© Christin Nitzsche

Review of the year with a mini-interview with Prof. Roswitha Böhm, Vice-Rector for University Culture

In this year of elections and political challenges, the TUD has made a special effort to promote social cohesion with the help of talks and discussions, family formats and other events. You can relive the highlights in our review.

© Kino im Kasten

Birthday week at the Kino im Kasten

The student cinema Kino im Kasten (KiK) is turning 32 and has a number of things planned from the January 14 to 18, 2025 to mark the occasion. In addition to the cinema hit Barbie and a Peter Pan silent film concert, KiK will also show the anime My Neighbor Totoro (as voted for by you). On Friday the traditional film quiz takes place and the week will be rounded off with a 35mm screening of the cult film The Big Lebowski.

© Studentenwerk Dresden

Vice-Rector for University Culture reads to the SpielWerk daycare center

Professor Roswitha Böhm had an extraordinary goal on November 15, 2024: she brought a special children's book with her to read to the children at the SpielWerk student daycare center: “Astrid Lindgren erzählt”. It was special because it had already been reading material in her childhood and she had also regularly read it to her own children. The nursery children listened attentively to the stories of the Swedish children's author and enjoyed the new reading voice in their facility. The nationwide Reading Aloud Day is an initiative of the Reading Foundation, ZEIT and the Deutsche Bahn Foundation with the support of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Homeland.

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TUD's folklore dance ensemble Thea Maass is 75 years old - all the more reason to celebrate!

Preparations are well underway for the upcoming 75th anniversary on June 21, 2025 at the Comödie Dresden and everyone is excited about the planned trip abroad to an international dance festival in Macedonia. If you want to be part of an amazing community, enjoy dancing and love traveling, you are more than welcome to join our folklore dance ensemble Thea Maass at TUD.

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TUD's sustainability strategy honored with a sponsored tree

In 2023, TU Dresden adopted a sustainability strategy that was developed with the broad participation of the university community. To mark the occasion, the members of the Extended University Executive Board donated a tree in honor of the sustainability strategy. You can find the sponsored sweet chestnut at Fritz Foerster Building and on the online tree sponsor card.

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Apply now: Charlotte Bühler Program 2024

The Charlotte Bühler Program supports women postdocs and postdoctoral candidates at TUD and all DRESDEN-concept institutions in their career development. Workshops, coaching and networking promote interdisciplinary skills and prepare academics for challenges in research, teaching and management. The next program round will start in April 2025. Submit your applications by February 20, 2025, and shape your future in science!

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Making women in science more visible!

Next year, TUD's Diversity Management program will continue to celebrate pioneering women in science with the HERStory calendar. The calendar presents 12 outstanding women professors and their biographies. The focus is consistently on the present, showcasing professors who, for example, were the first women to hold a professorship in their field of research at TUD. The calendar can now be ordered free of charge or obtained directly from Diversity Management.

© Christin Nitzsche

Looking back at Diversity Days 2024

This year's Diversity Days took place from November 4-8, 2024, with the motto “Dialogue builds bridges: United for Diversity and Democracy.” This week-long program of events included numerous workshops, cultural activities and projects to get involved in on the topics of democracy and diversity. We would like to thank all our partners and advisors for their commitment and are already looking forward to the next Diversity Days in November 2025!

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Childcare during the 2025 winter break: Join the adventure!

During the winter break (February 17-21 and 24-28, 2025), TUD is once again offering a vacation program for the children of staff and students between the ages of five and eight. In the mornings, the young researchers will delve into the fascinating world of science, visit labs, carry out experiments themselves and make many new discoveries. In the afternoons, the Dresden University Sports Center (DHSZ) provides a fun and varied sports program. Parents are only required to cover the cost of the lunch for the entire duration of the program (approx. EUR 40). An exciting vacation adventure awaits – book now!

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//DataSpaces: CIDS exhibition showcases TUD's research on digitalization

Digital transformation is changing our society in many ways. It makes our daily lives easier with smart technologies, improves access to information and promotes global networking. At the same time, however, it poses security and manipulation risks.

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“Cottbus Listens, Cottbus Tells” – Opening of an exhibition focusing on the history of migration in Cottbus

The exhibition “Cottbus Listens, Cottbus Tells” was created as part of the citizen science project “Migration in East Germany: Your story told in your own words.” It will open at Stadtmuseum Cottbus on December 7. The exhibition, developed in collaboration with the Geflüchtetennetzwerk Cottbus refugee network and Stadtmuseum Cottbus, puts migrant perspectives at the center of Cottbus’ history. This enables a collection to emerge that, on the one hand, highlights aspects of migration history present in the permanent exhibition and, on the other, tells the life stories of migrants through memorabilia. The exhibition is funded by TUD in Dialogue.

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Year of Jewish Culture in Saxony 2026:
“Jewish - Saxon - Mentshlich”

The Free State of Saxony is celebrating a state-wide “Year of Jewish Culture” in 2026 under the auspices of the Saxon State Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism (SMWKT) and the State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz (smac).

