Programs and Events
Selected Events 2005
Events in 2005
The Embassy sponsors and supports many special programs and events throughout the year. Please follow the links below to find out more.
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December 21, 2005.
Berlin newspaper "Tagesspiegel" published the following interview with Ambassador Timken and his wife Sue on December 21, 2005. "The Ambassador awaits his pre-Christmas visitors with an inviting smile at the front door. Just as the American flag decorates the homes of many Americans, especially in rural America, the flag hangs in the entrance hall of his residence..."(more)
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December 12, 2005.
Ambassador and Mrs. Timken inaugurated an "America @ your library®" partnership with the Berlin Central and Regional Library at the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek. The opening day program at the Amerika- Gedenkbibliothek included a reading/discussion by Mrs. Timken with a Berlin school class, workshops on exchange opportunities and a web chat between the participants of the American German Business Club Berlin's Business Plan competition and Berlin schools.(more)
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December 5-6, 2005.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s trip to Europe highlights the enduring importance of trans-Atlantic relations and U.S. efforts to partner with Europe to address common challenges around the globe. Rice travels to Germany, Romania, Ukraine and Belgium on December 5-9. In Germany, Secretary Rice had a first meeting with new German Chancellor Angela Merkel. They talked about Iran, Afghanistan, U.S.-European relations and U.S.-German relations. She also met with German Foreign Minister Steinmeier.(more)
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December 2, 2005.
Ambassador Timken participated in a brief ceremony at the Checkpoint Charlie Museum to commemorate the American soldiers who stood guard there during the years of the Berlin Wall, 1961–1989. The museum has an annual tradition of lighting a Christmas tree to remember the sacrifices made by Allied troops for the freedom of Berlin during the Cold War and, by extension, to signal hope for a future of freedom around the world. The Ambassador briefly toured the museum before turning on the tree’s lights.(more)
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November 30 - December 1, 2005.
Prior to Secretary Rice's visit, Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick visited Germany November 30-December 1, 2005 to meet with Chancellor Merkel, members of her new cabinet, national security officials, and members of the Bundestag. The Deputy Secretary also participated in a round table with German opinion leaders. He focused on listening to German officials and opinion leaders about their views on Germany's evolving role in Europe and the world, as well as their ideas and plans to promote economic growth and prosperity and, as the world's leading exporter and Europe's biggest economy, their promotion of further trade liberalization in the Doha WTO negotiations.(more)
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Janet Sternburg photographic exhibit opening at the Cafe Einstein in Berlin
November 28, 2005.
Los Angeles based photographer and poet Janet Sternburg opened her photography show "The Behavior of Light" at Galerie Einstein, Unter den Linden. Anne Chermak, Minister Councellor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy, welcomed the artist and about eighty guests to the openning. In her remarks to the guests Janet Sternburg explained that she prefers to work with a disposable camera and never manipulates the pictures she takes. Janet Sternburg’s photographs will be exhibited until December 31, 2005.(more)
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November 22, 2005.
Ambassador and Mrs. Timken and Embassy staff served Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings to the homeless at the Berliner Stadtmission's Zentrum Lehrter Bahnhof on November 22. Thanksgiving, celebrated this year on November 24, is a holiday rooted in the spirit of gratitude and sharing. It is a family holiday but it is also a time when many Americans donate time and money to those who are less fortunate, for example, by participating in Thanksgiving dinners at centers for the homeless. Based on her work with charities in the United States, Mrs. Timken initiated this new Embassy Thanksgiving tradition in Berlin. The Stadtmission offers shelter and serves an evening meal to over 100 homeless people every evening. More about Thanksgiving(more)
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November 22, 2005.
Ambassador William R. Timken, Jr. - together with the head of Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna William Wanlund, the head of Public Affairs in the U.S. Embassy in Bern Daniel Wendell, and the State Department's Director of Alumni Affairs Merrie Blocker, all participating live via digital video conference - launched the AGS community website. Tailored to the special needs of German-speaking alumni from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland (AGS) the website is part of the State Department's alumni.state.gov website, a tool designed to create a virtual international alumni community. More than 50 alumni attended the launch, which was followed by a reception where alumni could register and surf the site at our "internet café." In addition, the first in a series of small grant competitions (EUR 2,500 each) was announced for the Berlin/Brandenburg region, aimed to support alumni projects.(more)
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November 18, 2005.
