Events at Chemnitz City Library in June 2018
Mondays, 4, 11, 18 and 25 June, 5.30 to 7 p.m.
Lecture - Lecture series Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis"
The representation of reality in European literature.
Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, Culture & Countries section,
Admission: free
Speaker: Dr habil. Wolfram Ette, TU Chemnitz
Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) was Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Marburg until 1935. After his dismissal by the National Socialists, he emigrated to the USA via Istanbul. His main work Mimesis, which has long since become a classic of modern literary studies since its first publication in 1946, was also written in exile. Using a series of text analyses ranging from Homer and the Bible to the Goncourt brothers and Virginia Woolf, Erich Auerbach describes the history of mimesis as the history of the different forms that the relationship between literature and reality has taken over the centuries. In this way, he also traces the development of realism in European and, in particular, French literature.
The next dates in the series are 2 and 9 July.
Organiser: TU Chemnitz, Chair of Modern German and Comparative Literature
Monday, 4 June, 7 p.m.
Music club: New pieces for the Himmelsburg every month
Venue: TIETZ, event hall,
Admission: free
Speaker: PD Dr habil. Michael Maul, Leipzig
Johann Sebastian Bach's Weimar cantatas
Organiser: Chemnitz Music Society
Tuesday, 5 June, 1 p.m.
14-18 WAR WAS, exhibition project "Shot with light"
Venue: TIETZ, Foyer,
Admission: free
Corresponding to the period of the First World War from 1914 to 1918, the Schlossbergmuseum Chemnitz is showing another photograph from its collection of historical images of the war, with expert support from the ENT_Rüstet team.
www.14-18warwas.de
Tuesday, 5 June, 7 pm
Ingo Schulze: Peter Holtz, His happy life told by himself
Venue: Villa Esche,
Admission: 20 euros, reduced 15 euros, reservations on 0371 533-1088
From orphan to millionaire - how did it go so wrong? Peter Holtz wants happiness for everyone. Even as a child, he practised the abolition of money, invented punk from the spirit of workers' songs and converted to Christianity. As a CDU member (East), he fights for a Christian-communist democracy. But he is surprised: the course of the world contradicts all logic. The market economy rewards his selflessness with wealth. Was he fighting for the wrong thing? Or for the right thing, but on the wrong path? And how can he get rid of the money with decency?
With humour and poetry, Ingo Schulze brings to life a character that has never existed before, but that we need today - in times when the world is turning upside down.
Organiser: Villa Esche/GGG in cooperation with Chemnitz City Library
Thursday, 7 June, 4 to 6 p.m.
Scratches on CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs? We can help!
Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, entrance area
We will clean your scratched and dirty CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs with our CD polishing machine. A donation is requested.
Organiser: Förderer der Stadtbibliothek Chemnitz e. V.
Thursday, 7 June, 7 p.m.
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin - Russia's great love
Venue: TIETZ, event hall,
Admission: 4 euros
A musical-literary evening with Russian romances and poems by Pushkin, organised by members of the Pushkin Club, the "Kolorit" association and Galina Lunjova.
Organiser: Förderer der Stadtbibliothek Chemnitz e. V./Projekt Puschkin-Club
Thursday, 14 June, 2 to 5 pm
Let's Play - gaming in the library
Venue: Central Library in the TIETZ, Youth Scene,
Admission: free
We play on the Nintendo Switch as well as borrowable Xbox One and Playstation 4 games. Recommended from 12 years, registration not required
Thursday, 14 June, 4 to 6.30 pm
E-book consultation hour
Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, Science & Technology advice desk,
Admission: free
Are you having problems with your e-book reader, reading on a tablet PC or don't know why you can't borrow e-media? We will be happy to help you with an individual consultation. Please make an appointment (Tel. 488 4222)
Tuesday, 19 June, 7.30 pm
Vernissage: Exhibition zee.3.7.1 - Typography in Chemnitz since 1466
Location: TIETZ, Neue Sächsische Galerie
Printed type has existed in and from the city of Chemnitz since the invention of letterpress printing. Beginning with the valuable early prints in the library, the objects lead up to the typographically rich 20th century: Ost-Rubbel letters, stonemasonry, lead typesetting, the lettering behind the Nischel and current works by Chemnitz design studios. These objects are embedded in a rich cultural-historical presentation of Latin letters and the history of writing with numerous opportunities for visitors to explore the vast realm of writing in typographic tests and games.
(The exhibition is on display until 16 September).
A joint exhibition project of the Chemnitz City Library and the Neue Sächsische Galerie to mark the city's 875th anniversary.
Thursday, 21 June, 5 p.m.
"Germany's East" - multimedia lecture with Günter Schneider
Venue: District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11,
Admission: free
The 2nd part of Günter Schneider's Germany tip visits
Monday, 25 June, 2.30 pm
Reading time - together you read less alone
Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, Culture & Countries section,
Admission: free
No more lonely reading within your own four walls. Our reading mentor Regine Klinger has once again selected interesting books for adults and will be reading from them.
Tuesday, 26 June, 3 p.m.
Reading time -together you read less alone
Venue: neighbourhood library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11,
Admission: free
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, 28 June, 2 to 5 pm
Let's Play - gaming in the library
Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, Youth Scene,
Admission: free
We play on the Nintendo Switch as well as borrowable Xbox One and Playstation 4 games. Recommended from 12 years, registration not required
Every Tuesday, 1 to 3 pm
Refugees welcome in the library!
Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, Culture & Countries area
Learning mentors help with learning German and with homework for the DaZ and DaF courses (German as a second language, German as a foreign language).
every Tuesday, 3 to 6 pm
Specialised work consultation hour for pupils
Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, Science & Technology advice desk
We help with research in library catalogues and online databases and offer free self-help for effective research. Please register, stating the topic of your research paper, by phone: 0371 488-4222, by e-mail: facharbeit(at)stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de or in person at the library.
READ FORWARD
On quiet soles... stories to listen to
read aloud for everyone with keen ears
Our reading mentors take both young and older listeners into colourful fantasy worlds with great pleasure. They 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:
Every Tuesday, 5, 12, 19 and 26 June, each at 4.30 p.m.
Location: Central Library, Children's World
every Saturday, 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 June, 11 a.m. each day
Location: Central Library, Children's World
Tuesday, 26 June, 4.30 p.m.
Location: Einsiedel District Library, Einsiedler Hauptstraße 79b
Tuesday, 26 June, 4.30 pm
Location: District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11
Thursday, 28 June, 4.30 pm
Location: Vita Centre District Library, W.-Sagorski-Straße 20
every Saturday, 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 June, 10.30 a.m. each day
Location: Vita Centre District Library, W.-Sagorski-Straße 20
SUMMER READING CLUB
18 June to 12 August
Book Summer Saxony
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
500 brand new thrillers, mystery and fantasy novels and the latest stories about love and life are available for club members. Registration is free and uncomplicated. All 10 to 16-year-olds who enjoy reading can become members of the city library's reading club.
For the first time, there will also be a Saxony-wide Book Summer Readers' Prize.
The youth jury of the Leipzig City Library has pre-selected ten current books for young people, from which the Book Summer participants can then choose their favourite and win the prize. At the big Book Summer closing party on
24 August at the Atomino, attractive prizes will also be raffled off in the literature quiz. As always, a prerequisite for participation in the closing party is the reading of at least three Book Summer books.
The Saxon Book Summer is a reading promotion initiative for young people organised by libraries in Saxony and the Saxon State Specialist Agency for Libraries in cooperation with the Saxon Education Agency. www. buchsommer-sachsen.de
Subject to change due to current events.