Florida's German
Heritage
Fest is in March, Maifest in May, and
Oktoberfest begins in September!
Join us each year for German Heritage fest in March, watch dancers dance around the May pole, and enjoy five weekends of Oktoberfest that will keep you busy in September and October, at restaurants, german clubs and area organizations like the Oldsmar Chamber, the City of dunedin, and Action 2000 and the Indian Rocks beach rotary club. Many of our advertisers have their own Oktoberfest specials!
OKTOBERFEST DATES:
German-American Society Pinellas on 66th Street, Pinellas Park, last weekend in September and first weekend in October! Join them Friday and Saturday.
Dunedin, HighlanderPark second weekend in October Thursday, friday, Saturday and Sunday!
IndianRocksBeach(Rotary Club and Action 2000 fundraising event) third Saturday in Oct (one day only event),
(visit Cape Coral, two-week largest Oktoberfest in Florida weekend mid October) Also check Oktoberfest date for Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church and USF’s Oktoberfest!
Oldsmar, at Tampa Bay Downs with antique German car show and plenty of parking!TampaBayDowns, last weekend in October. Find German Radio show team everywhere passing out information on “many things German” from sponsors like Deutsche Welle Radio, our news and (often also) music sponsor on the show.
NEW!Ask Deutsche Funksendung for our new bumper stickers and refrigerator magnets.
AUSTRIAN and GERMAN-AMERICAN HOLIDAYS September 29, October3rd and 6th!
Best wishes on Austrian-American Day, September 29th, and the German National Holiday (commemorating the reunification of Germany) October3rd come from the German Consul General in Miami, and the Commander of the German Military Liaison Team at HQ US CENTCOM, MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.
German American Day, celebrated by 60 million German-Americans, is October 6th !
The German American society of Pinellas has a new website: www.germanamericansociety-stpetersburg.com.
Welcome our many new sponsors! Food, Food, Food!
Heinrich's German Grill
Heinrich and Irene, well known German gourmet chefs with 30 years experience welcome you in their newest venture, Heinrich's German Grill, in the Walmart plaza just off University Parkway and Lockwood Ridge Road serving customers gourmet foods from grandmother's German kitchen. Heimat on your plate! 941-355-5453 (closed sundays)
Welcome Austrian Gold Medal Winner Brewmaster Franz Rothschadel of Lagerhaus !
just off McMullen Booth Road in Palm Harbor offering many great brews and a variety of Schnitzel and other pub food favorites.
Have your Pancakes German Style at German Crepes House!
Just South of St.Petersburg, on the way to Ft. Desoto in Tierra Verde next to Stone Crab Billy's is the typically Berlin-style German Crepes House run by Berlin owners Carsten and Jacqueline with crepes from spicy with meats to sweet dessert style pancakes, on the menu along with Schnitzel , Currywurst, and other German foods. Bring the whole family, the kids will love the egg-pancakes/ Eier-pfannekuchen! (closed Tuesdays).
Welcome with a Waltz! St.Petersburg’s address for the finest Austrian-German-Hungarian meals,Café Vienna, recently moved from its Snell Isle location to the convenient 4th Street address. Heavenly Roulladen and home made Strudl, enjoyed to the tunes of Viennese Waltzes! Make your resevations now and stop by to say hello to Rudy and Beate!
Be Merry German style at Old Castle Tavern and be sure to make reservations in the frequently sold out restaurant in the CypressVillageShopping Center at Sun City ,off I-75 to have German meals in medieval atmosphere. Berlin Chef Frank moved his Alte Burgschaenke from Berlin to Florida. Call for reservations 813-633-6900
The Castle Cafe at Cortez and 66th in Bradenton, especially for the two week oktoberfest: Krystyna and Joe keep their guests happy with German-and Polish Specialties. Sing along to live music and try the special Russian sunday nights. www.castlecaferestaurant.com.
Maximian’s Bavarian Restaurant
Have your German beverages and a Schweinshaxen at Maximian’s Bavarian Restaurant, St.Rd 52 in Hudsonwww.eatgermanfood.com . End the day with home made Strudl as the lady of the house is back in the kitchen baking her favorite desserts.
Mr.Dunderbaks, Tampa’s only authentic Biergarten Marktplatz/restaurant in Tampa’s university Square Mall is offering 16 drafts and 200 imports, live music Friday nights and great traditional foods on the weekend like Paprikash Goulash, Rouladen, and venison sausages! www.dunderbaks.com.
For Immigration and other legal advice:
It’s GREENCARD LOTTERY time, but if you want a visa we have attorneys to help you in German, call Steve Culbreath of Jeansch Immigration Lawfirm with offices in St.Petersburg, Sarasota and Cape Coral. Wir sprechen Deutsch!
941-365-8472, www.visaamerica.com.
Immigration attorney Sabine Weyergraf has helped many with their immigration questions. Her new offices are on Lockwood Ridge road in Sarasota, www.weyergrafimmigration.com, 941-706-4102, Wir sprechen Deutsch! (New York attorney Sabine Weyergraf is exclusively permitted to practive Immigration law in Florida).
