Monday, 2 June, 3 to 4.30 pm
Language café
Location: Central Library, LibraryLab, OpenSpace
Participation: free of charge
For anyone who would like to talk to and learn from each other.
Monday, 2 June, 4 to 5.30 p.m.
Fairy tale consultation hour, TIETZ Edition
Location: Tietz, Central Library, LibraryLab
Participation: free of charge
The Chemnitz fairy tale competition is entering its fifth round!
To mark the anniversary, the jury team led by editor Marcus Lehmann is offering a fairy tale consultation for the first time. Anyone can bring along their own Chemnitz fairy tale, regardless of whether it is still a small, fine idea or already a finished story. Both young authors aged 10 and over and adult fairy tale writers are invited.
Editor Marcus Lehmann and another jury member will be on site so that all interested parties can receive feedback.
Participation in the fairy tale competition is still possible until 20 June.
More information on the Chemnitz Fairy Tale Competition website.
Monday, 2 June, 4 to 7 pm
Freifunk consultation hour, TIETZ Edition
Location: Central Library, BibliotheksLabor
Participation: free of charge
Freifunk Chemnitz e. V. meets in the middle of one of its largest installations and shows in a cosy environment what is possible with WLAN today.
From a simple router that you place by your window to complex event planning, you can come along with your questions or set up your first Freifunk router together with us.
Wednesday, 4 June, 3 p.m.
Reading club - together you read less alone
Location: District library in the Vita Centre
Participation: free of charge
We talk together about books that have currently impressed and inspired us. Readers who would like to share and discuss their reading experiences with others are very welcome.
Thursday, 5 June, 3 to 6 pm
Let's play - gaming in the library
Location: Central Library, GamingArena
Participation: free of charge, recommended age 12
We play new games together on our consoles.
Tuesday, 10 June, 10 a.m., 11.30 a.m., 2 p.m., 3.30 p.m. (duration approx. 1 hour)
Introduction MediaLab
Location: Central Library, LibraryLab
Participation: free of charge, registration at www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/biblab-c/veranstaltungen
Do you have records and audio/VHS tapes at home that you want to finally have in your digital playlist? Then use the technology in the BibLab-C! Today we'll show you how to do it, tomorrow you'll be digitising your collections yourself.
Tuesday, 10 June, 10 a.m., 11.30 a.m., 2 p.m., 3.30 p.m. (duration approx. 1 hour)
AudioStudio introduction
Location: Central Library, LibraryLab
Participation: free of charge, registration at www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/biblab-c/veranstaltungen
Have you always wanted to produce a podcast or radio play? Are you looking for a space to digitally record and mix your own composition? Then use the technology in the library lab! Today we'll show you how to do it, tomorrow you'll be sending your voice and your songs out into the world.
Friday, 12 June, 3 to 5 p.m.
BibLab: Driving licence/introduction to 3D printers
Location: Central Library, LibraryLab, Maker area
Participation: free of charge, registration requested
How does a 3D printer work? Where can I find ready-made models? What do I need to set up?
Are you looking for a way to print small, useful things? Then use the technology in the library lab! Today we'll show you how it works, tomorrow you'll be realising your own projects.
Saturday, 14 June, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Open text workshop of the Free German Authors' Association
Location: Central Library, Library Lab, OpenSpace
Participation: free of charge
Editing your own texts. Those coming for the first time can also just listen. Joint event with the Free German Authors' Association.
Tuesday, 17 June, 7 p.m.
Stefan Heym's novel "Ahasver" in a digital historical-critical edition
Lecture and project presentation
Venue: TIETZ, Stefan Heym Forum
Attendance: 3 euros, reduced rate 1.50 euros
Due to its intertextual references and its numerous contemporary allusions, for example to GDR conditions, Stefan Heym's novel "Ahasver", which is structured on three time levels, can no longer be fully understood by today's readers. Using the collections of material that Heym compiled for this novel, his preparatory work and his typescripts and manuscripts, literary scholars at Chemnitz University of Technology led by Professor Bernadette Malinowski, in cooperation with the Trier Centre for Digital Humanities, have succeeded in preparing a digital historical-critical and annotated edition and making it available to the public as a worldwide open access project.
The speaker for this evening is research associate Tobias Frank.
The project was funded by the German Research Foundation.
Thursday, 19 June, 3 to 6 p.m.
Let's play - gaming in the library
Location: Central Library, GamingArena
Participation: free of charge, recommended age 12
We play new games together on our consoles.
