The taxi industry in Leipzig is also suffering from rising fuel prices. Since the last survey in 2022, the situation has deteriorated drastically. And so the proposal on fares in the Leipzig taxi industry, which came before the city council on 2 July, was long overdue. The minimum wage for taxi drivers, which has been […]
This concern was only too understandable, given that during the last elections Leipzig seemed to be literally drowning in a deluge of election posters. Many poles were covered from top to bottom. Some parties covered entire streets with their posters. And many posters were already lying torn to shreds on the grass after just a […]
When is it time to take stock? To talk about one’s life and what really matters? What has truly given this life meaning? Actually, one might think, Richard Gauch would still have had plenty of time. Actually, he isn’t quite at the age for writing his memoirs yet. But he has led an exciting life, […]
Just a few years ago, the city council was still debating whether Leipzig should introduce a tourist accommodation tax or not. Now, everyone is pleased that the city can raise additional funds from it, which in turn benefit tourism. But who exactly? From the city’s point of view, the City Council’s Economic Committee has sufficient […]
Ultimately, it always comes down to acceptance. This is true of the energy transition too. All the more so when two districts of Leipzig – Hartmannsdorf and Knautnaundorf – are particularly affected within their local areas, as it is primarily here that Leipzig’s wind power capacity is being expanded. They then find themselves with significantly […]
It was to be expected that there would be a commotion over this agenda item at the council meeting on 2 July. Die-hard patriarchs simply cannot help but shout out and vociferously express their old-fashioned displeasure. They have internalised patriarchy. And so it did indeed get noisy in the city council when the motion ‘Proposal […]
It wasn’t just 20th-century science fiction that depicted the dawn of the 21st century as a technological miracle. Space would have been conquered long ago, and humanity would have set off for the stars. And we would all be living in gleaming cities with futuristic modes of transport and helpful robots. School textbooks painted similar […]
On 2 July, a question was also raised at the council meeting regarding the call that the Left Party group has been persistently raising since August 2025. And, in fact, Torsten Bonew, the councillor responsible for finance, had intended to provide a comprehensive answer to this question this July. However, since his department has been […]
At the council meeting on 2 July, there was a minor first. Until now, when it came to questions from the city council, it had generally been the political groups themselves who were given the floor and were able to use the time to put further oral questions to the relevant mayors regarding their original […]
On 1 January 2026, the dog licence regulations for Leipzig – which had been adopted in December – came into force. They had been the subject of heated debate, partly because the city had a keen interest in microchipping as many dogs registered in Leipzig as possible, so that tax collection could be carried out […]
Will the “Kino der Jugend” on Eisenbahnstraße now falter at the final hurdle due to German bureaucracy and a Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) who insists on sticking to deadlines, after a solution to the Gordian knot had seemed to be in sight this spring? For it was then that the […]
Perhaps this is just the right little town to spend a few days relaxing away from the stresses of the big city: Coburg. Famous for the ducal family of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who once ruled here, whose offspring were once highly sought-after by European royal houses. Just think of the British royal family. For such […]
We are already living in the dystopias of the 1980s. Sometimes it takes someone to rub it in so bluntly, as the French political scientist Asma Mhala does in this book, which is not called ‘Cyberpunk’ for no reason. For what we are experiencing today – the transformation of the liberal Western world into a […]
On 1 July, the City Council did not manage to get through all the items on the agenda. There were still some important items left, which then had to be carried over to the continuation of the meeting on 2 July. And once again, the discussion centred on the city’s financial difficulties – for which […]
How long will this heatwave actually remain in the memories of the people of Leipzig? On 1 July, it was still cool. Even the Leipzig City Council was delighted that the first LVB trams were running again at all, after the local transport company had been forced to suspend all services over the weekend of […]
At the council meeting on 1 July, zoo director Dr Jörg Junhold was also sitting on pins and needles amongst the audience. The issue at stake was whether he would be able to complete his life’s work – the ‘Zoo of the Future’ – by 2028 at the latest, when Leipzig Zoo celebrates its 150th […]
City council debates can simply be a nuisance. Especially when they are underpinned by false arguments and deal with the ‘affluence problems’ of a minority who simply cannot wait until they have their vehicle registration documents in hand. The phrase ‘affluence-related problems’ was used by Marco Zscherny, a city councillor for the BSW. And he’s […]
In fact, Leipzig City Council had already sent a clear signal back in March against the plans of Wolfram Weimer, Germany’s State Secretary for Culture, to simply scrap the fifth extension to the German National Library in Leipzig. Even though it is urgently needed to house the books of the next 30 years. Weimer’s announcement […]
Some wounds do not simply heal with time. Especially when it comes to one’s own deeply wounded self-image. This is an experience that many East Germans went through after 1990. That deep-seated disappointment is now also finding expression in election results. Not everyone, however, takes to the woods to eliminate the people who have brought […]
Pupils from the Leibniz-Gymnasium on Nordplatz also took the opportunity on 1 July to attend the council meeting as guests. This was because the agenda for that day included an item that was of great interest to them: when would it finally be their school’s turn for refurbishment? The Left Party had tabled a question […]
