Festspielhaus Hellerau

The Festspielhaus Hellerau was written in 1911 in the style of architecture in the reform belonging to Dresden Hellerau Garden City.

History

Mission and ideas for the Festspielhaus was the Swiss music educator Emile Jaques- Dalcroze, whose " educational institution for music and rhythm " was housed in this building. 1914 with the outbreak of World War Dalcroze but was forced to leave the German Empire. From 1939, a police school was housed in the Festspielhaus. After the Second World War, the Red Army used the building as a hospital, sports hall and a barracks.

In 1992 the house was first returned to the Federal Property Office. Due to the damage caused by the conversion of ruinous state of the house had to be renovated or restored. The construction work began thanks to funding by the Wüstenrot Foundation with the eastern gatehouse in 1994.

HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts

Twelve years after the start of the renovation, the building could be taken in the fall of 2006 returned to service and is now the seat of HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts. Since 2009, the Festspielhaus is year-round multi-discipline recorded with contemporary art. The world celebrated Forsythe Company and the Dance Theatre DEREVO are solid partner of the house.

Architecture

The building is distinguished by its central building, where a portico in front with four pillars. Those pillars, a steep triangular pediment, which is unadorned except for a small round window. Fritz Löffler said that its architect Heinrich Tessenowstraße "the principle of the Bauhaus [ taken ] in part by a decade anticipates" have. The house was a " model building in noble simplicity " and " entered the German art history."