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Bauhaus Music 2024: Music festival on freedom and exile

24/9/24

17–19 October 2024

“I felt released, freed,” recalled composer Ruth Crawford Seeger after visiting the Bauhaus Dessau in 1931. Freedom and exile are the highly topical themes of this year’s Bauhaus Music Festival (17-19 October 2024). The three-day festival celebrates the musical life and works at the historic Bauhaus and highlights its artistic and political positions, past and present.

The Bauhaus Music Festival is organised by the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung and directed by Michal Friedländer, Kai Hinrich Müller and Karl-Heinz Steffens.

The 2024 Bauhaus Music Festival is made possible with the kind support of the Capital Cultural Fund.

Cooperation and media partners:
DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Kulturagenten, Kultur Büro Elisabeth, Monopol, Thomas Mann House, Tip Berlin, Radio 3

Press releases

Press images

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    Waldemar Alder on banjo and Lotte Gerson on saxophone, ca. 1931
    Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Donation Familie J. Tokayer, Photo: unknown
  • Members of the Bauhauskapelle (Bauhaus Band), with T. Lux Feininger, Waldemar Alder, Ernst Egeler, Clemens Röseler and Friedhelm Strenger, 1930
    Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Photo: unknown
  • "Metalltanz", with Karla Grosch, Choreography: Oskar Schlemmer, 1929
    Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Photo: Robert Binnemann
  • Heinrich Siegfried Bormann, Analysis of a piece of music, 1930
    Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
  • Heinrich Neugeboren, Plastic representation of a fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach, photograph of the model (circa 1928), production: Gerda Bijhouwer-Marx, undated
    Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
  • Portrait Marc Blitzstein
    Photo: Carl van Fechten
  • Visual
    © L2M3
  • Portrait Kai Hinrich Müller
    Photo: private
  • Portrait Michal Friedländer
    Photo: © Myrna Maakaron
  • Portrait Karl-Heinz Steffens
    Photo: © Ulrich Wagner
  • Portrait Cathy Milliken
    Photo: © Jacintha Nolte
  • Portrait Jocelyn B. Smith
    Photo: © Masaya Kato
  • Portrait Kolja Blacher
    Photo: © Felix Broede
  • Portrait Noam Heinz
    Photo: © Shahar Vin
  • Johann Bossers und Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson
    Photo: © Rolf Schöllkopf
  • Portrait Claudia Barainsky
    Photo: © Peter Adamik
  • Portrait Gabriel Adorjan
    Photo: © Stephan Cleef
  • Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin
    © Constanze Vielgosz