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The city center of Tel Aviv, the so-called "White City", was declared World Heritage by the UNESCO in 2003 due to its oustanding cultural importance and incorporation of various trends of the Modern in architecture, particularly the "bauhaus"-style. Within "Tacheles - Year of Yewish Culture in Saxony", some of those buildings are presented within an exhibition also including heritage protection in one of the most expensive cities world-wide.
Date:
2026-02-25 until 2026-04-02Location:
Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, Ausstellungsbereich (1. Obergeschoss)Contact:
Stephan Luther Email PhoneOrganizer:
Fakultät Maschinenbau, Christian Vogel
The University Library participates in the Day for Peace this year as well. On a table of books, historical as well as contemporary literature will be shown dealing with the topic „Peace and Peace Agreements in Past and Present“ and reflecting also different points of view on „peace“ . The books may be borrowed at the lending desk on the 1st level. In addition, a pinboard-survey will be started in the foyer regarding the question „What do you associate with peace?“. Its objective consists on showing the variety of (inter-)cultural, generation- and experiecne-specific opinions, definitions and also connotations linked to the term of „peace“.
Date:
2026-03-05Location:
Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, Foyer (Erdgeschoss)Contact:
Wolfgang Lambrecht Email PhoneTo this concert people with dementia are cordially invited jointly with their adherents and assisting persons. Within a time frame of one hour classic orchestra pieces are played as well as songs inviting to join in singing.
Date:
2026-03-20, from 04:00 pmLocation:
IdeenReich, Universitätsbibliothek ChemnitzContact:
Angela Malz Email PhoneOrganizer:
Theater Chemnitz
The project "Strings of Remembrance" is one of 5 projects in total funded by Chemnitz University of Technology within the TUCculture2025-program which resulted i.a. in the production of professional videos of interviews with ancient "tenants" regarding their souvenirs of the "Ancient Spinning Mill"-building which will now being presented to the public.
Date:
2026-03-30, from 04:30 pmLocation:
IdeenReich, Universitätsbibliothek ChemnitzContact:
Angela Malz Email PhoneThe Municipal Puppet Theater was located in the "Ancient Spinning Mill"-building in the period from 1955-1996. By the exhibition, this era shall be illustrated vividly, i.a. by original puppets in the showcases.
Date:
2026-04-15 until 2026-10-08Location:
Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, Ausstellungsbereich (1. Obergeschoss)Contact:
Stephan Luther Email PhoneThe author Virginie Blei reads from ist new novel "Waves of Life". By impressive speech and tangent authenticity, she picks up the auditory on a journey plenty of emotions, hopes and inner strength. Her travel drama merges travelling with reality, dreams with traumas and despair with trust. The public is taken along on a journey staying in mind for a long time. Subsequent to the reading there will be a disucussion with the public.
Date:
2026-04-24, from 05:00 pmLocation:
IdeenReich, Universitätsbibliothek ChemnitzContact:
Wolfgang Lambrecht Email PhoneConcertante performance
- Anne Elisabeth Dopheide, soprano
- Susanne Stein, narrator
- Musical director Maximilian Otto
- Musicians:members of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic
"Oh yes, I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to bring joy and benefit to the people who live around me or who don't know me after all. I want to live on, even after my death," wrote Anne Frank in her diary on April 5, 1944, impressively documenting her will to survive the horrors of the Holocaust. In her entries, in which she provides insights into her thoughts and feelings as well as the everyday life of a Jewish girl forced into hiding, the young author shows herself to be an intelligent and self-critical observer. With humor and confidence, she maintains her belief in a peaceful future and yet perceives the abysses of the time with great clarity.
The Russian-Jewish composer, painter and writer Grigori Frid experienced the Second World War at the front and the catastrophic post-war period in the Soviet Union. Many of his family members were directly affected by the coercion and terror of the Stalinist dictatorship. Deeply impressed by Anne Frank's diary, he decided to write an opera - regardless of the ban at the time on addressing the Holocaust and Jewish stories. At this event, the opera will be performed purely in concert. The highly concentrated essence of Anne Frank's perceptive world view contained in this work is once again expressed in its unconditionality and topicality.
