Preliminary remark on the Dessau program

There is a Triennial-day ticket (8 € excl. events with separate marking).
Many booths and venues are connected by the "Bauhaus-Busline".
Holders of a Triennial day ticket receive a special ticket free of charge.

Further information can be found on the information page
of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation on the program of the Triennial of the Modernism in Dessau

Opening of the Dessau Weekend

  • Fri, Oct 7, 18:00 - 21:00
    Location: Konsumgebäude, Am Dreieck 1, 06849 Dessau-Roßlau 
  • 18:00 Opening of the Dessau Weekend
  • 6.45 p.m.: Opening of the pop-up exhibition "Pump House 
  • 19:00: Welcome drink in the café of the Bauhaus estate
  • 20:00: Consumer cinema with the following films:
    How do we live healthily and economically? -
    Housing shortage (11 min.), The Bauhaus and its construction method (12 min.), The new house (13 min.)

The opening event will be musically accompanied by the "Universal Druckluft Orchester".

Exhibitions

The pumping station - The gateway to the settlement Dessau-Törten

The location of the settlement in the lowland of the small Lorkbach made the construction of a pumping station necessary. It was built in 1928 and, with its prismatic panes and the wash plaster surfaces of the transverse walls, has many architectural details in common with the settlement buildings. Parking lot/location: Damaschkestraße, 06849 Dessau-Roßlau; admission via Triennial-day-ticket (8 €).

  • Duration: Fri, 7. to Sun, 9.10.2022, 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.

Hugo Junkers Dessau Museum of Technology

Please note the separate prices and information of the museum;
Place: Technikmuseum "Hugo Junkers Dessau", Kühnauer Straße 161 a, 06846 Dessau

  • Duration: Sat, 8 - Sun, 9.10.2022, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Symposia and lectures

Symposium Water Culture

The event will highlight buildings from Modernism , present Hugo Junkers as a pioneer of water heating, and explain contemporary aspects of water supply. Location: Bauhaus building, Gropiusallee 38, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau; Triennial-day ticket (8 €); no registration required.

  • Sat, 8.10.2022, 11:00 - 14:00: Symposium and lectures

More lectures

  • Sa, 8.10.2022, 18:00 - 19.30 clock: Water tasting event with water sommelier Alexander Höll "Water is not equal to water"; Location: Mensa in the Bauhaus building, Gropiusallee 38, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau; Triennial day ticket (8 € p. P.) plus 4 € food flat rate; max. 60 people;
    Registration: www.bauhaus-dessau.ticketfritz.de or via Tel. 0340-6508250 
  • Sun, 9.10.2022, 14:30 - 15:30: Lecture "The water culture of the Bauhäusler" Place: Kornhaus, Kornhausstraße 146, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau

Tours and visits

  • Sat - Sun, 8 - 9.10.2022, 10:00- 17:00: Open house with guided tours by Flussbad Rehsumpf e. V.. Founded in 1907, the facility is one of the oldest surviving river baths in Germany and is a rare testimony to the bathing culture of the early 20th century.
    Start: Wasserstadt 20, 06844 Dessau-Roßlau
  • Sat, 8.10.2022, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Discovery tour of the Bauhaus supermarket; Triennial-day-ticket (8 €); Location: EDEKA Pollmer, Heidestr. 195, 06849 Dessau-Roßlau
  • Sat, 8.10.2022, 14:00 + 15:00: Guided tour of Stahlhaus construction site; location: Stahlhaus, Südstraße 5, 06849 Dessau-Roßlau; 1 h; Triennial-day-ticket (8 €).; no registration required; limited number of participants, 30 pers. per tour.
  • Sun, 9.10.2022, 11:00 + 12:00 h: guided tour of Stahlhaus construction site; location: Stahlhaus, Südstraße 5, 06849 Dessau-Roßlau; 1 h; Triennial-day-ticket (8 €).; no registration required; limited number of participants, 30 pers. per tour.
  • Sun, Oct. 8, 2022, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.: Open house with guided tours; Triennial-day-ticket (€8) Location: Historic boathouse in steel lamella construction of the Junkers Paddelgemeins. Dessau e.V., Leopoldshafen 4, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau
  • Sun, 9.10.2022, 13:00-14:30: Guided bike tour around the topic of water use in Dessau; Price: 10 € p. P.; max. 25 people; Start: Tourist Information Dessau, Ratsgasse 11, 06844 Dessau-Roßlau; Registration at post@visitdessau.com or Tel. 0340-88292000

Concerts and performances

  • Sat, 8.10.2022, 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Workshop for children and young people; Open workshop "KLAR & REIN"; Location: Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Platz 1, 06844 Dessau-Roßlau; Duration: 3 h; Triennial-day-ticket (8 €); Registration: https://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/vermittlung/offene-werkstatt-museum.html 
  • Sat, 8.10.2022, 14:00 - 14:30: Concert "Self-made (water) music - Self-made water concert"; Location: Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Platz 1, 06844 Dessau-Roßlau; Duration: 30 min.; Triennial-day-ticket (8 €); no registration required.
  • Sat, 8.10.2022, 14:00 - 17:00: Jazz-Parcours "Music in Sietö's Gardens"; Partners: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Music School "Kurt Weill" Dessau-Roßlau, Universal Druckluft Orchester; Course locations: Gropiusgymnasium, Moses-Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft e. V., Mittelring 38, Kleinring 42, Haus Anton: Doppelreihe 35, 06849 Dessau-Roßlau; duration: 1 h each with start on the hour; Triennial-day-ticket (8 €); no registration required; limited number of participants: max. 40 persons per tour.
  • Sat, 8.10.2022, 17:00 - 18:00 + 20:00 - 21:00: Dance performance "hands connect" for children and young people with introduction to the work and film "Dance on the Volcano", Partners: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Neuruppin Youth Art School; Location: Bauhaus building, Gropiusallee 38, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau, auditorium; Triennial-day-ticket (8 €)
  • Sun, 9.10.2022, 10:00, 11:30, 13:00, 14:30: City tour "Modernism meets music" with the historic double-decker bus and musical accompaniment through the city between the Triennial sites; Start: Bauhaus building, Gropiusallee 38, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau; Duration: 70 min; Triennial-day ticket (8 €); limited number of participants: max. 80 people per tour.
  • Sun, 9.10.2022, 14:00 - 17:00 clock: Visit with concert in the city pool Dessau to the open day to the water culture; Partner: City of Dessau-Roßlau - Department of Sports Promotion, Friedrich Schneider Choir Dessau; Location: City pool, Askanische Straße 50a, 06842 Dessau-Roßlau Duration: each approx. 20 min, Triennial- day ticket (8 €); limited number of participants, admission each 15 min before the start

All data without guarantee. Subject to change without notice. Missing information will be added continuously.

Service and contact

Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Gropiusallee 38, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Tel.: 0340-6508250
Triennial @bauhaus-dessau.de
www.bauhaus-dessau.de 

Tourist Information
Ratsgasse 11, 06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Tel. 0340-882920-00
post@dessau-rosslau.de
www.visitdessau.com