Welcome to the Network of English-Speaking Women!

The Network was founded in 1993 with the goal of providing a forum for communication and exchange between English-speaking women in and around Freiburg, Germany. By putting women in contact with one another and encouraging the exchange of information and experience – both personal and professional – the Network offers fun and informative evenings in a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere.

Our next Meeting - Friday, November 7th 

"Not The Whole Story’’- Finissage of Debbie Nodder’s art exhibition at the Carl-Schurz-Haus

South African-born, Freiburg-living artist Debbie Nodder's works in paint, which opened at the Carl-Schurz-Haus on October 8, and will continue throughout this fall, inhabit the space "between," echoing the words of a Tracy Chapman song that resonate deeply with her practice. Her art traces the contours of place - Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa, Germany - yet always through a lens of abstraction, emotion, and quiet narrative. Rather than mere representation, her landscapes and scenes suggest memory, story, and experience, inviting viewers into a world that is both familiar and elusive. The natural world forms the anchor of Debbie’s vision: rocks, trees, and water provide grounding, while light, reflection, and ephemeral phenomena capture her imagination. Her figurative references - for example, boats, architectural fragments, cultural symbols, or hints of the human form - suggest habitation and presence without explicit depiction. Layers of past images, traces, and palimpsests recur throughout her work, embodying the ways memory, history, and expectation shape our perception of place.
Debbie's art is not posed as a question but as a method of understanding – a reflection on the layered, complex, and often chaotic world she experiences. Each work is an exploration of  lace, presence, and perception, rendered with sensitivity, subtlety, and a keen poetic sensibility.
Friederike Schulte, Director of the Carl-Schurz-Haus, has very kindly offered us a private viewing this evening.

If you would like to join us, please register at registration(at)nesw.de or use the form below by November 5th.

The Coordinating Team