Saturday, 21 June, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Pen & Paper - role-playing game meeting & introduction
Location: Central Library, GamingArena
Participation: free of charge, registration at biblab-c(at)stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de
One-shots and more!
Are you a game master and would like to offer a one-shot? Then sign up.
Saturday and Sunday, 21 and 22 June, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day
Makers United - the festival by makers for makers
Location: Chemnitz City Hall
Information stand and hands-on activities organised by the City Library's library lab
Wednesday, 25 June, 3 p.m.
Reading time - Together you read less alone
Location: District library in the Yorck Centre, Scharnhorststraße 11
Participation: free of charge
No more lonely reading at home! Our reading mentor Petra Lory has once again selected interesting books for adults and will read from them.
Thursday, 26 June, 6 p.m.
LESELUST reading: Reading and music performance with Jaroslav Rudiš and Hans Narva
Venue: Saxon Railway Museum
Attendance: 8 euros, pupils and students free of charge
Jaroslav Rudiš comes from a Czech family of railwaymen and prefers to travel to his performances as an author and musician by train. What's more, he has made this decelerated and now very contemporary form of transport the subject of his texts. In his books Gebrauchsanweisung fürs Zugreisen and Zug um Zug durch Europa, he not only presents the best dining cars, recommends the most beautiful night trains or reveals which station pub is a good place to while away the waiting time. The trained historian is also interested in what routes, trains and stops tell us about our shared history and present. And on his travels, he learns time and again how the international rail network holds Europe together.
Composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Hans Narva proves that there is a lot of music in the beat of the points and perhaps even a little anarchy. Harmoniously embedded in the ambience of the railway museum, his performance enters into a dialogue with the texts by Jaroslav Rudiš.
Friday, 27 June, 5 to 6 pm
Park Summer Chemnitz: Reading aloud under the winged nut
Location: Stadthallenpark
Participation: free of charge, from 4 years
Reading mentors from the city library read exciting, funny and fantastic stories.
Monday, 30 June, 10.30 a.m.
BUCHSOMMER Bookcasting - Comic Edition
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Children's World
Participation: free of charge, no registration required
Today you are the jury and decide who flies and who wins.
Monday, 30 June, 2.30 pm
Reading time - Together you read less alone
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Culture & Countries section
Participation: free of charge
No more lonely reading at home! Reading mentor Petra Lory has once again selected interesting books for adults and reads them aloud.
Recurring events:
Tuesdays, 1 to 3 pm
Refugees welcome to the library!
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Culture and Countries section
Participation: free of charge
Learning mentors help with learning German and with homework for the DaZ and DaF courses (German as a second/ German as a foreign language).
Tuesdays, 3 to 6 p.m.
Specialised work consultation hour Specialised work / Complex performance? Don't panic!
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Science and Technology section
Participation: free of charge, library membership is required.
Registration at: https: //www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/angebote-medienpaedagogik/schuelerinnen/facharbeitssprechstunde
We help you with literature research: We introduce you to library catalogues and online databases and show you how to find suitable sources for your topic.
Thursdays, 2 to 5 pm
E-book consultation hour
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Science and Technology Department
Participation: free of charge, registration at: www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/bibliothek-digital/ebook-sprechstunde or by telephone on 0371 4884222
Do you want to know how the eLibrary works or do you have a new device on which you want to use the eLibrary? We can help you set it up and borrow your first items.
Are you already using the eLibrary but have problems with your e-book reader, reading on your tablet or don't know why you can't borrow e-media? We are happy to help.
Read aloud
On quiet soles... Stories to listen to, read aloud for anyone with keen ears
Our reading mentors read the latest children's books, classics, "bestsellers" from their own childhood or even texts they have written themselves.
Participation: free of charge.
Dates:
Tuesdays, 3, 10, 17 and 24 June, 4.30 pm each day
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Children's World
Saturdays, 7, 14, 21 and 28 June, 11 a.m. each day
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Children's World
Saturdays, 7, 14, 21 and 28 June, 10.30 a.m. each day
Location: Vita Centre District Library, Wladimir-Sagorski-Straße 22
Tuesdays, 3, 10, 17 and 24 June, 4 p.m. each day
Location: Einsiedel District Library, Einsiedler Hauptstraße 79b
Tuesdays, 3, 10, 17 and 24 June, 4.30 pm each day
Location: District library in the Yorck Centre, Scharnhorststraße 11
Subject to change due to current events.