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.
Sophie of Orange-Nassau turns 200 years old
Princess Sophie of Orange-Nassau stimulated science and culture in Weimar. She also did a lot in the social area: she founded a girls' high school (Sophienstift) and the first state-recognized nursing school in Germany, the Sophienhaus.
Readings 2023
The Weimar Literature Festival. Fiction and trade book authors, filmmakers, politicians, storytellers and academics from all over Germany will be guests, reading at various locations in the city.
1 May 2024
Whether it's the Kasseturm flea market or the legendary soapbox race, where ingenious and crazy hobbyists present their vehicles: There's a lot going on in Weimar on 1 May.
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.
Ascension weekend
Whether a walk in the Belvedere and Tiefurt summer residences, a tour of the city or a production at the German National Theatre in Weimar: the public holidays in Weimar offer many cultural highlights.
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.
Moby Dick - Premiere
On the whaler Pequod, the young sailor Ishmael witnesses the insane revenge of the offended Captain Ahab, whose leg was once torn off by the white whale Moby Dick. Herman Melville's famous adventure story directed by Sebastian Martin.
The Blue Festival
The Blue Festival is celebrated every year on the last Friday before the summer holidays. The traders of Windischenstraße invite you to their annual street party.
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.
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.
Tiefurt Summer Theatre
The setting is the island on the Ilm, the stage is outdoors, the plays as light as the summer. What the music-loving Duchess Anna Amalia did with great passion 200 years ago at her summer residence in Tiefurt - putting on theatre and concerts with artists - is taking place again summer after summer…
Castle Children's Day
The "Thuringian Treasury" celebrates International Children's Day and invites all children to the world of Thuringia's castles. Discover secret rooms in the castle on children's tours, play hide and seek in the castle garden or conquer the castle tower as a knight.
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.
summaery2023
In the anniversary year, "23:gardens" invite you to discover the projects, exhibitions and discourses of the current academic year on campus and in the city. Let yourself be inspired, get into conversation with us and contribute your own impulses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Genius Loci Weimar
During the festival weekend, international artists will project their visual stories in Weimar's city centre. This year, Genius Loci Weimar commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus exhibition.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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 spirit welcomes visitors during the Advent season. The old town is transformed into a Christmas market, lit up with stalls and mulled wine huts stretching from Marktplatz to Theaterplatz.
Easter Market
Artisans and traders get in the mood for the upcoming Easter with their goods - spring awakening around the decorated Neptune Fountain at the Market Suqare with gastronomy. A good opportunity to enjoy the first warm days.
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