From culture to sport, from nature to architecture – there are plenty of reasons to visit Leipzig. The up-and-coming city in eastern Germany is gearing up for exciting highlights in 2018: Culture lovers are enthusiastic about the installation of Andris Nelsons as well as the anniversary celebrations...

The Kunstkraftwerk is bringing the Renaissance to Leipzig. Starting on 20 January 2018, the project "RENAISSANCE experience" is taking place here. It is a three-part art cycle planned over a period of two years, allowing visitors to digitally immerse themselves in the most important Renaissance...

International guests spending the night in Leipzig are most likely to come from the US, Switzerland and Great Britain. Annual overnight stays have topped the three-million mark! For the tenth record year in a row, in 2017 Leipzig recorded significant year-on-year increases in arrivals and overnight...

A premiere for Leipzig and “Feel the spirit… do-it-at-leipzig.de”: At IMEX 2018, the city and the congress initiative will be running their first-ever joint exhibition stand.At the most important trade fair for the international congress, meeting, events and incentive sector, held from 15 until...

Following the appointment of its new director, the Viennese Dr. Alfred Weidinger, Leipzig’s Museum of Fine Arts (MdbK) is experiencing an exciting and wide-ranging new development. Hardly any city can claim such a high concentration of artists as Leipzig. Weidinger aims to offer plenty of space to...

Leipzig becomes the centre of the design world in October 2018. More than 300 national and international renowned designers, labels and architects present tomorrow’s trends at the GRASSIMESSE and Designers’ Open from 26 to 28 October 2018 in Leipzig.GRASSIMESSEThe GRASSIMESSE is an annual...

Hardly any other German city can boast as great and vibrant a cultural history as Leipzig. In 2019, the city will celebrate important anniversaries of events that had significant effects on the development of Germany. The Festival of Lights Leipzig will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Peaceful...

Leipzig’s dynamic art scene enjoys an excellent reputation worldwide. The prime site for creatives in Leipzig, the SPINNEREI, was transformed from continental Europe’s largest cotton spinning mill into a real cosmos of art. Situated in the trendy district of Plagwitz it is home to over 100 artists,...

Leipzig, the city of music, is offering a very special kind of Bach Festival in 2018, from 8 June to 17 June: the monumental "Leipzig Ring of Cantatas 2018" will allow the audience at the opening weekend to experience a complete liturgical year of Bach cantatas. Within a period of 48 hours, a...

Hardly any other German city has such a great and vibrant musical tradition as Leipzig. Clara and Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Wagner, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler and many more left a precious musical legacy that is still ubiquitous today and continues...

At the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the current season is marked by the inauguration of the 21st Gewandhaus conductor, Andris Nelson, and the 275th birthday of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. For this reason, Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing (LTM) GmbH and the Gewandhaus are implementing a cross-media campaign...