Monday, 1 June, 2 to 6 pm
Hop in and discover lots at the children's festival in the city library!
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Children's Library
Admission: free of charge
We're celebrating Children's Day - and you're cordially invited! A colourful children's party awaits you to celebrate the reopening of the newly designed children's library. Look forward to a magical show with Huxlifax, an exciting fairytale quiz, creative handicrafts, cheerful face painting, adventurous read-aloud stories and many other surprises. Come along, bring your friends and experience an unforgettable day full of fun, fantasy and adventure!
Monday, 1 June, 3 to 5 pm
Language café - conversation
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, LibraryLab, Maker Space
Admission: free of charge
For everyone who would like to talk to and learn from each other.
Monday, 1 June, 4 to 7 pm
Freifunk consultation hour - exchange
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, LibraryLab, Gaming Arena
Admission: 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.
Tuesday, 2 June, 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Introduction MediaLab - Introduction
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, LibraryLab
Admission: free of charge, registration at www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/buchen
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! Today we'll show you how to do it, tomorrow you can digitise your collections yourself.
Tuesday, 2 June, 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Introduction AudioStudio - Introduction
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, LibraryLab
Admission: free of charge, registration at www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/buchen
Have you always wanted to produce a podcast or radio play? Are you looking for a space to record and edit your texts digitally? Then use the technology in the BibLab! Today we'll show you how to do it, tomorrow you'll be doing it yourself.
Tuesday, 2 June, 7 p.m.
Kaleb Erdmann: The Evasion School - Measuring the Unspeakable
Venue: TIETZ, event hall
Admission: free of charge
On the last day of the Abitur exams in 2002, shots are fired at Erfurt's Gutenberg-Gymnasium. Our narrator experiences this day as an eleven-year-old, is evacuated with his classmates and, in the weeks that follow, registers the helplessness of adults in the face of this act. More than twenty years later, the event unexpectedly bursts into his life again and triggers an obsessive preoccupation with the subject, which is to result in a novel project.
into a novel project. But why reopen old wounds after so many years? Does he have the right to do so? What about his memories, which stories did he tell so often that they became true?
An event in cooperation with the Evangelical Forum.
Wednesday, 3 June, 3 p.m.
Reading club - together you read less alone - reading and discussion
Location: District library in the Vita Centre
Admission: free of charge
We talk together about books that have currently impressed and inspired us.
Thursday, 4 June, 5 p.m., Wiesenstraße 5 playground
Tuesday, 9 June, 5 p.m., Reitbahnstraße 42 playground
Wednesday, 17 June, 5 p.m., Annenstraße 38 playground
Are you coming down? Read aloud stories on the playground
Admission: free of charge
Do you like listening to exciting and funny stories? City library staff and volunteers from the Friends' Association will look at lovingly illustrated picture books with you and take you into the fantastic world of letters and words. We bring blankets, cushions and colouring pictures with us on our Lara cargo bike. Are you coming down?
Thursday, 4 June, 3 to 6 pm
Let's play - gaming in the library - Gaming
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, GamingArena
Admission: free of charge
We play new games together on our consoles. Recommended from 12 years.
Thursday, 4 June, 5 to 7 pm
Closeness at a distance - about parasocial relationships
Location: Central Library, Study Room
Admission: free of charge
Why do we think we really know influencers?
A workshop organised by the Nachrichtenwerkstatt
Thursday, 11 June, 5 to 9 pm
Pen & paper role-playing games - meetings and introduction (DE/EN) - playing
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, GamingArena
Admission: free of charge, registration at www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/buchen
Gain role-playing experience in one-shot adventures, exchange ideas with others, get to know short narrative games, borrowable games and adventures. Minimum age 10 years.
Want to play in English? Or would you like to offer a one-shot?
E-mail us biblab-c(at)stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de
Saturday, 13 June, 11 am to 2 pm
Open text workshop of the Free German Authors' Association - Workshop
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, LibraryLab
Admission: free of charge
Editing your own texts. Those coming for the first time can also just listen.
Wednesday, 17 June, 3 p.m.
Smartphone use for senior citizens
Location: Yorck Centre district library
Admission: free of charge
Information event organised by the news workshop
Thursday, 18 June, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Let's play - gaming in the library - gaming
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, GamingArena
Admission: free of charge
We play new games together on our consoles. Recommended from 12 years.
Thursday, 18 June, 6 pm
Secret Chemnitz: Karl-Marx-Stadt - Presentation of an immersive audio guide
Venue: TIETZ, event hall
Admission: free of charge
The history of industry, architecture and Clara Mosch come together in the first immersive audio guide through Chemnitz in the GDR era. Join the authors Sergey Nikitin-Rimsky and Martin Düspohl to explore this multimedia project and discuss the results.
