Events July - Dec 2009
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Season’s Greetings from Consul General Alford (December 21, 2009)
In my first Christmas in Frankfurt I am grateful for the good people I have come to know here. Our family is looking forward to coming together and celebrating the wonderful blend of German and American Christmas customs which are our tradition. (more) »
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Stuttgart’s BIL-Schule Opens a Window on America (December 16, 2009)
Consul General Edward M. Alford held a town hall meeting at the BIL-Schule in Stuttgart to introduce the U.S. Mission to Germany’s “Windows on America” (WoA) program to teachers, students, their parents and siblings on December 16th. (more) »
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Holiday Celebration across Cultures (December 16, 2009)
Deputy Principal Officer Doria Rosen hosted a holiday reception for a group of women of diverse ethnic, religious, and professional backgrounds (more) »
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Generation Pow Wow: The North American Indian Inuit Film Festival featured in Stuttgart (December 10-13, 2009)
Stuttgart’s cultural commissioner Susanne Laugwitz-Aulbach and Gunter Lange, the head of the Film Festival team, opened the third INDIAN INUIT Film Festival at the Volkshochschule in Stuttgart on December 10th. (more) »
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Bluegrass Jamboree in Germany (December 5-20, 2009)
The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy Germany supported the first major Bluegrass Festival in Germany. Bluegrass, originally rural music from the 1940s from Kentucky and Tennessee, is gaining more and more popularity in Germany. (more) »
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The American Dream in Neu-Isenburg (December 10, 2009)
Public Affairs Officer Jeanine Collins met with 12th graders of Goetheschule Neu-Isenburg to talk about the American Dream, personal dreams, and current issues in the U.S., such as health care reform, race relations and discrimination. (more) »
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Consul General Meets Frankfurt Press Club (December 8, 2009)
Consul General Ned Alford met with Frankfurt Press Club members for a background discussion on German-American topics on the evening of December 8. (more) »
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EducationUSA Infospecial at German-American Institute Stuttgart (December 8, 2009)
EducationUSA of the U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt joined EducationUSA Stuttgart and offered a special information session on exchange opportunities and visa issues at the German-American Institute in Stuttgart. (more) »
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Fun, Games, Exchanges: Hessen Total International (December 5, 2009)
On Saturday, “Hessen Total International” offered intercultural activities, dance workshops and introductions to less well known sports such as speed stacking to a young Frankfurt audience. (more) »
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Gymnasium students publish book on German-American relations (December 2, 2009)
At a public ceremony in the Schlosstheater in Neuwied, 12th and 13th-grade students of the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium presented a book titled “Freunde in Freiheit. (more) »
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Ecotopia in Trier, Saarbrücken, Freiburg, and Tübingen (November 11-22, 2009)
U.S. author, film critic, and professor at the University of California Berkeley, Ernest Callenbach, visited Trier, Saarbrücken, Freiburg, and Tübingen for an extensive speaking tour. (more) »
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Seminar on "Disinformation in the Information Society" (November 19-20, 2009)
The U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt, the Atlantic Academy and the Staatliche Institut für Lehrerfortbildung (SIL) jointly organized a two-day seminar on “Disinformation in the Information Society” at the SIL training facility in Boppard in Rhineland-Palatinate. (more) »
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Trialogue of Cultures and Media’s Role in Integration (November 19, 2009)
About 60 media professionals, government officials, academics, and politicians discussed migrants as a target group and the media’s role in integration at the 13th “Trialogue of Cultures” conference hosted by Herbert Quandt-Stiftung and supported by the US-Consulate General Frankfurt on November 19. (more) »
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Discussion on Stereotypes and Diversity in U.S. Media (November 17 & 18, 2009)
Media’s Relationship with Stereotyping” was the focus of Professor Brad Gorham’s discussion with 35 students and faculty of the University of Mannheim’s Department of Media and Communication Studies on November 17. (more) »
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German-American Liederabend great success (November 14, 2009)
Singers Sabine Fischmann and Heidrun Kordes accompanied by pianist Thorsten Larbig presented their entertaining German-American Liederabend “Bye, Bye, mein lieber Herr” about home sickness and a new beginning at a packed Romanfabrik on November 14. (more) »
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Frankfurt City Library = Infopoint for Work and Study International (November 14, 2009)
