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PASSIONATE ABOUT CULTURE AND THE ARTS.
Enjoy a performance at the Semperoper opera house in Dresden, visit the Robert-Schumann-Haus in Zwickau, take in Chemnitz Art Collections or attend a concert by the St. Thomas choristers in Leipzig – the list is virtually endless. Saxony has a genuine commitment to culture, with the highest state funding for culture of all non-city states in Germany. The historical legacy includes world-famous figures such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Richard Wagner, with contemporary artists like Neo Rauch now continuing the tradition.
By Korhan Parlar. This report was written during an Instagram trip from 13–15 April 2018 on the theme of industrial heritage. Follow @kor.life on .instagram .facebook .twitter It’s a bit…
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Leisure park, adventure playground, open air museum: at the Secret World of Turisedia in Zentendorf, near the German-Polish border, Jürgen Bergmann has spent 28 years creating a unique mystical world…
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Contrary to the urban hustle and bustle, the museum is more like a bubbly oasis: outside, on Zschochersche Street, the traffic rushes by and the wind beats fiercely against buildings…
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Slowly yet surely, the woody-spicy smell of incense rises from a candle in slender columns of smoke in the air and provides a comfortably-warm feeling. Anyone, who’s not feeling the…
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Driving along the inconspicuous Saalfelder Straße in the West of Leipzig there is definitely one thing you wouldn’t expect between factories and industrial buildings: A centre of arts and culture….
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We take a trip to a town which was shaped by 800 years of mining: Freiberg, a town located halfway between Chemnitz and Dresden. The historical town centre, the Municipal…
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At the beginning of October, Leipzig hosted the Video Summit, the first international video conference about travelling. More than 150 participants from all over the world met up at the…
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