- Mono-opera in two parts by Grigori Frid
- for soprano and chamber orchestra op. 60 (reduced version)
- Libretto by Grigori Frid based on the diary of Anne Frank
- German adaptation by Ulrike Patow
- Performance time approx. 1 hour, 15 minutes, no intermission
- Performance rights Musikverlag Hans Sikorski GmbH, Berlin
Date:
2026-04-28, 08:00 pm until 09:30 pmLocation:
Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, IdeenReich (Erdgeschoss)Contact:
Wolfgang Lambrecht Email PhoneOrganizer:
Die Theater Chemnitz
Concertante performance
- Anne Elisabeth Dopheide, soprano
- Susanne Stein, narrator
- Musical director Maximilian Otto
- Musicians:members of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic
"Oh yes, I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to bring joy and benefit to the people who live around me or who don't know me after all. I want to live on, even after my death," wrote Anne Frank in her diary on April 5, 1944, impressively documenting her will to survive the horrors of the Holocaust. In her entries, in which she provides insights into her thoughts and feelings as well as the everyday life of a Jewish girl forced into hiding, the young author shows herself to be an intelligent and self-critical observer. With humor and confidence, she maintains her belief in a peaceful future and yet perceives the abysses of the time with great clarity.
The Russian-Jewish composer, painter and writer Grigori Frid experienced the Second World War at the front and the catastrophic post-war period in the Soviet Union. Many of his family members were directly affected by the coercion and terror of the Stalinist dictatorship. Deeply impressed by Anne Frank's diary, he decided to write an opera - regardless of the ban at the time on addressing the Holocaust and Jewish stories. At this event, the opera will be performed purely in concert. The highly concentrated essence of Anne Frank's perceptive world view contained in this work is once again expressed in its unconditionality and topicality.
- Mono-opera in two parts by Grigori Frid
- for soprano and chamber orchestra op. 60 (reduced version)
- Libretto by Grigori Frid based on the diary of Anne Frank
- German adaptation by Ulrike Patow
- Performance time approx. 1 hour, 15 minutes, no intermission
- Performance rights Musikverlag Hans Sikorski GmbH, Berlin
Date:
2026-04-29, 11:00 am until 12:30 pmLocation:
Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, IdeenReich (Erdgeschoss)Contact:
Angela Malz Email PhoneOrganizer:
Die Theater Chemnitz
What is still the value of reading today - within a time of social media, streaming and permanent diversion? The film documentary "Reading Culture in Change" was elaborated within the master degree program Intercultural German Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology and deals right with that question. By interviews with persons from different spheres, differing reading habitudes, experiences and perspectives may be distinguished. The film shows how divers reading may be nowadays and which role literature and digital media play in everydays' life. All interested persons are cordially invited to participate in this premiere of the documentation. Subsequent to the presentation, there will be the opportunity for exchange and discussion.
Date:
2026-05-04, from 07:00 pmLocation:
Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, IdeenReich (Erdgeschoss)Contact:
Wolfgang Lambrecht Email PhoneOrganizer:
Professur Interkulturelle Germanistik
For detailed information, visit the website of the 27th Literary Quintet.
Date:
2026-05-05, 07:00 pm until 10:00 pmLocation:
Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, IdeenReich (Erdgeschoss)Comment:
Access is via the Straße der Nationen entrance.
Contact:
Ina Potts Email PhoneOrganizer:
Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, Professur Neuere Deutsche und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Fachschaftsrat der Philosophischen Fakultät
The presentation happening within the "Year of Yewish Culture in Saxony (Tacheles)" will deal with the significance of numbers in Judaism and with the statistic distribution of numbers in the Bible, particularly with correlations to the so-called Benford's Law and to the logarithms. The introduction will be taken over by rabbi Michael Jedwabny from the Jewish Community Chemnitz.
Date:
2026-06-11Location:
Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, IdeenReich (Erdgeschoss)Contact:
Wolfgang Lambrecht Email PhoneOrganizer:
Professur Wirtschaftsmathematik
This reading is part of a reading series organized within the "Year of Yewish Culture in Saxony (Tacheles)" happening at very different places at Chemnitz (libraries, museums, collections etc.) and telling about Yewish life today but also includes the past from different perspectives.
Date:
2026-09-16, from 07:00 pmLocation:
Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, IdeenReich (Erdgeschoss)Contact:
Wolfgang Lambrecht Email PhoneThe journalist and winner of the Grimme Online Award 2024 Susanne Siegert reads from its Spiegel-Bestseller „Rethinking remembrance“, in which she pleads for a new remembrance work focussing particularly on the responsibility of the successors of the delinquent generation. At the same time, she develops perspektives for an active, various post-witness culture of remembrance.