EducationUSA Frankfurt, Eurodesk Germany and the International Placement Service of the Labor Exchange held an afternoon information session at the City Library Frankfurt on studying and working in the United States and the European Union (more) »
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School Newspaper Editors find out why the U.S. is so different (November 13 and 14, 2009)
The U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt, the Hesse Center for political Education and the Jugendpresse Hessen e.V. joined forces in organizing the third joint seminar for Hesse school newspaper editors at the Youth Hostel in Fulda. (more) »
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"This was just the beginning!" WoA Alumni from Ludwigshafen report on their USA-Trip (November 13, 2009)
On November 13th, Consul General Ned Alford visited the Pestalozzihauptschule Ludwigshafen to meet the nine students and their two teachers who had participated in the U.S. Embassy’s Windows on America (WoA) Exchange program in August. (more) »
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Freiburg goes Abroad (November 12, 2009)
The U.S. Consulate Frankfurt’s EducationUSA participated in the "Let’s Go Abroad" information fair organized by the German-American Institute "Carl-Schurz-Haus" in Freiburg and the Labor Exchange. (more) »
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Internationales Forum on U.S. Politics at Schuldorf Bergstrasse (November 12, 2009)
The U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt, the Hesse Center for Political Education, the Staatliches Schulamt and the Volkshochschule Darmstadt-Dieburg arranged a lecture by Dr. Steven Bloom on “American Politics One Year After the Election of Barack Obama” at the Schuldorf Bergstraße in Seeheim-Jugenheim. (more) »
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Ambassador Murphy at the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart in person, on radio, and via internet (November 11, 2009)
On November 11th, Ambassador Philip D. Murphy held a “town hall” meeting with some 300 students and faculty of the renowned Hochschule der Medien, HdM, (Media University) in Stuttgart. (more) »
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Exhibit Opening "Amerikaner in Hessen" at Karmeliterkloster (November 10, 2009)
U.S. Consul General Edward Alford joined Dr. Evelyn Brockhoff (Director of the Institut für Stadtgeschichte), Prof. Dr. Felix Semmelroth (Frankfurt's Cultural Commissioner), Dr. Bernd Heidenreich (Director of the Hesse Center for Political Education), and curator Torsten Halsey in opening the exhibit "Amerikaner in Hessen" at the Karmeliterkloster in Frankfurt (more) »
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The Obama Administration 1 year after the elections (November 6-7, 2009)
The U.S. Consulate General and the Protestant Academy Arnoldshain organized a two-day seminar on „An Assessment of the Obama Administration One Year after the Elections“ at the Martin-Niemöller-Haus in Schmitten-Arnoldshain. (more) »
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Avanti! draws a 1000 students interested in studying and working in the U.S., Europe and Overseas (November 5, 2009)
On November 5, EducationUSA Frankfurt participated in "AVANTI! Job, Praktikum und Studium in Europa und Übersee" in Darmstadt. The fair, organized for the ninth time by the Regierungspräsidium Darmstadt, featured 32 organizations offering stays abroad. (more) »
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"Die Brücke" celebrates German-American Ties (November 4, 2009)
Public Affairs Officer Jeanine Collins discussed the transatlantic relationship with members of "Die Brücke", the German-American Club Gießen-Wetzlar, on November 4. (more) »
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Von Marschall portrays Michelle Obama in Darmstadt, Landau and Karlsruhe (November 2-3, 2009)
Dr. Christoph von Marschall, the U.S. correspondent of the Berlin-based daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, presented lectures on “Michelle Obama – An American Dream” (more) »
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Non-Proliferation Expert at PRIF (October 30, 2009)
On the invitation of the U.S. Consulate General, Dr. Leonard S. Spector, Deputy Director of the Monterey Institute of International Studies' James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and head of the Center's Washington D.C. Office, gave a presentation on "Western Nonproliferation Policy and Iran". (more) »
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U.S. Consulate Celebrates Halloween (October 30, 2009)
Halloween, the last day of October, has a special significance for children, who dress in costumes and knock on neighborhood doors shouting "Trick or Treat!" Pirates and princesses, ghosts and witches all hold bags open to catch the candy or other goodies that the neighbors drop in. (more) »
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"History in Perspective - Modern Jazz" at Romanfabrik (October 29, 2009)
The U.S. Consulate General supported a concert on October 29th at Frankfurt’s Romanfabrik. (more) »
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Stuttgart Fall Concert Celebrates German-American Day featuring the “Best of Both Worlds” (October 28, 2009)
Deputy Chief of Mission Greg Delawie and Consul General Edward M. Alford openend the Stuttgart Fall Concert, jointly organized by the Federation of German-American Clubs and the James-F.-Byrnes-Institute/ Deutsch-Amerikanische Zentrum (DAZ) on the occasion of German-American Day at the Neues Schloss. (more) »
