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, Our Lady of Lourdes & The City of Dunedin, & Action 2000 and the Indian Rocks Beach Rotary club. Many of our advertisers have their own Oktoberfest specials!
OKTOBERFEST DATES:in September and October:
German-American Society Pinellas on 66th Street, Pinellas Park, last weekend in September and first & second weekend in October! Join them Friday and Saturday.
www.germantampa.com
Dunedin's Oktoberfest is part of the Our Lady of Lourdes' Oll Fall Fest: www.ollfallfestival.com
Indian Rocks Beach Rotary & Action 2000 and City of Indian Rocks Beach Oktoberfest: Saturday, midmonth (one day only): www.oktoberfestonthebeach.com
Oldsmar Oktoberfest: Top o The Bay: end of October, www.OktoberfestTampabay.com
Visit Cape Coral, two-week largest Oktoberfest in Florida weekend mid October) put on by the German American Social Club of Cape Coral, please see our ad and listen to it: www.germanradioshow.blogspot.com
Also check Oktoberfest date for Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in October
and USF’s Oktoberfest!
Oldsmar, at Tampa Bay Downs with plenty of parking! Tampa Bay Downs, 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.
SWISS, AUSTRIAN and GERMAN-AMERICAN HOLIDAYS August 1st,September 29, October3rd and 6th!
Best wishes to our Swiss friends on August 1st, their National Holiday!
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 over 60 million German-Americans, is October 6th !
The German American Society of Pinellas has a new website: www.germantampa.com.
Welcome our many new sponsors! Food, Food, Food!
Welcome German Bistro in Tampa on 5232 South MacDill Ave in Tampa, free Beer with your meal, a variety of Schnitzel and Rouladen, wurst and salads and Werner's famous Strudel among the favorites.
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!
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 North, on Bruce B Downes, 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:
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.
A new feature of the show is to find pen or email pals.
Watch German TV shows on Dish Network Satelite TV!
Watch deutsche Welle , ProSatSieben, and German Kino Plus and My Sports Germany on Dish network TV .www.dish.com/international
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
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 IndianRocks Beach.
www.thegermandeli.net
The Cultural Center for German Language celebrates Austrian-American Day in late September. The Cultural Center for German Language also offers German lessons in cooperation with the Alliance francaise de Tampa and the German American Society Pinellas. 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 New Port 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 (find them also on the web)
Doctors who speak German:
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.
Church Services in German
German Church Services welcome you in West Florida each month. Sponsor in Temple Terrace, Pastor Waldemar Meyer of Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church 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 Grace Lutheran Church in Clearwater.
Cultural Events:
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 Tampa Bay Performing Arts Centerwww.operatampa.org, and the Palladium for opera www.stpeteopera.org 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.Listen to Susanne Nielsen's Interview with author Stefanie Zweig (August 2011, on the subject of her book as basis for the Film Nowhere in Africa, Oscar winner best foreign film)
READ!
Read our weekly updated blog, which you can listen to and read at the same time: www.germanradioshow.blogspot.com
(click upper left button: audio/blog)
Florida Sun magazine offers information and reports in the German language focusing on Florida. (German only) www.floridasunmagazine.com
German-World Magazine is a bi-lingual German-American magazine, win two for one subscriptions when you mention us to them. www.german-world.com, Call 323-876-5843
An excellent weekly newspaper Nordamerikanische Wochenpost continues its coverage of German news for readers in North America, call 248-641-9944, .www.wochenpostusa.com
For more leisurely reading on a variety of topics, read Das Fenster (German only), the monthly magazine, call 800-398-7753 . www.DasFenster.com
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