Sachsen’s ugly side

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Leipzig is not just cool alternative events and venues and beautiful parks and lakes and not just a sense of community and solidarity, either; unfortunately, as our political columnist explores today, the problem of xenophobia in Leipzig and its region, perhaps most infamously in Dresden, has been tainting the news for a while, long before

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Plagwitz: a kind of correspondence

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There is an old Jewish proverb I love: “We don’t see things as they are but as we are.”

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“Lost in Leipzig” with Dave Murphy

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Meet Dave Murphy, fellow Leipzig lover and founder of the English-language site Lost in Leipzig.

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Anna and the making of Poniatowski

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With lots of hard work, some "madness" and serendipity, a "little" help from her friends and a business loan, a very glocally connected young woman took a risky career turn and managed to open her own Polish restaurant in Leipzig, honoring an ancestor she didn't even know had been a head chef and the memory

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“More police needed,” says Leipzig Deputy Mayor

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Heiko Rosenthal addresses the recent violent outbursts around the Federal Administrative Court and the US Consulate General in Leipzig.

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An ode to Leipzig

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Our regular MoviesAndTV columnist, a Leipzig lover, today shares with us what he has discovered over the years about what has historically and culturally made our city a sort of "crossroads of Europe," writing that "living here, you really feel the change from a provincial to not only a pan-European city, as in the past,

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