You can find the event highlights 2023 as a PDF document (in German) here.
Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
Contemporary plays such as "Clockwork Orange" and "Love Letters" alternate with such classics as "A Midsummer Night's Dream" or, in the music section, with "Aida" or the "Magic Flute". There are performances almost every day at the German National Theatre in Weimar.
Weimar Talks
On three Sundays, renowned speakers from culture, politics, journalism or business will speak on given or self-chosen topics.
Opening weekend Bauhaus23
Political, controversial, drifting and indispensable, housing will be looked at from all sides. With Bauhaus Cubes, the Quartier der Moderne, interventions in the houses, exhibition openings and a panel discussion at the Bauhaus Museum Weimar, the kick-off will be celebrated throughout the city.
Thuringia Bach Festival
In the anniversary year of the Thuringian Bach Festival, the festival is dedicated to the translation of the Luther Bible. The translation was a unique mediation achievement that can also be found in Bach's later settings. In the jubilee year, Bach's works will be danced, arranged and brought to…
Easter Market
Eine weihnachtlich geschmückte Stadt empfängt die Besucher in der Adventszeit. Die Altstadt verwandelt sich in einen vom Lichterglanz erleuchteten Weihnachtsmarkt, dessen Stände und Glühweinhütten sich vom Marktplatz bis zum Theaterplatz erstrecken.
Weimar during Easter
Easter walk in the Ilmpark, Goethe's Faust on the big stage in the DNT or concerts of the Thuringian Bach Festival and in the town church. There are many ways to spend your cultural Easter in Weimar.
Himmelsburg
The Weimar Palace Chapel (called Himmelsburg), which burned down in 1774, has been resurrected in a VR version. The audio-visual experience in a specially converted overseas container enables a spatial and sound experience as in Bach's time.
Passion: SPIEL // Passion: PLAY
One of the highlights of the season and an opportunity for countless discoveries: Passion :SPIEL presents experimental, innovative and forward-looking music theatre over two long weekends at e-werk weimar.
Köstritzer Spiegelzelt
The venue is the atmospheric mirror tent, reminiscent of the "Dans paleis" of the turn of the century in Belgium and the Netherlands. For almost seven weeks it will be the stage for famous artists and talented discoveries.
Cultural Symposium Weimar
The cultural symposium returns to Weimar under the title "A Question of Trust"! The Goethe-Institut is bringing together exciting personalities from all over the world to discuss the theme of trust in debates, lectures, workshops and artistic works.
The Night of Museums
The temples of culture and history will be opened until late in the night. Inhabitants as well as tourists or culture vultures can join the stream of visitors to visit all museums in Weimar until midnight.
Music on Monday in Tiefurt
The traditional Monday concerts will start a new musical season in 2021. For the first time, classical music will be heard outdoors. The garden in front of St. Christopher's Church under the apple trees with birdsong and evening atmosphere provides the ideal backdrop. The schedule is deliberately…
International Thuringian Poetry Film Festival
Every year, the Literary Society of Thuringia and its partners award the Weimar Poetry Film Prize for short films that combine poetry and moving images in an innovative way.
Liszt Biennale Thuringia
In Weimar, the celebrated piano virtuoso became a composer whose influence continues into the modern age. The Liszt Biennale honours this legacy with concerts throughout Thuringia. This year, it appears before its audience under the meaningful motto "Immersion and Ecstasy".
Flower Market
Flowering ornaments and exotic plants already inspired the princely court and many contemporaries in Goethe's time. At that time, it became fashionable to engage in a lively trade in the rarest cultivars. Today, the region's nurseries entice visitors with a splendid selection.
Weimar spring days for contemporary music
A festival programme of music, tones, sounds and all sorts of other sonorous transformations make it possible to experience the great variety of styles of contemporary new music in Weimar.
Thuringian Castle Days
What did a prince actually do after work? The motto of the Thuringian Castle Days 2023 is dedicated to courtly leisure. Special exhibitions, thematic guided tours and entertaining events await you.
29 Rainbow Tour
The 29th Rainbow Tour, the bicycle tour for a good cause, will take place in Weimar this year. Children with cancer and their families will be supported. The participants will be welcomed with a big family party. The reception is to be colourful, hearty and colourful.
UNESCO World Heritage Day
On this day, the German Commission for UNESCO, the German Association for UNESCO World Heritage Sites and all the World Heritage Sites in Germany invite you to explore questions of sustainability in lively formats, either on site or digitally.
Summer in Weimar
Moving, vibrant and exceedingly alive: The splendour of the past flirts with fresh culture. The city offers a multitude of highlights that turn the "Weimar Summer" into a festival of the arts and muses: Open-air concerts, open-air theatre, dance and street festivals.
Summer theatre "Der Diener zweier Herren"
First performed in 1746 and later staged here in Weimar by Goethe, Carlo Goldoni's most famous play, with its tableau of characters, is considered a prime example and high point of the commedia dell'arte: brash servants and clever maids, miserly patriarchs and garrulous dottores.
Fête de la Musique
A music festival on the summer solstice based on the French model. The cozy "quartier musical" stretches throughout Weimar's old town, where musicians of all stripes invite you to listen and linger: old music, jazz, ballads, French chansons, klezmer or classical music.
Bach Biennale Weimar
The Bach Biennale Weimar will celebrate the 10th edition of the festival in 2023 and, under the promising title "Inspired by Bach", will make Bach's music audible and tangible at the authentic and historic venues of Weimar, the city of Bach.
