Possible Clues:

• City known as 'Florence on the Elbe'
• 'Slaughterhouse-Five' setting
• Porcelain that was notoriously fired
• Industrial city in Germany, on the River Elbe
• City doctor needs mobile
• Briefly arrange private office in German city
• Prepare without finishing and study in China
• City of Germany
• Director takes time out briefly to study in China?
• Needs to be treated by doctor in a city in Saxony