As a start into the week we welcomed the Saxon Minister-President. Visiting our office Michael Kretschmer congratulated our team personally for reaching the second round of the application and thanked them for their dedication. „Together [...]

Summer will be exciting in Chemnitz. From 20th June 2020, we will mark the opening of the city’s first international public art project. More than 20 renowned artists and collectives have been invited to engage [...]

On 2nd December, the winners of the International Gender Equality Prize 2019 were announced in our twin city in Finland. Equality Now was awarded the accolade for its work over the last 25 years. The [...]

With her our team is complete: The Mayor of Chemnitz, Barbara Ludwig, initiated the application. She is confident that, by becoming aware of its own strengths, its proactive can-do approach and creative potential, Chemnitz will [...]

She also belongs to our presentation team: Sabrina Sadowska lives and breathes creativity. As Director of Ballet at Chemnitz Theatre, she works with her international company to promote urban high culture, while at the same [...]

Ten people from Chemnitz are currently working on the Chemnitz2025 presentation which we want to use to convince the European jury in Berlin on 10 December. One of them is Bernd Birkigt. The Mayor of [...]

He also will get up early on 10 December: for the presentation in Berlin at 9 a.m. Through his international start-up in the IT sector with over 300 employees, the managing director of Staffbase GmbH, [...]

Of course he will be there when we present our application to the european jury in Berlin. Ferenc Csák is CEO of the Chemnitz Department of Culture and heads the application process. He thus keeps [...]

Indispensable for our presentation: Hartwig Albiro, former theatre director of the Chemnitz Theater, is a well-versed authority on Chemnitz’s cultural infrastructure and knows exactly why the city of Chemnitz needs the title. Born in the [...]

We're going to berlin, and she's coming with us. Modern mobility and civic participation are Maria Kreusslein’s key areas of expertise. With her micro-project “Bicycle Cinema”, the traffic psychologist and research assistant at Chemnitz University [...]

He will also be part of our team when we present our application on 10 December. As captain of the NINERS, the international Chemnitz basketball team, Malte Ziegenhagen is not only a sporting role model [...]

She will also be there when we present our application to the European jury in Berlin on 10 December. Julia Palarz is one of those who supported the Capital of Culture Bureau as a student [...]

When we present our application to the european jury in Berlin on 10 december, she will be there: Zeran Osman, a student of Intercultural Communication at the Chemnitz University of Technology, has been actively involved [...]

Our twin city Ljubljana is also a candidate for European Capital of Culture 2025, and in November, we sealed the deal on a ten-year collaborative partnership with the Slovenian capital, aimed at intensifying our close [...]

We were invited to Wrocław, the European Capital of Culture 2016. A team from Wrocław 2016, now under the name of Culture Zone Wrocław, is continuing to build on the momentum generated by the bid [...]

Chemnitz author Hans Brinkmann has just returned from a four-week spell as writer-in-residence in the Finnish town of Tampere. He stayed in our twin city at the invitation of Tampere’s German Cultural Centre and the [...]

Running on all urban lines, our European Capital of Culture tram advertises with "Worthwhile Together". The slogan refers to what was successfully initiated by many of the city’s cultural professionals and initiatives in the last [...]

The CVAG is re-labelling all tram stops at the main station and is advertising our application with a lot of colour. The tram system connects our cultural region reaching from Hainichen to Stollberg, Mittweida, Annaberg-Buchholz, [...]

Communities create spaces and spaces create community – that’s the idea behind the “Making Space” initiative. To this end, the people of Chemnitz put forward 25 unused sites and areas around the city with [...]

50000 people celebrated an open and colorful city. Protagonists from the fields of culture, sport, business and civil society provided music, art, theatre, performances, discussions, fair play, a good mood – and a wonderful easiness [...]

If Chemnitz has anything in its blood, it’s new Beginnings (AUFbrüche): Germany’s leading industrial city at the start of the 20th century, Central Eastern Europe’s leading mechanical engineer during the Cold War, and emerging [...]

Communities create spaces and spaces create community – hence the idea of “Making space”. Chemnitz residents were asked to come up with ideas for repurposing unused spaces or areas by 31 March. The top five [...]