City library events in September 2020
Thursday, 10 September, 2 to 6 p.m.
E-book consultation hour
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Science & Technology advice desk
Admission: free
Are you having problems with your e-book reader or don't know why you can't borrow e-media? We can help you with an individual consultation. Please arrange your personal appointment by calling 0371 488 4222.
Thursday, 10 September, 2 to 5 p.m.
Let's Play - gaming in the library
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Study Room
Admission: free
We play Nintendo Switch and PS4 games. Recommended from 12 years, registration not required
Saturday, 12 September, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Open text workshop of the Free German Authors' Association
Topic: How do authors find a publisher?
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Culture & Countries section
Admission: free
You can also bring your own texts to discuss. Those coming for the first time can also just listen. Organiser: Freier Deutscher Autorenverband, Landesverband Sachsen e. V.
Thursday, 17 September, 5 p.m.
"Alltag ist heilbar!" - Jan Lipowski reads from his new book and presents cartoons by Uwe Krumbiegel
Venue: District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11
Admission: 5 euros / reduced 3 euros (max. 25 people)
Registration under Tel.: 0371 71885 | E-Mail: yorck(at)stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de
Lipowski's stories are fast-paced, light as a feather and highly entertaining. Experience an evening full of humorous short and abridged texts - also about marriage, fidelity, road traffic and vegan weddings, aptly accompanied by witty cartoons by Uwe Krumbiegel.
Thursday, 24 September, 2 to 5 p.m.
Let's Play - gaming in the library
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Study Room
Admission: free
We play Nintendo Switch and PS4 games. Recommended from 12 years, registration not required.
Friday, 25 September, 7 pm
Wolfgang Hohlbein: The Wolf Gang - The most magical school in the world
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Event Hall
Admission: 6 euros / reduced 4 euros (max. 40 people), registration under Tel.: 0371 488 4366
"Die Wolf-Gäng" is an exciting young adult fantasy novel for girls and boys. The book is about a vampire who can't see blood, a fairy with a fear of flying and a werewolf with an allergy to animal hair: Vlad, Faye and Wolf are the new kids at school. Unfortunately, they are labelled a laughing stock on their very first day. At the Penner Academy of all places, the most famous magical school in the world. The place is teeming with fairies, witches, trolls, dwarves and vampires. The three anti-heroes quickly become friends - and uncover a secret that puts the whole world in great danger! With a total print run of over 44 million books, Wolfgang Hohlbein is the most successful German-language fantasy author. His current successes include the CHRONIK DER UNSTERBLICHEN series and the RPC Fantasy Award 2012-winning novel THOR.
Saturday, 26 September, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Big book market
Location: TIETZ, Foyer
Specialised library media: books, CDs, DVDs at bargain prices
Monday, 28 September, 2.30 p.m.
Reading time - "Life is a rollercoaster ride"
Reading mentor Regine Klinger reads short stories by Martina Hegemann.
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Culture & Countries section
Admission: free
Tuesday, 29 September, 3 p.m.
Reading time - together you read less alone
Location: District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11
Admission: Friday
No more lonely reading at home! Our reading mentor Petra Lory has once again selected interesting books for adults and will read from them.
Wednesday, 30 September, 5 p.m.
Translations - invisible and everywhere
Venue: TIETZ, stage in the foyer
Admission: free
In the courtroom, in musicals, in instruction manuals - translators and interpreters have a hand in everything. But most people don't even notice them. Today, on St Jerome's Day, the official day of the translators' guild, language professionals from Chemnitz and the surrounding area are stepping into the limelight. Experience the diversity of languages and this exciting professional field with short readings and refreshing presentations. Organiser: Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer (BDÜ) Landesverband Ost e.V. as part of the Intercultural Weeks.
Wednesday, 30 September, 6.30 pm |
Marion Messina: False start - Faux départ
Bilingual reading by the young French author Marion Messina.
Venue: Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Admission: free
Pre-registration under 0371 488 4501 or info.kunstsammlungen(at)stadt-chemnitz.de
"Houellebecq has an heiress" (Marianne). Marion Messina looks at the life and failure of a young woman in Paris - her furious debut is a stab at the heart of our crisis-ridden present. When her first love fails, nineteen-year-old Aurélie moves from Grenoble to Paris. There she finally wants to live life to the full and leave her parents' provincial working-class biographies behind her by studying law. But in Paris she barely manages to get a job as a receptionist, the housing market turns out to be an anarchic zone and love is a farce between friendly arrangements and pornography. But then Aurélie sets everything back to square one. Full of anger, clear-sightedness and merciless irony, Marion Messina looks at the life of a young woman and into the heart of a new lost generation.
Organiser: INSTITUT FRANÇAIS, Chemnitz City Library, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Recurring events
Every Tuesday from 1 to 3 pm
Refugees welcome in the library!
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Culture & Countries section
Admission: free
Learning mentors help with learning German and with homework for the DaZ and DaF courses (German as a second / German as a foreign language).
Every Tuesday from 3 to 6 pm
Specialised work consultation hour for pupils
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Science & Technology area
Admission: free
We help with research in library catalogues and online databases and offer free self-help for effective research. Registration is required, stating the topic of the research paper, by phone: 0371 488-4222, by e-mail: facharbeit(at)stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de or in person at the library.
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. Admission is free.
The dates:
Tuesdays, 1/8/15/22/29 September, 4.30 pm each day
Location: Central Library, Children's World
Saturdays, 5/12/19/26 September, 11 a.m. each day
Location: Central Library, Children's World
Saturdays, 5/12/19/26 September, 10.30 a.m. each day
Location: Vita Centre District Library, W.-Sagorski-Straße 22
Tuesdays, 1/8/15/22/29 September, 4 p.m. each day
Location: Einsiedel District Library, Einsiedler Hauptstraße 79b
Tuesdays, 1/8/15/22/29 September, 4.30 p.m. each day
Location: District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11