It's official: Stefan Schmidtke is the managing director of the European Capital of Culture 2025 GmbH. The internationally renowned cultural manager and programme maker comes from Döbeln in Saxony and has led outstanding cultural [...]

"WE PARAPOM! - Collective European Parade of Apple Trees" is one of the first projects from the Capital of Culture programme to be implemented. What is it about? Until 2025, a parade of [...]

There's a lot going on at the garage campus in Kappel! As an intervention area within the framework of the European Capital of Culture 2025, the former Tram Depot on Zwickauer Straße will change [...]

About 90 cycling enthusiasts start for the new "European Peace Ride" on the route Chemnitz-Prague-Chemnitz In 2025, when Chemnitz is the European Capital of Culture, the legendary [...]

The first Blühwiesenfest (flowering meadow festival) now took place where prefabricated buildings once stood: On 11 August, the square on Wenzel-Verner-Straße was transformed into a colourful festival site. Last year, various partners in Chemnitz [...]

Some already know it, others suspect it: Capital of Culture is something really big! And also in the sense of extensive and complex - see the 150-page application book. And it is precisely this [...]

City of Chemnitz and MDR agree partnership for European Capital of Culture 2025 Today, Lord Mayor Sven Schulze signed a cooperation agreement together with the acting [...]

German Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer and Lord Mayor Sven Schulze today signed the agreement on the joint financing of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. This [...]

KOSMOS Chemnitz is a festival for democracy. In 2021, however, it is to be expanded into a virtual platform for cultural, civic and democratic engagement. A platform on which social issues can be [...]

Events July - October Projects in chemnitz Locations Participating stakeholders With the CULTURSOMMER 2021, the colourful cultural life in Chemnitz can finally take off again! The official launch of the project took [...]

Good news from Dresden: The Saxon Cabinet today approved the agreement on the joint financing of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 and the appointment of the State Government Commissioner for the Capital of [...]

The cross-media campaign for the European Capital of Culture 2025 wins the German Brand Award "Winner" in the category Brand Communication - Integrated Campaign and "Special Mention" in the area Brand Efficiency of the [...]

Programme Director In 2025 Chemnitz will be European Capital of Culture. The European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 GmbH will continue to develop the programme from the bid book and realise the 2025 Capital [...]

The European Capital of Culture 2025 will be colourful, loud, energetic and creative! That much is certain. This is also proven by the record number of 113 micro-projects submitted. So many makers who want [...]

Numerous sports clubs and sports providers invite you to join in and try out sports on 11 September 2021 at the stadium on Gellertstraße. Three amateur sports tournaments in football, streetball and table tennis [...]

The supervisory board of the European Capital of Culture 2025 GmbH constituted itself yesterday evening in the first meeting after its election. The board made important decisions: Lord Mayor Sven Schulze is the chairman [...]

After the summer flowering meadows for the Capital of Culture application last year, in which the Chemnitz housing cooperatives, the Parks Department as well as Volksbank and Sparkasse Chemnitz in particular participated with a total [...]

As guest in the garage At the end of October last year, there was this scene with the envelope. And it really was Chemnitz on the jury's note for the European Capital of Culture 2025. [...]

Making big things happen on a small scale - with this approach, committed citizens have already been able to implement their own projects since 2017 as part of the Capital of Culture application. Around 60 [...]

At its meeting yesterday, the city council decided to develop the former Stadtwirtschaft on the southern Sonnenberg into a creative courtyard with space for creative makers. The Stadtwirtschaft is an intervention area of [...]

City launches foundation of the limited liability company (GmbH) for the European Capital of Culture 2025 Mayor Sven Schulze today presented the city's concrete plans for founding the [...]

The Conference of Ministers of Culture has nominated Chemnitz as European Capital of Culture for the year 2025. In doing so, it followed the professional vote of the European jury of experts. Under the [...]