Pickwicks

New Year's Walk
2026-01-18 10:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Berlin)
As usual, the Pickwicks Club’s popular traditional New Year’s walk will go from Bad Soden station to the Rote Mühle country inn and back.
Here are the details:
Meeting point:
10:35 at Bad Soden station (Google Maps)
Public transport suggestion:
Take the S3 to Bad Soden, calling at:

Frankfurt Hauptwache – 10:05
Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof – 10:08
Frankfurt Westbahnhof – 10:14

Total distance: 12 km (3.5 hours), with a long break at Rote Mühle (Google Maps). The return route may be shortened if required due to weather conditions or general mood.
In very bad weather or road conditions, the event may be cancelled; so please provide a phone number when signing up below!

Wednesday meeting at Restaurant Nidda
2026-01-21 19:00 - 22:00 | Restaurant Nidda, Ludwig-Landmann-Straße 326, Frankfurt, 60487
After the special New Year’s Eve dinner at Restaurant Nidda, next week Pickwicks will have a normal Wednesday Stammtisch meeting there …

British Panto in Wiesbaden
2026-01-25 15:00 - 17:30 | WPAC, Hellmundstraße 33, Wiesbaden, 65183, Germany
Sleeping Beauty
The Story
A magical tale of Fairies, true love, curses and spinning wheels!
The Princess Rose is about to celebrate her eighteenth birthday and the end of a long-standing curse put on her by the evil fairy Malicia. The future looks bright, but the wicked fairy is not to be thwarted!
Can Rose’s friends Nurse Nelly Nutmeg and court jester Jingling Jerry save her? Will she find true love with the dashing Prince Rhod? Can the good but somewhat scatter-brained fairy Forget-me-not remember how to aid the goodies?
A traditional family pantomime packed with jokes, silliness and oodles of audience participation!

(If you are familiar with British Pantomime, you can skip this section.)
You thought the holidays in Britain were all about snow and Charles Dickens? Then you are in for a big surprise – for the holidays wouldn’t be the holidays without a visit to a panto performance!
A British panto is a traditional fairy tale – in our production, Sleeping Beauty – complete with songs, dances, jokes and exaggerated characters and lots of audience participation. It’s a wonderful way to entertain children and there’s also plenty for the adults to enjoy as well.
The centerpiece of any panto is The Dame – a comic, larger than life character played by a man. In our production, our Dame is actually a woman playing a man who is playing a woman – Nelly Nutmeg. The male lead role, the Principal Boy, is always played by a woman. In our production, this is Prince Rhod.
An important aspect of any British panto is plenty of audience participation. Join in with the characters as they sing the silly song and warn them of what’s behind them – like in a Kasperle-Theater!

Pickwicks will be attending the 3 p.m. afternoon performance on Sunday 25 January; for alternative show dates and times, please visit the WPAC homepage. If you would like to join us for this event, please purchase your own tickets online and arrange your own travel. Suggestions for public transport:

13:54 Depart from Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, Platform 24 (RB 10 towards Neuwied)
14:28 Arrive at Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof, Platfom 1
Take any bus to Platz der Deutschen Einheit (Nos. 4, 6, 14, 27, 171, 275)
Walk to Hellmundstraße 33 (Google Maps) (6 minutes).

If you would like to come along, please click the ‘Sign up’ button below!

Wednesday meeting at Café Plazz
2026-01-28 19:00 - 22:00 | Café Plazz, Kirchplatz 8, Frankfurt-Bockenheim, 60487
Our next Stammtisch meeting will be at Café Plazz on Kirchplatz in Bockenheim.

