City library events in August 2016
Tuesday, 2 August 2016, 1 p.m.
Exhibition: 14-18 WAR WAS | Picture change with informative vernissage
Corresponding to the period of the First World War from 1 August 1914 to 11 November 1918, the Schlossberg Museum, in cooperation with the Department of Romance Cultural Studies/TU Chemnitz, will be showing a photograph from its collection of historical images relating to the events of the war every month until November 2018 as part of the "14-18 WAR WAS" project.
The change of images will be accompanied by a short introduction and a free lecture.
Location: TIETZ, Foyer
Free admission
Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 6 p.m.
Reading: Stephan Tanneberger, "Barefoot across the stubble field"
"What have I made of the experiences of my life?" Prof Stephan Tanneberger writes about his life in post-war Germany and his work as a doctor in many Third World countries.
Stephan Tanneberger was born in Chemnitz in 1935. His childhood was characterised by the Second World War. From 1954 to 1964, he studied chemistry and medicine in Leipzig. In 1974, now an internist and recognised cancer researcher, he became Director of the Central Institute for Cancer Research at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, which under his leadership became a globally respected WHO Collaborating Centre. In 1990, without a job opportunity in Germany, he accepted an offer to take on a leading role in the fight against cancer in the Third World. At the same time, he became director of the Associazione Nazionale Tumori in Italy and has been teaching oncology at the University of Bologna since 1992. In 2004, Tanneberger founded the "Otto Lilienthal" Centre for Peace Work in Anklam and created the local forest for peace and against climate change. Tanneberger lives on Usedom and in Bologna.
Venue: TIETZ city library, event hall
Admission free
Thursday, 25 August 2016, 5 - 6.30 p.m.
E-book consultation hour
Chemnitz City Library provides information and advice on how e-book readers, reading on tablet computers and borrowing electronic media work. Individual consultation appointments can be arranged by telephone on 0371 488-4222.
Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, Science & Technology advice desk
Free admission
Monday, 29 August 2016, 2.30 pm
Reading time: reading mentor Regine Klinger reads stories for adults.
Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, Culture & Countries area
Admission: free
Tuesday, 30.08.2016, 3 pm
Reading time: reading mentor Petra Lory reads stories for adults.
Location: District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11
Admission free
Events for children
Mondays, 8 August and 22 August 2016, 4.30 p.m.
Reading time with Sofia - the children's library mascot invites you in
Picture books, stories and fairy tales are read aloud or told. Listening is fun, as is joining in the storytelling. But the best thing is to see the wonderful illustrations accompanying the stories, which is child's play with the Kamishibai theatre or the picture book cinema.
Suitable for children aged 4 - 8 with their parents or grandparents
Venue: TIETZ, foyer on the ground floor
Free admission
Thursdays, 4 August, 11 August, 18 August and 25 August 2016, 3.30 pm
Refugees welcome in the library!
Library staff read picture books to refugee children aged 4 to 10 and introduce the library.
Location: TIETZ Central Library, Children's World
Free admission
Read aloud: On quiet soles... Stories to listen to
read aloud for everyone with keen ears
When you are invited to the event "Auf leisen Sohlen..." in the city library, you have to be very quiet and prick up your ears, because the reading mentors come to visit and read out exciting stories. They take both young and older listeners into colourful fantasy worlds with great pleasure. The literature-loving readers read the latest children's books, classics, "bestsellers" from their own childhood or even texts they have written themselves in the atmospheric reading tent in the children's world. Admission to the reading sessions is free.
The dates are
Tuesdays, 02.08.,09.08., 16.08., 23.08. and 30.08.2016, each at 4.30 p.m.
Location: TIETZ Central Library, Children's World
Saturdays, 06.08., 13.08., 20.08. and 27.08.2016, 11.00 a.m. each day
Location: TIETZ Central Library, Children's World
Saturdays, 06.08., 13.08., 20.08. and 27.08.16, 10.30 a.m. each day
Location: Vita Centre District Library, W.-Sagorski-Straße 20
Thursday, 25 August 2016, 4.30 pm
Location: Vita Centre District Library, W.-Sagorski-Straße 20
Tuesday, 30 August 2016, 4.30 pm
Location: District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11
Tuesday, 30 August 2016, 4.30 pm
Location: Einsiedel district library, Einsiedler Hauptstraße 79b
Summer holiday offer 2016 public
Wednesday, 03.08.2016, 10 am
Workshop: We make a radio play
Sounds and noises, music and your own voice can be turned into an exciting radio play! Participants can try it out and record it themselves. If you want to burn a CD of it, you have to pay a fee of €0.50 (also possible free of charge via USB stick or e-mail). Suitable for children aged 7 and over.
The number of participants is limited! Registration until 10.07.16 under: Tel.: 0371 488-4280
E-mail: chris.rohde@stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de
Venue: Vita-Center district library, W.-Sagorski-Straße 20
Admission free
Thursday, 04.08.2016, 2 - 6 pm
Let's Play - gaming in the library
Games will be played: Xbox One and Playstation 4 games available to borrow.
Recommended from 12, registration not required
Location: Central library in the TIETZ, youth area
Free admission
14.062016 - 06.08.2016
Book Summer Saxony
All 10 to 16-year-olds who love to browse can become members of the city library's reading club. 500 brand new thrillers, mystery and fantasy novels and top current stories about love and life are available to club members. Registration is free and uncomplicated. Anyone who has read at least three club books will receive a certificate at the closing party on 26 August, which can then have a positive impact on their German grade in the coming school year. Holiday fun that's worth it!
The Saxon Book Summer is a reading promotion initiative for young people organised by libraries in Saxony and the Saxon State Agency for Libraries in cooperation with the Saxon Education Agency.
Venues: - Central library in the TIETZ
- District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11
- Vita Centre District Library, Wladimir-Sagorski-Straße 20
- Einsiedel district library, Einsiedler Hauptstraße 79b
Friday, 26 August 2016, 4 p.m.
Closing party "Buchsommer Sachsen" with "De Nischelhupper"
All Book Summer participants who have read three books from the club programme will receive their personal certificate. The party includes a delicious buffet and a performance by the Chemnitz jump crew "De Nischelhupper".
Venue: Club Atomino in the TIETZ
Admission by invitation
Subject to change due to current events.
For further information please contact:
Uwe Hastreiter
Chemnitz City Library
Moritzstraße 20, 09111 Chemnitz
Telephone: 0371 488-4202
E-mail: uwe.hastreiter(at)stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de