Deputy Editor-in-Chief Dr Matthias Ehlert and Clara Zimmermann from the WELTKUNST editorial team presented the issue in Chemnitz. The special summer issue of the art magazine, published by ZEIT Verlag, focuses on Chemnitz and the region. On 100 pages, many stories are told under the motto "Full steam ahead - What Europe's Capital of Culture 2025 already has to offer": The spectrum ranges from a look back at the "golden age", when Chemnitz was the "Manchester of Germany", to a portrait of the Clara Mosch artists' group, which caused an aesthetic and political furore in the GDR, an interview with the operators of the Atomino club and a text about the new PURPLE PATH sculpture trail, which is set to connect Chemnitz and almost forty municipalities in the future.
The magazine is available in bookshops and newsagents as well as online via the ZEIT shop.
Mayor of Culture Dagmar Ruscheinsky leafed through the hot-off-the-press issue: "I am very happy about this magazine because it shows that Chemnitz has always been a city of culture with depth." Silke Franzl, Mayor of Ehrenfriedersdorf, one of the 38 municipalities in the cultural region, was particularly pleased that the Purple Path art and sculpture trail being created for Chemnitz 2025 is already having such an impact.
The booklet is visually characterised by the photographs of Berlin-based photo artist Hannes Wiedemann, who carried out intensive research on site and captured the diversity of the region in pictures.
Matthias Ehlert reported that he had never received such letters of praise from readers so quickly. One letter from Cologne said, "I read the magazine from the first to the last page and will definitely be travelling there."
