Museum night in the Kügelgenhaus
Readings & Music
18:00 to 24:00
"Where shadows dwell. E. T. A. Hoffmann, Carl Maria von Weber and the dark side of Romanticism"
Free tour of the special exhibition
19:00 & 21:00
"Mein gutester, herzliebster Muks!"
Reading from letters by Carl Maria von Weber
Weber's letters to his wife Caroline are among the most beautiful love letters of the time. Dresden singer and narrator Peter Lobert will introduce us to Weber's letters and the composer's charm.
With Peter Lobert, narrator
20:00 & 22:00
"Der Goldne Topf" by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Reading with musical accompaniment by pupils from the Saxon State Grammar School for Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden
With Lutz Reike, reading
- Tickets for the Museum Night are available online, at DB and DVB ticket machines and at some concert box offices: www.museumsnacht.dresden.de
"The golden pot"
Reading with musical accompaniment
E. T. A. Hoffmann's masterpiece, which immortalised the city of Dresden in literature, is read on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the genius' birth. Guitar sounds frame the fairytale storyline.
Experience one of E. T. A. Hoffmann's most famous works!
- With Lutz Reike (reading) and Elke Jahn (guitar)
- Admission: 15 € / reduced 13 €
- Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (MO - FR).
On the trail of fairy tales and shadow puppets
Holiday workshop
On a visit to the home of the Kügelgen family of painters, on the trail of imaginative fairy tales, you can design your own favourite fairy tale character and bring it to life in the shadow theatre!
- Age: 7 to 12 years
- Duration: 1.5 h
- Cost: €4.50 per child
- Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
Dancing ghosts
Holiday workshop
It gets spooky in the Kügelgenhaus! Follow us into the world of legends - listen to stories and melodies that storytellers and musicians created two hundred years ago to lead us into invisible fantasy realms. You can create a small, airy ghost that will even dance for you.
- Age: 7 to 12 years
- Duration: 1.5 h
- Cost: €5 per child
- Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
Dancing ghosts
Holiday workshop
It gets spooky in the Kügelgenhaus! Follow us into the world of legends - listen to stories and melodies that storytellers and musicians created two hundred years ago to lead us into invisible fantasy realms. You can create a small, airy ghost that will even dance for you.
- Age: 7 to 12 years
- Duration: 1.5 h
- Cost: €5 per child
- Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
On the trail of fairy tales and shadow puppets
Holiday workshop
On a visit to the home of the Kügelgen family of painters, on the trail of imaginative fairy tales, you can design your own favourite fairy tale character and bring it to life in the shadow theatre!
- Age: 7 to 12 years
- Duration: 1.5 h
- Cost: €4.50 per child
- Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
"The Fair Miller" (Franz Schubert)
Carl Maria von Weber Museum as guest - on the 200th anniversary of Carl Maria von Weber's death
The song cycle "Die schöne Müllerin" is one of the most famous song cycles of the Romantic period. The poems by Wilhelm Müller were dedicated to Carl Maria von Weber, who, however, did not set them to music. Instead, Franz Schubert created an unforgettable work of romantic song culture with love songs that seem timeless.
- With Taras Semenov (tenor) and Sofia Semenina (fortepiano)
- Admission: 15 € / reduced 13 €
- Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri).
Lord Findlater and the gardens of his time
In 1811, Lord Findlater died in his Loschwitz vineyard and left his secretary Fischer a gigantic fortune. In the subsequent inheritance dispute with the lord's Scottish relatives, Fischer was represented before the court in Edinburgh by the same Dresden lawyer Christian Gottlieb Eisenstuck who played a decisive role in the Kügelgen murder trial at the same time. Findlater's life and work will be presented.
- With Dr Martin Päckert and Frank Klyne (lecture)
- Admission: €10 / reduced €8
- Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri).
Klaus Günzel
Life and work of the Zittau librarian, writer and connoisseur of Romanticism
Klaus Günzel is one of the most renowned literary researchers in the GDR. He was a librarian at the Christian Weise Library in Zittau from 1957 and published numerous works, articles on classical German literature and above all on German Romanticism, which later became the focus of his work. From 1984 he lived as a freelance writer in the GDR and published several bibliographies, including on E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich von Kleist and Ludwig Tieck. Uwe Kahl presents the writer's life and work.
- With Uwe Kahl (lecture)
- Admission: €10 / reduced €8
- Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (MO - FR).
Open Monument Day
Free tour of the historic premises
Where the painter Gerhard von Kügelgen, his family, friends and artists once met, guests can now take a stroll through Dresden in the Romantic era.
The Kügelgenhaus is part of the ensemble of culturally and historically valuable town houses in Dresden's Baroque quarter that have been preserved from the time of Augustus the Strong. It was built between 1697 and 1699 as a three-storey building, later extended and given a turret. Below the roof cornice is the inscription "God's blessing is everything", which is why the house has been called "God's blessing" for short since around 1730.
The Kügelgenhaus was reconstructed during the redevelopment of the Neustädter Markt and Hauptstraße area. During the construction work, richly painted wooden ceilings from the end of the 17th century were found in the former Kügelgen flat underneath the stucco ceilings that were added later.
Opening: The Kaskels. Art, culture and commerce
Opening of the special exhibition
To mark the Year of Jewish Culture, the Kügelgenhaus - Museum of Dresden Romanticism is showing an exhibition about the von Kaskel family, who had a major influence on Dresden's artistic and cultural life, particularly in the 19th century.
- With Brita Wiederanders (fortepiano)
- In co-operation with the Sächsischer Musikverein e. V.
The von Kaskel family
The year of Jewish culture
The fascinating biographies of the Kaskel family members are presented from the 18th to the 20th century.
- With Dr Matthias Donath (lecture)
- Admission: €10 / reduced €8
- Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri).
- In co-operation with the Sächsischer Musikverein e. V.