The building ensemble of the Hellerau Festival Hall is completed.
The city administration announced that construction began on Monday on the east wing and thus on the last unused building.
Artist apartments, a rehearsal studio and a studio stage as well as a restaurant for the European Center for the Arts in the Festspielhaus are to be built here by 2023.
Dresden - More than ten million euros are flowing into the project.
The state of Saxony is adding five million euros.
Two million euros are to be used from the assets of former GDR parties and mass organizations.
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"The restoration of the entire Hellerau festival area in accordance with the requirements of historical monuments has made a significant contribution to strengthening Hellerau's application as a UNESCO World Heritage Site," explained Mayor Dirk Hilbert. In the words of Mayor of Culture Annekatrin Klepsch, the city also wants to remember the use of the buildings during the Nazi dictatorship as part of the renovation. For this purpose, a research contract has already been awarded to the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore.
The Festspielhaus was built in 1911 based on a design by Heinrich Tessenow.
The Swiss composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze founded an educational institution for rhythm and movement here and made the green suburb of Dresden famous.
Guests came from all over Europe, including Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan Zweig, Sergej Rachmaninow and Upton Sinclair.
The First World War ended the glory days.
At the end of the 1930s, the temple of the Muses was converted into a police school.
The Waffen-SS later used the buildings and grounds.
After 1945 the festival hall served the Soviet Army as a military hospital and later as a barracks and sports hall for paratroopers.
In 2006 it was reopened after extensive renovation.
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