!

Cooking event deluxe. At the beginning, in an informal atmosphere, there is an aperitif and finger food.After donning aprons and chef’s hats, the participants create their own deluxe menu under competent guidance. For each step of the preparation, there are valuable tips and informations on the ingredients. That the finest ingredients, professional equipment and a glass of wine are included goes without saying. Cooking together is the ideal instrument for team building and guarantees an unforgettable experience!

Taste Whisky, Wine and more. Savouring with all senses directly from the wood. Spoil your palate with freshly drawn off specialities. Experience a tasting of a particular kind in a mediterranean flair: select wines, old whiskies, fine fruit schnappses or grappe, delicate balsamic vinegars or oils. For the evening fill we gladly serve food, which is carefully matched with these fine wines.

Cocktails. Mixing cocktails together can be the grand finale to a conference, the impressive start of an evening function or a relaxing way of ending a day. A professional barkeeper mixes classic or unusual, trendy and, of course, also virgin cocktails. You gain insight into mixing techniques and learn interesting facts about the variety of ingredients. Whether with five or 50 participants, this program is tailored to your wishes. Ask us about the appropriate location for your event!

Hops,malt and yeast. At this brewery seminar you can brew your own beer. Along with this you of course get lots of fun and the experience as a team. You actively experience the beer culture within a programme that leads you through all the processes of beer manufacturing. You are challenged in an entertaining way by beer tastings of the different stages of maturity and by setting your hand to work in the storage cellar. A quiz tops the evening off and the winner is nominated as master brewer. Enjoy the rest of the evening with a home-brewed beer and a traditional meal.

Murder between knife and fork.We give you goose bumps! At this unforgettable thriller event as a live-theatre spectacular, an inspiring feast easily detracts from the actual event. But the participants have to be alert – the incredible happens in front of everbody’s eyes… and the cold case has to be solved by the audience! If you prefer a bitter treat for the ears during dinner, listen to a theatrical reading between courses. The stories from the cult book “Murder between Knife and Fork” create a thrill. The tension is increased even more by accompanying accordion music.

Spy casting. After the arrival of the guests and the champagne reception, the audience takes to their seats, the lights go out, the show begins: My name is ... The presenter introduces the judges after a short warm up, then the casting begins. One by one the candidates, chosen from the group of participants beforehand, have to prove their spy qualities. Obviously there has to be shootings as well, because a real Bond does not just have to convince the judges, but also has to be able to handle a weapon, in this case, a special model from the workshop “Q”. The obligatory hat throw, a meeting with Mrs. Moneypenny and the car chase afterwards show which candidate is truely born to be a spy. At the awards ceremony “The Golden Eye” is presented. Make your conference dinner a real adventure with this programme! The menu courses are served between the rounds.

“Same Time Next Year”. Make your evening event an unforgettable experience with this hit show as a dinner theater. After numerous engagements in various community theaters, the Viennese actor couple Regina Neumann and Helmut Thiele has been successfully running its own theater for over 20 years. For your individual topics, the two have a series of specially tailored shows ready – for a classy and entertaining finale to your conference.
Striptease, Inc.– Success Has its Price. This unusual success consulting agency reveals in a show of cabaret, live music and lots of surprises how you can give your all without getting rid of a lot and how you can stylishly undress without having to stand there completely naked afterwards. It follows the motto “You can achieve anything if you are willing to do everything to achieve it“.This show of the well-known Osnabrück artistic duo Crème Double is also ideal as a dinner show!

Business theatre. No one – neither spectators nor actors – can predict, what will be shown, as every scene is unscripted. But one thing is sure: all those present are emotionally targeted making your event a highy memorable affair. With the emphasis on improvisation theatre, the Osnabrück Improtreus business theatre is flexible for almost any customer wish, from topicrelated improvisation to conceptions of the most different seminar formats. Video documentation is available upon request to provide lasting memories of your event.

Underground zoo. Delve into a world of entertainment underground! In the world’s only underground zoo, the visitors are sent through a labyrinth of caves without any directions, where they get to view different animal enclosures. How do the field hamster, field mouse and earth bumble bee live underground? Do you know what a naked mole rat is? At different stations you can feel, smell and hear the life underground. There is even more to discover at the permanent exhibition “unter.Welten”at the Schölerberg Museum. Both facilities are connected by the maze. The underground conference centre “unter.Bau” completes the offer for experience conventions.

Planetarium. We’ll get you the stars down from the sky! With modern multimedia-based technology the Osnabrück planetarium, opened in 1986, presents the fascinating world of the stars. Under the eight-metre-high dome you will experience a breathtaking starry sky and learn about the basics and results of the latest research in astronomy. Irrespective of the weather the “stars theatre” planetarium offers to show a twinkling artificial starry sky, even in broad daylight!

Scenic City Tour.Weapons clash, swords are crossed – showdown between bishop and council in the midst of the historic Old Town. Here town history becomes alive right in front of your eyes – played in true to original costumes and accompanied by an experienced town guide. A drink in an ethnic pub marks the end of the tour. But beware, the brewer himself is on site – and he certainly has never heard of the German purity law!

