Germany
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm is the place to check out for all kinds of cultural activities, such as concerts, exhibitons, readings, dance and theatre performances, etc.
Tanzlabor 21
www.mousonturm.de/neptun/neptun.php/oktopus/page/1/6
Just off the Fressgass, one of Frankfurt's most expensive shopping streets, is this alternative/politics/poetry club, with daily readings, meetings and - of course - good beer and the traditional Äppler apple wine.
Kleine Hochstrasse 5; www.club-voltaire.de
Usually these sites are just one building - where the luminary used to live - that serves all purposes. Here you will find the house where Goethe was born, a fairly well-to-do affair which is interestingly decorated, a picture gallery dedicated to the Age of Goethe and a museum of literature which holds frequent readings, lectures and concerts.
Grosser Hirschgraben 23-35;
www.goethehaus-frankfurt.de/welcome.html
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