leipzig

8. November 2025. Tag des Vergessens. Und des Erinnerns.

In November we will celebrate the first anniversary of the #WissensSpuren, and the German Museum for Books and Writing of the German National Library lauches its new exhibition Forget it?!. In a joint venture we invite you to a #KnowledgeFestival. Together with partners from science, society, and culture we will consider what is worth remembering, what should be forgotten, and how to preserve what is important. And we will discover entirely new aspects of the topic of forgetting. Come along — to participate, to exchange ideas, to marvel.

Post card with the announcement of the festival. Graphic Work: Grafisch/Tecton

There will be offererings specifically for children, and a lot of exhibits invite discussions amoung persons of all ages. A substantial part of the exhibits and art installations is described in English and in German. The artists will be around, and some of them prefer to communicate in English.

Further information is available on our homepage.

#WissensSpuren #WissensFestival #CityWalk #Leipzig

Retrospection of the tour on 10 October 2025.

Discussion with Evgeniya Kirilina, the head of the research group MRI Biophysics research at the MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences . Photo: Team WissensSpuren.

A comprehensive #review of the #citytour conducted on the 10th of October 2025, “Welcome Freshers“ is now available on our web site.

#WissensSpuren #EnglishTour #Leipzig

11. Oktober 2025. 100 Jahre Sportwissenschaften

In October the Faculty of Sport Sciences will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Our present for the faculty and for the interested public will be a tour searching for traces of highlights and tragic moments of the Leipzig sport history, the contribution of science to the development of sport equipment and the success of athletes, and to the role of sport in school education.

Announcement employing SVG Silh-graphics. ©Wissensspuren

Further information is available on our homepage Registration for this event can be made on our ticketing site.

#WissensSpuren #Stadtspaziergang #Spurensuche #Leipzig

Fri 10 October 2025, 1pm. Welcome Freshers

This tour addresses #InternationalStudents joining the universities in #Leipzig. It will help them to come to know each other, it will inform them about the contributions of researches in Leipzig to the development of #QuantumMechanics — and it aspires to make them look beyond the limitations of their field of study during their time in Leipzig.

$Announcement based on a Photo from the legacy of Friedrich Hund. GFHund, \[CC BY 3.0\](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), via \[Wikimedia Commons\](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hund_Heisenberg_Born_1966_G%C3%B6ttingen.jpg). © WissensSpuren$

Further information is available on our homepage.

Registration for this event can be made on our ticketing site.

#WissensSpuren #EnglishTour

Retrospection of the tour on 9 August 2025.

Guided Tour in the Forum for Contermporary History Leipzig. Photo: Team WissensSpuren.

A comprehensive #review of the #citytour conducted on the 9th of August 2025, “Making Deals Great Again“ is now available on our web site.

#WissensSpuren #EnglishTour #Leipzig

9 August 2025. Making Deals Great Again

Time and again powerful political figures made #deals that imposed their will on the nations of the world. On the other hand in the 20th century the American presidents also advocated multilateralism, like in the New Deal and upon establishing and supporting the UN. In our tour we explore the impacts of major political deals on the inhabitants of #Leipzig, and we discuss which type of #deals are worth striving for.

Announcement based on a poster of the National Recovery Administration to promote the New Deal. © WissensSpuren

Further information is available on our homepage.

Registration for this event can be made on our ticketing site.

#WissensSpuren #EnglishTour #Leipzig

Retrospection of the tour on 05 July 2025.

Meeting at the memorial for the printing of the 2nd volume of Karl Marx opus magnus „Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie“. Photos: Team WissensSpuren.

A comprehensive #review of the #citytour conducted on the 5th of July 2025, “140 Jahre Kapital” is now available on our German Webseite.

#WissensSpuren #StadtSpaziergang #Leipzig

5 July 2025. 140 Jahre Kapital

In July 1885 the second volume of Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie” was printed in Leipzig. In view of this 140th anniversary we will take a walk along the WissensSpuren where we explore the impact and repercussions of Karl Marx’s works in Leipzig. We are delighted that Niklas Venema has agreed to join and support us on this tour.

Further details of the tour can be found on our web site Registration for this event can be made on our ticketing site.

#WissensSpuren #Stadtspaziergang #Leipzig

Review of the tour on 07 June 2025.

A comprehensive #review of the #EnglishTour “May the STEAM be with you” on May 7th is available on our Website.

#WissensSpuren #EnglishTour #Leipzig

7 June 2025. May the STEAM be with you

On the 7th of June we will take a walk along the #WissensSpuren that will be conducted in English. On occasion of the SteamPunk festival in Leipzig we explore how the industrial revolution and the accompanying scientific discoveries have been covered in literature and arts of the past 200 years.

Further details of the tour can be found on our web site.

Registration for this event can be made on our ticketing site.

#WissensSpuren #EnglishTour #Leipzig