In Berlin, U.S. Agriculture Under Secretary J. B. Penn met with German government counterparts, parliamentarians, and business leaders to reiterate the U.S. administration's conviction that the U.S. and the EU must continue to pursue an ambitious outcome of the Doha Development Agenda round at the December 13-18 WTO Ministerial meeting in Hong Kong. Under Secretary Penn also met with journalists to outline the U.S. position, especially on the urgent need to agree on significant cuts in agricultural subsidies and tariffs so that all countries, but particularly the developing world, can enjoy the benefits of liberalization.(more)
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November 17, 2005.
The Berlin Model United Nations (BERMUN) conference, a project by the John F. Kennedy School, has grown from fifty participants in 1991 to over five hundred. From a program that was primarily aimed at the integration of students from East and West Berlin, it quickly expanded to include students from eastern and western Europe, the United States, Turkey, and Israel, making the Berlin Model United Nations a truly international gathering. Keynote speakers have included representatives from United Nations agencies and members of the diplomatic corps in Berlin, including the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, William R. Timken, Jr., in 2005.(more)
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November 14, 2005.
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried joined German and international journalists for a press roundtable at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin November 14 to discuss transatlantic and Middle East issues. Assistant Secretary Fried stopped in Berlin after a visit to the Middle East, where participated with Secretary Rice and other officials in the "Forum for the Future," which is an effort by Americans and Europeans to work with and support reform and reformers in the broader Middle East. In his remarks, Fried emphasized that the U.S.-European partnership is much more effective if the German-American partnership is active and productive.(more)
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November 7, 2005.
To say "Thank You" to Germans for their generous support for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Marlon Jordan Quartet of New Orleans, in cooperation with the U.S. Embassy, gave a jazz concert on November 7, 2005 in Berlin at the Rotes Rathaus. The Marlon Jordan Quartet performed before an audience of 350 invited guests, including representatives of relief organizations, businesses, schools and other institutions that so generously helped the people of New Orleans in their time of need. After the concert, U.S. Ambassador William R. Timken hosted a reception for all invited guests.(more)
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November 1, 2005.
Ambassador William R. Timken, Jr. and his wife Sue hosted the Embassy’s first ever Iftar dinner November 1 for twenty guests. Key representatives of Berlin’s Muslim community in attendance included Mr. Cem Oezdemir, Member of the European Parliament, Mr. Ozcan Mutlu, Member of the Berlin city parliament, Mr. Burhan Kesici, Chairman of the Islamic Federation of Berlin and Ms. Seyran Ates, noted lawyer/author on Muslim women’s rights. The Ambassador’s remarks underscored the import ties America has to the Muslim community and the generosity shown by Muslim countries in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.(more)
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October 29 - November 1, 2005.
Fifty junior and senior teachers, teacher trainers, and textbook editors were invited to Bad Kreuznach to take part in an intensive program consisting of lectures, workshops and art presentations. The conference provided new approaches in history, cultural geography, film and literature and put an ethnic group on the map of German curricula. The workshops directly related the issues to the EFL classroom. More about the conference(more)
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October 28, 2005.
U.S. Ambassador William R. Timken, Jr. visited the Jewish kindergarten Gan-Israel opened one year ago. The children welcomed the Ambassador, his wife and daughter to Berlin in a small celebration. Together they greeted the new Jewish year 5766. During his visit, Ambassador Timken expressed his delight at and support for the continually growing Jewish community in Berlin and all over Germany.(more)
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October 24, 2005.
Joined by his wife Sue Timken and their daughter Frances, Ambassador Timken took time from his busy schedule to visit the John F. Kennedy School. Guided around the school by the American and German Principals of this bilingual school the Timkens were first taken to the junior school where children performed and sang Halloween songs. After visiting high school classes and facilities they later engaged in conversation and discussion with members of the school board and student representatives.(more)
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October 10, 2005.
