Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Goethe's bargain with the devil, staged in the city where much of it was written.
In 4 days
6 September 2026 · 18:00 Uhr
About Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil
Goethe worked at Faust across sixty years; the first part appeared in 1808, when he had already spent three decades in Weimar. Seeing it here means seeing it in the city where much of it was written, played by the company whose stage he himself directed — though the building on the square is a later one, opened in 1908. The bargain, the poodle, Gretchen — and the question the whole thing turns on: whether striving alone is enough to redeem a man.
Performances
- 6 September 2026, 18:00 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 8 September 2026, 10:00 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 19 September 2026, 19:30 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 8 October 2026, 18:00 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 30 October 2026, 19:00 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 12 November 2026, 19:30 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 1 December 2026, 10:00 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 15 January 2027, 19:30 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 25 February 2027, 19:30 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 27 March 2027, 18:00 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 28 April 2027, 10:00 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 7 May 2027, 19:30 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- First performed
- 19.1.1829, Braunschweig
- Tickets
- 23,70 - 56,90 €
- Stage
- Großes Haus
Also on stage here
Where
Theaterplatz 2, 99423 Weimar
Organiser
Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar
Tickets
23,70 - 56,90 €
Facts checked against the organiser on 29 August 2026
Places and people
Historical figures
1749–1832 • writer • statesman • naturalist
Goethe's own play, in the city where he wrote much of it.
Historic sites
Theaterplatz 2, 99423 Weimar
The theatre of Goethe's city keeps his play on the season programme.
Historical periods
Goethe worked at it across the decades this period covers, and it is the work most readers picture when they think of it.
For roughly sixty years a duchy of a few thousand people held the centre of German literature, because its ruler kept inviting writers to live there and then gave them jobs. That is the whole mechanism, and it ran from Goethe's arrival in 1775 to his death in 1832.