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"Once the lights are lit ..." goes the famous Christmas carol. In Dresden's Prohlis district, this is now to be put into practice on a larger scale. The "Musaik" orchestra with girls and boys from 17 countries wants to open the windows of prefabricat ..
The 150-year-old Palm House in Pillnitz Palace Park has been given a new energy screen. This is a protective textile layer that is extended under the glass surfaces, as announced by Schlösserland Sachsen. It is intended to reduce heat radiation and t ..
"It was a huge amount and I thought: Oh Lord, I hope I can manage it all," says Christina Koenig. Around 200 potholders hang in her Himmlisch gallery in Meissen. Flowers and frogs, heirlooms and neon-colored specimens. "There are some really virtuoso ..
The Zwickau art collections are getting a new director. From January 2026, Fanny Stoye will take over the management, as announced by the Zwickau city administration. "She not only brings expertise and a wealth of ideas, but also the talent to retell ..
The Chemnitz Art Collections have returned three works of art to the heirs of the Jewish banker and patron Carl Heumann. These are two watercolors and a red chalk drawing by Asmus Jacob Carstens, Viktor Paul Mohn and Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, the museum ..
The Croatian-Bosnian writer Miljenko Jergović will receive the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2026. He will be honored for his short story "The Crazy Heart. Sarajevo Marlboro Remastered', published this year, the Leipzig Book Fair anno ..
If you can't get enough of GDR two-wheelers like Simson & Co at Christmas, it's worth taking a look online. There you can buy Christmas tree baubles made from real flashing lights from the cult mopeds. And they have proved to be a surprisingly bi ..
For decades, this Defa film from 1950 has been one of the most popular fairytale classics around Christmas: With his adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff's "The Cold Heart", Munich director Paul Verhoeven attracted almost ten million people to cinemas in the ..
Rescuers from the fire department surprised children in the Bautzen hospital on St. Nicholas Day. Dressed as St. Nicholas, a colleague abseiled down from the turntable ladder to the balcony of the children's ward in the morning, said city spokeswoman ..
Most schoolchildren in Leipzig already know it from their own experience: the school museum is celebrating a milestone birthday. "For 25 years, the Leipzig School Museum has been showing how exciting educational history can be," said Saxony's Ministe ..
Saxony's music scene can once again apply for state funding. The "Popular Music Saxony 2026" competition has now entered the application phase, as announced by the Saxon Ministry of Economic Affairs in Dresden. Musicians, music companies, clubs and f ..