Events 2022

Dear Alumni School Leaders and Friends,

As summer approaches we awake to warmer weather, brighter skies and good cheer.

The Ivy Circle in Berlin has a series of summer events planned beginning with an invite on Thursday, June 2, 2022 to the theatrical release of the documentary "The Strait Guys" at the legendary Babylon Theater in Mitte. 

A cocktail gathering along with the cast and crew of "The Strait Guys" takes place just before the film release between 6pm-7pm at The Grand, Hirtenstraße 4, 10178 Berlin. (This quirky place supposedly has been in business since 1842).

So... meet first at 6pm at The Grand for complimentary appetizers and wine (open cash bar for anything other than wine) and at about 7ish pm make our way on foot (3 minutes) to the Babylon Theater to catch the premiere of "The Strait Guys."

Written and directed by Columbia alum(and IvyCircle friend) Rick Minnich, "The Strait Guys" tells the story of American and Russian entrepreneurs trying to link the USA and Russia via the world's longest train tunnel beneath the Bering Strait.  Following the film, Rick and one of the Russian producers (who has since fled Russia and whose name is redacted from our release) will be available for a Q&A session. Post film we meet for an "after party" back at The Grand.

While wine and appetizers are complimentary at The Grand before and after the film, tickets for the film can be purchased in advance at 
https://babylonberlin.eu/film/4696-the-strait-guys-der-traum-vom-tunnel?fbclid=IwAR1Uy4XsSf5zkthTOHbmhkyGRk-Eq_QAXBQu1BP6x5r8M4z4KY52gS3-Ll8 
or at the box office at the Babylon theater on the night of the release.  

RSVP to carl@alumni.princeton.edu for a head count or further information. Friends and family are welcome.

To a great summer!

Carl Kruse
Ivy Circle Berlin
Princeton '86 / Stanford '88

Dear Alumni, dear Friends,

The first highlight at Frankfurt’s Städel in 2022 is devoted to the master of Impressionism and his passion for the Rococo – Pierrre-Auguste Renoir. The exhibition “Renoir Rococo Revival – Impressionism and the French Art of the Eighteenth Century” will show a total of some 120 outstanding paintings, works on paper and handcrafted objects from international museums as well as private collections.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir is one of the outstanding painters of French Impressionism – and far more than that. For the first time the Städel Museum will be addressing the surprising references in his art to Rococo painting in a large-scale special exhibition.

Whereas Rococo painting was considered frivolous and immoral after the French Revolution, it underwent a revival in the nineteenth century and was widely visible in Renoir’s lifetime. Trenchant juxtapositions of Renoir’s art with works of the eighteenth century as well as his own contemporaries – Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot – will provide an overview of Impressionism’s intense artistic examination of the Rococo.

We cordially invite you to a guided tour exploring the “Renoir Rococo Revival – Impressionism and the French Art of the Eighteenth Century” at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt on Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 2:45 pm.

We will meet at the Foyer of the Städel Museum at Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main (website) at 2:15 pm, 30 min ahead of the tour to allow time for cloakroom and distribution of entrance tickets, so that we can start the tour on time. Please keep in mind that it is the last weekend of the exhibition and thus the museum will be very crowded.

Please register by Thursday, 2 June by completing the online registration form. We encourage you to sign-up early, as we allocate places on a first-come, first-served basis.

The guided tour is free of charge for members of the German Friends of LSE. The participation fee for non-members is €10, which we ask you to transfer to our bank account DE57300700240612018200, reference: Renoir Städel Museum 2022. Alternatively, you can also pay by Paypal to paypal.me/GermanFriendsofLSE. Please state your name and Renoir Städel Museum 2022 as reference.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Frankfurt.

Kind regards,

Pia Wagner, President
Manuel Geggus, Vice-President

Dear alumni, dear friends,

We are delighted to invite to a quarterly Stammtisch in Düsseldorf together with alumni from the Ivy Circle universities. The Stammtisch will take place on Friday, 24 June, from 18h onwards at the beer garden „Three Little Birds“ on the Rheinterrasse (Robert-Lehr-Ufer 2, 40474 Düsseldorf).

