Leipzig
About Leipzig
Leipzig is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 633,592 residents as of 31 December 2025. It is the eighth-largest city in Germany and is part of the Central German Metropolitan Region. Leipzig is located about 150 km (90 mi) southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain, at the confluence of the White Elster and its tributaries Pleiße and Parthe.
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When the Wall came down in January 1990, people stormed the Stasi headquarters in Leipzig — a place called the Round Corner. They rescued 15,500 sacks of shredded documents, and the people tasked with reassembling them are called the Puzzlers.
from No Such Thing As Deckchair Wrestling, 2022-11-04 at 00:09:16 · read transcript
Other times Leipzig came up
They've been doing that since 1991. They're still doing it. There were millions of shredded bits of paper, and it will take centuries to put them all back together. I just feel like, you know, you've got an old lady in, you know, in Leipzig doing her, doing her little jigsaw. Then she gets a tap on the shoulder, Mrs. Schmidt, we have a job for you. Yeah.
451: No Such Thing As Deckchair Wrestling, 2022-11-04 · listen
There were riots in East Germany in 1959, in about 14 East German cities and towns. There then had to be crackdowns. Leipzig had a crackdown. Leipzig is where the Lipsy dance, the state one is from. The Lipsy's from the Latin name for Cypsey. They sentenced 15 demonstrators to prison sentences of between six months and four and a half years for going to pro Elvis protests.
451: No Such Thing As Deckchair Wrestling, 2022-11-04 · listen
Yeah. There were riots in East Germany in 1959 in about 14 East German cities and towns and they then had to be crackdowns. Leipzig had a crackdown. Leipzig is where the Lipsie dance, the state one is from. Nipzig's from the Latin name for Leipzig. Yeah. They sentenced 15 demonstrators to prison sentences of between six months and four and a half years for going to pro-ohs protests.
No Such Thing As Deckchair Wrestling, 2022-11-04 · listen
It was in Leipzig in 1906 Her opera The Reckers Had its debut Which is about a load of people Who wreck ships She found out there had been edits made Which she was absolutely furious She found some cuts had been made to the third.
No Such Thing As An Average Bucket, 2023-02-02 · listen
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