The industrial city of Chemnitz in Saxony in Germany has been awarded the title European Capital of Culture 2025 - take a first look at the city, its people and the programme!

This large-scale project, which the people of Chemnitz are currently developing together with great passion and commitment, will surprise guests from all over Germany, Europe and beyond with over 100 projects and more than 1000 events from 18 January 2025.

The slogan ‘C the Unseen’, Chemnitz 2025 invites you to discover the previously unseen. In keeping with the spirit of this project's do-it-yourself approach, three months before the official start of the Capital of Culture year, the Chemnitz ‘makers’ will give a first presentation of planned activities in a ‘workshop atmosphere’.

 This much is already certain: guests to the European Capital of Culture can expect a fusion of high culture and a lively independent arts scene, of Art Nouveau and industrial and GDR architecture as well as post-socialist modernism and creative participatory spirit.

If you would like to get to know Chemnitz and the European Capital of Culture region in more detail, you have the opportunity to do so with our press trip.

You will arrive on 23 October in the early evening and experience places and projects in Chemnitz and the European Capital of Culture region that are part of Chemnitz 2025. We will introduce you to some of the creative movers and shakers who are realising this major European project together. The press trip ends on 26 October in the early afternoon.

The detailed programme for the press day with presentation of the programme as well as for the press trip including modalities will follow at the beginning of September. You can then apply for binding accreditation.  

Please let us know without obligation if you are interested in a press trip. 

Pre-registration press trip programme launch Chemnitz 2025

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