Edelgard Ashcraft P.A.,
(German speaking lawyer)
For all other legal advice call ( tax law, inheritance law) German speaking lawyer Ega Ashcraft. 727-544-1760
Oktoberfest Give-Aways During Oktoberfest, our German Sponsor Deutsche Welle, Bonn, serving our listeners with news and favorite programs like “Lustige Musikanten” and DW TV has expanded to include the talk shows of Kerner, Beckmann, Christiansen and Schmidt again. DW has provided us with great give-aways from pens to puzzles.
If you would like to donate items to give away, and business information, please send it or give it to one of the German Radio Show team members. Call us at 813-254-5088 to make arrangements.
Watch German shows on Dish Network Satelite TV!
Watch deutsche Welle , ProSatSieben, and german Kino Plus on Dish network TV for as little as 29.95 a month.
Write your Life story!!!
Renate Schauer who offers ghostwriting services for those who wish her to help them write down the story of their life. See the website www.memo-reporting-service.com Our sponsors Aniko of QualitySausage House will provide the sausage for the Oktoberfests and she will also be at the SafetyHarbor Wine Fest in November.Also visit the sausage house on 9th in SafetyHarbor as they open each 1st SUNDAY of the month as well! They now carry German dark bread and fresh vegetables, ready to eat pre-cooked meals like Hungarian paprikash with real Spaetzle.
The German Deli (International Wursthaus) in Largo offers German specialties for all occasions! Ask for specials and precooked German meals, breads and cakes (from apple to Black forest Cherry Cake!) and pretzels. Find them as vendors at Oktoberfest in Pinellas and at IndianRocksBeach. www.thegermandeli.net ;
The Cultural Center for German Language celebrates Austrian-American Day in late September. The CulturalCenter for German Language also offers German lessons in cooperation with the Alliance francaise de Tampa. The club’s German book collection and the video library comprise over 100 titles for members. The German children’s group meets monthly at the Clearwater Library ( contact Manuela Bloedorn Manuela@tampabay.rr.com).
Join the club for monthly outings to area restaurants and museum exhibitions. Send requests for information to info@germanradioshow.com or call 813-254-5088. Join the German-American Social Club of NewPort Richey for their monthly gatherings, the third Wednesday for dancing and dinner. They meet at the Polish American Society clubhouse just off US 19. 727-938-7603
Dr.Juliette Gittinger is your answer to sudden illness. The board certified family physician has helped many of our listeners! Dr Gittinger speaks German and English and her caring and circumspect work is praised by all! Her practice Absolute Family Care is just off Eastlake Boulevard. She welcomes patients of all ages, make an appointments, walk-ins also welcome. www.absolutefamilycare.com.
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Four GermanChurch Services welcome you. sponsor in TempleTerrace, Pastor Waldemar Meyer of Christ Our RedeemerLutheranChurch will offer the usual 2nd Sunday of the month 3 p.m. services, the church’s own Octoberfest in October .
Church services at Pastor Käfer and Pastor Helmut Krenz’s German Church of God in St.Petersburg as in past years expands to services throughout our listener area in Venice and Sarasota during the winter months. Pastor Peter Stiller conducts services the fourth Sunday of each month at GraceLutheranChurch in Clearwater.
More Sunshine on cruises! Great travel Specials, especially cruises this fall can also be booked through www.sunshineparadise.com! They give discounts if you book on-line and special discounts on LTU flights lower than the actual airline website.
We continue to recommend fun and enjoyable cultural events and bring you interviews with stars from the stage and film in the show’s Kulturspiegel segments.
The Florida Orchestra opens its 41st season this month, and offers a special subscription to our listeners. You receive one extra friendship ticket. All concerts are conducted by German born Maestro Stefan Sanderling. Please join them in their season of Masterworks and Pops concerts, calling 813-286-1170 for information or at www.floridaorchestra.org.
Excellent theater productions can be seen at www.jobsitetheater.org, www.americanstage.org, and www.stageworks.org.
For great operas and films please visit: www.sarasotaopera.org, 941-366-8450, the TampaBayPerformingArtsCenterwww.operatampa.org, and the Palladium for opera and jazz (www.mypalladium.org) . See foreign films www.filmsociety.org and www.tampatheatre.org. In February 2007 the German film The Lives of Others ( Das Leben der Anderen) won the Oscar for best foreign film. Deutsche Funksendung interviewed the director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
READ!
Florida Sun magazine offers information and reports in the German language focusing on Florida. Look for Susanne Nielsen’s story on Winter Park in the next issue 4/2007
German Language Magazine DiscoverFlorida of the ccebc.com Cape Coral German Chamber can now be read on-line: www.dicoverflorida.de.
An excellent weekly newspaper Nordamerikanische Wochenpost continues its coverage of German news for readers in North America.
For more leisurely reading on a variety of topics, the monthly magazine Das Fenster is readby many Germans in the US
German Retirement Consulting Agency,
if retirement and your German, Austrian or Canadian social security is due, please contact Christa Wolpe of the German Retirement Consulting Agency, 1-800-999-6040.
Resort Rentals
And then it is time to get that rental on the beach for a week, Rudy Consoni of Resort Rentals has your dream home on the beach, even just for a week.
For international Humanitarian service and Rotary International Foundation programs from Volunteer opportunities worldwide, ambassadorial scholarships, to month-long Group Study Exchanges please visit www.rotary.org and also RI Youth exchange programs for 15-18 ½ year old students, see www.ryeflorida.org or www.rotaryyouthexchange.net.
