Anniversary event 150 years of the city library
Press invitation: Saturday, 29 June 2019, 7.30 pm in the foyer of the TIETZ
Chemnitz City Library is celebrating its 150th anniversary on Saturday, 29 June 2019, with an anniversary party in the foyer of the TIETZ. This will be celebrated with representatives from politics, administration, partners, customers, employees and members of the Friends' Association on 29 June 2019.
Representatives of the media are cordially invited to attend the anniversary event.
Programme:
From 7.30 pm
- Musical prelude by "Die Akustischen Vier"
- Welcome by Elke Beer, Director of Chemnitz City Library
- Greeting by Barbara Ludwig, Mayor of the City of Chemnitz
- Musical intermezzo by "Die Akustischen Vier"
- Presentation "Time travel in library history - 150 years in 15 minutes", with Conny Hartmann
- Interview with Curt Bertram, Chairman of the Chemnitz City Library Supporters Association
- Interview and acknowledgement with Elke Beer, Director of Chemnitz City Library
From 8.30 pm, the city library invites you to a buffet and musical entertainment. The "Akustische Vier" will play pop, beat and swing songs.
Radio Chemnitz presenter Conny Hartmann will host the evening.
Background:
The city library was founded at a time when Chemnitz was developing into the leading factory and trading city in the Kingdom of Saxony. On 2 July 1869, the city library opened its doors to the public with 444 books in the Lechla villa at Annaberger Straße 44. The Zschopau factory owner Jacob Georg Bodemer donated a number of valuable books, which were the foundation stone for the town library.
150 years later, the town library is now a centre for knowledge and culture, offering free access to the latest media, information, inspiration and entertainment. With its central library in the TIETZ in the heart of the city, the district libraries and the book bus, it is one of the city's most popular cultural institutions with over 500,000 visitors a year.