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Germany Premiere: Reif Larsen reads from "The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet"(October 27, 2009)
American author and “Wunderkind” of the American literary scene Reif Larsen thrilled his audience at his first reading in Germany from his debut novel “The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet”. (more) »
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“Beyond the Horizon” – Konstanz students check out Studying and Interning in the U.S. (October 22, 2009)
Information on exchange opportunities with the United States was in great demand at the “Beyond the Horizon” exchange fair in Konstanz on October 22, 2009. (more) »
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Competition and/or collaboration? Marketing graduate studies in the U.S. and Germany (October 20, 2009)
At a one-day conference at the German-American Institut Heidelberg, 25 participants from various universities discussed the recruitment of graduate students. (more) »
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U.S. Correspondent von Marschall sheds light on Michelle Obama (October 19, 2009)
The U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt joined forces with the Frankfurt City Library and the Evangelische Akademie Arnoldshain in organizing a lecture by Dr. Christoph von Marschall, U.S. correspondent of the Berlin-based daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, on his newly published German-language biography of Michelle Obama - "Michelle Obama - The American Dream" (more) »
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Expert Roundtable on Health Care Reform (October 19, 2009)
At the invitation of the U.S. Consulate General, Harry Harris, founder and CEO of Central California’s largest health care insurance company, participated in an expert roundtable at the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Health in Mainz on October 19. (more) »
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School Newspaper Competition "USA" (October 17, 2009)
For the second time after 2007, the U.S. Consulate General co-sponsored a special “Competition USA” for the best school newspaper articles on the topic "How Barack Obama Has Changed America " (more) »
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Positioning Information Professionals for the Future (October 15, 2009)
Janice Lachance, CEO of the Special Libraries Association (SLA), gave the key note address at the opening of the annual conference of the German Society for Information Sciences (DGI) on October 15th. (more) »
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Consul General Alford Enjoys Tour of the Book Fair (October 15, 2009)
On October 15, Book Fair Director Jürgen Boos welcomed Consul General Ned Alford, Deputy Principal Officer Doria Rosen, Cultural Attaché Elizabeth Corwin, and Public Affairs Officer Jeanine Collins to the Book Fair. (more) »
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Shanghai Girls in Frankfurt – U.S. author Lisa See at the Book Fair (October 15, 2009)
Chinese-American author Lisa See was this year’s special guest of U.S. Mission Germany and C. Bertelsmann Publishing House at the Frankfurt Book Fair. (more) »
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M.I.T. Professor Singer discusses regulation of financial markets (October 13, 2009)
On the invitation of the U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt, David Singer, Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, gave a presentation on "Regulating Capital: Setting New Standards for the International Financial System". (more) »
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German-American Friendship in Frankfurt (October 6, 2009)
City Treasurer Uwe Becker and Consul General Ned Alford welcomed hundreds of German and American citizens on German-American Friendship Day, originally initiated by President Ronald Reagan on October 6. (more) »
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11th Darmstadt Jazzforum great success (September 25 – October 4, 2009)
The U.S. Consulate General supported the participation on October 2 of two American speakers, William Bares (Harvard University, Cambridge) and Harald Kisiedu (Columbia University, New York), during this year’s Darmstadt Jazzforum. (more) »
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Point Alpha Reminds that Freedom is not Free (October 2, 2009)
Consul General Ned Alford and PAO Jeanine Collins attended the celebration of the day of German Unity on October 2 at Point Alpha. (more) »
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Baseball and Football for German Schools (October 1-2, 2009)
The U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt, the Atlantic Academy Rheinland-Pfalz, the Landessportbund and Landessportjugend Rheinland-Pfalz jointly organized a two-day seminar on "American Sports for German Schools: Baseball and Football". (more) »
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U.S. Consulate General participates in Newcomer's Festival (October 4, 2009)
On October 4th, Consul General Ned Alford and City Treasurer Uwe Becker opened the ninth annual "Newcomers" Festival at the Frankfurt Römer. U.S. Citizen Services and the Public Affairs Section teamed up to inform an international audience about their services. (more) »
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U.S. Consul General Alford hosted by AGBC Frankfurt (September 29, 2009)
