Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The sequel Goethe sealed until after his death — rarely staged, and harder to love than the first.
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3 October 2026 · 19:30 Uhr
About Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil
Goethe sealed the second part away to be opened after he died, and it breaks every rule the first one kept. Helen of Troy, the invention of paper money, a coastline reclaimed from the sea, and a closing scene argued over since 1832. It is staged far less often than Faust I and is harder to love, which is precisely why a theatre in Goethe's own city takes it on — and this is the city that first attempted it, in an incomplete staging here in 1876.
Performances
- 3 October 2026, 19:30 UhrGroßes HausPremiereTickets →
- 10 October 2026, 19:30 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 25 October 2026, 16:00 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 14 November 2026, 19:30 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 20 November 2026, 19:30 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 11 December 2026, 19:30 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 16 January 2027, 19:30 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 6 February 2027, 19:30 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 28 March 2027, 18:00 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- 8 May 2027, 19:30 UhrGroßes HausTickets →
- Tickets
- 20,70 - 37,70 €
- Stage
- Großes Haus
Also on stage here
Where
Theaterplatz 2, 99423 Weimar
Organiser
Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar
Tickets
20,70 - 37,70 €
Facts checked against the organiser on 29 August 2026
Places and people
Historical figures
1749–1832 • writer • statesman • naturalist
His last great work, sealed for publication after his death in Weimar in 1832.
Historic sites
Theaterplatz 2, 99423 Weimar
Here it is on the season programme.
Historical periods
The period's closing statement, finished in its last years and sealed until Goethe was dead.
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.