We’ve had a wonderful movie summer at Houston-Leipzig, and are easing into an exciting fall. Please join us on Thursday, September 12, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. for a presentation by Anne Breaux on 100 Years Bauhaus. What does Bauhaus mean to you? Maybe you’ve heard of its most important directors: Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies […]
Phoenix (2014) – a film by Christian Petzold Houston-Leipzig Summer Movie Night June 13, 2019, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. L’Alliance Française As every summer, we will screen German films (with English subtitles) during the months of June, July, and August. This year our first two movies – Phoenix and Barbara – were directed by award-winning […]
The following was published by the U.S. Consulate Leipzig and the U.S. Embassy Berlin: The Steuben-Schurz Society, the oldest German American friendship organization, annually awards the most active German-American sister city relationship and we are so happy to be able to say it’s #leipzighouston this year! Their call for applications was heard by the City […]
We wish you a terrific New Year 2019, filled with health, happiness, and prosperity! Our first meeting of the New Year is on January 10, 2019, and we have a great speaker on a topic that has affected all of us in one way or another. Dr. Irene Guenther presents “The remarkable, haunting Life of […]
It’s been an exciting time in Leipzig where we celebrated Houston-in-Leipzig week during the last ten days in October. About 38 people from Houston came for the celebrations. They included poets, authors, ballet dancers, bloggers, musicians, and, of course, many of our members. We’ll be sending reports and lots of pictures soon. Our next meeting […]
Did you know that Texas Germans produced an astounding body of literature in the 19th century that embraced all genres and which, if it were stacked up in a pile side by side, would exceed the amount produced in English? In other words, a shadow Texas literature exists that has almost been entirely forgotten. We […]
With much sadness we heard that Dr. Hinrich Lehmann-Grube, first Mayor of Leipzig after the fall of the Wall, died on Sunday, August 6, 2017. He was 84 years old. Dr. Lehmann-Grube was Mayor when the sister city relationship between Houston and Leipzig was established, and he was instrumental and supportive in bringing the cities […]
Leipzig. Franziska von Sohl. Two new records: international visitors and ticket sales This year’s Leipzig Bach Festival drew to a close on June 18 with a performance of the Mass in B Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach in St. Thomas’ Church, Leipzig (Germany). Nearly 71,000 visitors attended the 120-plus events that made up the ten-day […]
Murder, Mayhem, and a great Meal – the curse of the Ring continues as potions lead to betrayals, deception, and murder. The Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association cordially invites you to a social gathering and talk with the inimitable Paul Hopper, dramaturg at the Houston Grand Opera on Götterdämmerung – The Twilight of Houston Grand Opera’s Ring […]
We think of soccer as a game that has been around forever, at least as a street game in Europe and maybe South America, but it’s been only a little over a hundred years that “Fussball” became popular and legal in Germany. In Bavaria, home to the FC Bayern Munich, one of the most famous […]
