GA English on Sunday News in Brief from Bonn and the region
Bonn · An 11-year-old girl was injured after running out in front of a car in Troisdorf, information on the Easter events in the Bonn churches, a peace march on Sunday and a new TV series being filmed in Bad Godesberg — here are the news from Bonn and the region in our GA English „News in Brief“.
Girl (11) hit by car in Troisdorf
TROISDORF. During a traffic accident on Saturday, an eleven-year-old girl was severely injured. The accident happened at the Kriegsdorfer Straße/Offenbachstraße around 11am. At the time she was walking together with another child on the footpath. While the other child noticed the car in time, the 11-year-old girl ran out onto the street and was struck by the car. She was flown to hospital by helicopter. The accident team Cologne is investigating. The road was closed until 3pm.
Original text: GA
Translation: Mareike Graepel
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Church seeks new directions this Easter
BONN. The catholic church in Bonn is being forced to adapt due to the cathedral not being available at the moment due to renovation works, and omitted some of its annual traditions in the hosting churches. Monsignore Wilfried Schumacher said: „We are choosing new directions in this year’s Holy Week, looking ahead, into the future.“ For the first time there was no lent cloth (Fastentuch). „It wouldn’t have been possible to hang it up in the Remigius Church. The catholic parish also omitted the usual decoration of the Holy Grave, which traditionally reminds the community of the peace of Jesus’ grave. Yet, the churches do see quite a few new faces this year as well as the regular participants. The first Easter Sunday mass was scheduled for 5am - and Schumacher expected up to 350 parishioners. As usual during Easter night, some adults were christened. The renovation works at the cathedral are supposed to continue until 2020, and they are calculated to cost up to 20.2 million Euro. For more information on the Easter masses in the Remigius Church and the Schlosskirche, please see: www.bonner-muenster.de
Original text: Lisa Inhoffen
Translation: Mareike Graepel
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Peace march on Sunday at 2pm
BEUEL/BONN. For the fifth year in a row, there will be a peace march on Easter Sunday, April 1, making it’s way from Beuel to Bonn. The meeting point will be at the Rondell by the Beuel river bank. The walk will be accompanied by several events along the route, as well as public speeches and music. The final rally will take place on the Friedensplatz at around 4pm.
Original text: kf
Translation: MG
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International thriller series filmed in former embassy in Bonn
BAD GODESBERG. The former Indonesian embassy has been turned into the fictional Syrian embassy, and is currently the location for a spy thriller of epic proportions: Network Movie and Anagram on behalf of the ZDF and the Swedish channel SVT are filming scenes for the mini series „West of Liberty“ on location in Bad Godesberg. The story which is about a former Stasi spy and double agent, who is reactivated by a CIA colleague, is eerily realistic, in regard to the current whistleblowers and fake news. „It seems as if fiction is turning into reality sometimes“, said producer Bettina Wente and her Swedish colleague Gunnar Carlsson. The team will also film in Berlin, Cologne, Marocco and Sweden.
Original text: Thomas Kölsch
Translation: Mareike Graepel
