Monday, 2 March, 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, 2 March, 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, 3 March, 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Introduction MediaLab - Introduction
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, LibraryLab
Admission: free of charge, registration: 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'll be digitising your collections yourself.
Tuesday, 3 March, 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Introduction AudioStudio - Introduction
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, LibraryLab
Admission: free of charge, registration: 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, 3 March, 6 p.m.
370 metres above sea level - A village novel that tells of the beauty of a world that is about to perish.
Reading and discussion with the Czech author Jiří Hájíček
Reading of the German text by Vera-Cosima Gutmann, actress at Chemnitz Theatre
Venue: TIETZ, event hall
Admission: free of charge
In 2008, after fifteen years abroad, Hana returns to what was once her home. The village of her childhood and youth was flooded and a lake was dammed in its place, which now supplies the Temelín nuclear power plant with cooling water. In her old home, Hana wants to find out what divided her family back then. She takes us on a journey into the lost world of the 1980s, the time before the "Velvet Revolution" in Czechoslovakia.
A joint event of the City Library and the Czech Centre Berlin, with the kind support of the Czechia 2026 project as part of the Year of Czech Culture, which accompanies the Czech Republic's guest country appearance at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2026. Moderation: Christina Frankenberg (Czech Centre Berlin)
Wednesday, 4 March, 3 pm
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, 5 March, 5 to 7 pm
Digital wellbeing & resilience towards digital media - workshop organised by the Nachrichtenwerkstatt
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Study Room
Admission: free of charge, registration: www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/buchen
Thursday, 5 March, 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: www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/buchen
Minimum age: 10 years
Gain role-playing experience in one-shot adventures, exchange ideas with others, get to know short narrative games, games and adventures that can be borrowed.
Want to play in English? Or would you like to offer a one-shot?
E-mail us biblab-c(at)stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de
Friday, 6 March, 3 to 5 pm
Reading for International Women's Day - with Iris Ludwig and Angela Krisendorf from the 1st Chemnitz Authors' Association
Venue: Vita Centre District Library, Wladimir-Sagorski-Straße 22
Admission: free of charge
An event in cooperation with Neue Arbeit Chemnitz e. V
Saturday, 7 March, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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.
Tuesday, 10 March, 5 p.m.
Chemnitz remembers Taras Shevchenko - lecture, poems and songs
Venue: TIETZ, event hall
Admission: free of charge
Lecture by Prof. Dr Nicolas Szafowal on the Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko accompanied by poems (bilingual Ukrainian and German) and songs by members of the Ukraine House Chemnitz. The Ukrainian poet, writer and painter Taras Shevchenko passionately championed the preservation of Ukrainian identity as an artistic visionary and advocate of freedom. He was born on 9 March 1814 and died on 10 March 1861, which is why Ukrainians all over the world commemorate the "Father of the Nation" in March.
An event organised in cooperation with Ukraine-Haus Chemnitz e. V.
Tuesday, 10 March, 7 p.m.
Interference: Stefan Heym and Friedrich Schorlemmer - Annotated reading
Venue: TIETZ, Stefan Heym Forum
Admission: 3 euros, reduced 1.50 euros
1983: Protestant theologian and civil rights activist Friedrich Schorlemmer symbolically forges a sword into a ploughshare and plays a key role in shaping the independent peace movement in the GDR. "I will never forget the motivation and inspiration that came from Stefan Heym, Christa Wolf, Günter de Bruyn and Franz Fühmann in the days of the independent church peace movement from 1980 onwards," he says. Two great thinkers, two speakers at the rally on Alexanderplatz on 4 November 1989, two "meddlers" who could not remain silent. But this was not the first time the two had met. The evening follows their traces into the 1990s.
An event organised by the International Stefan Heym Society.
Wednesday, 11 March, 6 pm
Presentation of the Chemnitzer Kaleidoskop 2026 anthology
Collective reading by the 1st Chemnitz Authors' Association
Venue: TIETZ, event hall
Admission: free of charge
The collection of the best texts by members of the 1st Chemnitz Authors' Association is finally back! The literary contributions are thematically diverse and have sometimes found their way into the public domain through innovative interventions.
Thursday, 12 March, 3 to 6 pm
Let's play - Gaming in the Bibo - Gaming
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, GamingArena
Admission: free of charge
We play new games together on our consoles. Recommended from 12 years.
Tuesday, 17 March, 5 to 7 pm
No stress with your first smartphone - A practical talk for parents who want to accompany their child safely and consciously into the digital world.
