By Hans Wolf In a most elegant setting, the Rheinischer Verein celebrated its founding since 1890. The symbol of 11×11 equals 121 years of Karneval in Chicago. Rosemont Convention Center and Catering, under the direction of Ed Sugar, provided the elegant setting for this momentous black tie event. Karnevalisten Read more »
I am sure that many of you heard about AFS International, the organization that arranges Student Exchanges between the US and other foreign countries. Many of the high school exchange students that I knew were hosted through AFS. Last month at German Fest in Milwaukee I had the pleasure to Read more »
By: Chris Sturdevant The Midwest Chapter of the Cold War Museum is happy to announce its new location at the New Berlin Public Library in New Berlin, WI. The library boasts a wonderful Veterans Room where two Cold War Museum exhibits are open for viewing. One exhibit features a Cold War Read more »
By: Patsy Stout - German-American Club Gesangverein The German-American Club Gesangverein holds Biergartens throughout the year at our beautiful club house and grounds located at 1840 Lincoln Ave., Louisville, KY. We offer a delicious assortment of German foods consisting of Schnitzels, Bratwursts, German Potato Salad, Red Cabbage, German Hot Slaw, Sauerkraut, Read more »
GAHS honors Hermann H. Eisele and Barbara E. Nahlik By: The German American Heritage Society (GAHS) of Saint Louis St. Louis, MO – The German American Heritage Society (GAHS) of Saint Louis honored Hermann H. Eisele with its 2011 Friedrich Hecker Freedom Award presented by president, Lansing Hecker on March 5 Read more »
KELVINFILM, a Germany-based film production company sent us some information on an upcoming reality show they are working on and we thought some of our readers may be interested in participating. DANK is not involved in this project.
On December 23 of last year, the DANK National Board held a special board meeting to elect Robert Miske of the Milwaukee chapter as National Treasurer. The position became vacant by the resignation of Maria Thompson, who resigned because of personal reasons. We sincerely thank Maria for dutifully exercising Read more »
Here’s another Mashup…this time mixing Ausrian entertainer DJ Ötzi (you may know him from his popular cover version of the Bruce Channel song “Hey Baby”) and the Black Eyed Peas. Check out the video below for a surprisingly good mix of “I Gotta Feeling” and “Ich will mit dir fliegen” Read more »