Chronology

2004

January 22, 2004 – Doug Berry Come in Third as “Magdeburger of the Year”

Sister Cities of Nashville President Doug Berry’s active volunteerism prompts the German-American Dialog Center to nominate him for “Magdeburger of the Year 2003″. Once the Magdeburg Volksstimme readers’ votes had been tallied, Doug Berry had placed third from among ten candidates. US Consul General Fletcher M. Burton attended as honorary guest.

March 29 – April 17, 2004 – Second School Student Exchange

A total of ten students from different Magdeburg high schools took part in the second student exchange between Magdeburg and Nashville. Dialog Center member Bianca-Maria Mannewitz also traveled to Nashville as chaperon.

April 24.-28, 2004 – Magdeburg Culture Week in Nashville

A delegation with Mayor Lutz Trümper was in Nashville during the first Magdeburg Cultural Week there. Mayors Lutz Trümper and Bill Purcell kicked off the event by opening an exhibition on Otto von Guericke at the Adventure Science Center. Afterward, the Otto von Guericke Society demonstrated the historic hemisphere experiment in Nashville for the first time. In addition, the Magdeburg Puppentheater presented an exhibition on the history of puppet theater in Magdeburg and its puppeteers performed their children’s program “Rumpelstiltskin” in English to a sold out audience. Magdeburg Museums Director Dr. Matthias Puhle gave a lecture at the Nashville Public Library on the nearly 1200 year history of the city on the Elbe. The Telemann Consortium Magdeburg also gave a musical guest performance.

May 28, 2004 – Nashville Day at the Magdeburg Municipal Library

On the occasion of the one year anniversary of the Sister Cities relationship and in collaboration with the Magdeburg Municipal Library, the Dialog Center held a Nashville Information Day at the library. The Dialog Center organized an exhibition of pictures of the Magdeburg Cultural Week in Nashville taken by Magdeburg photographer Ronny Hartmann.

June 16-17, 2004 – Blair Szuzuki Cello Choir from Nashville in Magdeburg

The Blair Szuzuki Cello Choir from Nashville visited Magdeburg and gave guest performances together with the Georg Philipp Telemann Conservatory at the conservatory concert hall and St. Paul’s Church.

June 19, 2004 – Blair Children’s Choir Nashville gives concert in Magdeburg

The girl’s choir from the renowned Vanderbilt University in Magdeburg’s Sister City Nashville performed a varied program from Bach to Edward Elgar through modern American songs at the Schinkel Hall in the Gesellschaftshaus in Magdeburg.

August 2004 – Alternative Service

The German-American Dialog Center Magdeburg has been a state approved sponsor of “alternative service” since 2004. This alternative to conventional military service enables young men to complete their service in charitable institutions abroad.

Gordon Niemann was the first young man sent to Nashville in August 2004 to perform his alternative service. For eleven months, he provided care to socially disadvantaged children and youth at the Martha O’Bryan Center.

August 2004 – Beate Hörning interns at the National Library in Nashville

Beate Hörning from the Magdeburg Municipal Library completed a library internship at the public library in our Sister City of Nashville from August 23 through October 8, 2004. She was actively involved in the work there, particularly the library’s hundredth anniversary celebration. In addition, she locally supported the Sister Cities relationship and established new contacts. Click here for the detailed reports from Beate Hörning.