Jasmin Wölke hosts company Christmas parties in Düsseldorf in German and English: from festive dinners with long service awards to the big year-end celebration for the whole workforce. Düsseldorf is one of her regular working cities with its own city page.
December in Düsseldorf is contested twice over
Anyone planning a Christmas party in Düsseldorf competes for dates on two fronts. In November MEDICA fills the city down to the last hotel kitchen, and right after it comes the short December stretch in which every company wants to celebrate. On top of that, the carnival season starts on 11 November and reserves many festive halls for its own events. The Rheinterrasse on the Rhine, the Classic Remise with its classic car backdrop, the Stahlwerk for a large industrial setting and the hotel ballrooms along Königsallee are therefore booked early. Book in summer and you choose. Start searching in October and you take what is left.
A celebration for mixed workforces
Companies in Düsseldorf rarely celebrate in one language. Headquarters like Henkel or Vodafone Deutschland bring international teams, and the Japanese community around Immermannstraße shapes entire departments. On request Jasmin Wölke hosts the party bilingually, without the evening sounding like simultaneous interpreting. The welcome reaches everyone, the year in review works in both languages, and once the social part begins, the stage steps back.
Her job on such an evening is pace, not show. She opens the evening, guides the room through the review, the thank-yous and the awards, cues the buffet or the dinner and brings the official part to a close before it starts to drag. As a former leader at Bosch she knows what sincere thank-yous sound like, and in the preparation call she helps the management find them.
From briefing to the last item on the programme
After your enquiry, a briefing clarifies occasion, audience and tone: festive dinner or relaxed party, with or without awards, which languages. You then receive a written offer. What a solid master plan contains is shown in the event run sheet guide, and the format itself is described on the Christmas party moderation page.