Internationaler Museumstag im Brecht-Weigel-Museum

In the organizer's words:

"We weren't what they wanted, but they didn't want to lose what they had with us either." - Helene Weigel

The proximity to the theater

Brecht wrote to his publisher Peter Suhrkamp shortly after moving into the rear building at Chausseestraße 125: "It is really advisable to live in houses and with furniture that are at least 120 years old, i.e. in an earlier capitalist environment, until you have a later socialist one."

Bertolt Brecht lived in his apartment on the second floor from October 1953 until his death on August 14, 1956. The proximity to the Berliner Ensemble, the Akademie der Künste and the historic cemeteries next door were his main reasons for moving into the apartment. It offered him enough space for his work - the indispensable large tables, discussions and his library.

During Brecht's lifetime, Helene Weigel occupied rooms on the second floor, which she made available to the Bertolt Brecht Archive, which she founded, after Brecht's death. She had a veranda built onto the garden and moved to the first floor in 1957, where she lived as an actress and director until her death in 1971.

With Brecht and Weigel, the Berliner Ensemble - viewed with suspicion by its own state - achieved world fame.

To mark International Museum Day, the museum is inviting visitors on free guided tours of the artist couple's original apartments.

To mark the day of action, free guided tours through the original preserved apartments of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel open up the theater work of the artist couple with the Berliner Ensemble.

Guided tours every half hour from 11 am to 6 pm

Price information:

Free admission, limited number of participants Timed tickets available on site