Events organised by Chemnitz City Library in March 2020
Monday, 2 March, 7 p.m.
Music Club: Beethoven's piano sonatas
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Event Hall
Admission: free
Lecture by the Leipzig musicologist Prof Dr Johannes Forner
Organiser: Chemnitzer Musikverein e. V.
Tuesday, 3 March, 7 p.m.
Concert: Galina Lunova, My most beautiful Jewish songs
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Event Hall
Admission: 5 euros, reduced 3 euros | Advance booking: Museum box office in the TIETZ (1st floor), Tel.: 488 4366
in Yiddish, Russian and Hebrew
Thursday, 3 March, 2 to 4 p.m.
"Fit on the tablet" - beginners' workshop for senior citizens
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Study Room 1
Admission: free
In this multi-part workshop on three consecutive Thursdays, you can learn how to use tablets under supervision. You do not need any previous knowledge or your own device to take part. We look forward to your registration at Tel: 0371 488-4222 or e-mail: Anke.Ohndorf@stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de
Thursday, 7 March, 2 to 6 p.m.
Boys' stuff and girls' stuff? - an entertaining makerspace creative afternoon before International Women's Day
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library
Admission: free
You can expect starter projects for the sewing machine, imaginative costumes from our costume chest followed by a photo shoot, various technical hands-on activities and the creation of short comic strips about gender stereotypes. Raging reporters will conduct radio interviews on the subject of Women's Day and typical "girls' and boys' stuff" (in cooperation with Radio T).
Thursday, 12 March, 2 to 5 p.m.
Let's Play - gaming in the library
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Youth Scene
Admission: free
We play Nintendo Switch and PS4 games. Recommended from 12 years, registration not required.
Thursday, 12 March, 3 to 6:30 pm
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.
LESELUST 2020 - Literature Days in Chemnitz and the cultural region
18. March to 4 April 2020 | Events at the City Library in March
Wednesday, 18 March, 7 p.m.
Opening: Literary Chemnitz
Venue: TIETZ, central library, event hall
Admission: 8 euros, reduced 6 euros
Diana Feuerbach, Kirsten Fuchs and Burkhard Müller are connected to Chemnitz in their biographies. They will be reading from their latest books and talking to literary critic Michael Hametner. They will also talk about what connects the three authors to our city.
The young Chemnitz jazz ensemble Improjekt will provide musical accompaniment to the reading.
Thursday, 19 March, 7 p.m.
Sabine Ebert: Sword and Crown - Heart of Stone
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Event Hall
Admission: 8 euros, reduced 6 euros
Bestselling author Sabine Ebert presents Herz aus Stein, the fourth volume of her Barbarossa saga "Schwert und Krone" (Sword and Crown).
Friday, 20 March, 7 p.m.
Jackie Thomae: Brüder
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Event Hall
Admission: 8 euros, reduced 6 euros
Berlin-based Jackie Thomae made it onto the shortlist for the 2019 German Book Prize with "Brüder" (Brothers), a novel about two German men born in the same year, children of the same father who left them only his dark skin. The questions they ask themselves are the same. Their lives could not be more different.
Two men. Two possibilities. Two lives. Jackie Thomae poses the question of how we become the people we are.
Saturday, 21 March, 3.30 p.m.
All in the family: Tafiti and the Savannah Detectives
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Event Hall
Admission: 3 euros
Interactive reading with music, hand puppets and live drawing with Julia Ginsbach
Experience the African savannah in the middle of the city library! In this interactive reading, Julia Ginsbach brings Tafiti and his friend Brush, the brush-eared pig, to life and takes you on one of Tafiti's wild adventures!
Saturday, 21 March, 7 pm
Ilja Richter reads "Invitation to a Cruise" by Bodo Kirchhoff
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Event Hall
Admission: 15 euros, reduced 10 euros
Cruises are booming. But not for Bodo Kirchhoff. Instead of a cruise, he shares his amusing and sarcastic rejection of the world of luxury liners with us. Alongside all the social criticism, this develops into a letter of longing for unrealised dreams.
