Jena Lokal - Local News, Events & Culture
Your update on city life, tips, and upcoming events in Jena.
FC Carl Zeiss Jena’s most successful attacker, Jaron, is leaving the city on the Saale to join first-division club SV Werder Bremen. The transfer was announced on Thursday.
The Career Point of Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena is offering an interactive online workshop on how to present oneself optimally in initial interviews and handle difficult questions.
The city council faction Die Linke in Jena is pushing for a significant extension of daily opening hours at the Südbad and Ostbad pools to better accommodate working professionals and families.
A 22-year-old man from Jena has fallen victim to online extortion after interacting with an unknown individual via social media platforms.
A scientific paper from the Max-Planck-Institut für Geoanthropologie in Jena sheds new light on human dietary history: plants were an important food source in tropical rainforests thousands of years before the emergence of systematic agriculture.
The Jena-based high-tech company Göpel Electronic celebrates its 35th anniversary this month, looking back on a successful development from a local spin-off to a globally active specialist for inspection technology.
As part of the nationwide action week “#Krautschau,” two public walks in Jena at the end of May invite participants to explore the diversity of urban wild plants and document them in the cityscape.
Early Thursday morning, a police operation in the area of Kahlaische Straße and the street An der Brauerei in Jena escalated. A heavily intoxicated young adult actively resisted emergency services.
What would a meeting between Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe have looked like? Prof. Dr. Eckart Förster explores this question in a public lecture at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena on June 2, 2026.
A new interest group for young cycling enthusiasts is being formed in Jena this Wednesday evening. The Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club (ADFC) invites people under 27 to the founding event of the “Junger ADFC” to promote exchange and commitment to cycling in the Saalestadt.