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TABLE OF CONTENTS | STORIES 1–50 TABLE OF CONTENTS | STORIES 51–100 Famous Exports Passionate about Life 01 | The Weimar Bauhaus 27 | The eventful history of Erfurt University 51 | Germany’s oldest long-distance trail 77 | The Deutscher Bühnenverein honours Tankred Dorst 02 | N3 Engine Overhaul Services 28 | The Mühlhausen legal code 52 | Willy Brandt in Erfurt 78 | Justus Perthes’ Geographic Institute 03 | Daimler has Thuringia ‘under the hood’ 29 | Toys from Thuringia 53 | Arnoldi revives the insurance industry 79 | Doing research in the Anna Amalia Library 04 | The story of the Oktoberfest 30 | Sugar cones for little sweethearts 54 | Playing cards from Altenburg 80 | The Schmalkald Articles 05 | Books from Poessneck 31 | The rose town Bad Langensalza 55 | Thomas Müntzer and the Peasants’ War 81 | Alfred Brehm and his ‘Life of Animals’ 06 | Microphones from Gefell 56 | Bicycle innovations from Thuringia 82 | Zughafen Erfurt 07 | The Brooklyn Bridge 57 | ‘Bernd the Talking Bread’ 83 | ‘Tatort Weimar’ 08 | Weimaraners in a New York subway station Worthwhile Destinations 58 | The first ‘Purity Law’ for beer 84 | The painter Otto Dix 09 | Hans Beck develops PLAYMOBIL 59 | Thuringia’s top athletes 85 | Georg II and the Meininger Staatstheater 10 | Weimar: the birthplace of German democracy 32 | Tübke’s panorama of the Peasants’ War 60 | Top biathletes meet in Oberhof 11 | Thuringian curricula at schools abroad 33 | The Zeiss Planetarium 61 | Queen Victoria in Gotha 12 | The astronaut Ulf Merbold 34 | The Greiz Satiricum 62 | Thuringia, the land of festivals Ground-breaking Discoveries 13 | Bauerfeind – partner to top athletes 35 | The mythical Wartburg castle 63 | Rolf Anschütz’s Japanese restaurant 14 | A Thuringian invented Meissen porcelain 36 | Nature and history on Kyffhäuser ridge 64 | Wiegleb’s academy for pharmacists 86 | Otto Schott in Jena 15 | The toothbrush comes from Bad Tennstedt 37 | Thuringia and the Via Regia 65 | Friedrich Fröbel’s kindergarten 87 | Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe 38 | The Ekhof Theatre 66 | Bertuch’s Journal of Luxury and Fashion 88 | Yazio: a diet app from Erfurt 39 | The Erfurt Krämerbrücke 89 | Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland Living Traditions 40 | Weimar and the Buchenwald memorial 90 | Döbereiner and his catalytic lighter 41 | The Erfurt treasure Cultural Highlights 91 | The real inventor of instant soup 16 | Christmas tree ornaments from Lauscha 42 | ‘Rococo en miniature’ in Rudolstadt 92 | Friedrich Mosengeil’s stenography 17 | A Christmas classic and its history 43 | The Fairy Caves in Saalfeld 67 | Goethe and Schiller 93 | Ritter discovers UV light 18 | The Thuringian bratwurst 44 | Erfurt’s Cathedral Hill 68 | Pianos by Bechstein 94 | Thermometers in mass-production 19 | High proof from the Free State 45 | Modernity on the Leuchtenburg 69 | Bach and Liszt 95 | Technology from Jena on Mars 20 | Volkenroda and the Christ Pavilion 46 | Hainich National Park: a UNESCO World Heritage Site 70 | Gottlob Frege modernises logic 96 | The future of the battery 21 | The aristocratic yearbook ‘Almanach de Gotha’ 47 | Thuringian palaces and castles 71 | Doing the numbers with Adam Ries 97 | A robot from Ilmenau 22 | The long carnival tradition in Thuringia 48 | Steinrinne archaeological site at Bilzingsleben 72 | Filmland Thuringia 98 | Hermann Eicke invented the coffee machine 23 | Nanoscopy in Jena 49 | Bad Frankenhausen has a leaning landmark 73 | Bechstein’s fairy tales 99 | The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis 24 | Gnomes from Gräfenroda 50 | The Lindenau Museum in Altenburg 74 | The Duden Dictionary from Schleiz 100 | The genome project reveals our DNA 25 | Walking sticks from Lindewerra 75 | Meyer’s Lexicon 26 | Cars ‘made in Eisenach’ 76 | Theodor Storm’s Thuringian years Famous Exports Weimar 01 | FAMOUS EXPORTS Jena 01 | Gera 01 | Probstzella 01 | An idea conquers the world 01 | The Weimar Bauhaus Walter Gropius wanted no less than to redefine the way we One such answer is provided by three spec- coexist when he founded the Bauhaus Art and Architectural tacular apartment buildings from the 1920s: School in Weimar on the 6th of April 1919. And despite the the ‘Haus am Horn’ in Weimar and the ‘Zuck- strong opposition from conservative and reactionary circles, erkandl’ and ‘Auerbach’ buildings in Jena. the Thuringian ideas about design, art and education With their clear expression of form, all three prevailed in many parts of the world. are jewels of modernism that serve as mod- 1. 