By Air

The nearest airports to Jena are Leipzig-Altenburg Airport and Erfurt Airport.However, international visitors normally arrive at Frankfurt, Berlin or Munich airports, from all of which there are convenient train connections to Jena.

By Train

The high-speed Intercity-Express trains from Berlin to Munich calls at the Jena Paradies station, just to the east of the city centre (like all other trains on the north-south Saal Railway); trains from Erfurt and further west arrive at Jena West station, just west of the city centre (like all other trains on the east-west Weimar–Gera line).

By Bus

The city is served by an extensive network of buses and trams run by the "Jenah" organization (a pun on Jena and Nahverkehr, German for public transport).Buses of the JES Verkehrsgesellschaft connect Jena with cities and villages in the region.

Theatre Jena, Cultural Arena, Optical Museum Jena, Phyletic museum, Schiller's Garden House, Romantikerhaus, celluloid Art short film festival

Theatre Jena

is a theater of the city of Jena.it was the first permanent theater building in Jena, donated by Commerce Kohler (owner of the Rose Brewery in Jena).Up to this time propelled groups played in the hall of the inn "Golden Angel".The Kohler was a small theater theater, traveling in groups, and the guest performances of the Weimar Court Theatre took place.It was a small amateur theater, which soon became known as the "art barn".With the end of the First World War there have been calls for a new theater.In collaboration with the then Mayor Theodore Fuchs founded in 1903, "Kunstverein Jena" commissioned Walter Gropius with the redesign of the theater.The rebuilding of 1921-22 was limited to lack of money on the facade.The finished building came on a rain-contradiction in the conservative faction of the City Council.Nevertheless survived the unloved building untouched the time of National Socialism.After re-conversion from 1948 remained on the Bauhaus facade receive nothing.From summer 2011 a new artistic director will determine the fate of the theater.In July 2010 the commission decided to set up finding a team led by the director Moritz Schoenecker, who will take over the artistic management.The theater is cooperating with the city of Jena in Jena in the awarding of the prize competition for young playwrights Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz Prize-for drama.

Cultural Arena

The cultural arena since 1992 a seven-week international open-air festival in Jena center focusing on theater, music and film.Conflicting priorities in each year make sure that the arena has its own special place at a conceptual style.So it is especially artists whose success can be less on commercial criteria, as judged by the quality of their art, help to the cultural arena to their special reputation.Today the festival is relatively small with about 70,000 visitors annually to East Germany's largest open-air events.Past headliners at the cultural arena have included: Friends of Italian Opera, Al Jarreau, Patti Smith, Gotz Alsmann, Ute Lemper, Lou Reed, John Cale, Nigel Kennedy, Marla Glen, Adam Green, Farin Urlaub, Bela B. , Einstürzende Neubauten, Element of Crime, Nils Landgren, the jazz trio EST, Nina Hagen, Noa, Hubert von Goisern, Milow, Marit Larsen, or we are heroes.The full program will be released in early May. The local radio station Radio Jena created in 2001 a ten-hour radio documentary entitled "10 years of cultural arena."

Optical Museum Jena

is a scientific-technical museum.The Optical Museum Jena shows optical instruments from eight centuries . It provides a technical and cultural overview of the development of optical devices. The development of the city center of Jena's optics industry since the mid- 19th Century is integrated into the exhibition together with the work of Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss and Otto Schott.The Jena Art Association has its headquarters since the first September 2006 in the building of the Optical Museum.Besides the production of microscopes Carl Zeiss took over the repair of optical equipment from other manufacturers.This he did, to pursue the development of competition. Currently the turn of the 19th to 20th Century began, the staff of Carl Zeiss and the gathering of optical instruments.In this context, the Optical Museum in "Zeiss-museum" has been renamed, but this was 1991 again reversed.In June 1992 took over the newly established Ernst-Abbe-Foundation, the sponsorship of the museum.The historic Zeiss workshop was in 2002 transferred from the People's House in the Optical Museum.The Optical Museum was open Tuesday through Friday 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday 11:00 to 17:00.Closed on Sundays, Mondays, public holidays and the 24th and 31.12.

Phyletic museum

is one of Phyletisches Ernst Haeckel founded the museum phylogeny in Jena.The foundation stone of the museum was on the 28th August 1907 at which the birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's anniversary set. Ernst Haeckel gave the building on 30th July 1908 the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena during their 350th anniversary.Phyletisches The museum was built using donated funds.The museum building is in Art Nouveau style built. It helps in the tympanum of Haeckel in Jena marked terms " phylogeny "and" ontogeny ". The building is now a cultural monument.The Phyletisches Museum is one year more than 300 schools and 20,000 visitors.Thanks to the support of numerous donors in 1995 were more than twenty exhibitions are presented.

Schiller's Garden House

is a preserved only two abodes Friedrich Schiller in Jena where he lived with his family in the summers of 1797 to 1799.(The other is the house in the Zwaetzengasse.) Here he wrote some of his most important works such as parts of Wallenstein and Mary Stuart and many ballads.1799 Schiller and his family moved to Weimar Jena was however the garden house in 1801 definitively. The house is now owned by the Friedrich-Schiller-University which maintains a museum here.The kitchen has been moved out of the house in the northwest corner of the garden as Schiller did not have a kitchen smells in the house.The related work provided however long and interfered with his work on noise-sensitive.On the ground floor a porch and a bedroom with maid's room next door were installed.The children Carl and his younger brother Ernst were out of this room look directly into the garden.On the first floor Charlotte Schiller taught one a small salon was received in the visit. Behind the salon was in her bedroom that she shared with her husband apparently not because this would stand up in the middle of the night when an idea came to him.The second floor Schiller directed a study with a library.The desk was aligned so that one looks into the green garden. The study found Schiller peace for his work because the children kept on the ground or in the garden and his wife in the most salon. In a small chamber behind the study was Schiller's bed.

Romantikerhaus

The Literature Museum Romantikerhaus located in the former home of the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte in Jena .The permanent exhibition on the Jena Jena romanticism shows the cultural and intellectual background to the emergence of a younger generation of poets, literary critics, philosophers and scientists. It is lighted, the conditions under which it succeeded in Jena 1785-1803 to progressive intellectual center of Germany to develop.The intellectual and cultural charisma Jena embodies an essential prerequisite work of early Romanticism. Based on the publishing activities in Jena, the significance of Carl Friedrich Ernst From Mans , his circle of friends and relations literature in 1800, the foundation of the "will Athenaeum "as the magazine of the early Romantic period shown. The company is a romantic trailing salon dedicated.An experimental physicist of the Cabinet Johann Wilhelm Ritter shows the scientific commitment of the early Romantics, and the complexity of romantic thought between natural science, social criticism and future visions. A portion of the second floor is used for temporary exhibitions that deal with specific topics from the field of romance. Both the exhibitions and events through the European impact of the romance story is shown.

celluloid Art short film festival

is one which takes place annually in April, Short Film Festival in Jena .The competition is short films, which do not exceed a length of 22 minutes. The genre is not important for inclusion, or otherwise. The films have, however, date back to the festival or the year before. The countries of origin is not crucial. From the submitted contributions, the organizer chooses a screening of the contestants. A professional jury selects the winning film from these contributions and the second and third place winners. During the competition the audience right from the audience in addition to price.

March - May
August - December

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