'Die Bühne im Bauhaus'(The Theater of the Bauhaus) is volume 4 in the series Bauhausbücher under editorship of Walter Gropius. The text is a loose collection of essays by Oskar Schlemmer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Farkas Molnár (who in an illustrated essay shares his vision of a total theatre space), with an introduction by Bauhaus leader Walter Gropius. While each essay develops specific ideas about theatre practice, it is the common themes of form and space that tie this volume together.
Emerging as the central focus of The Theater of the Bauhaus is the work of Oskar Schlemmer, whose concerns about form and space became the subject of a variety of Bauhaus experiments. Essays included are "Man and Art Figure" and "Theater (Buhne)", both by Schlemmer; "Theater, Circus, Variety" by Moholy-Nagy (which includes a 22² x 9² fold-out colour illustration representing a visual synthesis of form, motion, sound, light, and odour for a musical variety show); and "U-Theater" by Molnar. The Bauhaus aesthetic of stage design and presentation are elucidated here by Bauhaus masters themselves.