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Kurt Volker responds to questions from journalists on U.S.-German and U.S.-European relations October 10 at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. Volker emphasized President Bush's commitment to working with Germany on "the common challenges we face" in the foreign policy arena. Volker also praised the U.S. and EU-3 efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, saying the joint efforts have been "tremendously successful thus far." Volker stressed as well the U.S. government's support for UN-sponsored final status talks on Kosovo.(more)
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September 29, 2005.
In his first public speech, Ambassador Timken stressed the importance of putting the German-American partnership to work as a force for peace, prosperity and democracy. Asking for the support of government at all levels and public, private and individual partners, he said his main goal, as President Bush’s "man on the ground" was to build on and improve "the bilateral relationship between our two great nations." The program was co-hosted by the Embassy, the American Academy and Aspen Institute Berlin. It took place in the Leibnizsaal of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.(more)
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September 28, 2005.
At a press conference held during a meeting of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) at the German Ministry of Economics and Labor (BMWA) in Berlin, U.S. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy Mark Maddox, BMWA State Secretary Georg Wilhelm Adamowitsch, and Australia's Deputy Secretary of Industry, Tourism, and Resources John Ryan brief press on progress made by member states in developing and deploying technology to curtail greenhouse gases.(more)
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September 19, 2005.
Retired Col. Gail Halverson, who become known as the "Candy Bomber" for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin airlift 1948/49, visits Berlin for the launch of the German translation of his memoirs "Kaugummi und Schokolade" on September 21. Col. Halverson and Mr. Heinz-Gerd Reese from the Stiftung Luftbrückendank also met with Ambassador Timken at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin on September 19. Ambassador Timken emphasized the traditional close ties between Germany and the United States.(more)
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September 9, 2005.
Ambassador Timken met with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to thank the German people and the German government for the generous offers of assistance in response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Speaking to the press afterwards, the Ambassador said that because of the massive scale of the disaster, not all international offers of assistance can be accepted immediately but that German contributions are already being utilized. The State Department is working with local authorities to receive offered assistance as rapidly as possible.(more)
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September 7, 2005.
A reception at the 5th International Literature Festival Berlin was hosted by the Public Affairs Section at Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Minister Counselor for Public Affairs Anne Chermak welcomed nineteen writers from the United States. Such distinguished authors as Dana Gioia, Norman Manea, and Eliot Weinberger connected with about one hundred guests - international writers, journalists, scholars, and representatives from various cultural institutions - and discussed the role of poetry and literature in a globalizing world. This year´s focus on California was introduced by Dana Gioia, director of the National Endowment for the Arts, who gave a lecture right after the repeception for an audience of about 150 participants.(more)
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September 6, 2005.
Ambassador William Robert Timken, Jr. held his first press conference today at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. In his opening remarks he expressed gratitude for the German government offers of assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. He also answered questions from journalists on relief efforts as well as on the future of U.S.-German relations and on climate change. (more)
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September 2, 2005.
Ambassador William Robert Timken, Jr. presented his diplomatic credentials as President Bush's representative in Germany to Federal President Horst Köhler on September 2, 2005 at the Guesthouse of the Federal President. Shortly after the ceremony, Ambassador Timken met with German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. At the meeting, Minister Fischer reiterated German government offers of assistance for the victims of Hurricane Katrina made earlier in the day by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.(more)
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August 24, 2005.
The designated Ambassador of the United States of America to the Federal Republic of Germany, William Robert Timken, Jr., arrived in Germany on August 24, 2005. He delivered a short arrival statement. In a ceremony August 15, 2005 in the U.S. State Department's Treaty Room, Ambassador-designate Timken was officially sworn in by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.(more)
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August 8, 2005.
