The Gewölbetheater Weimar is one of the smallest and most atmospheric venues in the city of the classics — an intimate cellar theatre in a historic vaulted space in the middle of Weimar's old town. In the tightest of spaces it offers cabaret, chanson, literary programmes, and chamber drama, seeing itself as a personal, immediate counterweight to the large German National Theatre just a few steps away. In a city that stands like hardly any other for German cultural history — with Goethe, Schiller, and the Bauhaus — the Gewölbetheater cultivates a lively, contemporary small-art tradition in which the audience comes into close contact with the performers. The historic brick vaults lend every performance a special, almost conspiratorial intimacy.
A few steps from the places where Goethe and Schiller worked, the theatre plays in a cellar vault — the audience sits literally beneath the cobblestones of the city of the classics.
At a glance
- Type
- Theatre
- Location
- Weimar, Germany
- Address
- Markt 21, 99423 Weimar
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