Out of the Display Case: A bed by Carl Fieger

In 1927, the architect Carl Fieger designed two beds for himself and his wife Dora, which were made in the Bauhaus joinery and stood in the house he had planned in Dessau until Fieger’s death in 1960. One of the beds forms a central exhibit in the current Intermezzo: The Art of the Palliative Turn at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau. Once part of modern home furnishing, today it can also be seen as a place of care. After all, this bed became one such place of care for Carl Fieger from 1953 due to a serious illness.

With reference to this change in function and meaning, the evening will deal with the extent to which a confrontation with one’s own mortality should or can be realised, also together with others. Mathilde Scholz will present the card game she developed for conversations about growing old, which was created in 2024 as part of her master’s thesis at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Dessau).