2. els for new structures to this day. Numerous Today Bauhaus stands for much more than just an art school examples of the innovative power of modern- that existed for only 14 years at the beginning of the 20th ism in Thuringia can be found in Gera, the century. The ideas, designs and architecture live on in our city with the largest number of building mon- day. Whether in Rio de Janeiro, Chicago or Tel Aviv – the Bau- uments from the Bauhaus era. Many of these haus has left a trace everywhere. But to really understand originate from the work of architect Thilo what makes the Bauhaus so fascinating and timeless, you Schoder, one of the most significant propo- have to travel to Thuringia. nents of modernism. The history of this art school began in Weimar. A functional You can even stay overnight in the Bauhaus building designed by Henry van de Velde, now the Bauhaus in Thuringia. After extensive renovation, the University, magically attracts students from all over the world. hotel ‘Haus des Volkes’ opened its doors in At that time, too, numerous national and international artists 3. 4. Probstzella in 2005. Although from outside and architects came to Weimar as teachers – called Meisters – only the lettering is typical Bauhaus, inside including Wassily Kandinsky, Oskar Schlemmer and Lyonel the signature of the Bauhaus style is obvious. Feininger. Together with their students – almost half of whom From the furniture to the colour schemes of were women – they experimented, celebrated and provoked. the walls: in the ‘Haus des Volkes’ guests can Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius: his ideas have changed And they achieved great things. immerse themselves for a few hours in the the world and are still relevant today. illusion of living back in the 1920s. Meanwhile, their works have found a new home at the Bau- haus Museum Weimar, which opened in 2019. The impressive cube is not merely a place of remembrance, hosting the oldest 1. Studio in Bauhaus University Weimar collection of Bauhaus exhibits worldwide, from the Wagenfeld 2. Design classic: the Wagenfeld lamp lamp to Peter Keler‘s cradle. It‘s also the place where 3. Re-issue of Peter Keler’s legendary cradle 4. Bauhaus Museum Weimar (digital concept) contemporary answers on Gropius‘ programmatic question, 5. 6. 5. Interior view of the Auerbach building in Jena „How do we want to live?” are sought. 6. Poster with the legendary Bauhaus logo Kölleda 03 | FAMOUS EXPORTS Arnstadt 02 | 03 | Making the safest mode of transport even safer Performance in motion 02 | N3 Engine Overhaul Services 03 | Daimler has Thuringia ‘under the hood’ Daimler Stuttgart produces more than three million vehicles company doubles the amount generated. In 2018 alone, Head of Component Repair, responsible every year, and many of them are powered by an engine more than 200,000 Euro were raised and donated for the for more than 170 employees: André Theiß (l), from Kölleda. MDC Power GmbH is based in the Thuringian benefi t of children and youth in the region. Which organi- born in Idar-Oberstein, at home in Erfurt town. Since 2003, this subsidiary of Daimler has produced sations or institutions receive money, and how much, is more than seven million petrol and diesel engines, used in decided by an employee jury. many Mercedes-Benz models. Another subsidiary of the Daimler Corporation has its base Thanks to Kölledaer Motorenwerke, not only are the vehicles in Thuringia – MDC Technology GmbH in Arnstadt. Around making headway, but so is the region: The more than 1,400 80 employees refi ne engine parts with a special coating that employees regularly give up one day of their salary, and the reduces wear and fuel consumption. MDC Power produces engines for Mercedes-Benz. Rolls-Royce Trent engine on its way through the N3 testing facilities Do you know what the greatest risk of fl ying is? It’s the trip level of responsibility, when you think about the fact that to the airport. Because the aeroplane itself is the absolute an engine has to operate reliably for about twelve million safest means of transport. And Thuringia contributes to kilometres until its next service. And a very complex task, this too. To be precise, N3 Engine Overhaul Services, a joint as you can see from the fact that such an engine consists venture between Lufthansa Technik AG and Rolls-Royce plc, of over 15,000 individual parts. Accordingly, the 735 which is based in Arnstadt. The Rolls-Royce Trent engines technicians at N3, who have serviced more than 1,000 in the Lufthansa fl eet and those of around 50 other interna- engines, are highly qualifi ed and able to ensure a secure tional airlines are serviced here. A job that carries a high fl ying experience. Poessneck 05 | FAMOUS EXPORTS Gefell 06 | Hildburghausen 04 | Therese’s wedding Master proofi ng of Harry Potter 04 | The story of the Oktoberfest 05 | Books from Poessneck It wasn’t an easy life for this lady from Thuringia in Munich. Formerly, it was Russian textbooks and most of the books for East Germany. Today, best-sellers by the likes of Hape Kerkeling Her husband was a devout Catholic and tried repeatedly and Ken Follett are produced by this off set printing company – now one of the largest in Europe.