Programme

Dear audience!

Enjoy browsing the program for the 2026 Weimar Art Festival – we look forward to seeing you there!

The complete program booklet and the schedule are also available for download as PDF files:

-> View the program booklet (PDF)

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Two cars with jukeboxes in their open trunks and a truck with a person and a screen can be seen. The jukeboxes take up half the trunk. The person on the white truck is wearing a LED mask that is lit up. Above the person, a screen is mounted showing ‘1 ENGINE’. A megaphone is also attached to the screen.

Masamitsu Araki: Soundtrack for Midnight TAMURO

Fri 21.8. • Sat 22.8.
Concert
Performance

VAP, Vusi Mdoyi & Phala Ookeditse Phala: Izithukuthuku: The Tattered Soul of the Worker

Sun 30.8.
Dance
Theatre
Four women are standing against a dark background in colourful dresses, making scooping motions with their right hands. The four women are standing in a row, one behind the other, and are all making the same movement.

Leïla Ka: Maldonne

Fri 21.8.
Dance

Nicoleta Esinencu & teatru-spălătorie: Memory Distortion. MIXTAPE

Sun 23.8.
Performance
Theatre

Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué: Four Walls and a Roof

Thu 3.9.
Performance
Theatre

Prodromos Tsinikoris: 96%

Sat 29.8. • Sun 30.8.
Doku-Theatre
A woman in a brightly illuminated box holds a fan out in front of her. She holds her other hand over her nose. She is dressed in white and, kneeling, just about fits into the box.

AUSBRECHEN: International Evening of Contemporary Dance

Wed 26.8. • Thu 27.8.
Dance

Franziska Winkler: Schlucken

Sat 29.8.
Dramatic reading

Diana Anselmo: Pas Moi

Sat 29.8. • Sun 30.8.
Lecture Performance

Staatskapelle Weimar & STÜBAphilharmonie: Die Planeten

Fri 28.8. • Sun 30.8.
Concert

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie & She She Pop: Frei_Spiel X – Das große Ganze

Tue 25.8. • Wed 26.8.
Performance
Concert

EFIM & Gabriele Stötzer: Das Brennen der Worte im Mund

Tue 1.9.
Performance
Literature
Concert

Das Büro mit dem lustigen Namen: Die kleinste Gabel der Welt

Sun 30.8. • Mon 31.8. • Tue 1.9. • Tue 1.9.
Children's theatre

Studio Urbanistan: Nach der Bahn die Wende

Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9. • Sun 6.9.
Audio-Performance
Four people are standing in front of a wall with a red pattern. The two women are wearing white clothes. Of the men, one is wearing white clothes and the other is wearing black and blue. All four people appear as double images overlapping each other.

Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek

Sat 22.8.
Concert
A person wearing a skirt is standing on a rod in the sky. The person has long hair and is blocking the sun. The sky is blue.

Gratte Ciel: RoZéO

Fri 21.8. • Sat 22.8. • Sat 22.8.
Contemporary Circus
Five people are walking quickly through an underpass. They are dressed in yellow and black. The picture is shaky and blurred.

Tanja Krone & Team: Songs of (In)Security

Sat 22.8. • Sun 23.8. • Tue 25.8.
Performance
Concert

Brenda Akele Jorde: The Homes We Carry

Mon 24.8.
Film

Kino mon ami: Thomas Heise Retrospektive

Thu 20.8. • Thu 27.8. • Tue 1.9. • Thu 3.9.
Documentary
Film

Weimarer Kontroversen: Wie können wir im Gespräch bleiben?

Wed 26.8.
Discussion

Christa Wolf: Von Kindheitsmuster bis August

Thu 27.8.
Reading
Discussion

FORUM »In Gesellschaft«: Möglichkeiten von Widerstand

Thu 27.8.
Discussion

Goethe-Medaille 2026

Fri 28.8.
Goethe - Medaille 2026
Ceremonial act

Nacht der Jazzmeile Thüringen

Fri 28.8.
Concerts

Don Pablo Mulemba: Hundeheimat -- Der Osten, meine Familie und andere Wunder

Wed 2.9.
Reading
A red military helmet lies on top of an officer’s helmet, with two feet hovering above it. The picture is a drawing.

stellwerk: ACHILLES SEHNEN

Thu 3.9. • Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9.
Theatre

Cringe Fest Vol. 3

Wed 2.9. – Sat 5.9. • Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9.
Performances
Workshops
Concerts

VIII. Weimarer Stummfilm-Retrospektive: Das Phantom der Oper

Fri 4.9.
FIlm-concert
Theatre Square, the Goethe-Schiller monument and the entrance to the DNT are all lit up at dusk. On the balcony of the DNT on the left it says: “#Art”, and on the balcony on the right it says: “Fest 21”.

Messias. An oratorio in three parts by Georg Friedrich Händel (HWV 56)

Sat 5.9.
Music

Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt: Komik – komisch

Wed 2.9.
Discussion
Film

Festival Centre

Fri 21.8. – Sun 6.9.

Exhibitions & Installations

Humor als Waffe

Fri 14.8. – Sun 6.9.
Exhibition

Gaswerk Weimar: Juhu.Kontrollverlust.

Wed 19.8. • Thu 20.8. – Sat 5.9. • Tue 25.8. • Sun 6.9.
Exhibition

See my Story. Copyright by Madgermanes

Thu 20.8. • Fri 21.8. – Sat 5.9.
Exhibition
Teardrop-shaped ceramic tiles hang in a garland between trees, beneath which people walk.

Cosima Göpfert: Anklang

Fri 21.8. • Mon 24.8. – Sun 6.9.
Interactive installation

Anke Heelemann: FOTOkiosk

Fri 21.8. – Sun 6.9. • Fri 21.8.
Installation

Suitable for families

Gaswerk Weimar: Juhu.Kontrollverlust.

Wed 19.8. • Thu 20.8. – Sat 5.9. • Tue 25.8. • Sun 6.9.
Exhibition
A person wearing a skirt is standing on a rod in the sky. The person has long hair and is blocking the sun. The sky is blue.

Gratte Ciel: RoZéO

Fri 21.8. • Sat 22.8. • Sat 22.8.
Contemporary Circus
Teardrop-shaped ceramic tiles hang in a garland between trees, beneath which people walk.

Cosima Göpfert: Anklang

Fri 21.8. • Mon 24.8. – Sun 6.9.
Interactive installation

Anke Heelemann: FOTOkiosk

Fri 21.8. – Sun 6.9. • Fri 21.8.
Installation
Five people are walking quickly through an underpass. They are dressed in yellow and black. The picture is shaky and blurred.

Tanja Krone & Team: Songs of (In)Security

Sat 22.8. • Sun 23.8. • Tue 25.8.
Performance
Concert

Das Büro mit dem lustigen Namen: Die kleinste Gabel der Welt

Sun 30.8. • Mon 31.8. • Tue 1.9. • Tue 1.9.
Children's theatre