Projects of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Thuringia, represented by the State Chancellery of Thuringia, Department of Culture and the Arts.
Diabolical! Mephisto in the Library
Faust would be inconceivable without Mephisto – that diabolical, ironic, sweet-tongued and eloquent spirit “that negates ever” and with whom he makes a pact. Mephisto is an inextricable part of Faust himself.
Oskar Schlemmer: stage design for “Don Juan and Faust”.
As part of the 2025 Theme Year’s focus on “Faust”, the Bauhaus Museum Weimar presents a stage design created by Oskar Schlemmer for Christian Dietrich Grabbe’s play “Don Juan and Faust”. The Bauhaus master was commissioned to design the set in 1925 for a production staged at the Deutsches…
A theatre scandal of Faustian proportion
In 1968 Adolf Dresen and Wolfgang Heinz caused one of the greatest theatre scandals in East German history with their production of Faust I. The Studio presentation offers insights into Dresen’s and Heinz’s work and the political reactions that followed.
Faust
Does “Faust” mean anything to us today? The central exhibition of the 2025 Theme Year, presented at the Schiller Museum, primarily revolves around this key question.
Nietzsche - Goethe - Faust
The cabinet exhibition at the Nietzsche-Archiv presents Friedrich Nietzsche’s occupation with Johann von Goethe and highlights their similarities and differences with respect to their personal background and literary reception.
The Faust Experiment
An exhibition of rarely displayed manuscripts on Goethe’s “Faust” sheds light on its literary origins and the poet’s working method.