In memory of Mikhail Gorbachev, † 30 August 2022. – It was 6 September 1994 – that Tuesday turned out to be one of the most memorable days of my life. And this is how it happened: My husband, Wolfgang Zürch, was at that time the press officer at the Thuringian State Parliament in Erfurt. […]
1839 saw the photographic big bang: the daguerreotype was introduced, revolutionising the world of imagery. This new technology soon reached Leipzig too, where it found a prominent representative in Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, Europe’s very first professional female photographer, whose influence is still felt today. Drawing on her eventful life and her photographic roots, this exhibition explores […]
Following the seizure of a bomb at the airport, the Dresden Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Saxony State Criminal Police Office have launched investigations into its origin and background. There’s plenty of music on offer in Leipzig today – with Dire Straits hits at the Marktmusik event and a guided tour of an exhibition on […]
What was life like in the communities around Leipzig before they became part of the city? What do historical sources reveal about the development of these settlements up to the time of their incorporation? Answers to these questions are now available on the Leipzig City Archives’ online research portal. The Leipzig City Archives have announced […]
Anyone who has to travel between Halle and Leipzig tonight – whether for work or to join the party – should allow plenty of time. Watch out for railway works! Anniversary: The GDR’s largest stadium was inaugurated 70 years ago today and, in a sense, has survived to the present day. There are some particularly […]
It was a special moment when, back in 1990, the sociologist Cordia Schlegelmilch packed her bag and set off for a small town in the GDR, which at that time had only six weeks left to exist. Her main motivation was: “I wanted to find out how the residents of a small town were coming […]
How does one tell a story that ultimately cannot be substantiated by documents, because they were destroyed? Or falsified, tailored to ensure that the death of a Bonn civil servant on a business trip to Leipzig was not classified as a murder case? And yet still caused a stir? In *The Fechtner Case*, Katrin Reiser […]
Church buildings are a feature of many towns and villages. They are known as landmarks, the centre of a town or village, or points of reference. These places of worship are of great significance in terms of architecture, art history and regional history. This time, we are looking at a small but charming church in […]
His friend and rival, Alfred von Tirpitz, is a figure in the history books. But what about Wilhelm Büchsel? No warship was named after him. He was not glorified in the same way as Tirpitz. And when he died of the Spanish flu in 1920, he had been all but forgotten. Yet he served as […]
Anniversaries inspire historians. One such anniversary was the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War in 2024/2025. One of the bloodiest events took place in Frankenhausen, where the crowd of peasants gathered there was mercilessly beaten down by the princes’ mercenaries. It was also here that Thomas Müntzer was taken prisoner. In Martin Luther’s view, […]
There are already a number of illustrated books on Leipzig’s architecture, most of which focus on specific periods, such as Leipzig’s Gründerzeit era or particular historical landmarks. But how does one view a city when attempting to discover the architectural eras of the past 1,000 or even 3,000 years? And there is certainly something to […]
The 50th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone for the Leipzig-Grünau housing estate is being marked in Leipzig with various exhibitions and other events. On 1 June, for example, a ceremony took place on the square in front of the PEP in Grünau-Mitte, the KOMM-Haus is hosting the exhibition ‘When Grünau was still […]
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