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Arts.21 | Summer Outing (1)

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Channel: DW News · 2008 · People & Blogs

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Every summer the creative crowd escapes the heat and dust of Germany's big cities and finds interesting and inspiring venues in the beautiful countryside.

Summer Outing is our series that takes you to the many fascinating events, festivals and projects that can be found off the beaten track.

 

Episode 1: The Atlantis of the Baltic

Every year at a festival in the northeastern German town of Zinnowitz, the lost city Vineta rises once again from the waters. The legendary city is reputed to be located somewhere off the Baltic Sea Island of Usedom, and has featured in a number of literary works, including two novels by Günter Grass. It was a place of wealth and loose morals, and its citizens paid a high price for their dissolute way of life, it is said. In the first part of our Summer Outing series we send our reporter to watch the start of the Vineta festival, which was first launched in 1997.

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