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High-brow culture in Weimar:Daniel Barenboim conducts an orchestra workshop
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Shared Living with a cultural Flair
"Living in Weimar is like living with a lot of housemates."
Of course this expression doesn't mean that Weimar is uncomfortably small. But it does mean that everybody practically knows each other. Living in Weimar, you often get the feeling you're not in a city, but rather in a big comfortable living room. A living room, that is, with a big picture window and thousands of tourists trying to peer in.
Visiting the Past
Today's Weimar is characterised by the many people who visit the city with guided tours. They study the plaques that record the city's history or crowd around the museums and monuments, trying to soak up the spirit left behind by the city's great thinkers and writers. If you want to satisfy your cultural needs, you don't have to leave the city. There's no lack of exhibitions and concerts here, includingeverything from the classical to the contemporary.
Outside In Nature
However, if you're looking for nightlife with bars and dance clubs in Weimar, or a shopping district offering everything imaginable, you will mostly be looking in vain. Instead, Weimar offers green parks where you can take long walks or just relax. Especially in summer, social life takes place outside. Be it in the parks or the public squares downtown with their sidewalk cafés.
And if students find the city might be lacking something, they'll probably right that wrong by organising a remedy for themselves. Student-run organisations put on their own dance parties, and students at the music academy are quiet adept at taking care of their own musical entertainment needs.
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Lorenzo Radelli from Italy studies product design. He calls Weimar a "Party-Island" (German)
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