Past Events
January 3rd, 2009
School House Memories: Travel
back in time with Doug Ohman as he brings you
Feb 2, 2008
back to a time when all
eight grades were in one classroom. Reminisce
A DVD presentation giving an inside look at Hitler's literal
plans
school lunch, recess and of course "the three R's".
Doug has many stories
for post-war
Germany. It examines the dictator's
and photographs that will make you smile
and laugh,
fascination with
architecture and his relationship with
but most of all remember a more
gentle and simple era of education.
Albert Speer, his
architect. Their plans included the
60,000 seat
Zeppelin
Tribune parade grounds, a 405,000
February 7th, 2009
seat Olympic stadium
and a Triumphal Arch twice the
height and four times the
width of Paris' Arc de Triomphe.
Germans in America: Into the Promised Land:
Learn
about how a whole German village packed up and moved to America.
March 1st, 2008
Then
follow a group of German-Americans from
Presentation by Marty
Ziegler, owner of Deutschland
Missouri
who travel to Germany in search of their roots.
Meats, Inc. with
locations in Sandborn and Lindstrom,
Find
out about
the adventures of German-Americans in the California Gold
Minnesota and of the
Glockenspiel, St. Paul's German
Rush and
how their descendants tried to pass on their heritage to the
Restaurant. Marty
will speak to us about his home town
next
generation.
in Bavaria, his
training and apprenticeship as a Metzger
(butcher) and his immigration
to the United States and
the starting of his
business.
March 7th, 2009
April 5, 2008
The
return of one of our favorite presenters, Professor Paul Schoens.
Ancient
Germany presentation by Paul Schons
Professor Schoens' presentation will be "Women of Significance in Germany".
April 4th, 2009
May 3, 2008
Video and
personal demonstration by German Beer
Germans
in America DVD series: part 2: The Price of Freedom; German families
cross the Atlantic to
distributor Hohensteins, Inc.
on how to pour the the perfect beer.
Texas to develop a massive settlement in the Texas Hill Country.
Members ONLY Event)
June 7, 2008
May 2nd, 2009
Professor LaVern Rippley, on German
Folklore
Relationship between Norway and Germany throughout history
July--Summer Break
Presented by the Honorary Consul of the Royal Norwegian Consulate General.
August 2, 2008
June 6th, 2009
Annual Summer
Picnic: Time: 6PM to 9PM
Place: Veterans Memorial
Park, 64th
and Portland, Richfield
The
club welcomes back one of our favorite musical
groups. The Eric Ray group
Food: German Roast Pork
Dinner
playing traditional German music.
Join us for a night of music and dance, if you wish.
September 6th, 2008
July 2009--Summer
Break
Bavarian Musikmeisters--Authentic Germanic
festival music. Listen and Dancing
August 2, 2009
October 4th, 2008
Professor Heino
Beckmann, Honorary Consul of
Germany.
Annual
Club Picnic
Speaking on the relationship between the USA and the
European Union
Time: 3PM
November 1st, 2008
Anoka County
Historical Society--Presentation on Ghosts of Anoka with DVD
Place: Bloomington Living Hope Lutheran Chuch grounds
December 6th, 2008
Cartered by:
Glockenspiel Restaurant St. Paul
Annual Christmas Party--MEMBERS ONLY!
Cost: $5.00 Members
$10.00 non-members
Entertainment: Traditional German music by Dale and Jan Manthe
September 13th, 2009
Time: 3:00PM
Annelee Woodstrom, teacher and author
War Child: Growing Up in Adolf Hitler's Germany
Annelee Solch was born in 1926 in rural Bavaria, Germany. She witnessed the rise of Hitler and WWII through youthful eyes.
She was 19 years old when Germany surrendered. She immigrated to Minnesota in 1947 as the bride of a Minnesota GI.
November 7th, 2009
Erika Neidert, owner of German Speciality Imports in Prior Lake will be with us to speak about her
home in Germany. The stroy of her coming to America and Prior Lake to start her import business.
Erika will also have a Christkindlsmarkt (Christmas Market) boutique open for purchases of a wide
variety of holiday items after her presentation.
December 6, 2009
Annual Club Christmas Party ***MEMBERS ONLY!!***