Chargé d’Affaires John Cloud, Interior Minister Otto Schilly, and local dignitaries opened the German Emigration Center at Bremerhaven. Chargé Cloud read a letter from President George W. Bush to 600 invited guests. In his speech, he mentioned the US-German heritage and the importance of the port of Bremerhaven to many Americans. By highlighting emigration to the U.S., the musem serves to remind visitors of the important historical ties between the United States and Germany.(more)
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July 18, 2005.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Myers visited Berlin and held a series of talks with his counterpart, German military's chief of staff General Wolfgang Schneiderhan and his staff. During a press conference at Federal Ministry of Defense, Schneiderhan said the ties between the American and German military remain strong, and the two countries are working together in many areas of the world. Myers described the meetings with Schneiderhan and his staff as "fruitful" and notes that "we appreciate your country's good cooperation and major efforts in Afghanistan and your significant contributions to the International Security Assistance Force in that country."(more)
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July 4, 2005.
As every year, numerous guests celebrated Independence Day 2005 with Chargé d'Affaires John Cloud and Mary Cloud at the Ambassador's residence. The official part of the reception started with the Presentation of the Colors by the U.S. Marine Guards. After the German and the American national anthems, Chargé Cloud delivered President Bush's Fourth of July message. The "Andrews Sisters" Show and the USAFE Band entertained the guests with their performances.(more)
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July 1, 2005.
The U.S. airline Continental Airlines launched a new direct route from Berlin to New York/Newark. Chargé d'Affaires John Cloud took part in the special inauguration and ribbon cutting ceremony at Berlin Tegel airport. This is the second non-stop Berlin-U.S. flight to be inaugurated this year. In May 3, 2005 Delta airlines started its non-stop flight to JFK airport in New York.(more)
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June 29, 2005.
The U.S. Embassy in Berlin hosted a press roundtable discussion with Governor Bill Richardson of the U.S. State of New Mexico. He discussed Germans' interest in traveling to New Mexico, Germany's desire for a seat on the UN Security Council, and transatlantic relations. Gov. Richardson is visiting Berlin June 28-29 2005 to meet with German government officials and to talk about energy issues as well as foreign policy issues.(more)
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June 20, 2005.
Chargé d'Affaires John Cloud inaugurated a new Germany-wide library partnership initiative at the Cottbus Regional Public Library. The America@yourlibrary initiative will provide financial support, books and other information material to selected libraries in order to respond to local information needs on the United States, especially the needs and interests of young people. In addition, the U.S. Mission to Germany will work in partnership with libraries to develop workshops, readings and other cultural programs about the United States.(more)
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June 9, 2005.
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried joined international journalists for a press roundtable at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin to discuss issues related to transatlantic relations. In his remarks, Fried emphasized that the United States seeks a strong Europe as a partner in the world. His stop in Berlin is part of a tour through a number of European capitals, including Rome and Paris, where he met with his counterparts and other foreign policy experts.(more)
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June 2, 2005.
A joint press conference took place at the German Bundestag for the co-chair of the Task Force on the United Nations, Newt Gingrich, and Volker Rühe, Chairman of the German Foreign Affairs Committee, to discuss UN reform. They provided observations on the necessity of reform of the United Nations concerning human resource issues, core UN responsibilities, and enlargement of the Security Council.(more)
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May 31, 2005.
Chargé d'Affaires John Cloud led a briefing for U.S. participants of the 23rd annual Congress Bundestag/Bundesrat Staff Exchange Program. Every year 10 staff members each from the U.S. Congress and German Bundestag travel for a two-week program incorporating high-level discussions on both foreign and domestic policy. This year's program, coinciding with the call for early elections in Germany and the French 'no' vote on the European constitution, was particularly enlightening as a new crop of congressional staff members received first-hand exposure to key German/European policy debates.(more)
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May 20, 2005.
Pop star of literature T.C. Boyle read from his most recent novel "The Inner Circle" at Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, on May 20, 2005 for an audience of well over 500 mostly young people. Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs Anne Chermak opened the evening before moderator Marion Brasch set a relaxed tone for the animated performance of Boyle and his German voice Jan Josef Liefers. The following day, Anne Chermak hosted a dinner in honor of T.C. Boyle at the Ambassador's residence.(more)
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May 18, 2005.
