house Feininger

The Kurt-Weill-Center was founded in Dessau in the 1990s and occupies the Feininger House. This is the only European documentation and information centre dedicated to the life and work of the Dessau born composer. Together with Lyonel Feininger he was a member of the cultural cooperative the "November Group". The Kurt-Weill-Center houses a permanent exhibition describing the life and work of Kurt Weill. The centre also has a library, media collection and original source documentation. Rare CDs Kurt Weill music or Kurt Weill Society publications (Veröffentlichungen der Kurt-Weill-Gesellschaft e.V.) are on sale at the museum shop. The Kurt Weill Society (Kurt-Weill-Gesellschaft e.V.) is based in the Feininger House / Kurt-Weill-Center. This society organises the internationally renowned Kurt Weill festival held annually in Dessau.
The "Blue Book", commissioned by the German Federal Government to nominate important cultural centres in former East Germany, lists the Kurt Weill Centre as a cultural heritage site of particular national import. The entry states: "The Kurt Weill Centre is a facility that is unusual, charismatic and worthy of support … and has gained much international attention."
More information from www.kurt-weill-fest.de

Life in the Masters' Houses - a text and picture exhibition
This vivid and clear exhibition explains about the life of the differing Bauhaus Masters in the Masters' Houses and shows that not all of them lived in the Bauhaus "style".

Publication (available on our german site)
"...Das Treppenhaus ist meine ganze Freude", Masters' Houses in Dessau - Das Feiningerhaus.