New microprojects presented for Chemnitz2025
Six ideas are being promoted with the support of KLUB 2025
Yesterday evening, the Capital of Culture Office once again hosted an after-work meeting at Tietz: On the one hand, to stay in dialogue with the people of Chemnitz about the application. Secondly, to present the new micro-projects.
The fifth funding period for small creative projects from the heart of urban society that make living together in Chemnitz that little bit more exciting, colourful, diverse and interesting ended on 30 September.
A total of 21 project ideas were submitted, including several from young initiatives. The jury decided in favour of six projects, which are jointly funded by Chemnitz2025 and Klub 2025, a business initiative to support the application.
Three project initiators then presented their ideas in person yesterday evening:
Dave Schmidtke from the "Horizont" project, a magazine that gives a voice to refugees/migrants in Chemnitz. In addition to individual stories of flight, regional organisations, language course and job offers as well as stories of integration are presented every month.
Mary Ann Mihalyi from the "Raise Up Academy" project, which brings children and young people (aged 8-15) together through sports and creative activities and offers them and their parents a project space and a contact point for joint activities.
Bernd Tittmann and Bernd Eckart, who talked about the idea of the Froschlandbuben Stelzendorf. Together with skat friends from Katowice in Poland, the Stelzendorfers want to organise an international skat tournament in Chemnitz - and thus help raise awareness of the game of skat, which has been recognised as an intangible UNESCO cultural heritage since 2012. In particular, they want to invite skat friends from our twin cities of Düsseldorf and Mulhouse to promote and expand international contact between skat friends.
The projects are also being supported:
Chemnitz, Ahoy! - the small boat games
Project initiators Teresa Stelzer, Hanna Malhas and Marc Philipp Gabriel are planning a theatre experiment in which Chemnitz residents and non-Chemnitz residents are invited to take a seat in a boat together. In 15-minute one-on-one performances, impulses for positive communication will be given.
Jewish contemporary witnesses from Chemnitz
In five- to seven-minute films, the Jewish community would like to document the lives of Chemnitz natives who were persecuted for their faith in the 1930s and emigrated to Palestine, now Israel. Four films are planned: About the actress Ruth Geller, about Uri Gutman, whose father was active in the Jewish Youth Association of Saxony and whose grandfather ran the Chemnitz textile shop "Haus der Herrenmode", about Franzia Amir, whose father ran the "Haus der Herrenmode".about Franzia Amir, whose father founded the Club of Former Chemnitzers in Israel and maintained close ties with the city, and about Esther Parat, who recently visited the city with her three sons. They all contribute unique memories and photographic documents about Chemnitz, which tell a lot about the city's history and should be preserved.
"The damned refugee"
Thaer Ayoub's poetry collection is a very personal look at life in his native Syria, at flight, parents and home, identity and encounters, racism and asylum in Chemnitz.