Chargé John Cloud joined members of the U.S. Armed Forces represented in the U.S. Embassy Berlin to welcome guests from other Berlin Embassies and members of the German military and representatives of the German government to a reception in honor of Armed Forces Day 2005. On August 31, 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force Days. The single-day celebration stemmed from the unification of the Armed Forces under one department -- the Department of Defense.(more)
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April 30, 2005.
Chargé Cloud took part in the rededication ceremony of the monument of Friedrich Wilhelm Baron von Steuben, the first Inspector General of the American Military (1778-1784). The program of events took place in Potsdam and included musical performances by the U.S. Army Europe Band, the Brandenburg Police Band, and the Potsdam Trumpets. Remarks were held by the Lord Mayor of Potsdam Jann Jakobs and Henning-Hubertus Baron von Steuben, Chargé Cloud and members of the U.S. Army in Europe.(more)
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April 25, 2005.
Chargé d'Affaires John Cloud and Mrs. Cloud visited Torgau on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Torgau, the so-called "Elbe-Day". Accompanied by Leipzig Consul General Fletcher Burton, Consul for Political and Economic Affairs Eleanore Fox, Captain Farawell and Lt. Commander Rielage, Defense Attaché's Office, they met with the Mayor of Torgau and joined a ceremony at the "Fahnenmonument" on the East Bank of the Elbe where the honor guard ceremonies and wreath-laying took place. They proceeded to the statue on the West Bank of the Elbe to commemorate the meeting between Russian and American troops, and the Chargé delivered a commemorative address. This was followed by laying flowers first at the grave of Joe Polowsky and then at the Russian cemetary.(more)
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April 24, 2005.
Chargé d’Affaires John Cloud (left) and Munich U.S. Consul General Matthew M. Rooney (center) took part in the ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the concentration camp Flossenbürg by soldiers of the 90th U.S. Infantry Division on April 23, 1945. Dr. Jack Terry, (right) survivor of Flossenbürg concentration camp, also participated in the wreath-laying service. Renate Schmidt, Minister for Family, Youth and Senior Citizens represented the German federal government.(more)
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April 21, 2005.
Chargé John Cloud took part in a ceremony to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the forced evacuation of the KZ-Aussenlager Berlin-Lichterfelde. Every spring the Initiative KZ-Aussenlager Berlin-Lichterfelde, under the Chairmanship of Klaus Leutner, organizes a ceremony to honor the victims of the Nazi regime at the former site of a concentration camp in the Wismarer Strasse, Berlin-Lichterfelde. Chargé Cloud spoke to a gathering of former victims of the KZ and their family members as well as honored guests and school children.(more)
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April 19, 2005.
The U.S.-German Bilateral Working Group of the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) met in Berlin, April 18 – 19, at a conference to discuss “Brownfield Redevelopment: Challenges, Solutions, Benefits.” The two-day conference examined the results of EPA-BMBF Working Group sustainable brownfields redevelopment programs. German and American Working Group members also presented two new instruments for brownfields redevelopment; the Start-Up Plan for promoting brownfield redevelopment projects in Germany, and the SMARTe project for Sustainable/Site-specific Management Approaches and Redevelopment Tools in the U.S..(more)
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April 14, 2005.
Chargé John Cloud and other diplomats from the U.S. Embassy went to Neuruppin, Wittenberge, Pritzwalk and Perleberg to meet with German high school students. They discussed topics such as German-American relations, U.S. history and ethnic diversity. During the visit to North Brandenburg, Chargé Cloud also made a courtesy call on Neuruppin Mayor Mr. Golde and had lunch with Landrat Gilde.(more)
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April 2, 2005.
On Saturday, April 2, Chargé d'Affairs John Cloud was the honored guest of Berlin's American Football team, Berlin Thunder. At the start of a new season the National Football League in Europe's champions of last year started with a convincing win by 30 - 7 over the Frankfurt Galaxy in the Berlin Olympia Stadium. Chargé Cloud, himself a keen football fan and season ticket holder with the Berlin Thunder, was on hand for the cermonial toss of the coin at the start of the game.(more)
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March 11, 2005.
