The HSZG summer party was just that: a party with lots of summer, fun in sport and life.
On Wednesday, June 6, Rector Prof. Dr. Friedrich Albrecht opened the sports and summer festival on the Zittau campus. 300 people of all ages came that afternoon. They met at the mustard store stand for a bratwurst or sipped homemade melon cocktails from Mister Bales. Children jumped through the sprinkler system, employees came straight from work and only had to ask themselves one question in front of Don Pedro's ice cream van with its Italian flag: elderberry mint or chocolate? And the students from Görlitz and Zittau cooled their smoking heads with a Svijany after the lecture.
For the first time, the annual sports festival was held together with the summer party. There were various sporting activities to try out, take part in and win: Volleyball, street soccer, a reaction wall from Techniker Krankenkasse, air rifle shooting, table soccer, slackline and climbing tower from the German Alpine Club, an e-bike and tandem bike rental.
The highlight of the festival was the university-city-company run over 8 km on an 800-meter campus loop that had to be run ten times. It started with 16 company teams, including Zittauer Stadtwerke and pasta store Pasta Fantastica. The focus of the event was on having fun running together. Top sporting performance was not the decisive factor. Taking part, being there and completing a total of 8 km on a circuit were the goals. Companies, institutions and university members could present themselves as teams and do sport together.
After the competitions, whether running, volleyball or soccer, it was time for the more relaxed part of the day: the live music whetted the appetite for an enjoyable afternoon and evening. Franziska Stölzel sang modern pop songs, and when Daniel Hafner took to the stage, you would have thought Bob Dylan was live in ZIttau for a moment. The Master's student of Management in Healthcare presented well-known songs by Dylan.
Felix Eschrich and Tanja Blencke juggled their "Hard Workout" and shortly afterwards there was saxophone music, classical to modern, by Saxon Klaxon as well as Bossa Nova and More by Friedrich Wodarczack. At around 8 pm, the sun disappeared behind House IV and the last guests left the campus.
Text: Sophie Herwig, Photos: Sophie Herwig and Jens Freudenberg
