Jasmin Wölke moderates events in Bonn in English, in German or in a guided mix of both. In the United Nations city, English is part of everyday working life, and she hosts conferences, town halls and evening receptions with the same ease.
Few German cities speak this much English
Numerous United Nations organisations work on the UN Campus, among them the Climate Change Secretariat, and their conferences fill the World Conference Center next door. The headquarters of Telekom and DHL lead teams across continents, the university does research internationally, and many associations and NGOs work with partners across Europe. Whoever hosts an event in Bonn therefore often faces a room in which German is only one of many first languages. That changes what the stage needs: English that also reaches the guests for whom it is a second language too. Jasmin speaks at a calm pace, avoids idioms that only native speakers know, and checks technical terms with your experts before the event.
The language mix is planned, not improvised
Many Bonn formats are not purely English but mixed: international guests next to colleagues from German administration, an English expert programme next to a German welcome address. Jasmin fixes the language plan with you in the briefing: which blocks run in English, where a short German summary keeps the room together, which language the guests and videos use. At the start she explains this order to the audience in one sentence. From then on the switch does not feel like a break but like part of the programme.
Proven on a big stage
Jasmin built her confidence on English-language stages in corporate life and demonstrated it at the Bosch Global Sales Summit, a company reference: three days of programme with more than 500 participants from 40 countries, hosted in English and German. Add more than ten years of leadership at Bosch, SAP and within the Volkswagen Group, in which English was the language of negotiation and presentation. On stage you notice it in the details: English Q&A without a safety net, spontaneous programme changes in both languages, introductions that carry equal substance in either language.
Enquiries from Bonn
Briefing and alignment run via video. The train from Ludwigsburg takes around three hours, Cologne Bonn Airport sits just outside the city, and for early starts Jasmin arrives the evening before. Send date, format and the planned share of English through the contact form. When an English-language moderation pays off is covered in moderation in English, the Germany-wide format page is English-speaking moderator, and the city page bundles all Bonn pages.