Theme: Let's Look Forward

This event follows 18 months of uncertainty, anxiety and stress for young people as a result of the pandemic. Our event is designed to remind young people that better days are ahead, and to hopefully inspire young people to be ambitious about their futures. This event is also about engagement in the local community and the wider body of the school, for whom the last year has also been incredibly difficult. TEDxBeechenCliffSchool 2021 is designed to remind people we should look forward to what lies ahead.

We had hoped to run the event on Thursday 8th of July, however, due to rising Covid-19 cases locally, we have unfortunately had to take the decision to postpone the event. A new date will be announced soon!

Beechen Cliff School
Alexandra Park
Kipling Avenue
Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, BA2 4RE
United Kingdom

Klaus Riekemann

Olympic rower and engineer

Klaus Riekemann was born in 1940 and grew up in Marl, in the industrial Rhein-Ruhr area of Germany. He left school at 14 to do a three-year apprenticeship in mechanics at a local technical college and took up rowing at the age of 17. For the next three years he trained hard and won a range of local and international trophies. By the time he was 20 he had been selected to represent Germany in the 1960 Olympics in Rome where he won a Gold Medal in a coxed 4. Following his sporting success, Klaus decided to focus on his career and self-financed his way through college to study Mechanical Engineering. During the course of an international career lasting forty years, he has held a range of senior management positions. After retirement, he took up rowing again with local club Minerva Bath and from 2011 went on to compete annually in the World Masters’ championships, often winning gold. Klaus' talk will be about rowing and the importance of decision making in our lives.