1932/33: The last year in Berlin: The closure of Bauhaus…
With Annemarie Jaeggi

…and the Beginning of a New Story

In the fourteenth and final episode of the second season of “About Bauhaus”, we take a look at the last year of the Bauhaus in Berlin. After the school was closed in Dessau at the initiative of the NSDAP, director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe decided to continue the school in Berlin from October 1932 as a private academy. However, regular teaching never truly resumed: just a few months later, following the Nazi Party’s seizure of power, a major search was carried out in the premises of the Berlin Bauhaus and the school was subsequently sealed.

After prolonged negotiations, Mies van der Rohe decided to close the school permanently. What the Berlin Bauhaus was like, why closing the Bauhaus was ultimately the best decision, and what happened to the Bauhaus members afterwards – these are the topics discussed this time by podcast host Adriana Kapsreiter with Annemarie Jaeggi in her former role as Director of the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, which she held until 31 December 2025. In the end, one question remains: how do you tell a story that has been carried into the world by so many different voices?