Jane Whyatt

Jane Whyatt is a British journalist who has worked for the BBC and founded her own start-up media production company in London. Since 2015, she has lived and worked in Leipzig at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom and the Lie Detectors media literacy campaign. Now she is freelancing for the new European newspaper, Kultur öffnet Welten, The Leipzig Glocal and the award-winning TV production house Sinam Production.

Neues Schauspiel petitions the city for financial support

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Leipzig’s Neues Schauspiel Theatre survived the coronavirus pandemic and the economic highs and lows of the last thirteen years. Now they need help to stay open.

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Michael Raschke: “When they opened the Berlin Wall, I cried”

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As Leipzig prepares to honour the demonstrators who brought the communist dictatorship of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) to an end, Jane Whyatt discovers an unsung hero of October 1989 with a different view of history.

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Kloster Posa parties where monks used to pray

It’s almost one thousand years since the Benedictine monastery at Zeitz was founded, and just ten years since local artists and musicians established Posa Calling. LeipGlo's Jane Whyatt attended the festivities.

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Westflügel to celebrate 20 years on 26 August

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Leipzig’s Westflügel is marking its twentieth anniversary on 26 August with a public street party. And the puppet theatre is definitely not just for children.

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Linda Marwan asks: “Do lizards dream of a higher purpose?”

Do lizards dream of a higher purpose?" by Linda Marwan, on display in Reudnitz, considers the relationship between humans, nature and AI.

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