Selected Events 2007

From left: Consul for Public Affairs Mark Wenig; Uwe Bellmann, English teacher; Andreas Barth, Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau

April 26, 2007
Consul for Public Affairs Mark Wenig addressed a student group in the Saxon town of Waldenburg on April 26 with a Power Point presentation on his home state of Alaska. The visit was arranged by Andreas Barth, one of the lead librarians in the historic Ratsschulbibliothek (Council Library) in the city of Zwickau. The 11th graders and their teachers asked many questions, and afterwards, school administrators invited Wenig and his wife to brief roundtable. Later in the day, Wenig went on to nearby town of Hohenstein-Ernstthal, the birthplace of the German western writer, Karl May. At the town’s Karl May Center, Wenig gave the another Alaska Power Point presentation for the members of the bi-monthly English Club, and questions and a warm discussion followed.