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Sound & Science 2025: Oxytocin

The Dresden Music Festival 2025 has a great motto: LOVE. From 17.05. to 14.06.2025, artistic director Jan Vogler will bring world-class orchestras and innovative projects to Dresden to bring the most beautiful facets of this feeling to life. The Sound & Science series on 27.05.2025 at the CRTD will make a special contribution: an evening that combines science and music.

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Winter power: strong nutrition in the winter semester

In cooperation with Techniker Krankenkasse, TUD's University Health Management is offering a four-part series of lectures on healthy eating and a cooking workshop for all employees and students between 03.12.2024 and 28.12.2025.

The online lectures provide valuable information as well as tips and tricks on the topics of “Nutrition myths”, “Immune boosting”, “Igniting sugar” and “Shopping tips”. Registration is possible at any time.

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Protect your skin in winter

Cold temperatures outside and dry, heated air inside make it difficult for your skin to retain moisture and can lead to allergies or skin conditions such as of eczema. Staff who are frequently exposed to liquid at work - e.g. who have to wash their hands frequently or wear protective gloves - will receive a skin protection plan and skincare products from their employer. TUD's Occupational Health Services support the organizational units in an advisory capacity in creating these skin protection plans and in choosing skincare products, while supporting the staff in any matters of occupational healthcare.

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The Occupational Health Services have some tips for a healthy start to the new year

In January 2025, TUD’s Occupational Health Services are offering three online lectures as part of the Center for Continuing Education's series “The University as a place of work.” The series kicks of on January 14, 2025 with the topic "Occupational health and psychological services at TUD." This will be followed up by “Occupational Integration Management at TUD” on January 21, 2025, and “Services of the University Health Management at TUD” on January 28, 2025.

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TUD donates 2024 REWE Team Challenge prize to Querformat

TUD was celebrated as the largest team in the 2024 REWE Team Challenge. Directorate University Culture recently donated the prize of REWE shopping vouchers worth 940 euros to Manuela and Lutz Stein from Querformat. The association has been helping people for many years, particularly those who are socially and financially disadvantaged. The donation will support not only the association itself, but also the many volunteers of Querformat.

Exhibition

“//DataSpaces. Wissenschaft erleben“
The TUD's Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences (CIDS) is dedicated to research on all aspects of digitalization. Since November 15, the exhibition “//DataSpaces. Wissenschaft erleben” has been providing insights into these complex topics with interactive modules and historical computing technology.

 Foyer Andreas-Pfitzmann-Bau

Film screening (German)

Short film evening: All together, none alone: Gangs of women in front of and behind the camera
As part of the Short Film Day 2024, a program selection of feminist short films by female filmmakers from the archives of the Deutsche Kinemathek will be shown.

 Kino im Kasten

Concert

Hanukkah and Christmas concert
With Akiva Weingarten, as well as Jewish and Ukrainian artists and dance groups.

 Rathaus Dresden, Dr.-Külz-Ring 19, 01067 Dresden

Online lecture

Lecture series of the health service of the TUD
First lecture in the series on the topic of “Company medical and psychological services offered by the TUD health service”.

 Online

Colloquium

National Socialist four-year plan and dictated
Research funding - four-year plan institutes at the TH Dresden and the Bergakademie Freiberg
Jutta Wiese, M.A. (Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden)

 HSZ/0101/U

Film screening (Japanese with German subtitles)

My Neighbor Totoro
This classic from traditional studio Ghibli about the titular forest spirit in rural Japan in the 1950s is regarded as the highlight of director Hayao Miyazaki's oeuvre and one of the most beautiful animated works in film history. Voted audience film of the winter semester.

 Kino im Kasten

Film screening (English with German subtitles)

The Big Lebowski
For KiK's birthday, an old tradition will be continued and, after a long break, “The Big Lebowski” will be shown again, in which Jeff Bridges stumbles his way through an abstruse criminal case as the jaded old hippie “The Dude” Lebowski. The cult neo-noir comedy will be screened in 35mm!

 Kino im Kasten

Online lecture

Lecture series of the health service of the TUD
Second lecture on the topic of “Company integration management (BEM) at TU Dresden”.

 Online

Workshop

Last aid course - Knowing how to do it at the end
An offer from the project "Letzthelfer:innen am Arbeitsplatz für einen sensiblen Umgang mit Sterben, Tod, schwerer Erkrankung und Trauer“ (LAUT)

Application deadline: 14.01.2025

 FOE Fritz-Foerster-Bau

Online lecture

Lecture series of the health service of the TUD
Third lecture on the topic “Offers of the University Health Management of the TUD”.

 Online

Colloquium

Compromises with Hitler: Werner Heisenberg, Carl-Friedrich von Weizsäcker and National Socialism
Prof. Dr. Mark Walker (Union College, Schenectady, New York)

 HSZ/0101/U

Colloquium

The Information Processing Section at TU Dresden and the beginnings of AI research in the GDR - a workshop report
Rebekka Roschy, M.A. (Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden)

 HSZ/0101/U