January 16, 2025

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston is the only U.S. venue for the extraordinary exhibit of more than 150 works by French Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) – Gauguin in the World – and we are thrilled to invite you to a private viewing with Dr. Helga Aurisch, Curator of European Art at the MFAH. On […]

January 16, 2025

As you receive this message, I hope that you and your loved ones experienced a joy-filled and memorable Holiday Season. On behalf of the Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association, the Board and I wish you and yours a prosperous and productive 2025. I am honored and excited to serve as the  2025 Houston-Leipzig President. This year […]

March 3, 2024

We are excited to have a real Houston Celebrity join us for our March 2024 Meeting! Dr. Neil Frank, longtime Chief Meteorologist at KHOU-TV, will be our Guest Speaker on March 7th.  Dr Frank’s topic is “Global Warming – Can we learn something from Germany?” Will you join us? If so, please reply to houston.leipzig.sca@gmail.com or […]

January 11, 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 […]

September 12, 2022

The Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association presents a talk on The Energy Situation in Germany and the EU under the Impact of the War in the Ukraine with Special Emphasis on the Situation in Central Germany on Saturday, September 17, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. CDT via Zoom. Please register here in advance for the meeting, and […]

May 8, 2022

Come and join us on Saturday, May 14, 2022, at 11:30 a.m. to hear Gabe Rodriguez, an IT entrepreneur par excellence, explain to us cryptocurrencies, bitcoin, blockchain, wallets, mining . . .  and all you ever wanted to know about this complex topic. This will be a most fascinating meeting. Gabe is located in Berlin, […]

May 6, 2022

Dr. Gabriele Goldfuss sent us a heartfelt thank you for all of the donations from members and friends of Houston-Leipzig: Dear Members and Friends of Houston-Leipzig, Thank you for choosing to support the City of Leipzig’s activities towards the help of Ukrainians in Leipzig! We are very touched to receive donations from our sister city […]

February 1, 2022

Finally we are meeting once again in-person at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston for one of Dr. Helga Aurisch’s legendary guided tours on Thursday, February 10, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. for the exquisite exhibit Incomparable Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. According to Dr. Aurisch, the MFAH’s Curator for European Art, this […]

Dear Members and Friends, The new freedoms gained after the fall of the Berlin Wall inspired many East Germans to spread their wings and reach out to learn about other countries’ people and cultures. In those early days, invited to visit the United States was Stefan Roehrbein, a language and sociology student born and raised […]