Festive opening of the theme year

On Walpurgis Night on 30 April 2025, all hell will break loose in Weimar! Celebrate a brilliant start to the Faust theme year with us.

From 5 pm, live music and fine wines await you at the Co-Labor in front of the castle, before you can experience the exhibitions of the theme year directly as part of a musical parade of mythical creatures through the city. It's going to be an exciting night!

Programme

5 pm
Live music
‘true note big band’ from the Johann Nepomuk Hummel Music School

6 pm
Welcome
Ulrike Lorenz, President of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, and curators of the exhibitions

Petra Lutz, Head of Department at the Goethe National Museum, curator of "Faust. An Exhibition"

18:30 - 20:30
Musical Faust parade through the city
with mythical creatures by Maria Anina Bering Christiansen and Yuerong Zhang, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Start and finish at the Co-Labor and stops at the Schiller Museum, ACC and Goethe and Schiller Archive
Musical accompaniment by the Band for Medieval & Folklore - Musik ElsterTanz

20: 30 - 20:45
Play: Excerpt from ‘Faust - A Tragedy’
by and with stellwerk junges theatre

21 - 23
Party with DJ Solstik
Artists and DJ from Chemnitz

Exhibition openings

19 - 23
"Faust. An exhibition‘
Schiller-Museum

7 - 11 p.m.
’Experiment Faust. From Goethe's writing workshop‘
Goethe and Schiller Archive

8.30 pm
’Vier Fäuste und kein Halleluja‘
ACC Galerie Weimar

From 7 pm to 11 pm, the exhibition ’Teuflisch! Mephisto in the Library" is open in the Study Centre of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library.