The 4th Chemnitz Reading Night on 22 April at the TIETZ

On the eve of the UNESCO World Book Day on 22 April 2017, the TIETZ invites you to the
4th Chemnitz Reading Night. Chemnitz authors, literary associations, writing workshops, publishers, bookshops and second-hand bookshops will be presenting themselves with a large book market centred around the Petrified Forest. There will also be a varied literary programme, puppet shows, a poetry slam, live music, games and hands-on activities for the whole family. Admission is free.

In the run-up to the 4th Chemnitz Reading Night, media representatives are invited to a pressand photo session on Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 11.30 a.m. at the TIETZ, at the Petrified Forest. Members of the organising team will be happy to answer questions about the programme.

The reading festival begins at 3 pm with the opening performance "Luther & Marx". In the context of the Chemnitz cultural project of the same name for the Reformation Year, thoughts, words and works by the two personalities Martin Luther and Karl Marx will be presented at different locations and at different times for the reading night. The musical opening will set the mood. On the TIETZ forecourt, pupils from the music school will welcome visitors to the reading spectacle with street music.

The Hohenstein-Ernstthal author and musician Lothar Becker presents his episodic novel "Bubble Gum 69", a ludicrous parable about growing up in the GDR in the 60s and 70s. Members of the International Stefan Heym Society will recite from works by Stefan Heym.

The Chemnitz amateur theatre group "Lachfalten" will perform the oriental fairytale play "Abu Hassan, das Schlitzohr" and the Chemnitz puppet theatre will show the current production "Frerk du Zwerg" based on the children's book by Finn-Ole Heinrich.

Ayoub Thaer, a Syrian writer living in Chemnitz, will read texts about flight, asylum and home. This will be followed by a concert by the Syrian band YouMa.

The grand finale of the reading night is a poetry slam at 8.30 pm. A poetry slam workshop with experienced slammers had already taken place at the TIETZ in the run-up to the event. The best word acrobats and performers from the workshop will compete against each other in the TIETZ slam, supported by the well-known slam poet Gerrard Schüft.

Chemnitz Reading Night - Saturday, 22 April 2017, 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Programme:

TIETZ foyer
3 pm | Welcome!
Luther, Marx & Company

3 - 8 pm | Book and antiquarian book market
Games and craft activities for the whole family

Lounge music with Anton Böttcher on the piano

8.30 pm | TIETZ slam for the reading night
feat. artist Gerrard Schüft
Hosted by Tobias Glufke

TIETZ forecourt
3 - 8 p.m. | Quotes meet cobblestones
Street music with pupils from the Chemnitz Municipal Music School

New Saxon Gallery, 1st floor
from 3 pm | Japanese brochures - a binding technique from the Far East.
Small bookmaking workshop.

4 pm | Lothar Becker reads "Bubble Gum 69"

6 p.m. | "Frerk du Zwerg", puppet theatre based on the children's book by Finn-Ole Heinrich.

7.30 pm | Heureka: Peter Panter and Theobald Tiger talk about Martin Luther and Karl Marx.
Reading by Egmont Elschner

Musical accompaniment: Henriette Kunze on the grand piano

KulturRAUM (ground floor)
3 - 8 pm | the International Stefan Heym Society presents:
- Exhibition "Temporary Ally: Stefan Heym in the US Army 1943-1945"
- Stefan Heym on the "Red Thread" - sayings, titles and poems to take away
- Stefan Heym - Quiz, you can win Stefan Heym books

Contributions
15.30 - 16 hrs | 14-18 WAR WAS. Shared Memories - Testimonies from the First World War I

16.15 - 16.45 | Luther & Marx. Thoughts and words of the two personalities I

17 - 17.30 hrs | 14-18 WAR WAS. Shared Memories - Testimonies from the First World War II

17.45 - 18.15 | Luther & Marx. Thoughts and words of the two personalities II

City Library, Children's World, 3rd floor
3 - 7 p.m. | Discovering fairy tales with the Kamishibai storytelling theatre and making
figures for shadow plays

City Library, Culture & Countries, 2nd floor
6 - 7 p.m. | Members of the International Stefan Heym Society read texts by Stefan Heym

Event hall, 3rd floor
Arabic-Saxon divan:
3.15 - 4.15 p.m. | Abu Hassan, the rascal
Oriental fairytale play by the Chemnitz amateur theatre group Lachfalten

16.30 hrs | Babylonian linguistic confusion
Readings by Chemnitz residents with and without a migration background

7 pm | The Syrian writer Ayoub Thaer reads new texts

7.30 pm | Live music with the Syrian band Youma

CAB CoffeeArtBar
from 3 - 8 p.m. | CoffeeAndBooks - browse new books in peace and quiet

The team from "Die Kantine/ SFZ CoWerk" will cater for your physical well-being.

Chemnitz Reading Night is a project of the City of Chemnitz Cultural Centre and Chemnitz University of Technology, Romance Cultural Studies, in cooperation with the Chemnitz-Zwickau Student Union and the International Stefan Heym Society.