Chemnitz is starting its year as a European Capital of Culture with a major show that is expected to draw tens of thousands of visitors to the city in a grand opening on Saturday. German President ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chemnitz's towering Karl Marx statue - a 40-ton, Communist-era bust with nostrils large enough to put a child's head inside - is ...

In almost all of eastern Germany, the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the strongest political force. Even in Chemnitz, this year's European Capital of Culture. "The blue ...

What is Karl Marx's statue doing in Chemnitz, though he never visited the city? And why is Nova Gorica/Gorizia considered a ...

There is a major city in Eastern Germany that many Europeans have never heard of: Chemnitz. Now Chemnitz is a European Capital of Culture. This has surprised many ...

Known as Karl-Marx-Stadt under communism and later a notorious hotspot for far-right violence, the eastern German city of Chemnitz is now seeking to reinvent itself as a 2025 European Capital of ...