Events organised by Chemnitz City Library
May 2016
Monday, 02.05.2016, 19:00
Musikclub: From Parsifal to Dreigroschenoper
Chemnitz musical life at the beginning of the 20th century
Speaker: Prof. Dr Werner Kaden, Chemnitz
Organiser: Chemnitz Music Society
Venue: TIETZ, event hall
Admission free
Tuesday, 03.05.2016, 13:00
Exhibition: 14-18 WAR WAS | Picture change with informative vernissage
Corresponding to the period of the First World War from 1 August 1914 to 11 November 1918, the Schlossberg Museum, in cooperation with the Department of Romance Cultural Studies/TU Chemnitz, will be showing a photograph from its collection of historical images of the war events every month until November 2018 as part of the "14-18 WAR WAS" project.
The change of images will be accompanied by a short introduction and a free lecture.
Location: TIETZ, Foyer
Free admission
Thursday, 12.05.2016, 17:00 - 18:30
E-book consultation hour
Chemnitz City Library provides information and advice on how e-book readers, reading on tablet computers and borrowing electronic media work. Individual consultation appointments can be arranged by telephone on 0371 488-4222.
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Science & Technology advice desk
Free admission
Tuesday, 17.05.2016, 20:00
Voland & Quist Literatursalon: Ahne: Ab heute fremd
Some will ask themselves: who, how, what, why? But Ahne has arrived in the 21st century and wants to move on to the 22nd century as quickly as possible. But that's not possible (yet) because the technology isn't quite there yet. A pity, really. Does that make it a book critical of technology? Yes and no. It has become a critical book in general. It criticises everything and everyone and provides answers along the way. To do this, however, it needs well over a hundred pages filled with short stories, dialogues with God and line drawings.
Venue: Club Atomino at TIETZ
Admission: 7 €
Saturday, 21 May 2016, 18:00 - 22:00
Chemnitz Museum Night
Magazingeflüster - basement tour of the Chemnitz City Library
The basement magazine houses 126,000 media. Embark on a journey through time through the world of books and be fascinated by selected treasures from the historical collection spanning nine centuries. Guided tour every hour on the hour
Start/meeting point: TIETZ, foyer
Admission with the Museum Night Ticket: €8 (Youth Ticket: €3, also valid for concessions)
Thursday, 26.05.2016, 17:00 - 18:30
E-book consultation hour
Chemnitz City Library provides information and advice on how e-book readers, reading on tablet computers and borrowing electronic media work. Individual consultation appointments can be arranged by telephone on 0371 488-4222.
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Science & Technology advice desk
Free admission
Monday, 30 May 2016, 14:30
Reading time: reading mentor Regine Klinger reads stories for adults.
Central Library, Culture & Countries section
Admission: free
Tuesday, 31 May 2016, 15:00
Reading time: reading mentor Petra Lory reads stories for adults.
District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11
Free admission
Event programme for children
Monday, 09.05.2016 and 23.05.2016, both at 16:30
Reading time with Sofia - the children's library mascot invites you in
Picture books, stories and fairy tales are read aloud or told. Listening is fun, as is joining in the storytelling. But the best thing is to see the wonderful illustrations accompanying the stories, which is child's play with the Kamishibai theatre or the picture book cinema.
Suitable for children aged 4 - 8 with their parents or grandparents
Venue: TIETZ, foyer on the ground floor
Free admission
Thursdays, 12.05.2016, 19.05.2016, 26.05.2016, 15:30
Refugees welcome in the library!
Library staff read from picture books for refugee children aged 4 to 10 and introduce the library.
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Children's World
Free admission
Read aloud: On quiet soles... Stories to listen to
read aloud for everyone with keen ears
When you are invited to the event "Auf leisen Sohlen..." in the city library, you have to be very quiet and prick up your ears, because the reading mentors come to visit and read out exciting stories. They take both young and older listeners into colourful fantasy worlds with great pleasure. The literature-loving readers 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.
The dates:
Tuesdays, 03.05.2016, 10.05.2016, 17.05.2016, 24.05.2016, 31.05.2016, 16:30 in each case
Location: Central Library, Children's World
Free admission
Saturdays, 07.05.2016, 14.05.2016, 21.05.2016, 28.05.2016, 11:00 a.m. each day
Venue: Central Library, Children's World
Admission free
Thursday, 26.05.2016, 16:30 hrs
Venue: Vita Centre District Library, W.-Sagorski-Straße 20
Admission free
Saturdays, 07.05.2016, 14.05.2016, 21.05.2016, 28.05.2016, 10:30 a.m. each day
Location: Vita Centre District Library, W.-Sagorski-Straße 20
Admission free
Tuesday, 31 May 2016, 4:30 pm
Location: Einsiedel District Library, Einsiedler Hauptstraße 79b
Admission free
Tuesday, 31 May 2016, 4:30 pm
Location: District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11
Admission free
Subject to change due to current events.
For further information please contact:
Uwe Hastreiter
Chemnitz City Library
Moritzstraße 20, 09111 Chemnitz
Telephone: 0371 488-4202
E-mail: hastreiter(at)stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de