IT, Media and Creativity
The IT, media and creative industries sector is one of the driving forces behind Leipzig’s economic success. Comprising several sub-sectors, it’s closely linked to the rest of the economy and acts as a creative catalyst. It combines cultural and artistic ideas and products with technological and scientific creativity, making the IT, Media & Creative Industries Cluster a new, high-growth key industry.
One cluster, seven sub-sectors
Leipzig has outstanding attributes. It’s known as the city of Bach – and a centre of commerce. A city of art and music. A city of industrialization with plenty of room for investment. And of course as the city of freedom and the Peaceful Revolution.
People who want to shape the world around them always feel at home in Leipzig. The city’s Media & Creative Industries Cluster with its seven sub-sectors – information and communication technologies, printing and publishing, broadcasting and film, arts and music, advertising and PR, architecture and design, and trade shows and services – is in a constant state of flux. Its participants continuously develop, design and present new visions, be it digital, on the silver screen, on the radio or the web, or with paint, music or words.
Milestones in the development of Leipzig’s IT, Media & Creativity Cluster
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- 17 May 2023: 17th Night of Computer Games at HTWK Leipzig
- Official opening of Gaming House R42 at Ritterstrasse 42
- MTM Central German Media Festival: Project launch MTM Pioneers offering a platform for young entrepreneurs and founders
- European Creators Lab brings the European VR/XR scene together in Leipzig for the first time for a further training programme funded by the EU
- IT congress ‘Germany – Future – Digital’ addresses innovative digitalization concepts in Leipzig
- Effie congress and gala attended by the leading creative agencies in Leipzig
- Posterlounge GmbH builds a new printing plant in Leipzig to open in early 2022
- Project CoyPu wins AI innovation competition held by the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
- OUTS:DE arts festival: Programme and government funding twice as large as in 2020
- MTM Central German Media Festival 2021: Completely digital for the first time
- Opening strategies: Model project for Leipzig’s nightclub and cultural sector
- MEDIAstart: New startup initiative by MDM Central German Media Promotion
- Pop-up stores: Ideas competition by the Office for Economic Development
- Foundation of Games & XR Central Germany
- Hands-on music exhibition musicpark to debut in November 2019
- NTS AG – branch opens in Leipzig
- SoftwareONE Group acquires Leipzig firm Comparex AG
- EASY SOFTWARE Gruppe acquires Apinauten GmbH
- Hentrich & Hentrich: Publishing house for Jewish culture and contemporary history relocates from Berlin to Leipzig
- IT fair Business Digital debuts in Leipzig
- jambit GmbH: IT firm opens branch in Leipzig