27 Aug– 12 Sep
Festival
Kunstfest Weimar
27 August – 12 September 2027
Late August into early September
Central Germany's largest festival of contemporary arts, closing the city's summer at the turn from August into September.
TheatreOne-off
Trickster, Trickster
Open-air theatre about the pleasure of chaos, played in the garden of the bee museum.
A few evenings at the end of August
27–30Aug
The next edition has not been announced yet
About Trickster, Trickster
A short run of outdoor theatre at the end of August, staged in the garden of the German Bee Museum — about as far from the Theaterplatz, in every sense, as Weimar's summer gets.
The subject is the pleasure of chaos
The trickster is the disruptive figure of folklore — the one who overturns the order of a story for the sake of overturning it. A piece built on that, played outdoors by four actors with a director and a musical director, is a deliberately unruly thing to put on in a town whose entire cultural identity is order, proportion and the eighteenth century.
The bee museum is the point, not an accident
Weimar's summer programme is otherwise held on the four squares of the old town. This one sits in a museum garden on the edge of things, which changes the audience and the evening: you go out to it deliberately rather than walking past and stopping, and what you get is a garden, four performers and the dark coming on.
Dates
- 27–30 August 2026, 20:00 Uhr
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Official websiteFacts checked against the organiser on 29 August 2026