Spurensuche. HELLERAU und die 90er

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04.09. - 06.12.2025

To accompany the focus on "Transformation Forever", HELLERAU is also embarking on a search for traces of its own recent transformation history in fall 2025. Immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall in early 1990, the European Workshop of the Arts Hellerau association was founded and initiated a series of pioneering discussion series, art and debate events even before the withdrawal of the Red Army in 1992, which significantly shaped the discourse not only in Dresden. In doing so, the association also laid the foundations for the reclamation of the site, which had been closed for so long, for the arts and culture and the general public from 1992 onwards.

The 1990s were formative for the Festspielhaus Hellerau - on the one hand determined by the many challenges of structuring the large Festspielhaus site, carrying out renovations and finding financing. But from the very beginning, this phase was also characterized by a newfound free spirit of connecting the arts between Eastern and Western Europe and the then still unnamed Global South. In various formats, from a thematic exhibition to lectures and talks to specially commissioned short performances, individual protagonists of that time and today will be questioned and formative events of that time will be illuminated and discussed. The individual events invite you to remember, discover, but above all - to join in the discussion.