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Visitor service

HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts
Tue – Fri 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Tel: +49 351 88 93 884
ticket@hellerau.org

Box Office

The Box Offfice is open on event days from 4:00PM. Reservations and tickets that have not been picked up 30 minutes before the event start will be available for others to purchase.

Tours

Heinrich Tessenow’s Festival Theatre is seen as leading the way for modern architecture. Take a tour of the Jaques-Dalcroze Institute of Education for Rhythmic Gymnastics, founded in 1911, and discover fascinating details about the architecture and chequered history of Hellerau Festival Theatre, a place which has attracted artists and architects from all over Europe, including Le Corbusier, Kafka, Kokoschka, Nolde, Poelzig, Rachmaninoff and Mary Wigman. The Saxon Werkbund craftsmen’s association joins up with the European Arts Centre, Hellerau, to organise tours of the Festival Theatre:

• weekly tour every Friday, 10.30 a.m.
• first Sunday of the month, 1.30 p.m.
• third Sunday of the month, 11 a.m.

For additional tours for groups of 15 or more people, please book in advance:

+49 351 889 3884
sachsen@deutscher-werkbund.de
Deutscher Werkbund Sachsen
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 56
01109 Dresden-Hellerau
Germany
Price: €4 / concessions €3

Handbooks

Stage Plan as PDF Download (2.85 MB) – Stage plan and technical information for the house

Handbook as PDF Download (523 KB) – helpful information for your stay in Hellerau

Address

HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 56
01109 Dresden
Germany

By car from the A4 motorway

Take the A4 motorway to the Dresden-Hellerau exit, then the B170 (Radeburger Straße) towards Dresden-Hellerau / Dresden-Klotzsche. At the first traffic lights turn right into Ludwig-Kossuth-Straße, then drive straight ahead over the motorway bridge into Moritzburger Weg. Follow the tram lines (heading left) into Karl-Liebknecht-Straße. After 100m the entrance to HELLERAU-Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden is on your left.

Plentiful parking is available on the grounds.

By car from Dresden city centre

Take the B97 (Königsbrücker Straße) towards the airport. When you reach the Technologizentrum turn left into Moritzburger Weg, driving through the woods. Take the first street on the right into Klotzscher Weg, then follow the tram lines onto Karl-Liebknecht-Straße. After 500m the entrance to HELLERAU-Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden is on your right.

By Rail

From Dresden main station (Hauptbahnhof) take tram no. 8 (ending in Hellerau) to the Festspielhaus Hellerau tram stop. Walk to the right for about two minutes. From Dresden-Neustadt station: take tram no. 3, 6 or 11 to Albertplatz, then take tram no. 8 (ending in Hellerau) from the opposite stop, travelling to the Festspielhaus Hellerau tram stop. Walk to the right for about two minutes. Take bus no. 80 (ending in Klotzsche/AMD, leaves from Flügelweg, Elbepark, Trachau S-Bahn stop, Wilder Mann, etc.) to the Festspielhaus Hellerau tram stop. Walk to the right for about two minutes.

From the Dresden-Klotzsche airport

Take bus no. 97 (ending at Hellerau Markt) to the Am Hellerand bus stop. Change to tram no. 8 (ending at Hellerau) to the Festspielhaus Hellerau tram stop. Walk to the right for about two minutes.

Map

Permanent Exhibition

Hellerau – the idea of a synthesis of the arts
Exhibition by Deutscher Werkbund Sachsen e.V.

An extensive exhibition on the founding, history and current development of Hellerau, developed by the craftsmen’s association Deutscher Werkbund Sachsen in 2006 and since complemented by additional displays, has been put on permanent display in the western barracks wing at Hellerau Festival Theatre.

The wide panorama ranges from the 1906 idea of founding the first German Garden City with its workshops, housing development and Festival Theatre, all the way to modern developments; visitors learn not only about Dresden life, but also about German cultural history in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The subject is sorted into concise sections, clearly revealing the huge changes the Festival Theatre grounds and the German Workshops have undergone in terms of their use and ownership.

The exhibition is funded by the Wüstenrot Foundation, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, the City of Dresden, Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau GmbH, Grundbesitz Hellerau GmbH and STESAD GmbH.

The show is rounded off by a plaster model on a scale of 1:100 kindly provided on loan to visitors to Hellerau by the Hamburg University of Fine Arts with the support of the Heinrich Tessenow Society.

Location: western barracks wing (Kasernenflügel West) on the grounds of Hellerau Festival Theatre.
Opening times: Mon–Fri 9.30 a.m. – 4 p.m. / Sat, Sun: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Entrance is free.