We will be meeting at the entrance of the beer garden where you’ll find us with a red „LSE“ bag. For folks dropping in late – please look for a red shopping bag with the „LSE“ logo or drop Manuel an SMS/ WhatsApp to +49 174 3173047.

Please note that in case that bad weather or any new Corona regulation prevents the meeting, it might be canceled latest the same day by 16h. Therefore, please register for free at our website so that you will receive any (last minute) updates.

Looking very much forward to seeing and meeting you.

With best regards,

Manuel Geggus
Vice President, German Friends of LSE

Dear all,

The Princeton Alumni cordially invite you to join them for some summer celebrating with other Ivy Circle university alumni. The owners of the Fox Bar + Restaurant in Berlin have invited  for wine and appetizers on Friday, July 1 starting at 6pm. Complimentary wine and appetizers (while they last) as well as a beautiful cash bar for anything else. The restaurant serves delicious Thai food if anyone would like to order dinner or more. Outdoor patio area to boot.

The Fox is located inside the Hotel Q at Knesebeckstr. 67 in Berlin.

Join us for a drink, meet new friends and old, and bask in the Berlin summer. RSVP to carl@alumni.princeton.edu so we can give the restaurant a head count. Many thanks!

Best regards,

Carl Kruse, Ivy Circle Berlin

Dear Alumni, dear Friends,

We cordially invite you and your partner to the LSE Alumni Sailing & Networking Weekend at lake Tegernsee from 30th to 31st July 2022. Located in the Bavarian Prealps south of Munich, Tegernsee is known as one of the cleanest and most beautiful lakes in Bavaria.

On Saturday afternoon, we will enjoy sailing on the lake on Daysailer Yachts. Each boat will be accompanied by an experienced skipper who will introduce us to the basics of sailing so that everybody can be actively involved. No prior sailing experience is required to join. In the evening, we will enjoy a networking barbeque dinner at Hotel Terrassenhof.

On Sunday, we will go to the Wallberg, offering a fantastic view on the Tegernsee and Prealps region where we will also enjoy lunch.

Accommodation and Travel

Please arrange travel and accommodation individually. We have blocked 10 rooms at Hotel Terrassenhof until 11^th May 2022. To book a room, please mention “LSE”. Prices of single rooms start at 145€ per night and prices of double rooms start at 195€ per night, to which a local tourism tax of 3€ per night is added. If you prefer a different accommodation, we recommend having a look at www.tegernsee.com or hotel search engines. If you plan to take the train (arrival station: Tegernsee), we recommend looking up suitable connections at Deutsche Bahn’s website. The train from Munich central station takes ~1 hour.

Reservation and Payment

Please register by Saturday, 23rd July 2022 by completing the online registration form and paying your participation fee. You can either transfer your fee to our bank account with IBAN DE57300700240612018200, reference: Tegernsee 2022. Alternatively, you can pay by Paypal.

Please contact us if you have any questions. We are looking forward to meeting you at the Tegernsee.

Kind regards,

Pia Wagner, President
Sebastian Hoering

Dear Alumnae, dear Alumni, dear Friends,
 
Berlin, Germany’s capital and largest city by both area and population, is a world city of culture, politics, media and science. Its economy is based on high-tech firms and the service sector, encompassing a diverse range of creative industries, research facilities and media corporations. Berlin continues to be Germany’s start-up capital and is a centre of innovation and research for future concepts such as connected mobility, climate change reduction, intelligent energy provisioning. During this year’s annual meeting we will not only dive into Berlin’s start-up scene but also learn about the 44 years of political prosecution in the GDR.
 
On Saturday afternoon, we will visit the Memorial Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, the former GDR Stasi prison. Contemporary witnesses will give us an authentic impression of the prison conditions between 1946 and 1990. You are welcome to explore the permanent exhibition “Witness of Political Prosecution” showing 300 photos and nearly 500 artefacts.
 
