The Role of Music and Theatre in Education at the Bauhaus School

Od samog početka svoga djelovanja u Weimaru, Bauhaus škola bila je mjesto interakcije različitih umjetničkih disciplina. Premda je naglasak oduvijek bio na dizajnu i arhitekturi, izvedbene su umjetnosti u školi bile prisutne od samih početaka njezinog djelovanja. Glazba i kazalište smatrani su izvrsnim primjernom totalnog oblikovanja kojemu je škola težila te su imale važnu ulogu u obrazovanju, ali i društvenom životu profesora i studenata. Glazbeni koncepti snažno su prožimali teorijski i pedagoški rad ključnih osobnosti Bauhausa poput Johannesa Ittena, Gertrud Grunow, Paula Kleea i Vasilija Kandinskog, Ludwiga HirschfeldaMacka i Kurta Schwerdtfegera. Na društvenom polju, koncerti starije i suvremene glazbe, zabave i festivali te nastupi Bauhaus benda doprinosili su jačanju unutarnjeg zajedništva, ali i premošćivanju jaza između škole i javnosti. Naposljetku, kazališna radionica Bauhausa bila je laboratorij mašte u kojemu se eksperimentiralo na svim područjima, od marionetskog i mehaničkog kazališta do minimalističkih studija pokreta, preko kinetičkih eksperimenata do utopijskih vizija kazališta budućnosti.From the very beginning of its activities in Weimar, the Bauhaus School was a place of interaction of various artistic disciplines. Although the emphasis has always been on design and architecture, the performing arts have been present in the school since the very beginning of its activities. Music and theatre were considered an excellent example of the total design to which the school aspired and played an important role in education, but also in the social life of professors and students. Musical concepts strongly permeated the theoretical and pedagogical work of key Bauhaus personalities such as Johannes Itten, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee and Vasily Kandinsky, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack and Kurt Schwerdtfeger. In the social field, concerts of older and contemporary music, parties and festivals and performances of bauhaus bands contributed to strengthening the internal communion, but also to bridging the gap between the school and the public. Finally, the Bauhaus Theatre Workshop was a laboratory of imagination in which experimentation was experimented in all areas, from puppet and mechanical theater, minimalist studies of movement and kinetic experiments to utopian visions of the theater of that future