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SERIEN IKONEN BEWOHNEN • LIVING IN ICONS

guest rooms are furnished with modern designer pieces – from the Artemide Tolomeo
luminaires to the Thonet steel-tube cantilevers designed by Mart Stam. More individual
are only those rooms whose former residents could be exactly determined. Such as the
atelier of Franz Ehrlich (No. 307) which today is furnished with examples from his 602
programme. 16 rooms also have their own small balconies. But no matter which room
one decides on nowadays, all the guests share a few essentials: On each floor, there is
one bathroom with two separate showers, two WCs, a kitchenette as well as a narrow
exit next to it. As used to be customary, these rooms are jointly used. The same goes for
the self-service cafeteria on the ground floor of the Prellerhaus as well as the public
restaurant in the basement of the former workshop wing.

From Bauhaus to Our House

The only remaining question is how to pass the time: Parts of the mandatory programme
are the guided tours of the Bauhaus building as well as the ensemble of the “masters’
houses” right around the corner. Until the end of October, the very well worth visiting
exhibition of works by the Bauhaus architect Carl Fieger will also be shown in the work-
Vom Bauhaus sind es fünf Minuten bis zur Trinkhalle ... • It takes five minutes from the Bauhaus to the kiosk ... shop wing. In and around Dessau, numerous monuments of the modern age also beckon:
first and foremost, of course, the Dessau-Törten settlement planned by Walter Gropius
and right nearby also the Haus Fieger, the Steel House by Georg Muche and Richard
... und dem ebenfalls rekonstruierten Direktorenhaus. • ... and the also reconstructed director’s house.
Paulick, the Arcade Houses by Hannes Meyer as well as the Konsum Building by Gropius
are worth visiting. Also by Gropius is the former employment office in Dessau. In addition,
a visit to the Trinkhalle by Mies van der Rohe reconstructed by Bruno Fioretti Marquez
Architekten from Berlin is highly recommended. The small kiosk serves what might pro-
bably be the best coffee in town. Then one shouldn’t miss the Kornhaus by Carl Fieger.
The restaurant is located on the riverbank of the Elbe which borders the town in the
north. Besides the Bauhaus building, the slightly projecting, semi-circular glass porch on
the west side of the Kornhaus is easily the most frequently photographed motif of Dessau
modernity. With the new Bauhaus Museum by addenda architects, which will be opened
next year, a further attraction will no doubt be added. This should fill the day! But what
about the night in the Bauhaus? The restaurant in the workshop wing is rather sparsely
frequented in the evenings and closes early. Neither does Dessau itself offer any alterna-
tives for night owls. One is thus well-advised to stock up with a bottle of wine, put the
cantilever chair on the balcony and read a good book – such as the angry Tom Wolfe-clas-
sic “From Bauhaus to Our House” or the current first novel by Theresia Enzensberger
“Blueprint” about a young student of architecture at the Bauhaus and her painful experi-
ences in dealing with her macho male colleagues.

Die erhalten gebliebenen und sanierten Wohnhäuser der Bauhaus-Meister dienen heute als Ausstellungsbauten. • The renovated residences of the Bauhaus masters are now exhibition buildings.

Walter Gropius: Bauhaus Dessau, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018; Foto: Uwe Bresan

Fotos: Uwe Bresan

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