Karl May Festival
Karl May Festival or Karl May Games are performances of dramatizations of the works of the German writer Karl May , which mostly take place in the open air.
The Karl May Festival took place before and during the Second World War , especially in Rathen in Saxony or in Werder (Havel) .
The most famous Karl May festivals include
- the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg in Schleswig-Holstein . Since 1952, performances have been held here every year in the open-air theater on the Kalkberg .
- the Karl May Festival in Elspe ( Elspe Festival ) in the Sauerland , which played Karl May in 1958 and has been committed to this tradition since 1964.
- the Karl May festival in Radebeul , Saxony , which takes place every year in May.
There have been or are further Karl May performances (currently more than ten stages in the entire German-speaking area), some based on Elsper or Bad Segeberger models
- Rathen (Karl May pieces on the Rathen rock stage , since 1938)
- Mörschied
- Engelberg
- Bischofswerda
- Castles
- Dasing ( South German Karl May Festival )
- Gföhl
- Kirchberg am Wagram
- Pluwig
- Ratingen (at the Blue Lake , 1949 to 1994)
- Weitensfeld (1995 to 2013)
- Winzendorf
- Twisted
The quality and range of the productions is very different. It ranges from the action spectacle to the chamber play .
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