Showcase
On this page, the actors of the TU Chemnitz and their projects present what 2025 at the TU Chemnitz will look like in concrete terms and which impulses from the university will echo into the Capital of Culture.
Like the commitment within the university, the page is growing and is constantly being supplemented by new projects. You are welcome to contact the responsible persons to find out more about the goals and designs or to get involved in the projects yourself.
We look forward to your interest and active participation.
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Projects from: 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Mathematics as cultural heritage
2022-2025
2022 - 2025
Faculty of Mathematics
Lecture Series "Mathematics as a cultural heritage and .."
Inspired by Chemnitz's successful application to become the Capital of Culture 2025, the Faculty of Mathematics and the Evangelisches Forum Chemnitz are organizing the lecture series "Kulturgut Mathematik und ...". In each case, mathematics will be linked to a different area, e.g. religion, politics, art, justice, history, logistics, music, work, etc. The approximately one-hour lectures take place at the relevant locations in Chemnitz, e.g. church, town hall, art collection, court, university, railroad museum, music school, trade union building, etc. The lectures make mathematics "socially acceptable", help to develop interdisciplinary connections, sensitize the city public to the relevance of mathematics and stimulate interesting discussions.
Project website: Lecture Series "Mathematics as a cultural heritage and .."
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Shikhman
0371 / 531…
vladimir.shikhman@…
Science podcast „TUCscicast“
2023-2025
2023 - 2025
Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences
Special series „Capital of Culture“ for the science podcast „TUCscicast“
Contact:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Bischof
0371 / 531…
andreas.bischof@…
You for Chemnitz
2024
2024
Faculty of Humanities, International Office
Volunteer website - You for Chemnitz
The website ‘Du für Chemnitz!’ serves as a ‘digital notice board’ for advertisements for volunteering positions in (cultural) projects in the Chemnitz area. Users can use the site to contact the initiatives and help shape the Capital of Culture or other cultural projects themselves during the pilot phase. In addition to citizens, the offer is also aimed at (international) students and TUC employees. The aim is to get as many people as possible involved in Capital of Culture projects and other civic endeavours - even far beyond 2025. The website uses synergies with the piloting of service learning programmes at the TUC.
Contact:
Dr. Stefanie Troppmann, Dr. Benny Liebold, Maj-Britt Krone
0371 / 531…
stefanie.troppmann@…
campus art objects
2024
2024
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Recording and digitisation campus art objects
The art objects created in and at our university are a valuable testimony to the respective period and give expression to the spirit of their creation. This art is to be systematically recorded and described in the project. However, it is not just a printed catalog that is to be created. The objects are to be recorded digitally and stored in a virtual library. The aim is also to integrate the digitized art objects, where possible, into the digital campus model and to make this available for viewing on the Internet. The project is intended to be sustainable and can also be expanded in the future. Connections with similar projects to record art in public spaces in the city of Chemnitz are possible.
Project website: Recording and digitisation campus art objects
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campus art objects (Photo: Phillip Neiser, 2024)
Contact:
Christian Vogel
0371 / 531…
christian.vogel@…
Diversity and inclusion
2024
2024
Faculty of Humanities
Diversity and inclusion to transform society
BOND – Bodymapping for Diversity
During seminars offered by the Chair of Educational Science with a Focus on Intercultural Education, students will organize three workshops for Chemnitz's civil society in cooperation with local associations in the winter semester 2024/35. The aim of the workshops is to address the hybrid multiple affiliations of the post-migrant society and to make visible the invisible diversity in Chemnitz. The chosen method of body mapping allows for a creative exploration of the life stories of people with and without a history of migration. It is an opportunity for students and participants to explore their own transnational belonging and to sensitize people to heterogeneity.
Contact:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Gross
0371 / 531…
barbara.gross@…
Inventor culture
2024
2024
Centre for Knowledge and Technology Transfer
Inventor culture in Chemnitz and the region
The project is preparing an exhibition organized by the Chemnitz PatentInformation Centre (Patlib) and supported by the University Library entitled“Inventor Culture in Chemnitz and the Region”, which will be shown from01.03.25 - 30.09.25 in the University Library. The exhibition focuses onimportant inventions from the Chemnitz industrial region and theirprotection under intellectual property law. In addition to inventions fromChemnitz, innovations from Chemnitz University of Technology will also beexhibited. This will show the public the inventive spirit and innovativestrength of the Chemnitz region. The exhibition also illustrates theimportance of industrial property rights to protect inventive ideas.
