“The coalition agreement’s acknowledgement of the Bauhaus centenary year 2019 ‘as an event of national and international significance’ is a great success for the Bauhaus cooperation and a validation of our long-term efforts”, states Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Holler, General Director of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar museums and this year’s executive director of the Bauhaus Cooperation. “Together with our partners at the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundationwe can now intensify our work as regards content. It gives us great confidence that the coalition partners acknowledged the need to strengthen the museum and architectural infrastructure at all three locations”, continued Holler.
In 2012, six federal states (Baden-Wuerttemberg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia) came together to form the associationBauhaus 2019with a view to making the Bauhaus centenary a national event with an international impact. In July 2013 the association’s board of trustees met in Weimar and reached agreement on the structure, objectives and project ideas for the centenary year 2019. The activities for the anniversary will have the overarching theme “Die Welt neu Denken” (Rethinking the world) – an ambition of the historic Bauhaus that encompasses the further development of the Bauhaus’s ideas. The stated objective is that the subject of the Bauhaus is not laid to rest with the centenary year, but that the numerous events in fact generate momentum for the time thereafter. The main event will be a centenary exhibition, held at the three historic Bauhaus locations in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin.
The coalition agreement states that: “The Bauhaus centenary in 2019 will also be supported by the German federal government as an event of national and international significance. We will establish the necessary structural conditions at the three Bauhaus institutions Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Klassik Stiftung Weimar and Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. Together with the federal states united in the associationBauhaus 2019, the German federal government will contribute to the preparations for the Bauhaus centenary.” (‘Deutschlands Zukunft gestalten’ (Shaping Germany’s future), coalition agreement between the CDU, CSU and SPD, 18th legislative period, p.132)