Christmas tea - December 14, 2023

A Christmas party at “Benner's” is always a guarantee of a lovely atmosphere. The fantastic musician Roland Vanecek from the State Theatre Orchestra got 65 visitors in the mood for Christmas in a very stylish and entertaining way with Bach and Mozart. Of course, American “Christmas Carols” weren't missing either. After all, we are a German-American women's club. However, being now international, two members from the Czech Republic had the opportunity to sing Czech Christmas songs. There was also a traditional “bring and buy table” with lots of home-made gifts. The great pieces of cake rounded off the successful celebration from a culinary perspective.

Benefit concert 2023

Finally another great concert, organized by women's clubs in Wiesbaden. After the pandemic and renovation at Mercedes, the time had finally come. A great women's quartet performed and they had it all. Mayor Mende also didn't miss this event. From classical to film music to pop, everything was there. The group La Finesse thrilled the audience with a lot of sophistication, precision and feeling. Simply worth seeing.

Trip to Turin

20 (!!!) of us visited Turin from October 1-4, 2023. Turin is famous for its chocolate, so we went to see a chocolate factory and tasted it too! Coffee is another mainstay in Turin thanks to the Lavazza family. We had a great tour around the museum (just for ourselves), learning about the family and company history. The visit was crowned by meeting Francesca Lavazza, one of the family members, who now manages the company; a great woman with empathy and enthusiasm for coffee.

There are 60 markets taking place every day in Turin, so we had to discover a couple. Last but not least, we visited Fiat, now Stellantis: we saw the building of the first production line with its test track on the roof and an impressive private collection of art of the Agnelli family and of course the current production of the Fiat 550 E and Maserati. It's impressive how much logistics such a production requires.

We saw a lot, ate a lot (the wine was also good), laughed a lot and got along well!

Coffee & Talk 2023

• Line Dance and Fragile World - 11/11/2023 with Carola Schmitt, photograph and artist
• “Daughters of Anatolia” - a special cookbook - 12/10/2023  with Deniz Lamby, art historian/author
• Music Matinee - 14/09/2023 with Keiko Steenpaß, 3rd concertmaster, Hessian State Orchestra Wiesbaden
• Marketing of Art - 14/07/2023 with Christine Rother-Ulrich, gallery owner
  

10.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m., Loftwerk, Langgasse 20, 1st floor, Wiesbaden

Open to all members and non-members from Germany and abroad.

More information is available on our Facebook event page.

Club birthday

Jens Peter Jens from the Dr. Alex and Eva Friend Foundation donates a considerable sum to our club every year. This was also the wish of the founder of this foundation who was our member many years ago. On the right is the check presentation to the two presidents of the club: Ulrike Jaskulski-Klein (right) and Sarah Szway.

The German-American International Women's Club celebrated its 74th birthday in March in a beautiful setting of Benner's Bistronomie. In addition to check presentations to all the organizations we support, there was a small program featuring up-and-coming talent Mali Carillo.

15-year-old Mali Carillo (on the right) recited her own pro-women and anti-sexist poem.

Trip to Shanghai

Our club also organizes a trip abroad at times. One big group was in Prague for 5 days (see below) and a smaller group visited Shanghai. We were lucky that one of our members lived there temporarily and could organize this trip. It was an unforgettable experience.