It might be debatable what a successful beer fest entails. However, one thing we at the German-Australian Chamber are sure of since yesterday: the simple bare necessities you need are beer, Gemütlichkeit* and friends you want to celebrate with. We can certainly say that our first-ever German Bierfest covered all three elements excellently; a successful evening with lots of fun and atmosphere to remember.
More than 170 members and friends joined us for the Chamber’s first German Bierfest at the Concordia Club in Tempe on 16 August. Right from the start, the atmosphere was brimming with joyful people mingling and chatting away while awaiting the evening’s revelations. The MC for the night, our Board Member Bodo Mann, Group Executive Advisory at the Australian Institute of Company Directors – of course fully dressed in Lederhosen including the hat! – opened the evening before asking the Chamber’s Executive Director Alexandra Voss to stage.
Alexandra welcomed all guests on behalf of the German Chamber, thanked all guests for joining and wished everyone a great night ahead. She then expressed her thanks to the Supporting Partner Sennheiser Australia & NZ for sponsoring the German Bierfest 2018 and introduced Sennheiser’s Director Operations Markus Dreimann. Markus explained Sennheiser’s role in Australia and thanked his team for their great work, before the band ‘The Nevilles’ started to play Ein Prosit der Gemütlichkeit – of course with microphones from Sennheiser. Alexandra and Markus sang along and raised their Steins to a proper German Prost!
Over the course of the evening the band played typical Oktoberfest songs, sing-alongs as well as all-time classics which enabled everyone to participate. There was plenty of German beer and German food to be enjoyed, as well as a photo booth with German Bierfest props. And if that was not enough, attendees also had the chance to win great prizes from our Supporting Partner Sennheiser, as well as our in-kind partners Batch Brewing Co, Sauce Brewing Co in Marrickville, All Hands Brewing House in Darling Harbour, the German Butchery in North Bexley, Brezel Bar in Manly, the German National Tourist Office together with its partners.
We would like to thank our Supporting Partner Sennheiser Australia & NZ for their great support in making the Chamber’s first German Bierfest a great success. We hope to see everyone again soon for another Prosit der Gemütlichkeit!
*Gemütlichkeit is the German word describing an atmosphere of a whole experience. A metaphoric warm feeling that you have inside your heart because of your surroundings and the people you are with.