“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 […]
Don’t be misled by the book’s title: this is not a love story that Frankfurt-based chemist Matthias Rischer has presented here. At most, there is a very gentle, faint hint of one on the sidelines. Nor is it a coming-of-age story. Rather, it is a story that sketches out something that could well be upon […]
There’s a demonstration today. Today, someone who doesn’t usually take to the streets is demonstrating: the city of Leipzig itself. Just like hundreds of other local authorities across Germany, which are being brought to their knees by the mandatory tasks imposed by the federal government and are sliding ever deeper into debt. ‘Local authorities at […]
At the presentation of the “Annual Report 2026 – Volume I” on 18 June, the State Audit Office did not merely level a clear-cut, sweeping criticism of the Free State of Saxony’s financial management. It also painted a sobering picture of Saxony’s airport operations. In fact, this has been obvious to critics of airport policy […]
It is a mammoth of a book, a mammoth of a life story that the Russian-speaking author Gusel Yakhina has presented here: the entire life of the most famous Soviet director – Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948). A life like a film, one might think. Even if Eisenstein himself may not have felt that way. But Yakhin […]
The book’s title is reminiscent of two other books published by Lehmstedt Verlag – *Leipzig wird braun* (Leipzig Turns Brown) from 2008 and *Leipzig wird rot* (Leipzig Turns Red) from 2011. But that is not quite the intention. Katrin Löffler’s book does not tell the story of a turning point in history. In her book, […]
The situation regarding the expansion and electrification of the direct rail link between Leipzig and Chemnitz is a tragedy: for years, Deutsche Bahn, the federal government and the Free State of Saxony have dragged their feet on the project. Now the project has found itself in the midst of a period of radical cutbacks. And […]
Things are set to get interesting at the council meeting on 1 July: will the council administration succeed in its bid to sacrifice the small wood on Capastraße so that RB Leipzig can have the training pitches promised in the agreement and the Kleinmesse can remain at its current site? The council had actually promised […]
It was hard to escape the impression that the Saxon State Directorate had chosen its timing deliberately: in mid-December, right in the middle of the Christmas rush, it published its general administrative order declaring Lake Cospuden navigable. But environmental organizations have the right to object to such proceedings. The Leipzig-based group Ökolöwe has done exactly […]
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