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Jugend- und Kulturzentrum mon ami

A youth and culture centre on the Goetheplatz — cabaret, concerts, theatre, comedy and circus in a house built as a winter club in 1858.

Goetheplatz 11, 99423 Weimar
The mon ami's façade from below: a pale classical front with fluted pilasters, red-brown capitals and a pediment; on the balcony rail a banner announces Die Fledermaus

The winter clubhouse of 1858–1860, with the next show on its balcony.

The winter clubhouse of 1858–1860, with the next show on its balcony.(Weimar Web)

About Jugend- und Kulturzentrum mon ami

The youth and culture centre on the Goetheplatz is a hard-working building that never turns up on a postcard. A hall and its café upstairs, a Kleinkunstraum and a dance room at street level, a rehearsal room under the roof and the municipal cinema in the cellar — and a programme as wide as that suggests: children's theatre at ten in the morning, a reading, a folk dance evening, a concert, an under-18 disco on Saturday night.

A winter clubhouse, 1858 to 1860

The building went up between 1858 and 1860 to plans by Ferdinand Streichhahn, commissioned as winter quarters by the town's bourgeois Erholungsgesellschaft. Something less genteel had stood on the plot before it: a fire-engine house, built against the old town wall after the square in front was laid out in 1800.

Ballroom, then Reichsstatthalterei

The society and an artists' club had the house until 1896. After that it worked as a restaurant, concert hall and ballroom — and from 1937 until 1945 it was taken over for offices of the Reichsstatthalterei and other administrations, which is the part of the chronology the house does not skip.

Given to the young in 1945

In 1945 the mayor of the day decided the building would belong to the young, and from 1949 it ran as a youth club house that also showed films. That double use never really stopped: it has operated as the Jugend- und Kulturzentrum mon ami since 1997/98, and the cinema in the cellar is still there.

The next seven days here

Monday 14 SeptemberToday

Nothing dated on this day — the standing offers run regardless.

Tuesday 15 September

Nothing dated on this day — the standing offers run regardless.

Wednesday 16 September

Nothing dated on this day — the standing offers run regardless.

Thursday 17 September

Nothing dated on this day — the standing offers run regardless.

Friday 18 September

Saturday 19 September

Sunday 20 September

On stage this season

Also at this venue

25 Jul– 8 Aug
Concert

Weimarer Meisterkurse

Next date to be announced

Two weeks from late July into early August, every summer

A fortnight of international master classes at the conservatory — and the public gets to sit in on the concerts.

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.

Stages

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Facts checked against the organiser on 29 August 2026