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The Heritage in Motion Award is an annual multimedia competition which honours the best multimedia achievements and products which bring Europe's cultural and natural heritage closer to the public in a creative and innovative way. On 20 September 2019 in Ljubljana, the »Radiophonic Spaces« travelling exhibition received the Heritage in Motion Award in the »Games & Interactive Experiences« category.

The Media Anthropology Centre of Excellence (KOMA) is closing its five-year funding period with an international conference from 9 to 11 October 2019. The common theme of the English-language lectures in the former Palais Dürckheim in Weimar is the complex entanglements in which human existence finds itself today. Anyone interested is welcome to join us!

During the 2019 summer semester, architecture students at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar designed a mobile pavilion for public spaces as part of a project sponsored by the European Union. It is dedicated to the three renowned composers Clara Schumann, Edvard Grieg and Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. The pavilion called »TRAVELLING MUSICIANS | REISENDE MUSIKER – Clara, Edvard and Mikalojus Konstantinas« is currently being set up and will be officially opened on 19 September 2019 at Weimar Central Station.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has performed very successfully in the Federal Government-Länder Programme for the promotion and funding of young scientists, such as the Joint Science Conference (GWK) announced on Thursday, 12 September: From December 2019 onwards, the university will be able to establish eight new junior professorships. This will allow highly specialised young scientists to be appointed to positions at Weimar in the coming years and enrich research, design and teaching activities at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, guaranteeing an optimal working environment.

Die Tagung »Die Zukunft auf dem Land. Imaginationen und Narrationen futuristischer Entwicklungen« erkundet am 27. und 28. September 2019 aktuelle wie auch historische Zukunftsentwürfe in ländlichen Räumen und von ländlichen Räumen.

Am Sonntag, 8. September 2019, findet an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar unter dem Titel »Modern(e): Umbrüche in Kunst und Architektur« der Tag des offenen Denkmals statt. Anlässlich des 100-jährigen Jubiläums des Bauhauses öffnen bundesweit historische Stätten ihre Türen und richten den Fokus auf revolutionäre Ideen sowie die Entstehung neuer Kunst- und Baustile. An der Weimarer Universität bieten Studierende kostenlose Führungen durch die Bauhausstätten an.

From 21 August to 7 September 2019, the Weimar Art Festival will be Thuringia's largest festival of contemporary art. Projects in cooperation with the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will also be included. With the project »DIE WOHNUNG EINHUNDERT«, Rochus Aust, the internationally renowned composer, sound and installation artist from Cologne, will present an interactive and performative media installation at the campus in Weimar. The Lectureship for Film and Media Studies, led by Dr. Simon Frisch, will also show a series of silent films popular in the Weimar cinemas of 1919 as part of the Silent Film Retrospective project, in cooperation with Lichthaus Kino, the University Library and the Weimar City Archive.

Am Donnerstag, den 22. August 2019, lädt die Bauhaus-Universität Weimar im Campus.Office von 19 bis 21 Uhr zu einem Informationsabend für Studieninteressierte und Eltern ein. Die Studienberatung sowie Studierende geben Tipps und Informationen zur Studienwahl und den Rahmenbedingungen eines Studiums.

Fünf Absolventinnen der Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung präsentieren ab Samstag, 17. August 2019, ihre Werke in der Ausstellung »Bauhaus 100. Focus Female« im Künstlerhaus Heinrichsruh. Zur Vernissage wird Dr. Horst Henrici, Kanzler der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar und direkter Nachfahre von Christoph Ludwig Henrici, dem Erbauer des im 18. Jahrhundert errichteten Herrenhauses, anwesend sein und die Gäste begrüßen.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will be represented at the renowned »Ars Electronica« Media Arts Festival in Linz from 5 – 9 September 2019. Under the motto »We are not alone!«, the university is presenting a wide range of media art works, including exhibitions, panels, and a showcase. Students, instructors, and alumni are involved and the »Bauhaus100« Centenary acts as an impressive example of how diverse the work and research is and how interdisciplinary the art, design, and technology is at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Die Universitätsbibliothek Weimar zeigt im Sommer die Wanderausstellung »Bauhausbücher« an der Universitätsbibliothek in Trier und übernimmt im Herbst selbst eine Ausstellung aus Weimars Partnerstadt an der Mosel. Die Ausstellungseröffnung der bereits seit April in Weimar zu erlebenden Ausstellung findet am 7. August um 18 Uhr in der Universitätsbibliothek Trier statt.

Media Studies students have designed three historical Bauhaus walks through Weimar which have been published in the form of three city maps. The suggested routes visually and narratively show Weimar as influenced by the Bauhaus style. The individual walks are based on three elaborately illustrated maps of Weimar.

»How does an aptitude test work?« and »What’s life like in Weimar?« – these and countless other questions preoccupying prospective students are now answered in a series of six hand-made, animated explanatory videos. The clips are available on the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar website, on the university’s Vimeo channel and soon also on various study portals.

Following the successful start of the tour in Basel and Berlin, the »Radiophonic Spaces« radio art exhibition will stop off in Weimar from 26 July to 19 September 2019. The opening ceremony - at 6pm on Friday 26 July 2019 - kicks off the three-day launch event involving performances, concerts, discussions and workshops at the University Library as well as in different locations around Weimar.

Kathy Schubert was conferred the Lyonel Art Award on Friday, 12 July 2019 during the »summaery2019«, the annual exhibition at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Awarded for the first time, the prize money of €2,000 was donated by Wiegand Manufactur Weimar. In future, the award will be presented once a year.

Nina Hopf, Christoph Hertel and Tommy Neuwirth have been awarded this year’s Media Art Awards. On Saturday, 13 July 2019, the students were honoured for their final theses for the Media Art and Design programme during an award ceremony at Gallery Eigenheim in Weimarhallenpark. Three film promotion prizes of the Bauhaus Film Institute and a special mention were also awarded.

The Lyonel Art Award will be awarded for the first time during this year’s summaery 2019 annual year-end exhibition. The purpose of the prize is to promote young artists and it is aimed at students graduating from the Fine Art department. The prize has been made possible by the Wiegand Manufactur Weimar. The winner of the prize will be awarded 2,000 euros as well as a solo exhibition at the NOVA art space in autumn 2019.

The zdf@bauhaus concert series is coming to the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in 2019! In the year in which »100 Years of Bauhaus« is being celebrated, the 3sat music programme zdf@bauhaus has decided to return to the art school’s birthplace – exactly where the Bauhaus was founded back in 1919.

Students have around 100 days to prepare their thesis. 100 years have passed since the Bauhaus was founded and the title of this year’s graduate exhibition for the product design course is »~100«. It picks up on the concept of one hundred and offers visitors to the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s annual exhibition between 11 and 14 July 2019 insights into Bachelor and Master projects completed in the past winter semester and current summer semester.

The concrete canoe regatta is just around the corner, and the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is once again taking part – time for a test run! True to the Bauhaus concept of »form follows function«, around 30 students designed and created two unique concrete boats that will be unveiled to the public and set afloat for the first time at the Schwanseebad Weimar pool this Wednesday from 1:30 pm