Jasmin Wölke hosts events in Aachen in German, in English or in a planned mix of both languages. Her stage English comes from more than ten years of international corporate work at Bosch, SAP and Volkswagen, not from a language course.
English is a working language in Aachen
Few German cities are as naturally international as Aachen. RWTH and FH Aachen attract researchers and students from all over the world, many institutes and spin-offs on campus work entirely in English, and employees commute across the borders to Belgium and the Netherlands every day. Grünenthal, the pharmaceutical company headquartered here, runs teams across countries as well. Anyone planning a conference, a town hall or a client day in Aachen rarely faces a purely German audience. At the same time, the room usually includes departments, partners and guests who take in far more when they hear German. One language alone is rarely enough here.
Two languages, one programme
Before the running order is written, Jasmin defines which part of the programme runs in which language. She opens and frames the event bilingually, talks stay in the speaker's language, and she then sums up the key points briefly in the other language. In discussions she announces every switch so nobody in the audience drops out, and she agrees with each guest in advance which language they prefer to answer in. Most formats work without an interpreting booth this way, yet remain clear for everyone. The programme keeps its rhythm because no sentence is delivered twice.
Tested in front of international audiences
At the Global Sales Summit, a corporate reference from her industry career, Jasmin hosted three days in English with more than 500 participants from over 40 countries. Native speakers sat next to colleagues for whom English is a third language. That is exactly the mix she moderates for: clear English without filler phrases, a pace that carries everyone, and humour that does not depend on an idiom. For Aachen's technical audiences, precision of terminology matters far more than accent anyway.
Planning your bilingual event in Aachen
Whether at the Eurogress, the Altes Kurhaus or a lecture hall on campus: for Jasmin, the language question belongs in the first briefing, not in the dress rehearsal. Ludwigsburg is about four hours away, so for morning events she arrives the evening before. Send your occasion, date and language mix through the contact form. How the switching works in detail is explained in how bilingual moderation works, the format overview is in the hub moderation in English, and all pages about the city are collected on the Aachen city page.