Events at Chemnitz City Library in September 2019
Thursday, 5 September, 4 to 6 p.m.
Scratches on CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs? We can help!
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, entrance area
We will clean your scratched and dirty CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Organiser: Förderer der Stadtbibliothek Chemnitz e. V.
Thursday, 5 September, 6 p.m.
Book presentation: Helmut Bräuer "... angst vnd noth ist vnser täglich brott ..."
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, LearningRoom in the Science & Technology section
Observations on social and mental history in Chemnitz during the first half of the 17th century.
Organiser: Chemnitz City Library and Leipziger Universitätsverlag GmbH
Admission: free
Registration by e-mail: information@stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de
Thursday, 12 September, 2 to 5 p.m.,
Let's Play - gaming in the library
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Youth Scene
We play Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4 games. Recommended for ages 12 and up
Admission: free, registration not required
Thursday, 12 September, 3 to 6:30 pm,
e-book consultation hour
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Science & Technology advice desk
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.
Admission: free
Thursday, 12 September, 7 pm
Reading: Stefan Schwarz
Der kleine Gartenversager. About happiness and failure in the countryside
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Event Hall
Stefan Schwarz, one of Leipzig's most unsuccessful allotment gardeners for twenty years, tells in a hilarious way about the happiness of failure in the countryside and why all the futile pruning, weeding, blasting and plucking still makes you happy.
Admission: 12 euros, concessions 9 euros, advance booking: Museum box office in the TIETZ (1st floor), Tel.: 0371 488 4366
Saturday, 14 September, 10 am to 4 pm
Big bargain market
Location: TIETZ, foyer
Discarded library media: books, CDs, DVDs at bargain prices
Saturday, 21 September, 7 pm,
Dominique Horwitz, Chanson d'Amour
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Event Hall
With mischievous humour and romantic clichés, the actor, director, chansonnier and author Dominique Horwitz tells of the oh-so-different varieties of love in his second novel.
Admission: 12 euros, concessions 9 euros,
Advance booking: Museum box office on site: TIETZ (1st floor), Tel.: 0371 488 4366
Saturday, 21 September, 12 to 7 pm,
Festival of Cultures - Vokabularium
Location: Chemnitz market square
Under the motto "Living together, keeping together", the Intercultural Weeks will be opened on 21 September 2019 at 12 noon on the market square in Chemnitz. The patron is Lord Mayor Barbara Ludwig. The city library is participating with the book bus and, together with the adult education centre and the Protestant bookshop, is organising the Vokabularium programme area with various hands-on activities.
Admission: free
Tuesday, 24 September, 3 p.m.
Reading time - together you read less alone
Location: District library in the Yorck neighbourhood, Scharnhorststraße 11
No more lonely reading at home! Our reading mentor Petra Lory has once again selected interesting books for adults and will read from them.
Admission: free
Wednesday, 25 September, 9 am and 11 am,
Living Library - Living books in the Chemnitz City Library
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Event Hall
On the occasion of the Intercultural Week, Chemnitz residents with a migration background will be on hand as "living books" to talk about their lives and experiences in our city.
The living books are: Noshin Esmaeili (Iran), Monika Klose (Austria), Nosheen Victor John (Pakistan), Lejla Angiseva (Chechnya), Valérie Suty (France) and Adnan Saraçi (Kosovo)
Admission: free, registration required by e-mail: hastreiter@stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de
Thursday, 26 September, 2 to 5 pm,
Let's Play - Gaming in the Bibo
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Youth Scene
We play Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4 games. Recommended for ages 12 and up
Admission: free, registration not required
Monday, 30 September, 2.30 pm
Reading time - together you read less alone
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Culture & Countries section
No more lonely reading at home! Our reading mentor Regine Klinger has once again selected interesting books for adults and will read from them.
Admission: free
Recurring events
Tuesdays, 1 to 3 p.m.,
Refugees welcome in the library!
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Culture & Countries section
Learning mentors help with learning German and with homework for the DaZ and DaF courses (German as a second / German as a foreign language).
Admission: free
Tuesdays, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.,
Specialised work consultation hour for pupils
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Science & Technology section
We help with research in library catalogues and online databases and offer free self-help for effective research. Please register by stating the subject of your research paper by calling 0371 488-4222,
by e-mail: facharbeit@stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de or in person at the library.
Admission: free
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, 3/10/17/24 September, 4.30 pm each day
Location: Central Library, Children's World
Saturdays, 7/14/21/28 September, 11 a.m. each day
Location: Central Library, Children's World
Saturdays, 7/14/21/28 September, 10.30 a.m. each day
Location: Vita Centre District Library, W.-Sagorski-Straße 22
Tuesdays, 3/10/17/24 September, 4 p.m. each day
Location: Einsiedel District Library, Einsiedler Hauptstraße 79b
Tuesdays, 3/10/17/24 September, 4.30 pm each day
Location: District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11
Subject to change due to current events.