{"id":21578,"date":"2025-08-22T15:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=21578"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:15:17","slug":"what-sparks-creativity-about-the-bauhaus-preliminary-course","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/podcasts\/what-sparks-creativity-about-the-bauhaus-preliminary-course\/","title":{"rendered":"What Sparks Creativity? 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Closely linked to the development of the Bauhaus itself, the Preliminary Course changed over the years and bears witness to the school\u2019s experimental spirit and its unconventional approaches.<br><br>In conversation with curator and Preliminary Course expert Nina Wiedemeyer, we talk about instructions and authority, collecting rubbish as a creative act, and the question of how much letting go is part of the creative process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern show-optional-copy' data-pattern='ho\/text-hinweisbox'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight color-bg-fg-revsersed'>\n\n<div  class='padding-top-1 padding-bottom-1 margin-left-4 margin-right-4'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-rem-max-width cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n\n<div  class='text-align-left margin-bottom-3 margin-top-3'>\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>Podcast-Host: Adriana Kapsreiter<br><br>Story\/Concept: Adriana Kapsreiter, Astrid B\u00e4hr, Niklas M\u00fcnch, Lena G\u00fcnther, Lukas Klaschinski<br><br>Production: Auf die Ohren GmbH <br><br>Photo credits:Josef Albers beim Vorkurs-Unterricht am Bauhaus Dessau, 1931, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Photo: unknown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8225,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"teaser_indicator":[],"class_list":["post-21578","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast\/21578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/podcast"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast\/21578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27546,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast\/21578\/revisions\/27546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"teaser_indicator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teaser_indicator?post=21578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}