In the evening, we will enjoy a reception and dinner at the prestigious Berlin Capital Club located above the roof tops of the Berlin’s beautiful “Gendarmenmarkt” square. During the dinner LSE Professor Kristina Spohr, one of the leading experts on security architecture post 1989 and the author of a landmark biography of former chancellor Helmut Schmidt, will give us her interpretation of the revolutionary upheaval of 1989 and its impact on later development from post-Wall peace to the current conflicts.
 
On Sunday, we will jointly kick off a series of start-up events called “Social Innovation Trek” hosted by LSE Generate taking place from 11th September to 14th September with a panel of LSE Alumni Start-up Entrepreneurs, including Ola Kohut, Founder of Joy Space and Rayd Abu-Ayyash, MD of Value for Good, discussing "Change Makers: How entrepreneurship is a catalyst for the betterment of society" at INOSPACE at betahaus in Kreuzberg.
 
We cordially invite you and your partner to the annual meeting with the programme you see below.

RESERVATION & PAYMENT INFORMATION

Children, friends and relatives are most welcome. The participation fee for members is 40€ and for non-members to 75€. Children pay a reduced fee. Please contact us for details. The fee includes the guided tours, coffee break, dinner and drinks from the set menu at the Capital Club.

Please register by Sunday, 4th September by completing the registration form. We ask members to log into the intranet when registering themselves, so that the correct (reduced) rates for members is shown. Please transfer the participation fee as soon as possible and no later than by Thursday, 8th September to our bank account: IBAN: DE57300700240612018200, BIC: DEUTDEDBDUE, recipient: Freunde der LSE e. V., reference: Annual Meeting 2022 + names of the participants.

If you have not transferred the money by then, your place may be cancelled. If you cancel your registration up to one week prior to the event, we will refund your fee.

ACCOMMODATION & TRAVEL

Please arrange travel and accommodation individually. A good overview of accommodations is available at hotel search engines. If you plan to take the train and tube, we recommend looking up suitable connections at Deutsche Bahn’s website and Berlin’s BVG, where you also can find a comprehensive tube and tram map.

Please contact us if you have any questions. We are looking forward to meeting you in Berlin.

Kind regards,

Pia Wagner
President, German Friends of LSE

Dear alumni, dear friends,

We cordially invite you to our Christmas Dinner in Berlin on Wednesday, 7 December 2022. We have made a reservation for up to 30 people at Restaurant Spindler, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 43, 10999 Berlin. We will meet in the restaurant at 6.30 pm.

The participation fee for each person is 69 €, which includes a three-course dinner:

Mushroom Consommé - wild mushrooms, winter truffle (vegan)

Deer - potato gratin with lardo, shiitake, spinach, turnip cabbage, gin sauce
or
BBQ Selleriac - slow roasted & grilled selleriac steak mushrooms, laphroig cream, pepper- selleriac-jus (vegan)

Poached Pear - Brittany shortbread, lemon confit, vanilla-lime-yoghurt „hang up“, yoghurt sorbet

In case you have any allergy or food intolerance, plse include this information as comment in your registration. Kindly note, that drinks during the dinner are not included and will be paid by each participant individually.  

Please register by Wednesday, 30 November 2022, and choose whether you wish to eat the deer or vegan option as main dish.

We ask you to either pay by Paypal to info@lsealumni.de or provide us a SEPA direct debit mandate. If you pay by Paypal, you need to transfer your payment by latest 30 November 2022 to secure your place.

If you cancel your registration up to 30 November 2022, we will refund your fee.

Please contact us if you have any questions. We are looking forward to meeting you.

Kind regards,

Lukcas Dörfner, Member of the Board

Dear alumni, dear friends,

We cordially invite you to our Christmas Dinner in Frankfurt on Thursday, 8 December 2022. We have reserved a room for ~30 people at Apfelwein Solzer, Berger Str. 260, 60385 Frankfurt. We will meet in the restaurant at 7.00 pm.