Contact:
Dr. Carina Gerlach
0371 / 531…
carina.gerlach@…
Book project
2024
2024
Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences
Chemnitz as European Capital of Culture 2025 - book project
At Chemnitz University of Technology, there is multifaceted research on Chemnitz as European Capital of Culture 2025 across many different disciplines. A large number of concepts, studies and findings are bundled by the Junior Professorship of European Culture and Civil Society (Thomas Laux) and the Professorship of Sociology with a focus on sociological theories (Ulf Bohmann) and made available to a broad public. In order to achieve the easiest possible accessibility, the volume will be published by "transcript" in a printed version as well as "open access".
Contact:
Jun.-Prof. Thomas Laux, Vertr.-Prof. Dr. Ulf Bohmann
0371 / 531…
thomas.laux@…
Movement and standstill
2025
2025
University Library
Movement and standstill. The last year of study in the GDR
The six university archives in Chemnitz, Halle, Jena, Leipzig, Magdeburg and Weimar are planning to organise an exhibition on the last year of study in the GDR in 2024. A total of 35 exhibition panels are to be shown as a travelling exhibition at all six university locations. All facets of student life during the last year of study in the GDR are to be presented. This ranges from admission and enrolment, study plans and organisation, lecture halls, laboratories and libraries, leisure and culture, political indoctrination within and by the SED, FDJ, GST, military training and civil defence, internationalisation and the placement of graduates - the exhibition is designed as a travelling exhibition, will open in Magdeburg in October 2024 and will be shown in Chemnitz from 3 June 2025. A joint event with the Institute for European Studies and History, where a major project on the history of the student body in the GDR era is underway, is planned for the vernissage in the Capital of Culture year.
Project website: Movement and standstill. The last year of study in the GDR
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Movement and standstill (Enrollment 1989, Photo: University archive Chemnitz)
Contact:
Stephan Luther, Universitätsbibliothek
0371 / 531…
stephan.luther@…
Unknown neighbours?
2024
2024
Faculty of Humanities
Event series: “Unknown neighbours? Vietnamese diaspora in Chemnitz and the region”
The series of events conceived by the Chair of General Educational Science at the TUC together with the book author and director Claudia Tuyết Scheffel focuses on transnational educational biographies of Vietnamese people in Chemnitz and the region. Initially, research on this previously little-discussed group will be supported, including through biographical interviews with former students at Chemnitz University of Technology and former so called “contract workers” in the region. In the run-up to the Capital of Culture Year 2025, the project team will present their research findings to the interested public as part of a series of events.
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Unknown neighbours? (Bildquelle: https://www.flickr.com/photos/beggs/32154960113/in/photostream/ (CC BY 2.0 Deed))
Contact:
Theo Döppers
0371 / 531…
theo.doeppers@…
C the Unheard!
2024
2024
Faculty of Humanities
C the Unheard! Data-based Mapping of Civil Society Discourses in Chemnitz
This project is dedicated to mapping civil society discourses in Chemnitz through a data-driven approach. Civil society activities significantly shape both the public sphere of Chemnitz and the campus life at the Chemnitz University of Technology. So far, there has been no collection of data that documents and makes visible the diverse engagements of civil society actors. This project addresses this gap by creating an open data collection, developed and explored in collaboration with civil society project partners, students, and citizens.
Project website: C the Unheard! Data-based Mapping of Civil Society Discourses in Chemnitz
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C the Unheard!
Contact:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rabea Kleymann
0371 / 531…
rabea.kleymann@…
Special collection of the UB
2024
2024
University Library
„A quarter of a century of reading European Capitals of Culture“ - special collection of the University Library
From 2000-2025 more than 50 cities located in 32 countries were European Capitals of Culture. Some of them counted already to the „Big Names“ before (such as Prague, Brussels, Marseilles, Istanbul etc.), many of them, in contrast, were rather less known since then. For this reason, on the occasion of the year of Chemnitz as European Capital of Culture the Library will present a special collection providing a forum and appropriate attention also to these cities – with Chemnitz as „great closing“. The special collection may be visited from autumn 2024 on at the shelves around the reading hall at the 2nd level of the Library building Straße der Nationen 33. The presented books are of course also for borrowing.
Contact:
Dr. Wolfgang Lambrecht, Universitätsbibliothek
0371 / 531…
wolfgang.lambrecht@…
Europe in the classroom
2024
2024
Faculty of Humanities
Europe in the classroom - Chemnitz analyses of socialist and post-socialist textbooks
The project examines references to Europe before and after the reunification of Germany and the "fall of the Iron Curtain" in textbooks and learning materials in the GDR and the German federal state of Saxony, which are particulary available in the libraries and archives in Chemnitz. In doing so, the way in which Europe is thematized, but also the regional-European localizations as well as world and human images are identified and made visible. As part of the project, students are researching, cataloguing and analyzing textbooks from the subjects of history and social studies (Staatsbürgerkunde in the GDR) shortly before and after the reunification of the 9th and 10th grades.
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Europe in the classroom
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Deppe
0371 / 531…
ulrike.deppe@…