Thursday, 18 June, 7 pm
Henry Kreul: The Unoccupied Territory. The literary path to Schwarzenberg - Lecture
Venue: TIETZ, Stefan-Heym-Forum
Admission: 3 euros, reduced 1.50 euros
The event deals with the journalistic and literary engagement with the subject of the "Unoccupied Territory around Schwarzenberg" in publications by various authors from 1961 to Stefan Heym's novel "Schwarzenberg" (1984) and beyond.
An event organised by the International Stefan Heym Society.
Monday, 22 June, 5 p.m.
Once upon a time - music tells fairy tales - concert
Venue: TIETZ, event hall
Admission: 10 euros, reduced 5 euros
Silvia Kopačova (guitar), Trang Nguyen (violin) and Toni Leuschner (accordion) play pieces by Boccherini, Piazzolla, Trojan and others.
An event in co-operation with the Chemnitzer Musikverein.
Wednesday, 24 June, 3 p.m.
Reading time - Together you read less alone - reading aloud for adults
Location: Yorck Centre District Library
Admission: free of charge
No more lonely reading in your own four walls! Reading mentor Petra Lory has once again selected interesting books for adults and will read from them.
Thursday, 25 June, 3 to 5 pm
Introduction to 3D printers
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, LibraryLab
Admission: free of charge, registration at www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/buchen
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.
Monday, 29 June, 2.30 pm
Reading time - Together you read less alone - reading aloud for adults
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Culture & Countries section
Admission: free of charge
No more lonely reading at home! Our reading mentor Regine Klinger has once again selected interesting books for adults and will read from them.
Tuesday, 30 June, 7 p.m.
Tobias Frank (M. A.): Stefan Heym and Anatole France - Fallen Angels and Secret Scientists in the Stefan and Inge Heym Working Library - Lecture
Venue: TIETZ, Stefan Heym Forum
Admission: 3 euros, reduced 1.50 euros
Based on a newly discovered connection between Stefan Heym's novel "Ahasver" and two stories by Anatole France (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921), this lecture will shed light on how the working library offers occasions and opportunities for academic work and research.
An event organised by the International Stefan Heym Society.
Recurring events
Tuesdays 1 to 3 pm
Refugees welcome in the library! - Assistance
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Culture/Länder section
Admission: 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).
Thursdays, 3 to 6 pm
E-book consultation hour
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Science & Technology section
Admission: free of charge, registration at www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/buchen or by telephone on 0371 488 4222
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'll help you set it up and borrow it for the first time. Are you already using the eLibrary lending service 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.
Tuesdays, 3 to 6 pm
Specialist work consultation hour Specialist work/complex performance? Don't panic!
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Science & Technology section
Admission: free of charge, registration at www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/buchen or by telephone on 0371 488 4222
We will help you with literature research: We will introduce you to library catalogues and online databases and show you how to find suitable sources for your topic.
Participation in the research paper consultation is free of charge. Library membership is required.
22 June to 15 August
Book Summer Saxony - holiday event
Locations: Central Library (Children's World), District Library in the Vita Centre and District Library in the Yorck Centre
Hundreds of titles from the latest children's and young adult literature are available exclusively for all 10 to 16-year-olds to read during the summer holidays: exciting thrillers, mystery and fantasy novels and cutting-edge stories about love and life.
Registration for the book summer is free and uncomplicated and does not require parental consent. Anyone who reads three books during the summer holidays will receive an invitation to the Book Summer closing party after the holidays as well as a certificate.
Reading aloud
On quiet soles ... stories to listen to,
read aloud for everyone with pricked ears.
Our reading mentors read the latest children's books, classics, "bestsellers" from their own childhood or even texts they have written themselves.
Admission: free of charge
Reading dates:
Tuesdays, 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 June, 4.30 p.m. each day
Location: TIETZ Central Library, Children's World, TIETZ, Moritzstraße 20
Tuesdays, 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 June, 4 p.m. each day
Location: Einsiedel District Library, Einsiedler Hauptstraße 79 b
Tuesdays, 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 June, 4:30 p.m. each day
Location: District library in the Yorck Centre, Scharnhorststraße 11
Saturdays, 6, 13, 20, 27 June, 11 a.m. each day
Location: TIETZ Central Library Children's World, TIETZ, Moritzstraße 20
Saturdays, 6, 13, 20, 27 June, 10.30 a.m. each day
Venue: Vita Centre District Library, Wladimir-Sagorski-Straße 22
Subject to change due to current events
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