Women in trousers and shorts were piqued. But for the anniversary, Thringen is all about the Bauhaus. 
Strict lines, rooms flooded with light: the “Kornhaus” excursion restaurant in Dessau.Fotos : S. Kaps Stadt Dessau-Roßlau
Weimar is idyllic: no industry far and wide, but pretty villas from the early days and the wide landscape park on the Ilm with the privy councilor's garden shed. But Weimar is not just the city of classical music, where you can meet Goethe and Schiller everywhere. 90 years ago the place was characterized by upheaval. The German emperor had only just gone into exile and the constitution of the young republic was passed here in the theater, when the State Bauhaus Weimar opened on April 1, 1919. The School of Design emerged from the Grand Ducal School of Applied Arts founded by Henry van de Velde. The Bauhaus created something never seen in art and architecture. Instead of the opulence of the early days and the romanticism of Art Nouveau, people suddenly paid homage to clear, strict lines. In democratic creative process, form masters designed light-flooded cube-shaped houses and furniture made of leather and chrome with their students. The design of the Bauhaus is still going on today felt to be ultra-modern. And the local university has long been called the Bauhaus University again. You can study architecture, civil engineering, media studies and design here. There are still workshops in their traditional location behind the glass facade. And the office of director Walter Gropius with its cube-shaped chairs looks exactly as it once did. Students like to show interested visitors through the university. The early Weimar period was the experimental field of the Bauhaus, says Sven Mller, who has just graduated here. But the people of Weimar were piqued at the strange birds that roamed the streets of their venerable town. Women in trousers and with short hair, for example, explains Sven Mller and also knows what parents threatened their naughty children with at that time: Those who are not good come to the Bauhaus! 
Photo: N. Mohadjer, Bauhaus University
Where so unusual with With corners and edges created, you don't have to wait for big anniversary. The Bauhaus is therefore celebrating its 90th birthday on grand scale in 2009. Weimar plays the most important role in this. It is the reception in the subject, explains Dr. Ulrike Bestgen, the curator of the Klassikstiftung. The focus of the anniversary year is the exhibition The Bauhaus is coming.From the beginning of April, representatives of the design revolution will be staged in four different museums in Weimar alone: Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, for example. Van de Velde, as pioneer of the avant-garde, is also brought to the fore, making the origins of the design revolution in the history of ideas understandable. Regardless of whether it is the Schiller Museum or the Goethe National Museum from spring onwards, Bauhaus can be seen everywhere, and the classic is mothballed for while. Furniture made of leather and chrome: Walter Gropius' office in Weimar. Photo: M. Schuck Thüringen Tourismus
The liaison between the Bauhaus and Weimar only lasted until 1925. In both elections in Thringen, the right-wing conservatives gained majority as early as 1924 and starved the Bauhaus by means of cutback. Weimar distributed its avant-garde to Dessau. But as early as 1923, two years before they left, the school's funding was at stake. At that time, Walter Gropius fled to the front and instead of the required statement of accounts he organized the 1st International Bauhaus Exhibition. It made the designers from Weimar world famous. A house was even built especially for the show: the house on the Horn, not far from Goethesches Gartenhuschens, and real contrast to it. In the center of the building there is an elevated room as meeting point for the residents, the functional rooms are all around in variable distribution. Everything has been thought of: state-of-the-art peat insulation in the outer walls, built-in kitchen with Bauhaus storage jars, rotating windows. Haus am Anger in Erfurt: product of the democratic creative process. Photo: Claudia Diemar
But Weimar's neighboring city of Jena was perhaps the more important platform for the Bauhaus artists to present their work. Buildings such as the student house and the Abbeanum as mathematical and scientific faculty as well as well-preserved private villas in the style of the new objectivity were built here. The Bauhaus is also represented in many public buildings in Erfurt. Industrialists and mzene from the local art association offered the young talents chance to realize their bold architecture. Two exhibitions each will therefore be on view in Erfurt and Jena from spring to autumn. The Weimarer Land with its villages offered the painter and enthusiastic touring cyclist Lyonel Feininger wealth of motifs. It is therefore no wonder that the Bauhaus will also be vividly represented in the Kunsthaus Avantgarde in Apolda from September onwards. Apolda is hoping for new impulses from this, because the former city of knitwear has been in crisis since the fall of the Wall. The Bauhaus also knew times of need. His students were starving during the Great Depression.Gropius wrote to friend at the time: Can't you help me find few capitalists? Maybe today the tourists interested in culture will judge it. Claudia Diemar
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