Special exhibition at the Film Museum
2026-01-31 13:30 - 17:00 | Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt, Schaumainkai 41, Frankfurt, 60596
As in previous years, Pickwicks will visit the Film Museum’s current special exhibition:
Long Takes. One Shots. No Cuts.
The exhibition explores the evolution of camera movement and tracking shots in film, investigating various aspects of camerawork. It illustrates the progression from early attempts to ‘unleash the camera’ from its fixed tripod position to the development of increasingly sophisticated mechanical camera rigs and, finally, the latest computer-assisted shooting and editing techniques that make anything possible. The exhibition also showcases famous ‘long shots’ that skilfully avoid manipulating the audience’s attention through editing; instead, they let the camera track the action or – more rarely – minimise it altogether, allowing viewers to decide what to focus on. The pinnacle of the long shot is the ‘one shot’: a film that is shot (or at least pretends to be shot) in a single take without any editing, which obviously requires extremely comprehensive and meticulous preparation.
Pickwicks has booked a guided tour of this fascinating exhibition in English. Afterwards, if people are interested, we can meet at the museum café or somewhere nearby for coffee, cake, or a snack.
The details
Meeting point and time

Film Museum foyer
Saturday 31 January 2026
1:45 p.m.

Cost

Special entrance fee – €7 (free for MuseumsUferCard holders)
Guided tour – €7

If you are interested, please click the ‘Sign up’ button below so that we know how many people to expect.

Cinema visit on Monday 2 February
2026-02-02 15:30 - 18:00 | Eldorado, Schäfergasse 29, Frankfurt, 60313
The film is the much-publicised Hamnet, based on a novel by Maggie O’Farrell, about Shakespeare’s son. Eldorado in Schäfergasse is showing it at 3.45 p.m. in the original English (no subtitles).
If you’re interested, please buy your own tickets either online or at the box office, and we’ll meet in the foyer shortly beforehand. (Ladies, please note that tissues may be called for, as tears are likely to be shed!).
Regards,
Sally

Wednesday meeting at Lilium
2026-02-04 19:00 - 22:00 | Lilium, Leipziger Straße 4, Frankfurt, 60487
Our next Stammtisch meeting will be at the Lilium in Leipziger Straße, close to Bockenheimer Warte.

Wednesday meeting at Arche Nova
2026-02-11 19:00 - 22:00 | Arche Nova, Kasseler Straße 1a, Frankfurt, 60486
Pickwicks’ next Wednesday meeting will be at Arche Nova near the Westbahnhof.

Wednesday meeting at Restaurant Nidda
2026-02-18 19:00 - 22:00 | Restaurant Nidda, Ludwig-Landmann-Straße 326, Frankfurt, 60487
Our next Stammtisch meeting will be back in Rödelheim at the Indian Restaurant Nidda.

Wednesday meeting at Metropol
2026-02-25 19:00 - 22:00 | Metropol am Dom, Metropol Kaffeehaus am Dom, Weckmarkt 15, Frankfurt, 60311
Our next Stammtisch meeting will be at the Metropol Café am Dom, next to the cathedral.

Special Annual General Meeting
2026-03-04 19:00 - 22:00 | Restaurant Nidda, Ludwig-Landmann-Straße 326, Frankfurt, 60487
As already announced, this year’s Pickwicks AGM will be held on Wednesday 4 March, at Nidda Restaurant. This is a legal requirement as long as Pickwicks is a non-registered organisation (Nicht eingetragener Verein). This will be the club’s last AGM (in its 50th year), after which we will continue as an informal group without statutes or membership fees.
We will meet as usual from 7 p.m., and the meeting will start at 8 p.m. It is suggested that those wanting to have a meal there arrive a bit earlier, at 6 or 6.30, so that there will be no interruptions to the actual meeting.
The Committee looks forward to a good turnout. Anyone may attend, but only paid-up members may vote on the points on the Agenda, which will be made available at the meeting. You can pay this year’s €5 subscription on the day, if you haven’t already done so.

Public transport: U7 / Bus M34 stop “Hausener Weg”
Parking: Brentanobad car park (€2)

To give us an idea of the turnout to expect, please use the ‘Sign Up’ button below.
