The Bauhaus was always hotly contested in Thuringia. The new Weimar Bauhaus Museum located directly opposite the former »Gauforum« has been integrated into the »Topographie der Moderne« (»Topography of Modernism«) project in an attempt to ensure that the Bauhaus is not reduced to a stylish »Made in Germany« brand and a mere museum for tourists catering to mass culture. The aim is instead to capture the diversity and ambivalence of the Bauhaus as well as its social situation, and thus to constantly ask and answer the fundamental question of »Where do we want to live?«.
Nine more lectures will be held in Weimar and Berlin up until June 2019 as part of the »Bauhaus Lectures« series. There will also be an excursion to Bernau. The lecture series has been organised by the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture and Planning at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Hermann Henselmann Foundation in cooperation with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.