A burst pipe on Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße overnight has temporarily disrupted the water supply, whilst private transport will remain hampered for a few more weeks. Also: It has been revealed who is likely to succeed the ousted CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader Jens Spahn in the Bundestag. The LZ summarises the key events from Wednesday, 22 July 2026, […]
The way we use language is slowly becoming a real issue. For years, people have been campaigning to ensure that road traffic accident reports do not say ‘The car veered off the road’, but rather ‘The driver lost control of his car’. Similarly, the popular phrase ‘the car failed to give way’ would be correctly […]
Most people in Leipzig are completely unaware that there is a Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Neural Sciences in the city. Yet this is where researchers are studying the organ that enables us humans to form a picture of the world – our brain. From 1 August, this otherwise very low-key research will be […]
Most people in Leipzig have long since gone on holiday. At the Leipzig Group, however, the figures were still being crunched for quite some time. On Monday 20 July, the municipal group presented its final accounts for the 2025 financial year. The management is particularly proud that it was able to increase total investment across […]
On 24 September 2026, Peter Thiel, the Trump supporter and co-founder and chairman of Palantir Technologies, will receive the 2026 Axel Springer Award in Berlin. According to Axel Springer SE’s own description, the prize is awarded to: “Outstanding individuals who are particularly innovative, create and transform markets, shape culture and assume social responsibility.” The list […]
On 11 July, the 32nd Leipzig Annual Exhibition closed its doors, having welcomed more than 3,000 visitors. But that wasn’t the end of it. Under the title ‘In the Name of the Sacred Centre’, the exhibition by the winner of the 31st Leipzig Annual Exhibition, featuring paintings by Hans-Hendrik Grimmling, will open under the title […]
LZ reader Gerd Stefan really did want to know. In his reader’s comment on the review of Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk’s new book *Fascism Is Not an Opinion*, he wrote: “I’d also be interested to know the definition of fascism that underlies the book’s title, especially as the author, it seems, was aiming to launch a sweeping […]
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