Puschkinhaus Halle

In the location's words:

The Pushkin House is a cultural center with a theater, theater school, cinema, live club and rooms for all kinds of other creative projects.

The history

The Pushkin House in Halle has a long history. It was built by the masonic lodge "Zu den fünf Türmen am Salzquell".

Under pressure from the National Socialists, the lodge dissolved itself. Until the end of the Second World War, the building was used for cultural purposes as the "Johann Sebastian Bach House". At the beginning of the 1950s, the house was transferred to the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) and given the name "House of the DSF A.S. Pushkin", popularly known as the Pushkin House. The name it bears today.

Most people in Halle probably know the building as the "Theater der Jungen Garde" or Thalia Theater. Following claims for restitution by the lodge after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the building has since been handed over to the Society of Friends of the Thalia Theater for a small symbolic purchase price and now belongs to the local authority again.

Today there is an arthouse cinema, Puschkino and the Druschbaklub in the building and theater performances at irregular intervals.

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