Dessau, known for Bauhaus and its lovely parks

summer term 2018

"Dessau is the city most closely associated with the Bauhaus. This is where the school of design founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 was active for the longest period of time, and where it experienced its heyday from 1925 to 1932. All three directors of the Bauhaus – Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer und Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – left their mark on the Bauhaus Dessau, and almost all of the Bauhaus buildings erected in Dessau are now regarded as icons of twentieth century architecture.” (from the Bauhaus Dessau website)
Following a guided tour of the Bauhaus school building and introduction to Bauhaus as a whole (in English), we will have lunch together and then take a walk around Dessau’s other attraction: its parks.
The Dessau-Wörlitz “Gartenreich” is an immense park space based on English models with a variety of palace and castle buildings spread across it. If the weather is good, we will walk around the area that is closest to Dessau - this is an ideal occasion to get you interested in exploring more of the parks another time.
Your participation fee of 11,00 € will cover the train fare, the guided Bauhaus tour and entry fee, and lunch.

Date: Saturday, 26 May 2018
Meeting Point: Halle (Saale) Hauptbahnhof at 8.30 am sharp
Return: arrival at Halle (Saale) Hauptbahnhof around 6.15 pm

You will receive an email with more details in the week of the excursion

IMPORTANT: According to DAAD guidelines the excursion can only take place if at least 20 foreigners participate personally on 26 May 2018. Please, only register if you really want to participate and transfer the fee immediately to the bank account mentioned in Contactus until 11 May 2018. Since it can take some time until we receive the money on our account, we kindly ask you to send us a payment document via e-mail. If you pay and do not show up on the day of the excursion, we will consider this as non-attendance. If you get ill or cannot take part for other reasons, you are obligated to inform us by e-mail. In that case, we will try to give your place to someone else in order to guarantee the taking place of the excursion and to meet the DAAD guidelines. If the excursion cannot take place due to a small number of registrations, we will inform you immediately.

ACCIDENT INSURANCE: Please note that this counts as a private trip. You are not insured via the university or the PhD Network during the trip.