24.12.2025
Our opening and guided tour times
on public holidays ’25/’26
on public holidays ’25/’26
29.-30.11.
2025
2025
Bauhaus Dessau 100 visits Stuttgart
Pop-up presentation and guided tours
Pop-up presentation and guided tours
29.-30.11.
2025
2025
Saturday, November 29, and Sunday, November 30, 2025
Bauhaus Dessau 100 visits Stuttgart
Pop-up presentation and guided tours
100 years ago, the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau: The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is celebrating this major anniversary from September 2025 to December 2026 together with numerous partners. Under the motto “To the Substance”, the focus will be on modern and contemporary materials.
On Saturday, November 29, and Sunday, November 30, parts of a mobile pop-up presentation from Dessau will stop at the Weissenhof Workshop in the Mies van der Rohe House.
Glass, steel, brick: all these materials of modern architecture continue to have a decisive influence on the structure and character of buildings today. Dr. Dorothea Roos, head of the construction department at the Bauhaus Dessau, will give a brief overview of the building materials used at the Bauhaus and other buildings in Dessau during short guided tours. This will be followed by a short tour of selected houses in the Weissenhof Estate. You will learn about the building materials and techniques used here, such as the “Feifel Zickzack” system.
GUIDED TOURS
Sat, November 29, and Sun, November 30, 2025
at 11 am, 2 pm, and 4 pm each day
with Dr. Dorothea Roos (Bauhaus Dessau, Head of the Construction Department) and Inken Gaukel or Anja Krämer (Weissenhof Museum in the Le Corbusier House, Museum Director)
approx. 45 minutes, no registration required, free of charge
Meeting point: Weissenhof Workshop in the Mies van der Rohe House (Am Weissenhof 20, 70193 Stuttgart)
POP-UP PRESENTATION on materials at the Bauhaus Dessau
Saturday, November 29, and Sunday, November 30, 2025
11 am–5 pm each day
free admission
Location: Weissenhof Workshop in the Mies van der Rohe House (Am Weissenhof 20, 70193 Stuttgart)
an event in cooperation with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
13.11.2025
READING
Pali Meller: „Papierküsse“ (Paper Kisses)
Pali Meller: „Papierküsse“ (Paper Kisses)
13.11.2025
an event in cooperation with the Liszt-Institut, Ungarisches Kulturzentrum Stuttgart
and the Israelitische Religionsgemeinschaft Württembergs
as part of the Jüdische Kulturwochen Stuttgart 2025
+++++ The event will be held in German. +++++
Thursday, 13 November, 7 pm
Reading
Pali Meller: „Papierküsse. Briefe eines jüdischen Vaters aus der Haft 1942/43“
(„Paper Kisses: Letters from a Jewish Father in Prison, 1942/43“)
Introduction by Anja Krämer, Director of the Weissenhof Museum in the Le Corbusier House
Texts read by Tobias Keil
Pali Meller (1902–1943) was a Hungarian architect. As a construction manager, he was involved in the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart in 1927. Immediately after completing his studies, he began working in the office of Dutch architect Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud in Rotterdam. When Oud was commissioned to design five terraced houses for the famous Stuttgart Werkbund exhibition ‘Die Wohnung’ (The Apartment), he sent Meller to the site. These houses can still be seen today in the Weissenhofsiedlung.
In 1930, Pali Meller moved to Berlin and started a family with the dancer Petronella Colpa. She died in an accident in 1935, after which Meller raised his two children alone. Although he was of Jewish descent, he initially remained unmolested even after the National Socialists came to power. In 1942, he was denounced and sentenced to six years in prison.
From prison, he wrote 24 letters to his children Paul and Barbara. In 2012, they were published by Klett-Cotta under the title „Papierküsse“ („Paper Kisses“). With wordplay and great affection, Meller attempts to fulfil his role as a father from afar. He died of tuberculosis in prison in 1943.
In the reading, the humorous and heart-wrenching letters from prison are supplemented by several letters from the construction period of the Weissenhofsiedlung.
Admission free
We kindly request registration.
Location
Liszt-Institut, Ungarisches Kulturzentrum Stuttgart
Christophstraße 7
70178 Stuttgart