Chargé d'Affaires a.i. John Cloud toured selected U.S. exhibitors at the ITB. The USA pavilion at the ITB has over 150 exhibitors promoting a wide range of destinations, regions and states. At the conclusion of the tour Chargé Cloud welcomed English language students from the Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Gesamtschule of Potsdam. The students discussed a wide range of issues on the United States with a panel of U.S. tourism professionals.
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March 10, 2005.
Louis Zamperini competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, finishing eighth in the 5,000 meter finals. Now aged 88, Mr. Zamperini returned to Germany March 10, 2005, for the first time in 69 years to visit the Olympic Stadium in Berlin and to stroll around the running track with his son and family. Mr. Zamperini, also a decorated World War II veteran was sponsored by the U.S. Army Europe Liaison Office in Berlin during his stay in Germany.(more)
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February 25, 2005.
On his last working day in Berlin Ambassador Coats gave a press conference in the Embassy for local, national and international media organizations, looking back on his experience as Ambassador in Germany. He told journalists that he was leaving Germany with great optimism because - with the recent visit of President Bush to Mainz - German-American relations had improved dramatically.
In the afternoon, Ambassador Coats gave his farewell address. In his remarks he emphasized that the importance of the German-American partnership had been reconfirmed. Farewell Address
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February 23, 2005.
President Bush arrived in Mainz in the morning of February 23. The President and Chancellor Schröder held a bilateral meeting, followed by a joint press availability. The Chancellor and Mrs. Schröder-Köpf then hosted a lunch for the President and Mrs. Bush. In the afternoon, the President participated in a roundtable conversation with German citizens, followed by a visit to the Gutenberg Museum with Mrs. Bush. The President and Mrs. Bush then proceeded to Wiesbaden, where they met members of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division.
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January & February 2005.
Ambassador Coats traveled to a number of major German cities in January and February on a "farewell tour". Among his stops were Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Leipzig in January and Frankfurt and Munich in February, addressing the audience with farewell remarks. He gave his last speech in Berlin on February 25 at the building of the Deutsche Telekom. Farewell Address (more)
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February 14, 2005.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Joschka Fischer addressed the audience at the opening reception for the Marshall Plan Film Series "Selling Democracy" at the Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin on February 14, 2005. Launched in 2004, this special series of screenings runs at the Berlinale over three years. Between 1947 and 1952 more than 200 films by German and American directors were produced: films that documented the many sides of American post -war reconstruction aid, films that encouraged self-help and promoted intercultural understanding, democracy and pluralism. The films are shown in the Zeughaus cinema. (more)
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February 4/5, 2005.
Secretary Rice arrived in Berlin in the afternoon of February 4 and met with Chancellor Schröder. After the meeting they held a press conference.
Between February 3rd and February 10th, U.S. Secretary of State Rice visited eight European countries, as well as Israel and the West Bank. The trip came in advance of the President's visit to Europe between February 22nd and 25, so she took this opportunity to advance the President's agenda and the United States agenda in cooperation with our European friends and allies. She visited the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Turkey, Israel, Italy, France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
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January 20/21, 2005.
In the context of the school outreach program, Ambassador Coats and a delegation of diplomats from the U.S. Embassy and the Consulate General Hamburg entered into discourse with students from Neustrelitz, Neubrandenburg and Greifswald. The Regional Library Neubrandenburg received a book donation, which was presented by Mrs. Coats. In Greifswald, Ambassador Coats met with Mayor Dr. König and signed the Golden Book.
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January 13, 2005.
Ambassador Daniel Coats welcomed Senator John Kerry to the U.S. Embassy during his stopover in Berlin on January 13, 2005. Senator Kerry was returning from duties as an election observer in the Middle East. During his day-long stay the Senator had private meetings with Chancellor Schroeder and Foreign Minister Fischer.
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