It's easy to find a lot of material this year about Weimar, Bauhaus, or both, just a few listed here.
BauHaus Opens New Museum - In Weimar.
There's a new Bauhaus museum in Weimar itself. Don't get confused - there's also a Bauhaus institute/center right in Berlin (a half-mile west of the Philharmonic), there's the original Bauhaus School in Dessau, and in Fall 2019 Dessau opens an even newer Bauhaus museum of its own.*
In Los Angeles, Getty Center runs a big exhibit looking back at Bauhaus, June to October 2019. Here.
Six Brit Videos About Weimar
London Philharmonic is having a series of concerts and lectures related to Weimar, here, under the banner, Bittersweet Metropolis. Here. Something you can access from a distance, six ten to fifteen minute videos about the Weimar era, free at Youtube, here. This link should get you into the set of six videos, Youtube.
Weimar History - At Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin
The DHM in Berlin, part of Museum Island, is in some ways equivalent to the Smithsonian. In the last few years I've seen some amazing exhibits of cultural history there - on immigration to Germany; on Germany colonies in Africa in the 1890s. See a big exhibit this year on Weimar politics and history at DHM. Titled, Weimar: Essence and Value of Democracy. Here, here. It runs to September 2019. PDF here (mixed German/English). It looks like there is also a broader exhibit titled, Democracy 2019, running on the same calendar.
DHM benefits enormously from a large multi-story exhibit behind the historical building on Unter der Linden [aka Zeughaus]. The new wing was completed by IM Pei in 2003.
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Berlin reminder: Zeughaus is the large DHM building. A tiny one-story historical building next to it is Neue Wache, which is a war memorial with a Kollwitz statue.
Brecht and 3 Penny Opera are inseparable from the collapse of Weimar. There was a terrific 2018 German movie about making 3PO into a film around 1930, but sadly it never played in the US and the DVD has no English subtitles. Here.
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That's Bauhaus Berlin, Bauhaus Weimar (new museum), Bauhaus Dessau (classic buildings), Bauhaus Dessau 2.0 (upcoming new museum), and there's also a Bauhaus Museum in Tel Aviv.
BauHaus Opens New Museum - In Weimar.
There's a new Bauhaus museum in Weimar itself. Don't get confused - there's also a Bauhaus institute/center right in Berlin (a half-mile west of the Philharmonic), there's the original Bauhaus School in Dessau, and in Fall 2019 Dessau opens an even newer Bauhaus museum of its own.*
Dessau is about 80 miles south of Berlin, Weimar about 180. Trains for Weimar change in Erfurt, which is on a major rail line. Dessau and Weimar are respectively north and south of Leipzig (120 miles south of Berlin).Bauhaus at Getty Center
In Los Angeles, Getty Center runs a big exhibit looking back at Bauhaus, June to October 2019. Here.
Not directly Bauhaus, but see 1920s landmark Schindler House in Los Angeles also. Near Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Website here. Also, a Neutra house in Silver Lake can be visited on Saturdays, here.
London Philharmonic is having a series of concerts and lectures related to Weimar, here, under the banner, Bittersweet Metropolis. Here. Something you can access from a distance, six ten to fifteen minute videos about the Weimar era, free at Youtube, here. This link should get you into the set of six videos, Youtube.
Weimar History - At Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin
The DHM in Berlin, part of Museum Island, is in some ways equivalent to the Smithsonian. In the last few years I've seen some amazing exhibits of cultural history there - on immigration to Germany; on Germany colonies in Africa in the 1890s. See a big exhibit this year on Weimar politics and history at DHM. Titled, Weimar: Essence and Value of Democracy. Here, here. It runs to September 2019. PDF here (mixed German/English). It looks like there is also a broader exhibit titled, Democracy 2019, running on the same calendar.
DHM benefits enormously from a large multi-story exhibit behind the historical building on Unter der Linden [aka Zeughaus]. The new wing was completed by IM Pei in 2003.
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Berlin reminder: Zeughaus is the large DHM building. A tiny one-story historical building next to it is Neue Wache, which is a war memorial with a Kollwitz statue.
Brecht and 3 Penny Opera are inseparable from the collapse of Weimar. There was a terrific 2018 German movie about making 3PO into a film around 1930, but sadly it never played in the US and the DVD has no English subtitles. Here.
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That's Bauhaus Berlin, Bauhaus Weimar (new museum), Bauhaus Dessau (classic buildings), Bauhaus Dessau 2.0 (upcoming new museum), and there's also a Bauhaus Museum in Tel Aviv.