Concerts on the lake stage in the Weimarhallenpark
This year, top-class artists will give guest performances on the lake stage in the Weimarhallenpark. Listen to the sounds of the musicians on the terraces of the Weimarhalle or from the surrounding meadows.
Ben Harper on the Lake Stage
The American musician and composer Ben Harper will be in Weimar in July 2023. Together with his band "The Innocent Criminals" he will give an open-air concert on the Seebühne. It is one of his few concerts in Europe this year.
summaery2023
The student scene at the Bauhaus University provides the Weimar milieu with ingenuity and fresh spirit. The summaery shows the work of the current academic year in a condensed and impressive way over four days in the summer.
An Open Air Concert Night of the Staatskapelle Weimar
The Staatkapelle Weimar brings its season to a close with a grand open-air concert night in the Weimarhallenpark. Experience an unforgettable evening with Frank Sinatra's greatest hits.
63. Weimar Master Classes
Every summer musicians, professors, students and guests pilgrim to Weimar to produce and experience the lively classical scene on the streets and squares, and in the halls and salons.
Yiddish Summer Weimar
Yiddish Summer Weimar celebrates the rich Yiddish culture! This popular event includes workshops over several days that are an opportunity to learn more about yiddish songs, dances, the Yiddish language and instrumental Klezmer music.
Summer theatre in the Kirms-Krackow-Haus
As a reminiscence of Franz Kirms, the treasurer of the Weimar Court Theatre in Goethe's time, entertaining theatre performances take place in the historic courtyard of the Kirms-Krackow House during the summer months. Included are exotic flavours, absurdist humour, relationship dramas. This year,…
Anne Clark on the Lake Stage
Anne Clark is not only considered a great poet and icon of music history, but also a pioneer of spoken word art. Always eager to set new standards in her performances, Anne Clark always remained a rebel in a way - albeit in a modest way.
ACHAVA Summer Cinema
For the first time, the ACHAVA Summer Cinema invites you to the stage in the middle of the water. The perspective of the audience changes. They sit on the lake stage and look across the water surface towards the Weimarhalle.
Gregory Porter on the Lake Stage
Gregory Porter is one of the indispensable greats of contemporary jazz. His stunning voice, equally at home in soul, blues and gospel, instantly turns any song, original or otherwise, into a Porter song.
Bauhaus Weeks
The first Bauhaus sample house, the Haus Am Horn, turns 100. An augmented reality tour opens there and a varied programme starts around the model house and the Bauhaus Museum Weimar. The weeks will end with the Bauhaus Parade.
Weimar Art Festival - Kunstfest Weimar
The Art Festival Kunstfest Weimar is held every year in August and September. Large numbers of visitors enjoy four weeks of superb cultural events ranging from music, theatre and dance to fine arts and film.
Wine Festival
Around Goethe's birthday on 28 August, the wine festival is celebrated on the Frauenplan opposite Goethe's house. In the convivial wine village, many a glass of wine is drunk to the poet's health.
Garden Party at the Nietzsche-Archive
Friedrich Nietzsche's 122nd death anniversary is once again the occasion for a cheerful and at the same time festive celebration: with a colourful programme ranging from light-hearted to thoughtful, from cake platters to "merry science". The garden of the Villa Silberblick will be a place for…
Goethes Birthday
Even during Goethe's lifetime, Weimar celebrated the birthday of the poet prince as a great public festival. This beautiful tradition lives on to this day, and of course the 274nd birthday is also duly celebrated: Residents, guests and celebrities toast in honour of the poet.
Pottery Market
Not only potters from Thuringia offer their precious and fragile wares for sale on the market square and demonstrate their craft. The diverse assortment has become the trademark of the Weimar pottery market.
Day of the Open Monuments
With the motto "Talent Monument", the Open Monument Day sets the stage for all monument talents. The spotlight is on the unique features that distinguish monuments. The focus is on the question: What exactly makes a monument a monument?
Autumn Reading Series "Europalette"
In September and October, the public library is organising a new edition of its autumn reading series "Europalette". The authors Eckhart Nickel, Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker, Jan Faktor, Helena Adler and Verena Roßbacher have already confirmed their participation.
Days of open studios
The Cultural Directorate of the City of Weimar is organising the Open Studio Day on September 16th. Sculptors, painters, graphic artists, artisans, photographers, media artists and designers invite visitors to their studios and workshops and provide an insight into their current work.
Theatre festival
On September 23th, the DNT opens its doors with the annual theatre festival and celebrates the start of the 2023/24 season with you. The programme includes classics such as the opera gala and the one-minute show, as well as new formats.
Achava Festival
The concept of the ACHAVA Festival Thuringia sets - 50 years after the establishment of German-Israeli relations - a fundamentally new impulse: its core point is the interreligious and intercultural dialogue. In addition to great concerts by international artists, there are exhibitions, panel…
Onion Festival Zwiebelmarkt
For three days, Weimar is "on onions": on the cake, in the pan, in the braid and on the crown of the onion market queen. The traditional market hustle and bustle is dominated by the Heldrung onion farmers with their onion panicles, dried bouquets and onion decorations.
Weimar Christmas
A city decked out in Christmas finery welcomes visitors during the Advent season. The old town is transformed into a Christmas market illuminated by the glow of lights, with its stalls and mulled wine huts stretching from Marktplatz to Theaterplatz.
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