Oliver de Planta – Case Study, Germany 2014 – 2015

During my studies at Sheffield Hallam University I undertook a year abroad in Germany from June 2014 to March 2015. I began my year abroad in Munich, Bavaria working for Robert Bosch GmbH then for the second half I moved to Berlin to work at Siemens AG. The scholarship from the John Speak Trust afforded…

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German football – Oliver de Planta, March 2015

I’ve been to football games in Austria, France and Switzerland and they are all different experiences when compared to games in England. Germany was no exception. From the atmosphere where a conductor dictates the chants, spending the game facing the crowd rather than the on field action and the noise doesn’t really relate to what’s…

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Oliver de Planta, Munich, Germany – October 2014

Oktoberfest Es heißt Oktoberfest aber es fängt in September an. Ich habe viel Glück bekommen weil durch meine Zeit hier in München ich wohne in der nähe von eine der größten Bierfest in der ganze Welt! Ob man kennt nicht, Oktoberfest ist eines jährliches Fest bei der Theresienwiesn in München. Es ist nicht nur einem…

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Allianz Arena

The Allianz Arena  is a football stadium in Munich, Bavaria, Germany with a 69,901 seating capacity. Widely known for its exterior of inflated ETFE plastic panels, it is the first stadium in the world with a full color-changing color exterior. Located at 25 Werner-Heisenberg-Allee at the northern edge of Munich’s Schwabing-Freimann borough on the Fröttmaning…

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The Maximilianeum Building, Munich

The building is situated on the bank of river Isar before the Maximilian Bridge and marks the eastern end of the Maximilianstrasse, one of Munich’s royal avenues which is framed by neo-Gothic palaces influenced by the English Perpendicular style

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