Evening star., 1937-04-25
GERMANY TOSTAGE
FESTIVAL SUMMER
Music, Fairs and Exhibits
Dominate Entertainment
for Tourists.

BERLIN, April 24.-A galaxy of
brilliant events will entertain the
tourist in Germany this Summer.
"German Festival Summer" Is the
name given to the sum total OF music
and theater performances, open-air
and history plays, art expositions,
congresses and fairs and, last but not
least, Of international and other
events In every field of sports which
make up the Summers program.
The Olympia year of 1886 quite
naturally centered around that great
International sport fest" to Berlin.
This year the whole country is being
made into one great festival stage, on
which art and culture are the star
performers.
Along with the features Of straight
entertainment there will be shows
many with international participa-
ton and all of international import
ance-of technical achievements and
Germany is inviting those of her
foreign guests who want to see for
themselves. The exposition Nation
at Work" in Dusseldorf, from May
. to October 8, is typical and the
most outstanding event of this kind.
Background of Beauty.
For this wealth OF entertainment,
landscape and OF the countrys many
types Of people. costumes and customs,
form the ideal background. Relief
IN contrast is ever present, the new
with the old, the leisurely Gemutlich-
keit in the small ancient towns with
the rush and hustle of the twentieth
century that speeds up the life in the
great cosmopolitan cities and the
roaring industrial districts; castles to
the right and chimneys to the left, a
scenic panorama, from the snow-cov-
cred Alpine peaks Of the south to the
soothing seashore and island resorts
Of the north.
In the field of this Summers musi-
cal events the outstanding world at
traction will be the bi-annual Bay
reuth Wagner Festival, from July %
to August 81. There will be 81 per-
formances, inclusive, of "Parsifal" and
The Ring. Wagnerites failing to OBJ
tain places at Bayreuth will have sew
eral other opportunities to enjoy
Wagner music under distinguished
auspices. From July 20 to August
49, among the almost daily perform
ances in the Wagner Mozart Strauss
Festival in Munich. there will be IA
showings Of Wagner's music dramas
Also, during the entire months OF
July and August, Richard Wagner
concerts will be held in the famous
Tannheusersaal in Neuschwanstein
Castle, near Fuessen. And at the
Sylvan Opera Festival celebrated in
Zoppot in far north Danzig, "Parsi-
fal' and 'Iohengrin" will be given
Leaving the Wagner cycle, there is
a Mozart Festival in Heidelberg, from
May 20 to June 6: Haendel Festival
in Goettingen in late June In Stutt-
CART. during the whole of July, the
Verdi and operetta festivals will be
interspersed with Wagner and Mozart.
During the week of June IL, the
Mozart Festival at Wuerzburg, other
important musical works will be in
cluded a.
Castle Concerts in Many Cities.
series Of picturesque castle con-
certs and serenades are to be held
from June to September in Bamberg,
Berlin, Bruchsal, Dresden, Fuessen,
Heidelberg, Munich. Stuttgart and
Wuerzburg. A musical event of
especial interest to Americans-many
Of whom will take part-will be the
World Singers Meeting, or Saenger-
bund Festival, to be held in Breslau,
July % to August l.
Students OF the German drama will
be offered broad field to choose from.
At Dusseldorf, from May IS to 20,
Goethe festival plays; at Weimar,
throughout June and July, Schiller
plays, as we'll as Shakespeare, and at
Bochum, during the whole week of
July l, performances OF Shakespeare s
Roman Plays"
And here is an entirely different
kind of entertainment: Historic and
folk festival plays performed In their
native and original settings, little
changed throughout the centuries,
have long been feature attraction for
visitors. Rothenburg, one of Europe's
most perfect medieval cities, with its
Hans Sachs plays and THE Master