26 – 30 Jan 2026
In cooperation with CocoonDance (Bonn)
In the 17th and 18th centuries, French fencing masters experimented with a new weapon, the foil (Florett), and demonstrated that it was possible to duel without killing – fencing also became a ‘game’, nearly a dancelike activity. In addition to aristocrats, commoners and even a few women gradually began to take up fencing. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s youth, as he reports in Dichtung und Wahrheit, fencing was part of the ideal education, alongside dancing, drawing, and learning languages.
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