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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:

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Festival Centre

Thu 20.8. • Fri 21.8. • Sat 22.8. • Sun 23.8. • Mon 24.8. • Wed 26.8. • Thu 27.8. • Fri 28.8. • Sat 29.8. • Sun 30.8. • Mon 31.8. • Thu 3.9. • Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9.

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.

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

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

Nicoleta Esinencu & teatru-spălătorie: Memory Distortion. MIXTAPE

Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué: Four Walls and a Roof

Prodromos Tsinikoris: 96%

Sat 29.8. • Sun 30.8.

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.

Franziska Winkler: Schlucken

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.

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

Tue 25.8. • Wed 26.8.

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

EFIM & Gabriele Stötzer: Das Brennen der Worte im Mund

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

Sun 30.8. • Mon 31.8. • Tue 1.9.

Children's theatre

Studio Urbanistan: Nach der Bahn die Wende

Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9. • Sun 6.9.

Audio-Performance

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.

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.

Kino mon ami: Thomas Heise Retrospektive

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

Weimarer Kontroversen: Wie können wir im Gespräch bleiben?

Christa Wolf: Von Kindheitsmuster bis August

Tue 25.8. • Thu 27.8.

FORUM »In Gesellschaft«: Möglichkeiten von Widerstand

Goethe-Medaille 2026

Goethe - Medaille 2026

Nacht der Jazzmeile Thüringen

Don Pablo Mulemba

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

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.

Cringe Fest Vol. 3

Wed 2.9. – Sat 5.9. • Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9.

VIII. Weimarer Stummfilm-Retrospektive: Das Phantom der Oper

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)

Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt: Komik – komisch

Gebärdensprache zwischen Unterdrückung und sprachlicher Vielfalt

Programme at the festival centre

Festival Centre

Thu 20.8. • Fri 21.8. • Sat 22.8. • Sun 23.8. • Mon 24.8. • Wed 26.8. • Thu 27.8. • Fri 28.8. • Sat 29.8. • Sun 30.8. • Mon 31.8. • Thu 3.9. • Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9.

Eine Collage mit 12 Bildern von Frauen und Männern die vor verschiedenen Orten stehen wie das Meer, einem Spielplatz oder einer bunten Häuserwand.

Exhibition opening and talk »See my Story. Copyright by Madgermanes«

City Walk – Traces of Contract Labor in Weimar

Mon 24.8. • Sun 30.8.

Brenda Akele Jorde: The Homes We Carry

Nacht der Jazzmeile Thüringen

GEMEINSAM – GEGENWART – GEDENKEN (TOGETHER – PRESENT – REMEMBRANCE)

Noa K. Ha and Jens-Christian Wagner

Panel Discussion

Workshop »Lieder als Erinnerung«

Weimarer Kontroversen: Wie können wir im Gespräch bleiben?

Workshop »Dimensionen pluraler Erinnerungskultur: Wie gehen wir mit Gleichzeitigkeit um?«

Gebärdensprache zwischen Unterdrückung und sprachlicher Vielfalt

Tanja Krone

Workshop mit Tanja Krone

Teaserbild zur Veranstaltung

Sing Pong – Catchy tunes. Karaoke. Tangled tape.

Hands-on activity

Exhibitions & Installations

A squashed chocolate marshmallow is lying on the face of a pink panda soft doll.

Humor als Waffe

Fri 14.8. – Sun 6.9.

An abstract 3D representation of a landscape as a wireframe model, from which a brightly coloured, flowing ribbon emerges, resembling a stream or a data stream

Juhu.Kontrollverlust.

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

A collage featuring 12 images of women and men standing in front of various locations, such as the sea, a playground or a colourful wall infront of a house.

See my Story. Copyright by Madgermanes

Fri 21.8. – Sat 5.9. • Sat 22.8. • Sat 5.9.

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. • Fri 28.8. • Sat 29.8. • Thu 3.9. • Fri 4.9.

Suitable for families

An abstract 3D representation of a landscape as a wireframe model, from which a brightly coloured, flowing ribbon emerges, resembling a stream or a data stream

Juhu.Kontrollverlust.

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

A collage featuring 12 images of women and men standing in front of various locations, such as the sea, a playground or a colourful wall infront of a house.

See my Story. Copyright by Madgermanes

Fri 21.8. – Sat 5.9. • Sat 22.8. • Sat 5.9.

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.

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. • Fri 28.8. • Sat 29.8. • Thu 3.9. • Fri 4.9.

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.

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

Sun 30.8. • Mon 31.8. • Tue 1.9.

Children's theatre