Leipzig Business

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 […]

15Nov 2018

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 […]

04Apr 2018

Many of you know Secilia Pappert, freelance radio and newspaper journalist, who visited Houston twice, and was one of the members of the Buergerreise from Leipzig this past February. Here you can find an excellent interview by her with District Chief Jimmy McDonald and firefighters at Fire Station 16 in Houston (click on the link […]

06Aug 2017

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 […]

19Jun 2017

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 […]

05May 2017

We have an extra-special program for you at our next meeting on Thursday, May 11, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall of Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice Boulevard, Houston, TX  77005:  one of Leipzig’s Buergermeisters is in town, and with his teenage daughter Annalena we’ll have a double header!  Since we […]

04Aug 2016

The City of Leipzig published the following press release on August 2, 2016. Rev. Dr. Robert Moore ist Leipzigs Reformationsbotschafter in den USA Die Stadt Leipzig hat heute Reverend Dr. Robert Moore von der Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) aus Leipzigs Partnerstadt Houston zum offiziellen Reformationsbotschafter in den USA ernannt. Leipzig wird zum 500-jährigen […]

10Apr 2016

American Space Leipzig is an initiative between the University of Leipzig and the U.S. Government to encourage learning, exchange, and dialogue between the United States and Germany.  The first center of its type in Central Germany, it offers a public platform for dialog and exchange between the USA and Germany on a local level. Its […]

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