The American-German Business Club Frankfurt invited U.S. Consul General Edward M. Alford to be the guest speaker at a luncheon at the Evonik company in Frankfurt. (more) »
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The Fall of the Wall from an American Perspective: DJ Darky Goes Berlin (September 28, 2009)
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall, the U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt featured a reading by American poet, performance artist, and novelist Paul Beatty at the Romanfabrik on September 28. (more) »
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“Hello World!” High School Student Exchange Fair Attracts Crowd (September 26, 2009)
The U.S., Canada or maybe China? Turkey or Argentinia? 1100 students and their parents enjoyed learning about various programs available to high school students interested in spending time in another country. (more) »
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Seminar on “Winds of Change” in U.S. politics (September 18-19, 2009)
The U.S. Consulate General, the Fridtjof-Nansen Academy, the Atlantic Academy, the Hesse Center for Political Education and Frankfurt University’s Center for North American Studies joined forces in organizing their annual seminar on American politics at the Fridtjof-Nansen Academy in Ingelheim. (more) »
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German American Friendship Through Art (September 21, 2009)
Together with Frankfurt City Treasurer Uwe Becker, PAO Jeanine Collins handed over a piece of art to Ziehen High School in Frankfurt. The artwork was created by Ziehen student Simone Glaser who participated in last years Understanding competition, which had the theme of the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. (more) »
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Charles Kupchan discusses transatlantic relations (September 17, 2009)
The U.S. Consulate General and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) invited the internationally renowned political scientist Charles Kupchan from Georgetown University to discuss transatlantic relations at PRIF. (more) »
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Ambassador Murphy Visits IAA (September 17, 2009)
Together with Chancellor Angela Merkel, Minister President of Hessen Roland Koch, Lord Mayor of the City of Frankfurt Petra Roth, President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry Matthias Wissmann, and 300 other invited guests, Ambassador Philip D. Murphy attended the official opening ceremony of the International Automobile Show (more) »
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Frankfurt Kick-Off for Ambassador Murphy (September 16, 2009)
On his first official visit to Frankfurt, Ambassador Philip D. Murphy took the opportunity to attend the season opening press conference of 1. (more) »
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Ambassador meets Frankfurt consulate staff (September 16, 2009)
Ambassador Murphy greeted staff of the U.S. Consulate General in Frankfurt in a Town Hall meeting on his first official trip to Frankfurt, the city he lived in while working for Goldman Sachs the 1990s. (more) »
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Annual American Citizen Information Night Draws a Crowd (September 15, 2009)
Several hundred American citizens came to the Consulate to learn about the wide range of consular and other services provided to the local American community by the State Department and other agencies such as the IRS, the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service. (more) »
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Iftar inspires love and laughter (September 14, 2009)
To celebrate Ramadan, Deputy Principal Officer Doria Rosen hosted an Iftar for 40 women of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds. (more) »
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The legacy of Mickey Mouse at Lucas Film Festival in Frankfurt (September 11-12, 2009)
U.S. filmmaker and Academy Award nominee Leslie Iwerks fascinated a captive audience of filmmakers and an interested public at the 32. LUCAS International Children’s Film Festival in Frankfurt. (more) »
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Consulate Community Remembers 9/11 (September 11, 2009)
Staff of the Frankfurt Consulate honored the victims of terrorism of September 11, 2001 in a candle-lighting ceremony on Friday afternoon, September 11, 2009. (more) »
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Farewell to an Icon of German American Friendship (September 8, 2009)
On September 8th, Consul General Ned Alford bid farewell to Dr. Ulrich Bachteler, who served as Director of the Deutsch-Amerikanische Zentrum (DAZ)/ James-F.-Byrnes-Institut in Stuttgart for fourteen years. (more) »
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Discussion of Obama Administration in Kassel (September 4, 2009)
he U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt and the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation organized a lecture by American political scientist Dr. Andrew Denison, Director of Transatlantic Networks, on “New Directions of U.S. Government Policies – Are Hopes Coming True?” (more) »
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My home is my castle - Sheri Warshauer exhibit opens in Frankfurt (September 2, 2009)
Deputy Principal Officer Doria Rosen spoke at the opening of the Sheri Warshauer exhibit on September 2, at the Davis Klemm Gallery in Frankfurt. (more) »