Tuesday, 24 March, 7 p.m.
Dominique Horwitz: Chanson d'Amour
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Event Hall
Admission: 12 euros, reduced 9 euros
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.
Make-up date for the cancelled event on 21 September 2019.
Thursday, 26 March, 2 to 5 p.m.
Let's Play - gaming in the library
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Youth Scene
Price: free
We play Nintendo Switch and PS4 games. Recommended from 12 years, registration not required.
Thursday, 26 March, 7 pm
Axel Hacke reads and tells stories
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, event hall
Price: 15 euros, reduced 10 euros
Axel Hacke's readings are unique: cheerful, philosophical and uproariously funny. Axel Hacke talks about life, talks about his work and has everything he has written in his life with him. First and foremost, and in great detail, he talks about his latest book: Wozu wir da sind. Walter Wemut's handouts for a successful life, the furious yet relaxed and witty monologue by a full-time obituary author on the big questions of our existence.
Saturday, 28 March, 7 p.m.
Paula Irmschler: Superbusen
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Event Hall
Price: 8 euros, reduced 6 euros
Gisela moves to Chemnitz to start afresh. The city is a promise for the early 20-year-old. To finally study, to find herself, away from her family and all the other people she doesn't understand and who don't understand her. But she takes her body and her thoughts with her. But in Chemnitz there are friends who don't want to accept the world as it is. Together they go to demonstrations, get drunk, try to make ends meet and form a band: Superbusen. At their concerts, they discover for the first time the construct of East and West, what holds them together and divides them as women, and the power of music.
Monday, 30 March, 14:30
Reading time - together you read less alone
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Culture & Countries section
Price: 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 read from them.
Tuesday, 31 March, 3 p.m.
Reading time - together you read less alone
Location: District library in the Yorck neighbourhood, Scharnhorststraße 11
Price: 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.
Tuesday, 31 March, 7 p.m.
Literary quartet: New books by Saxon authors in discussion
Jens Wonneberger reads from his novel "Mission Pflaumenbaum".
Venue: TIETZ, Central Library, Event Hall
Price: 8 euros, reduced 6 euros
Michael Hametner, author and literary critic from Leipzig, Andreas Berger, Head of Culture at MDR Sachsen in Dresden, Karin Großmann, editor of the Sächsische Zeitung Dresden and Lutz Grahner from Chemnitzer Eichenspinner Verlag will discuss the following books: Franziska Wilhelm, "Die schönsten Abgründe des Lebens" (Verlag zwiebook), Michael G. Fritz "Auffliegende Papageien" (Mitteldeutscher Verlag), Uwe Kolbe, "Die sichtbaren Dinge": Gedichte (poetenladen Verlag) and Jens Wonneberger, "Mission Pflaumenbaum" (Verlag Muery Salzmann).
Recurring events
Every Tuesday from 1 to 3 pm
Refugees welcome to 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 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Specialised work consultation hour for pupils
Location: TIETZ, Central Library, Science & Technology section
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, 3/10/17/24 March, 4.30 pm each day
Location: Central Library, Children's World
Saturdays, 7/14/21/28 March, 11 a.m. each day
Location: Central Library, Children's World
Saturdays, 7/14/21/28/29 March, 10.30 a.m. each day
Location: Vita Centre District Library, W.-Sagorski-Straße 22
Tuesdays, 3/10/17/24 March, 4 p.m. each day
Location: Einsiedel District Library, Einsiedler Hauptstraße 79b
Tuesdays, 3/10/17/24 March, 4:30 p.m. each day
Location: District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11
Winter holidays
10 - 22 February
Holiday reading hits for holiday kids
At the start of the winter holidays, the district libraries in the Vita-Center, Yorckgebiet, Einsiedel and Wittgensdorf are once again offering holiday reading in the form of surprise packages under the motto "Reading hits for holiday kids" for all primary and secondary school pupils with a library card. We have packed handy packages with two books each. The reading fun is sweetened with a little snack.
The books can be borrowed free of charge and can be borrowed within the usual loan period of four weeks.
Subject to change due to current events.