Workshop organised by the Nachrichtenwerkstatt
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Study Room
Admission: free of charge, registration: www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/buchen
Thursday, 19 March, 3 to 5 pm
Introduction to 3D printers - introduction
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Library Lab
Admission: free of charge, registration: 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.
Saturday, 21 March, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Big book sale
Location: TIETZ, foyer on the ground floor
Sale of discarded library media: books, CDs, DVDs & console games.
Saturday, 21 March, 1 to 5 p.m.
Pack your seven things! - Clothes swap party with music, snacks & drinks
Location: TIETZ, event hall
Admission: free of charge
For every item of clothing you bring, you can take a new one. Maximum of seven items in good and washed condition (no underwear).
Tuesday, 24 March, 6 pm
Michal Ajvaz and Lukáš Cabala: Between Mirror and Memory - Fantastic Reading Worlds from Leipzig and Trenčín
Translation and moderation: Stefanie Bose
Venue: TIETZ, event hall
Admission: free of charge
When reality shifts and the familiar cracks: two novels, two voices - united in the art of the fantastic.
In "The Passages", Michal Ajvaz creates a multi-layered labyrinth of spaces, reflections and time shifts - a poetic adventure in which Leipzig becomes the stage for a metaphysical exploration of the everyday.
In "Do you remember, Trenčín?", Lukáš Cabala leads us through landscapes of memory in which the past and present merge imperceptibly.
Both authors allow the real to tilt, open hidden doors between dream and experience and show how close reality and imagination can be.
A double reading that lifts reality out of its cracks - and transports us for an evening into a different order of things.
In co-operation with Allee Verlag Munich.
Wednesday, 25 March, 3 p.m.
Reading time - Together you read less alone - reading aloud
Location: Yorck Centre District Library
Admission: free of charge
No more lonely reading at home! Reading mentor Petra Lory has once again selected interesting books for adults and will read from them.
Thursday, 26 March, 3 to 6 pm
Let's play - gaming in the library - Gaming
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, GamingArena
Admission: free of charge
Friday, 27 March, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Pen & paper role-playing games - Meet and greet and introduction (DE/EN) - Gaming
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, GamingArena
Admission: free of charge, registration: www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/buchen
Minimum age: 10 years
The Free Role-Playing Game Day (GRT) aims to bring the hobby of pen-and-paper role-playing games into the public eye. Many German-language role-playing game publishers (including self-publishers) take part in the event and donate free products (e.g. quick starters or scenarios for their role-playing games).
Monday, 30 March, 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.
Exhibitions
until 28 March
Photo exhibition VIP² - [Very Infectious Period; Very Important People]
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Open Space
The exhibition shows a selection of Manuela Haeussler's work and includes portrait photographs from 2019 to 2025, focussing on a special project entitled "Around the world in 80 days - 2021", which shows photography during the pandemic. On the one hand, it provides an insight into how a photographer dealt with the restrictions and challenges of the time and, on the other, snapshots from the lives of some people and musicians around the world.
since 4 February
Tacheles. Year of Jewish culture in Saxony 2026
Media tips from the Chemnitz City Library
Location: TIETZ, central library, entrance area
In 2026, the Free State of Saxony is celebrating the theme year "Tacheles - Jüdisch. Saxon. Mentshlich.", one hundred years after the founding of the first state association of Jewish communities. The aim is to make Jewish life visible in its historical depth, cultural diversity and present-day social relevance.
The city library offers its visitors a wide range of media tips from its holdings on the topics of history and politics, religion, language, literature, art as well as children's and youth literature.
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, 2 to 5 pm
E-book consultation hour - consultation hour
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Science & Technology section
Admission: free of charge, please register online: www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/buchen or call 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 can help you set it up and borrow books 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! - Consultation hour
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Science & Technology section
Admission: free of charge, please register online: www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/buchen or call 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.
Read 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, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 March, 4.30 p.m. each day
Location: Central Library, Children's World, TIETZ, Moritzstraße 20
Tuesdays, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 March, 4 p.m. each day
Location: Einsiedel District Library, Einsiedler Hauptstraße 79 b
Tuesdays, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 March, 4.30 p.m. each day
Location: District library in the Yorck Centre, Scharnhorststraße 11
Saturdays, 7, 14, 21, 28 March, 11 a.m. each day
Location: Central Library, Children's World, TIETZ, Moritzstraße 20
Saturdays, 7, 14, 21, 28 March, 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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