Europe Week 2025
Thinking and celebrating Europe
Europe Week in Chemnitz invites international exchange, discussion, amazement and dancing
Thinking and celebrating Europe
Europe Week in Chemnitz invites international exchange, discussion, amazement and dancing
Chemnitz celebrates Europe from 6 to 10 May. Together with the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH and other project partners, the city of Chemnitz is offering a diverse programme. Europe Week is one of the highlight weeks in the year of the European Capital of Culture, during which the city of Chemnitz also welcomes numerous guests from Germany and abroad.
The complete programme
Europe is celebrated for five days, together, lively and with many perspectives. The Europe Week offers a full programme: there will be dancing and discussion, listening and networking. Music, theatre and debate formats invite you to join in, exhibitions shed light on the European dimension of Chemnitz's history and artistic contributions show how Europe comes together in Chemnitz.
www.chemnitz2025.de/europawoche
Programme highlights
Twin Cities Conference from 7 to 9 May
The focus of Europe Week is the twin city conference from 7 to 9 May. Guests from seven of Chemnitz's twin cities will take part, including representatives from Tampere, Düsseldorf, Łódź, Kirjiat Bialik, Ljubljana, Manchester and Timbuktu. In addition to an exchange of expertise between the cities on the topics of culture and urban development, contributions on international work from the partner cities will be presented. Among them, representatives of the city of Manchester will present their studies on the "Chemnitz Method": Students and academics from the Manchester School of Architecture have accompanied the Chemnitz Capital of Culture application since 2021. The "Chemnitz Method" describes how Chemnitz has achieved change in the city with cultural programmes.
Panel discussion on the topic "Too much, too little, too foreign - what kind of EU do we want?"
On 7 May, a public panel discussion on the topic "Too much, too little, too foreign - what kind of EU do we want?" took place at the Hartmannfabrik. The panellists were the former President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, Nora Mandru, doctoral student at the University of Leipzig, Dr Burkhard Müller, Chemnitz author and member of Chemnitz University of Technology, and Anne Lena Mösken, deputy editor-in-chief of Freie Presse Chemnitz.
Beforehand, Martin Schulz signed the Golden Book of the City of Chemnitz.
Commemorative event "Europe - remembering and thinking ahead" to mark 80 years since the end of the war
To mark the end of the Second World War exactly 80 years ago, Lord Mayor Sven Schulze is hosting an event entitled "Europe - remembering and thinking ahead" on 8 May at 3 pm at the bench for Justin Sonder on the Brühl. Among the guests will be Alexander Dierks, President of the State Parliament, and US Consul General John Crosby. The event will be accompanied by two dance performances organised by the Chemnitz Municipal Theatre Ballet, the Mejo Quartet and members of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra Chemnitz as well as a play from the Chemnitz School Theatre Week.
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Concert series "Europe Sounds - Music connects Europe in Chemnitz"
From 7 to 9 May, Neumarkt in Chemnitz city centre will be transformed into a stage for European diversity. The concert series "Europe Sounds - Music connects Europe in Chemnitz" offers a colourful stage programme for the whole family and impressively demonstrates the unifying power of music across all borders. For three days, bands, choirs and dance groups from Chemnitz's twin cities, partner regions and other European Capitals of Culture, among others, will present the colours of their home countries, bringing Europe to life. All visitors are cordially invited to experience this musical journey through Europe. Artists and bands from Kosovo, Spain, France, Romania, Portugal, Belgium, Armenia, Greece and Slovenia will be performing.
"Europe Sounds" - Bühnenprogramm auf dem Neumarkt
