Selected Events 2006

Mayor for Cultural Affairs Dr. Georg Girardet addresses the guests at Leipzig Municipal Library

November 14, 2006
Consul General Mark Scheland officially launched the America@your library partnership with the Leipzig Municipal Library, the 5th and final event of this kind in Leipzig's Consulate General district. The opening drew about 70 guests, including this year’s Fulbrighters in the region, former participants of the International Visitor Program who travelled to the U.S., local high school students, and members of the general public. The Consul General presented a check for € 2,500 to the head of the library, Dr. Arne Ackermann. The program celebrating the new partnership also included a bilingual reading by Kjärstin Wenig, wife of the Consul for Public Affairs Mark Wenig, and the head of the children's library, Ms. Gründig, to twenty elementary school kids, a discussion/Q&A by the Consul General with sixty 10th graders, and information on exchange programs.
In his speech, Mayor for Cultural Affairs, Dr. Georg Girardet, recalled his participation in the International Visitor Program in 1994, during which “I learned so much about the U.S. and which continues to have an impact to this very day.” Library Director Ackermann, in turn, lauded his library's “longstanding and excellent cooperation” with the Consulate.