http://europe-chronicle.com/germany-facts Travel Guide to Germany and Information Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:24:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Festivals : Germany In Germany, festivals are not the prerogative of the big cities. They are also staged in many charming small towns with their own distinctive atmosphere, such as Schwetzingen with its Rococo theater. There are more than 100 music festivals alone. Every three years in September Bonn stages its International ... http://europe-chronicle.com/germany-facts/383/festivals-germany/ Financial Support : Germany New creative films by young directors have also emerged as a result of financial and cultural support from the federal and state governments, which in recent years has averaged more than DM 150 million annually. In addition, the Young German Film Board of the federal states (which ... http://europe-chronicle.com/germany-facts/382/financial-support-germany/ Cinemas And Their Audience : Germany In 1995, attendance at Germany's approximately 3,500 cinemas topped 125 million. The number of cinema-goers is continuing to grow, due in no small part to the current German film boom. Numerous film festivals have played a key role in establishing the reputation of the German ... http://europe-chronicle.com/germany-facts/381/cinemas-and-their-audience-germany/ Current Trends : Germany In recent years, German filmmakers have increasing dared to try their hand at comedy and satire - and have been enthusiastically received by the public. Whereas Loriot relied on understated humor in "Odipussi" (1988) to bring out the comedy of everyday situations, the comic ... http://europe-chronicle.com/germany-facts/380/current-trends-germany/ Filmed Literature : Germany German directors have shown themselves to be particularly ambitious and often successful as well when it comes to filming major literary works. An outstanding example is Volker Schlondorff (born in 1939), who brought Robert Musil's "Young Torless" (1965) and Heinrich Boll's "The Lost Honour of Katharina ... http://europe-chronicle.com/germany-facts/379/filmed-literature-germany/ Cinema In The German Democratic Republic (Gdr) : Germany While a wide variety of cinematic productions were gradually emerging in the western part of divided Germany, cinema in the east was financed and controlled by the state. Deutsche Film-AG (DEFA), the state-controlled film company in the GDR, released 15 to 20 ... http://europe-chronicle.com/germany-facts/378/cinema-in-the-german-democratic-republic-gdr-germany/ The "Young German Cinema" : Germany In the 1960s and 1970s, the film industry in western Germany experienced a revival: Announcing that "Papa's cinema is dead," the "young German cinema" appeared on the scene in 1966. This new generation of German ... http://europe-chronicle.com/germany-facts/377/the-young-german-cinema-germany/ Cinema : Germany In the 1920s and early 1930s, the German cinema enjoyed world fame and acclaim. During these years Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch and Friedrich Wilhelm Mur-nau produced their great films, and Marlene Dietrich became an icon of the film world as a result of her role in "The Blue ... http://europe-chronicle.com/germany-facts/376/cinema-germany/ The Schedule : Germany . About 5,500 dramatic and music theater works were performed in the 1995/1996 season. There was a continuation of the trend toward breaking down the traditional boundaries between dramatic theater, dance and music. Classic forms of opera and dramatic theater have nevertheless dominated season schedules in recent ... http://europe-chronicle.com/germany-facts/375/the-schedule-germany/ Theater-Goers : Germany Year in, year out, approximately 35 million people of all ages attend a total of roughly 100,000 theater performances and concerts in Germany. These numbers attest to an undiminished interest in theater and music and are visible proof that theater is an indispensable element of an urbane quality ... http://europe-chronicle.com/germany-facts/374/theater-goers-germany/