Is it all over? Or can the state government’s decision still be overturned – so that, instead of replacing the Agra Bridge on the B2 with a new structure in the 100-year-old park, a tunnel or underpass is built? This was the subject of a BSW motion at the council meeting on 1 July. A […]
One is allowed to dream, after all. Even city councillors are allowed to dream – of a beautiful, peacefully situated villa in Machern, where one can not only sleep soundly but also hold party group retreats in a seclusion from city life that is otherwise hard to find in Leipzig. And so it came as […]
Who, in fact, has manoeuvred the city into such a quandary that there is suddenly a heated public debate not only about whether the small wood that has grown up on Capastraße over the last 30 years may be cleared to provide RB Leipzig with new training grounds? It is a question that remains entirely […]
It was not only Left Party city councillor Susanne Scheidereiter who was deeply disappointed when, at the council meeting on 1 July, the latest motion to reduce the city’s impervious surface area was rejected by the council majority. The Greens’ parliamentary group, too, had repeatedly failed with its motions in recent years, even though the […]
On Friday 3 July, there was finally a noticeable improvement in LVB’s tram services. For the first time, routes extending beyond the city centre ring were able to resume operation. The resumption of tram services following the record-breaking heat damage to the LVB’s track network is continuing to make progress, according to the LVB. After […]
Leipzig did indeed purchase the former goods shed at Connewitz S-Bahn station in 2024. However, the city is not alone on the site of the former goods yard. The discount retailer ALDI has acquired its own plot of land there from Deutsche Bahn, on which it plans to build a new ALDI supermarket. However, the […]
That really was something else, and even Leipzig’s city administration rarely manages to take three years to respond to a motion from the city council with its own position. This is exactly what happened with a motion tabled by the Green Party group in April 2023: ‘Enabling temporary and mobile urban green spaces’. After all, […]
More and more households in Leipzig are struggling not only to find an affordable flat, but also – once they have one – to pay their rent. This is made clear even by the 2025 Citizens’ Survey, in which the issue of rent and housing was overwhelmingly identified as the number one problem facing Leipzig’s […]
A town thrives on optimism, on the feeling that things are moving forward and life goes on. But what if the town is financially strangled? Then the town council’s ability to even draft and pass meaningful motions begins to dwindle. Even when – as in the case of the Forced Labour Memorial – the aim […]
To mark his 90th birthday, the Leipzig Museum of Local History is staging an exhibition entitled ‘Commercial Art and Posters’, showcasing works by the Leipzig-based artist Jochen Fiedler on the second floor of the Old Town Hall from 1 July to 6 September 2026. The artist has selected his own works from recent years, which […]
Torsten Bonew, the city’s finance councillor, had to bring this item forward as a matter of urgency at the council meeting on 1 July, as it got right to the heart of the matter – the financial situation of the City of Leipzig. It is catastrophic. The 2025/2026 budget has already made this abundantly clear. […]
The expansion of renewable energy is a key component of climate policy. Although wind energy generally enjoys broad support, people living near wind turbines experience the consequences of the energy transition first-hand. A new study by researchers at the University of Leipzig now shows that, under certain circumstances, the visibility of wind turbines can reduce […]
Water, water, water. In Passau, almost every path leads to the water – to the Danube, the Inn or the Ilz. Sometimes the water simply flows into the city of its own accord, flooding the picturesque streets of the old town. In several places, the highest water levels from past floods are marked on the […]
“A reassessment of the air traffic forecast and the supplementary statements is not necessary,” wrote the Saxony Regional Directorate on 4 June in a terse reply to a demand from the citizens’ initiative “Against the New Flight Path”, to reopen the planning approval procedure for the project “Expansion of Leipzig/Halle Airport, South Runway with Apron”, on […]
He was a star of 20th-century modern literature. He died in 1985 at the age of just 61: yet Italo Calvino’s novels and short stories are as vibrant as they were on the day they were first published. And not just those. Hanser Verlag is constantly unearthing new works and bringing them to lovers of […]
Leipzig’s environmental policy has always been rather weak in recent years. People were happy to rest on the back of the fine-sounding word ‘compensation’, even though this ‘replacement’ usually took place somewhere else – often even outside the city limits – and therefore did absolutely nothing to benefit biodiversity or climate protection within the city […]
Historians are delighted by such finds: eyewitness accounts from a time when newspapers were still a rarity and did not really report in great detail on what was happening in the city. Take the Book Fair, for example, which twice a year turned Leipzig into a meeting place for booksellers and publishers. Everyone of any […]
Standard, traditional electricity tariffs consist of two components: a fixed basic charge (the cost of the meter) stated in euros per year, and a fixed unit price, calculated in cents per kWh.In contrast to standard electricity tariffs, the price per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for dynamic electricity tariffs is variable; they do not have a fixed unit […]
Leipzig’s environmental organisations have called for a demonstration at the Kleinmessegelände on Thursday 25 June. They intend to protest there against the planned sale – and consequently the clearing – of the small, 5.7-hectare woodland on Capastraße, which the city intends to use to provide the RB Leipzig football club with space for new training […]
Perhaps this is the worst possible time. But it comes as no surprise: Germany has been in an economic slump for six years. Money is running short everywhere. Local authorities are now groaning under the weight of massive financial strain. But the downturn is not leaving associations and clubs unscathed either. Leipzig’s environmental organisations are […]
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