Chocolate Seminar. A smell of chocolate blows round you, exuded from a hot Aztec-cocoa. You enjoy this delicious hot chocolate and learn everything about cocoa in a short film. Now at the latest you can no longer resist the tenderly-melting temptations. Highlight: the tasting of a Venezuelan “vintage” chocolate and the presentation of a fresh cocoa-fruit. A full-bodied experience, which will raise your serotonin-level.

The wonder of mocca. You want to roast your coffee yourself, for once? Or produce your own chocolate? To get to know and try exotic fruits? These and other discoveries await you in the Botanical Garden with programs on coffee, cocoa and tropical fruit. The facilities with rain forest house and the geographical open-air units of the former quarry also offer a cross-section of the flora of the earth and an extraordinary framework for events with a special flair.

Culture culinarily. The Osnabrück museums offer interesting guided tours, followed by thematically suiting delicacies in the special atmosphere of the particular museum. Topics include “On the way to the ideal figure”,“Of hussies and scoundrels”or “Of hunger flowers and forbidden fruits”.

Villa Schlikker. In the former burgher villa, which was erected around 1900 as the residence of a cloth manufacturer, the history of a century becomes alive in a private atmosphere. The exhibition rooms include private rooms for living and everyday use as well as a room for cinema screenings and a fifties ice-cream parlour. They are suitable for small and extraordinary events. How about a seminar on chocolate or cocktails in this nostalgic atmosphere?

Museum in a differentWay. Life as it was 2,000 years ago: cook at the open fire and eat like the ancient Romans and Germanic tribes. Discover Basil & Company and the recipes of the Roman gourmets in the show garden of history. Awaken the ghosts of time in the Museum on the Varus Battle in Kalkriese or experience the aura of this place during a torch-lit guided tour.

Atelier Trieb. Steel, ceramic, informal colour structures – a former barn on Osnabrück’s city borders is now gallery and atelier at the same time. In this biotope of the special, artist Volker Johannes Trieb has been living and working for the past 20 years. He has designed house and garden as a modernistic piece of art, offering a place for fantastic events. Let your fantasy run free!

Museum of Industrial Culture. Where the “Black Diamond” was mined 100 years ago, the museum shows the economic and industrial development of Osnabrück. Let your participants be taken directly from the meeting to the old mine train station near the museum by the historic train of the Steam Engine Association Osnabrück. Through the dimly lit, 300 metre long pit shaft you will go on a thrilling discovery tour. The glass lift takes you 30 metres up, above ground to the museum – which offers the place for an
unforgettable evening event!

Musical Osnabrück. “Chicago isn’t situated on Lake Michigan but on the Hase river. In Osnabrück, there is the highest concentration of blues musicians in Germany”, says Toscho Todorovic, who fronts the legendary Blues Company, about his hometown. Whether jazz combo, guitar duo or pianist, in Osnabrück you will surely find the appropriate musical backing for your event.

Old-timer Taxi. From time to time you will discover a historic taxi on the streets of Osnabrück, a Mercedes W115/8 from the year 1975. Rent the taxi for your transfers or a city tour in a small group for a fixed price. The thunderous diesel engine and clicking taximeter transport the passengers back to old times and they experience an unforgettable convention. The old-timer also provides a unique advertising space for the duration of your convention.

Tour in classic cars. The car museum in Melle always shows 200 to 300 operative vehicles from the beginning of motorisation to the most extraordinary exhibits of the modern time. A joyride with the classic cars through the Osnabrück countryside makes your visit to the car museum an especially exclusive experience. Full of hp!

Näpkes, Kümkes, Nachtigallen. Since 1799 the Niehenke families have been making traditional dinnerware pottery with earth from the Osnabrück countryside. Today the pottery is in existance in the 7th generation and produces modern stoneware ceramics. In the pottery, equipped with self-made machines, visitors experience impressive evidence of early industrial culture. The master potter Bernd Niehenke personally leads you through the historic workshop and demonstrates the creation of the dinnerware from the clay pit to the kiln. Under professional instruction be creative and form your own souvenir from the Osnabrück countryside.

2000 years of the Varus Battle. The Romans had imagined it differently when they started their countermarch back to their winter camp at the Rhine in the autumn of 9 A.D. Germania was largely pacified and the domestic tribes seemed to be getting used to the new rulers – but the troops around Governor Publius Quintilius Varus would never reach the hot thermal baths in the quarters. Germanic warriers lured them into an ambush and put an temporarily end to the Roman siege. In the Varus Battle, three legions, three units of auxiliary cavalry and six cohorts as well as many others such as slaves, women and children were massacred in the region of today’s Osnabrück countryside. The battle is a fascinating part of Osnabrück’s history. The architecture of the museum is widely considered unique and was honoured many times by experts. The highlight of the building, made exclusively from steel is the 40 metre high tower, which gives visitors a breathtaking view over the park and excavation terrain. In the new permanent exhibition in the Museum and Park Kalkriese you can experience history at first hand. Ask us for your individual Varus-program!

 

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