A source of inspiration
A wide range of lectures at the Children's University of Weimar in the summer semester of 2025
The Children's University of Weimar invites you to a varied lecture programme in the upcoming summer semester. From Wednesday, 19 March, interested children can register for the four lectures at www.kinderuni-weimar.de.
The wide range of topics includes climate change, human and animal voices, and book rescue. The lecturers for the summer semester come from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.
‘Of Cars and Polar Bears’ is the topic of the first children's university lecture on Wednesday, 23 April at 4:00 p.m. in Lecture Hall A of the Bauhaus University Weimar on Marienstraße. Dr. Steffen de Rudder (Bauhaus University Weimar) deals with the questions: Are polar bears dying out because cars produce so many exhaust fumes? How are they connected? How can we make rapid progress and still save nature?
At the second afternoon lecture on Wednesday, 7 May at 4:00 p.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus at Platz der Demokratie, Annika Bosch (University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar) will talk about animals in music. She asks herself and the children: In which compositions have animals been successfully imitated? How can we imitate animals with our own voices or instruments?
When asked why she is giving a lecture at the children's university, the singer answers: ‘Because interacting with children brings me an incredible amount of joy and they are my source of inspiration.’
The next lecture will be on Wednesday, 21 May at 4:00 p.m. in Lecture Hall A at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Alexandra Vorik (University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar) will talk about the evolution of voices, how our language came about and what language has to do with music.
The fourth and final lecture of the summer semester on Wednesday, 4 June at 4:00 p.m. is about ‘Saving books’: Dr. Laura Völkel (Duchess Anna Amalia Library) reports on the devastating fire at the Anna Amalia Library in September 2004 and how damaged books are saved.
Inquisitive children aged 8 and up are invited to attend the free afternoon lectures. Registration from 19 March at www.kinderuni-weimar.de is requested.
Children who register for all afternoon lectures will receive a student ID and a bachelor's certificate at the end of the semester if they have attended all four events.
Further information and registration:www.kinderuni-weimar.de
[17 March 2025]