Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

Bildungswerk Dresden

Königstr. 23

01097 Dresden

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E-Mail: kas-dresden@kas.de

Europe Alive

Showing the transformation –

Dresden in the 17th year after reunification

Date: Monday,October 8^th to Friday, October 12^th 2007

Accommodation: Hotel Ibis, Prager Straße, Dresden

Duration of stay: 5 days/4 nights

Monday, October 8^th 2007

until 15.00 arrival, accommodation

15.00 opening of the conference, welcome, aims and expectations of the conference

16.00 18 years of peaceful revolution – 17 years of reunification

Highlighting history:

The development of women’s organisations and women’s policy in Saxony

Speakers (under reserve):

Friederike de Haas MdL, Member of the Saxon parliament (Landtag), State Minister (retd.), The Saxon Commissioner for foreigners

Gesine Matthes MdL, Member of the Saxon parliament (Landtag)

Katharina Landgraf MdB, Member of the German parliament (Bundestag)

19.00 dinner

Tuesday, October 9^th 2007

until 9.00 breakfast

9.00 Dresden – Past and Present: guided tour of the historic city centre of Dresden, including a visit to the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady)

speakers (under reserve): Karina Schumann (depending on the group’s size, maybe 1-2 more speakers)

11.00 Saxony – Country of Culture

Dr. Judith Oexle, official archaeologist of the Free State of Saxony and director of the State Museum of Prehistory in Dresden

12.30 lunch

14.30 Guided tour of the Saxony State Chancellery and talk

with Andrea Fischer , State Chancellor

16.00 discover Dresden: occasion to visit Dresden’s museums and memorials

Wednesday, October 10^th 2007

9.30 Guided tour of the Dresden Synagogue

afterwards talk with Dr. Nora Goldenbogen, Chairwoman of the Jewish Community of Dresden

11.00 Social policy in Saxony

Talk with Helma Orosz MdL, Member of the Saxon parliament, State Minister for Social Affairs in Saxony, Chairwoman of Frauen Union (Women´s union of the CDU party)

12.30 lunch

afternoon: at choice

- guided tour of Meißen including a visit to the Dom/Cathedral, the Albrechtsburg and the Porcelain Manufacture

- Visit to the castle in Moritzburg

Evening: Dinner and sparkling wine or wine tasting, Saxony Wine factory Castle Wackerbarth

Thursday, October 11^th 2007

until 8.00 breakfast

08.00 Departure to Bautzen

9.30 Bautzen – The centre of Upper Lusatia (Lausitz), the capital of Sorbs

Reception at the town hall of Bautzen with mayor Christian Schramm

10.30 1003 Years of Bautzen – guided tour

Theresia Müller, Bautzen

12.00 Lunch talk with Maria Michalk MdB, Member of the German parliament, at the Sorbian restaurant “Wjelbik”

14.00 The Bautzen Memorial

Guided tour of the former Stasi penitentiary (Stasi = state security service)

15.30 transfer to the Cistercian Abbey in St. Marienstern,

Sorbian Culture and Catholic tradition in Lusatia (Lausitz)

Guided tour of the monastery

Dinner, afterwards transfer back to Dresden

Friday, October 12^th 2007

9.00 In the heart of Europe: Saxony´s Capital Dresden and its European projects

11.00 Closing session: results of the conference, evaluation and critical remarks

12.30 Lunch at the hotel

Afterwards: departure

Sidan uppdaterad 8 maj 2007

EA Dresden Oct 07