The participation fee for each person is as follows:
- If you would like to eat goose, a 1⁄4-goose with dumplings and cabbage will cost 35€. A goose will only be available by ordering in advance but not on the a la carte menu.
- If you would like to choose a la carte e.g., for a vegetarian dish, we charge a no-show deposit of 15€. This will be refunded after the event if you attended.

Kindly note, that drinks during the dinner are not included and will be paid by each participant individually.  

Please register by Sunday, 4 December 2022, and choose whether you wish to eat goose or a la carte. We ask you to either pay by Paypal to info@lsealumni.de or provide us a SEPA direct debit mandate. If you pay by Paypal, you need to transfer your payment by latest 4 December 2022 to secure your place.

If you cancel your registration up to 4 Decemeber 2022, we will refund your fee.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

We are looking forward to meeting you.

Kind regards,

Pia Wagner, President
Rüdiger Trost, Vice President

Dear alumni, dear friends,

We would like to use the Christmas atmosphere for our last event in the Rhineland in 2022: We cordially invite you to join us for our Christmas Goose Dinner in Cologne at the "Club Astoria" with a view of the Adenauer Weiher.

Whether punch or seltzer, red wine sauce or orange jus - it is certain that it will be "goose delicious" and very communicative. In addition to the excellent food we will enjoy good discussions and network opportunities. Since the club Astoria lies at the edge of the Cologne city forest, the location is suitable also for a walk. The "Winterzauber" (winter magic) provides an additional Christmas market atmosphere. In the club's beer garden, there will be mulled wine with and without tinder, as well as various treats.  

We will meet for our Christmas Goose Dinner (vegetarian option available) at Club Astoria, Guts-Muths-Weg 3, 50933 Cologne, on Saturday, 10 December, at 7.00 pm.

The participation fee for each person is 40 € and includes goose breast and leg with red apple cabbage, goose jus, glazed chestnuts, potato dumpling and baked apple or as vegetarian alternative Rigatoni in creamy beet sauce, baked rocket, walnut pesto with goat cheese.

In case you have any allergy or food intolerance, plse include this information as comment in your registration. Kindly note, that drinks during the dinner are not included and will be paid by each participant individually.  

Please register by Tuesday, 6 December 2022, and choose whether you wish to eat the goose or vegetarian option as main dish.

We ask you to either pay by Paypal to info@lsealumni.de or provide us a SEPA direct debit mandate. If you pay by Paypal, you need to transfer your payment by latest 6 December 2022 to secure your place.

If you cancel your registration up to 6 December 2022, we will refund your fee.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

We are looking forward to meeting you.

Kind regards,

Nadine Sieren
Manuel Geggus, Vice President

Dear IVY Circle Members,

We are pleased to announce that The Ivy Circle Germany – Munich Chapter “CHRISTMAS-Stammtisch” will take place on Thursday, 15 December 2022 in two parts:

PART 1: VISIT WEIHNACHTSMARKT HAIDHAUSEN
We meet at 6 p.m. Deutsche Bank branch, Weißenburger Platz 8, 81667 Munich

PART 2: Visit the NEGRONI BAR in Haidhausen
We meet at 7 p.m. in the Negroni Bar, Sedanstr. 9, 81667 Munich

For the visit in the Bar (Part 2) you need to be registered due to limited seating. Also, if you want to eat at the bar, the food need to be prepaid. For registration (part 2 only), please use the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ivy-circle-munich-stammtisch-2022-q4-tickets-453847810017

Both places (part 1 and 2) are in walking distance from the S-Bahn Rosenheimer Platz. A public parking lot (Parkhaus am Ostbahnhof) is at Pariser Str. 48.

Any issues finding us: Please drop me an SMS (+49-151-1083-7000). In case of bad weather, please check the ivy circle webpage (https://ivycircle.de/category/current-events-munich/ ) for any changes until 4pm on 15 December. We are very much looking forward to seeing and meeting you.

With kind regards
Clemens Rinnebach (Ivy Circle Munich)