The Melanchthonhaus Bretten and the European Melanchthon Academy are pleased to announce the schedule of events for the coming weeks. The events will take place in German unless otherwise noted.
Melanchthonhaus Bretten / Europäische Melanchthon-Akademie
Melanchthonstr. 1-3, 75015 Bretten
Tel. (07252) 9441-0, Mail: info@melanchthon.com
Thu 25 June – Sun 8 November 2026 (Melanchthonhaus Bretten)
- Exhibition: “We need to talk – Melanchthon and Faust in conversation”
The exhibition brings together two researchers, thinkers and ‘opponents’ in a dialogue on the fundamental questions of humanity. What is a human being? Where should we rein in our thirst for knowledge? And is there anything that unites us all? This collaborative exhibition with the Faust Museum in Knittlingen is funded by the ‘Innovationsfond Kunst’ of the State of Baden-Württemberg.
Friday 9 October 2026, 7.30 pm (Melanchthonhaus Bretten)
- Facade illumination: Light. Art. Sound. AI
Impressive projections of light, colour and AI-generated video worlds will illuminate the facade of the Melanchthonhaus.Project in collaboration with the digital workshop tecspaze and light artist Jürgen Scheible.
Monday, 19 October 2026, 7.30 pm (KINOSTAR Bretten)
- Film evening: “The Flower of the Night – Marguerite de la nuit” (Adaptation of the Faust motif, France 1955)
Event organised by the Association for Urban and Regional History in collaboration with the Melanchthonhaus Bretten and the Faust Museum in Knittlingen. Admission costs 6 Euros.
Saturday, 31 October 2026, 5.00 pm (Melanchthonhaus Bretten)
- Curator’s guided tour of the exhibition with Prof. Dr Christian Neddens: “We Need to Talk – Melanchthon and Faust in Conversation”
Free admission
Saturday, 31 October 2026, 6.30 pm (Stiftskirche, Bretten)
- Reformation Worship Service
Saturday, 14 November 2026, 10.00 am – 5.00 pm (Melanchthonhaus, Bretten)
- 500 years of the Augsburg Confession – what do we want to celebrate in 2030?
Study day organised by the EMA Bretten in collaboration with the Evangelical Michael Brotherhood
Monday, 16 November 2026, 7.30 pm (Melanchthonhaus, Bretten)
- ‘To This Very Day’ by Matthias Claudius, the poet who wrote the hymn ‘Der Mond ist aufgegangen’
This event is presented by Norber Eilt’s Wortkino Theater. Matthias Claudius was and remains the poet of heaven and earth, the stars, life, death, joy and sorrow: the grand spectacle – he had little time for trivialities.
Thursday, 3 December 2026, 7.00 pm (Melanchthonhaus Bretten)
- “But there is an angel who protects us”: Philipp Melanchthon’s praise of the angels.
Musical reading with Dr Stefan Rhein, former curator of the Melanchthonhaus Bretten. Free admission