Programme Opening Weekend in Dessau
23 to 25 September 2016 in Dessau
90 years Bauhaus buildings in Dessau
INAUGURAL EVENING on Friday
5 – 6 p.m. Bauhaus building/Auditorium
Opening address
Claudia Perren, Director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and
Robert Reck, Councillor for Economy and Culture, municipal council of Dessau-Roßlau
Words of welcome
Reiner Haseloff, Minister President of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt
Tom Maasen, Cultural Attaché of the Royal Dutch Embassy Berlin
Hartwig Lüdtke, Vice President of the German Commission for UNESCO
Introduction
“Bauhaus – Van Nelle Tour”, Werner Möller and Monika Markgraf
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
6 – 8 p.m. “Bauhaus – Van Nelle Tour”
Bus from the Bauhaus building
- Stop 1
Dessau-Törten Estate versus the Kiefhoek housing estate, Rotterdam
with refreshments at pop-up shop - Stop 2
Gropius House versus Sonneveld House
Visiting the directors, with tea ceremony and reading of correspondence - Stop 3
Bauhaus building
Exhibition “Simultaneity of Modernism”.
From 8 p.m. Dutch get-together
Bauhaus building/ Canteen
Architectural Tours
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Historical Employment Office
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House Anton
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Leopold Fischer
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Bauhaus Buildiung
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Masters' Houses
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Dessau-Törten Housing Estate
Panels and Lectures
- Bauhaus – Van Nelle Tour / Round trip
The tour leads to the three locations in which the Bauhaus building, the Gropius House and the Dessau-Törten Estate come into contact with their counterparts in Rotterdam - The Bauhaus buildings in Dessau and Simultaneity of Modernism / Lecture and reading from the new Bauhaus pocket books.
City Walks
Discover the open spaces of the Bauhaus city with guided tours.
- Talk Walk / A look back at new housing estates
Art and performance-based walk through the Dessau-Törten Estate - Talk Walk / Successful failure; through failure to success
Art and performance-based walk through the Dessau-Törten Estate - Scenic guided tour / Hope is the last thing we lose
Staged with actors from the independent scene - Cycle tour on the Junkers Trail
Meeting point: Market square, Dessau (I-Point).
Open Spaces/Movement
- Parkcycle Swarm by N55 & TILL WOLFER / Collective intervention
Collective intervention in public space. The PARKCYCLE SWARMs are mobile spatial structures, ideal for micro galleries, temporary guestrooms, readings, mobile music stages, happenings, etc. - Parkcycle Swarm by N55 & TILL WOLFER / Free
On your bike! Cycling through public urban space - Mobility in the Bauhaus city
Mobility concepts for urban space by students
Meeting point: Roundabout by the Masters’ Houses to the historic Employment Office - Exercise/Yoga
Adopting the tradition of physical education as an important part of the Bauhaus’s endeavours to reform the way of living, visitors are invited to join a Yoga class on the Bauhaus lawn.
Families, Children and Young People
- Schoolchildren show their housing estate
- “Open space designer” / Architecture workshop for young people aged 12 and over
- “The night sky in Gropius’s day”
- “Who lives in white cubes?” / Reading for children aged 6 and over
- Football on the Bauhaus lawn/ For Bauhauslers under 10 years of age.
Cooking, Curiosities and Cinema
- Bauhaus dinner / Homage to Gunta Stölzl
The exclusive evening event takes a philosophical look at open spaces, focusing on the Bauhausler Gunta Stölzl and her time at the Bauhaus. In the company of descendants of the Bauhaus master. - Triennial brunch – Mazdaznan food
- Masters of cinema / Open air cinema
- Snack point “Walter Gropius”
The snack point is an ideal place to rest, eat and pass the time - Pop-up shop / Plant market/ Café “Törten-Treff”
Temporary shop based on a garden theme and a place to meet and chat in the garden of the Steel House.
Installations
- Light art
- 90 years Bauhaus building/ Temporary installations
- “360° Bauhaus” / Steadicam journey through the Bauhaus building.