"VIVAT!" for the double anniversary

Tens of thousands of people beamed with the sun and celebrated Saxon wine in Radebeul,
international theatre, enjoyment and joie de vivre! At the 30th autumn and wine festival
with XXV. International Travelling Theatre Festival, around 50,000 visitors celebrated this year's double anniversary in Altkötzschenbroda
celebrated this year's double anniversary. The festival, which is known throughout Germany, presented itself in all its
splendour and offered a sensational programme not only for culture enthusiasts and wine lovers.

The opening of the festival weekend on Friday was already a spectacle! The grand parade across the
the village green - led by the carriage with the Saxon wine majesties and the wine god Bacchus
- was followed by all the theatre artists, who offered a foretaste of their shows. The Sidral Brass Band from
Spain fired up the parade with their rhythms, while the guests marvelled at the sight of the gigantic
the gigantic dinosaurs of "Close Act", who towered majestically above them, curiously involving the audience and
and playfully followed the sheep of the Canadian theatre group "corpus" and the baby elephant of
baby elephant from "PasParTouT".

During the festival weekend, 17 theatre groups and solo artists from a total of ten nations presented impressive
and humorous productions. The 70 performances at the travelling theatre festival were very well attended.
very well attended. Queues formed in front of the entrances and stages long before the performances began.
Hundreds of spectators gathered for the grand theatre spectacle "The Nine Commandments" by Teatro Due Mondi on the
Elbwiese and experienced a bizarre, elaborate and visually stunning performance.

This year, the audience prize of the travelling theatre festival was awarded for the first time in two years.
The hearts of the visitors were won over by a group of artists who made the festival weekend from the opening parade
from the opening parade to the Finale Grande with their captivating sounds and incomparable charisma
the Sidral Brass Band from Spain! With saxophones, trumpets, trombones, guitar, percussion, tuba and megaphone
and megaphone, the band mixes Balkan and Caribbean rhythms, adds jazzy sounds and refines everything
In their show "Red Wine Cabaret", they combine cabaret, surrealism, circus and action with a musical wine tasting experience that took the audience's senses away and tasted of pure life with every sip.

Almost 20 international bands filled the festival grounds with the musical life of jazz, swing, folk, pop,
rock or brass. At more than 50 concerts, handmade sounds lured people onto the dance floors and invited them to
and invited people to celebrate. Georg Traber's theatre carousel has become an integral part of the Radebeul Autumn and Wine Festival. Once again this year, the rides were particularly popular with young and old alike. The muscle-powered nostalgia carousel spun to the oriental-Celtic music of Adaya, blurring the hustle and bustle of the festival in the heart of the historic village green into a colourful veil. Visitors found relaxation and cosiness among the trees on the orchard meadow. Amidst the installation "La Mer" by Chilean artists Muriel Cornejo and César Olhagaray, they were able to surrender to the flowing movements of the magical water creatures and let their thoughts fly while listening to relaxing music on bales of straw.

The most magical moment of the festival weekend culminated on Sunday evening with the presentation of the audience award of the International Travelling Theatre Festival and the fiery "Finale Grande", when the legendary wooden sculpture labyrinth - created by Richard von Gigantikow and his international team of artists - impressively burst into flames on the banks of the Elbe.