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DPO Doria Rosen Conveys the President’s Ramadan Greetings at Iftar at State Chancellery in Stuttgart (August 31, 2009)
Deputy Principal Officer Doria Rosen addressed an audience of some 50 participants at an Iftar hosted by Baden-Württemberg’s Justice Minister Prof. Dr. Ulrich Goll at the state chancellery in Stuttgart on August 31. (more) »
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“Touch ’n Go” Wows Crowd at Museumsuferfest (August 29 and 30, 2009)
U.S. Air Force Band “Touch’n’Go” wowed audiences with their performances of rock and Motown at the Museumsuferfest in Frankfurt. (more) »
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New Consul General Meets Lord Mayor Roth and City Council Chairman Bührmann (August 26, 2009)
Frankfurt Lord Mayor Petra Roth and City Council Chairman Karlheinz Bührmann met the new Consul General Edward M. (Ned) Alford at Frankfurt City Hall on August 26. (more) »
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Consul General Alford Attends Frankfurt Iftar (August 26, 2009)
Consul General Ned Alford attended an Iftar given by the Turkish-German Health Foundation in Frankfurt on August 26. (more) »
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New Consul General has assumed charge in Frankfurt (August 24, 2009)
Consul General Edward (Ned) M. Alford, a career Foreign Service Officer, class of Minister Counselor, assumed charge of the U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt on August 19, 2009. (more) »
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Frankfurt Celebrates the Blues (August 20, 2009)
American blues singers Harriet Lewis and Tommie Harris together with the Bluesnight Band unleashed blues power at a sold out open air concert entitled “Blues – Sunny Side Up” at Frankfurts Palmengarten on August 20. (more) »
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Marburg celebrated Thorpe Cup 2009 (August 8 & 9, 2009)
German and U.S. decathletes and heptathletes competed against each other to win the 2009 Thorpe Cup in Marburg on August 8 and 9. (more) »
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Farewell to “Windows on America” Group from Ludwigshafen (August 3, 2009)
Public Affairs Officer Jeanine Collins bid farewell to the “Windows on America” group from the Pestalozzi Hauptschule in Ludwigshafen on August 3, 2009. (more) »
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DHS Deputy Secretary Lute tours Frankfurt Airport’s biometric border control system (July 21, 2009)
Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute received a guided tour and demonstration of Frankfurt airport’s pilot system for automated biometric border controls by German federal police on July 21, 2009. (more) »
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Consulate Interns Attend International Climate Change Conference (July 12-19, 2009)
Consulate interns Katelyn Andell and Katie Kyle participated in the UNESCO World Youth Festival, which took place from July 12 to 19 in Stuttgart (more) »
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Classic Jazz Rock at the Palmengarten (July 16, 2009)
A unique trio of U.S. jazz artists Larry Coryell (guitar), Alphonse Mouzon (drums) and Joey DeFrancesco (B3 organ) filled the Frankfurt Palmengarten with the sounds of classic jazz rock on a beautiful summer evening. (more) »
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U.S. Mission to Germany supports multimedia project on Jewish history (July 15, 2009)
At a luncheon hosted by the Jewish Community, Public Affairs Officer Jeanine Collins welcomed a diverse group of teachers from the United States, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Turkey to Frankfurt on July 16th. (more) »
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Deputy Principal Officer Doria Rosen Welcomes Participants of RISE-Program (July 9, 2009)
Deputy Principal Officer Doria Rosen welcomed to Heidelberg over 350 American, British, and Canadian participants in the “Research Internships in Science and Engineering” (RISE) program. (more) »
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Surprise Party for Consul General Jo Ellen Powell at English Theatre (July 8, 2009)
Consul General Jo Ellen Powell was stunned and surprised to find over 100 friends standing behind a closed curtain on the stage of the English Theatre in Frankfurt.
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Pulitzer Prize Winners Take Frankfurt on an Exciting Journey from Fact to Fiction in Historical Literature (July 7, 2009)
Deputy Principal Officer Doria Rosen and Library Director Thomas Schweier welcomed the “dream team of the historical novel” (Frankfurter Rundschau) Geraldine Brooks and her husband Tony Horwitz as well as some sixty interested attendees to the Bibliothekszentrum Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen on July 7th. (more) »
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Consul General Jo Ellen Powell Hosts Independence Day Reception (July 2, 2009)
On July 2, Consul General Jo Ellen Powell hosted Frankfurt’s official July 4th event at her residence. After the presentation of the colors by the Marine Embassy Guard, Juandalynn Abernathy sang both the German and American national anthems. (more) »
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Farewells for Consul General Jo Ellen Powell in Stuttgart and Tübingen (July 1, 2009)
The German-American Institutes in Stuttgart and Tübingen said farewell to Consul General Jo Ellen Powell during their annual Fourth of July receptions on July 1. (more) »