Paul Smith

Director of British Council Germany @debritish. Tweets about culture, arts, education, entertainment and people stuff between UK and Germany

[Paul Smith @paulsmithbc]

@JonathanKennedy @inBritish Superb achievements Jonathan. What a team!

[British Council Germany @deBritish]

Final day of #BritLit23 with a sofa full of CLASS acts (© @paulsmithbc).

Join us live: https://t.co/H87AJ3HJiR

[Paul Smith @paulsmithbc]

British Council Germany Literature Seminar. This morning Daljit Nagra and Wayne Holloway-Smith. Is the UK’s the most excitingly diverse literature in the world? I’m talking race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, class, religion, diffability

[Paul Smith @paulsmithbc]

35th, yes 35th, annual British Council Literature Seminar on Contemporary UK Writing launched in Berlin last night with a discussion between literary and publishing giants Bernardine Evaristo and Sharmaine Lovegrove. Phenomenal!

[Paul Smith @paulsmithbc]

Sad loss of great British sculptress Phyllida Barlow. Warm recall of her major German exhibitions at Haus der Kunst Munich, Sprengel Museum Hannover and Ludwig Forum Aachen

[Paul Smith @paulsmithbc]

Some German admirers of Erich Maria Remarque’s great novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ may be unhappy with some of the plot changes but it is still uplifting to celebrate Edward Berger’s outstanding film version and the British Academy’s recognition of it as film of the year

[Rachel Launay @RachelLaunay]

This group of legends is the @BritishCouncil Europe’s leadership team. We hadn’t met for 3.5 years and, wow, was it brilliant to be together! Productive, focused, full of laughter and the most uplifting few days. 🙏 @deBritish for such a warm welcome in #Berlin

[Goethe-Institut London @GI_London1]

For our 60th anniversary, we asked you to share your favourite memories of the Goethe-Institut London💭🎂 Today, we hear from @paulsmithbc, the Director of @deBritish. Thanks for your kind words!👏✍️

Read his full #GILondon60 text👇
https://t.co/qV616OEEXF

#CulturalExchange

[Elke Ritt @ElkeRitt]

Call on Munich Cultural Bridge project partner Kulturzentrum LUISE, working on „Bespoke“ with Make Works in Scotland. Husky Yuki is at the heart of the project! https://t.co/rJJKO1tcNy @CreativeScots @UKinGermany @deBritish https://t.co/a1utwNRkCL @thisismakeworks @paulsmithbc

[Paul Smith @paulsmithbc]

Whilst waiting for a meeting with the Director of the great Gasteig in Munich, I notice that Simon Rattle will be conducting ‘Siegfried’ here tomorrow. So exciting that Sir Simon will be back in Munich soon, and permanently, as the conductor of the Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra

[Paul Smith @paulsmithbc]

‘Flowers Forever’ is a brilliantly conceived and curated blockbuster exhibition at the great Munich Kunsthalle. Delighted to be supporting UK artist Rebecca Louise Law’s amazing finale sculpture using 100,000 dried flowers collected and donated by the good burghers of Munich

[Elke Ritt @ElkeRitt]

Lost in flowers: Paul Smith exploring Rebecca Louise Law‘s Calyx Installation, a most beautiful flower collecting community project at Kunsthalle München @debritish @ukingermany #KunsthalleMuc #FlowersMuc

[Paul Smith @paulsmithbc]

Congratulations to outstanding contemporary British poet Anthony Joseph on winning the esteemed T S Eliot Prize for his ‘luminous’ collection

[Paul Smith @paulsmithbc]

The death of Fay Weldon takes from us another great UK woman novelist too soon after the death of the much missed Hilary Mantel

[Paul Smith @paulsmithbc]

Congratulations on his honour to Matt Burney who has transformed cultural relations between China and UK with quiet professionalism and always productive insight and achievement. These are the unrecognised makers of world peace

[Paul Smith @paulsmithbc]

Sad to have lost 2 Uk sixties greats. John Bird was a supreme political TV satirist and Vivienne Westwood was the ultimate iconic iconoclast. Both wicked. Both lovely

[Paul Smith @paulsmithbc]

Sad to lose great British singer-songwriter Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, one of the most successful groups of all time with over 100 million record sales worldwide

[Paul Smith @paulsmithbc]

Good to be back on #Twitter

[British Council Germany @deBritish]

DON'T MISS our #QueensLecture 2020 on climate science with @emilyshuckburgh from @Cambridge_Uni; mathematician, climate scientist, and Director of @CambridgeZero, the uni's climate change initiative.
JOIN on 4 Nov, 5 p.m❗️ via #livestream. Please register. @TUBerlin @UKinGermany

[British Council Germany @deBritish]

Join our Country Director @paulsmithbc on SUNDAY at 3 PM at James-Simon-Park in Mitte near River Spree for @ilb_'s #berlinliest. Paul will be reading from Lesley Nneka Arimah @larimah's "What it means when a man falls from the sky". #ilb #ilb20 #speakup @ElkeRitt