Announcements

11Jan 2023

The Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association cordially invites you to join us for Zoom presentation by Gisela Kallenbach, on Saturday, January 14, 2023, at 11:30 a.m. (registration link below). She has led an extraordinary life under communist dictatorship in the former East Germany and in a free, democratic Germany. Gisela Kallenbach is a person who experienced […]

12Jan 2022

We are delighted to present Dr. Joerg Meyer as our 2022 President. He has served as Vice President and President-Elect, and has been active on various committees. He and his wife Diana with their two children have lived in Houston on and off for a total of about 20 years. He heard about Houston-Leipzig from […]

10Apr 2019

We cordially invite you to join us at Ouisie’s Table on Thursday, May 9, 2019, for our 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner! Patricia Gilmore-Maass, Chair Person, and her Celebration Dinner Committee have been hard at work to bring you an exciting and delicious evening. We will start with an al fresco reception (if the weather allows) […]

01Dec 2017

Report of the Nominating Committee Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association December 1, 2017 The nominating committee, consisting of Kathryn Kennedy, Steve Braun and Angelika Schmidt-Lange met during various times and by telephone to consider eligible candidates for the board of directors of the association for the 2018/2019 term of office. The nominating committee presents the following […]

09Nov 2015

Report of the Nominating Committee Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association November 9, 2015 The nominating committee, consisting of Kathryn Kennedy, Steve Braun and Angelika Schmidt-Lange met on during various times and by telephone to consider eligible candidates for the board of directors of the association for the 2014/2015 term of office. The nominating committee presents the […]

14Jul 2014

Dear Members and Friends of Houston-Leipzig, I just returned from Germany in time to remind you of our next monthly meeting this coming Thursday, July 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall of Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice Boulevard. During the summer months, we all relax with our Houston-Leipzig at the Movies […]

10May 2014

Our May meeting is coming up in our regular venue next Thursday, May 15, 2014, in the Parish Hall at Christ the King Lutheran Church. Previously I had already indicated that we will deal with money matters. The timing is perfect. Are you familiar with Thomas Piketty’s “Capital”?  Just published in English about two months […]

27Mar 2014

The journey begins . . . Listen to a few bars of Wagner and watch a clip of the Entrance of the Giants – your heart starts pounding, your pulse races – it’s better than the movies – you have never seen anything like this on a stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhjuzEsgUQk&feature=youtu.be After our most successful backstage visit […]

06Mar 2014
Fraz Kafka Image

Imagine yourself living in Prague in the early 1900s, belonging to the German speaking minority of which you represent the Jewish minority and your father, an entrepreneur, is mainly concerned to “make it.”  Against these odds Franz Kafka was trying to establish himself as a writer.  In an informal setting, we will discuss parts of […]

09Jan 2014

Do you know that we in Houston are blessed with an extraordinarily outstanding opera?  Less than a handful of cities in the United States can claim a world-renown opera company; there are the Met in New York, the Lyric Opera in Chicago, the San Francisco Opera, and then there is the Houston Grand Opera – […]