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The 'Karl May Festival' (German: Karl-May-Spiele Bad Segeberg,') is a theatre festival in Bad Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Since 1952, Karl May's adventure novels about the Wild West have been put on stage as part of Karl May Festival in the Kalkberg Stadium at the scenic Segeberger Kalkberg.
The festival is not to be confused with Elspe Festival or Karl May Festtage in Radebeul.
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Segeberg is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Pinneberg, Steinburg and Rendsburg-Eckernförde, the city of Neumünster, the districts of Plön, Ostholstein and Stormarn, and the city state of Hamburg.
Stormarn is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Segeberg and Ostholstein, the city of Lübeck, the district of Lauenburg, and the city-state of Hamburg.
Bad Bramstedt is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 40 km north of Hamburg. It is famous for its statue of Roland and its rheumatism clinic.
Bad Segeberg is a German town of 16,000 inhabitants, located in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, capital of the district (Kreis) Segeberg. It is situated approximately 50 kilometers (31 mi) northeast of Hamburg, and 25 kilometers (16 mi) west of Lübeck.
Norderstedt is a city in Germany and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, the fourth largest city in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, belonging to the district Segeberg.
Gojko Mitić is a German-Serbian actor and director. He gained great popularity in the GDR as the leading actor in historical and fictional Indian personalities in numerous DEFA Indian films. His popularity may be recognizable from the fact that both in the GDR and later in the Federal Republic of Germany attempts were made to attach labels to him: "DEFA bosses" on the one hand, "Winnetou of the East" on the other. However, Gojko Mitić never portrayed the latter role in a film. This Winnetou formulation refers more to the popularity of Gojko Mitić compared to the actor of the role from the West, the Frenchman Pierre Brice.
Bad Bramstedt-Land is an Amt in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated around Bad Bramstedt, which is the seat of the Amt, but not part of it.
Itzstedt is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 32 km northeast of Hamburg, and 17 km southwest of Bad Segeberg.
A Thingspiel was a kind of multi-disciplinary outdoor theatre performance which enjoyed brief popularity in pre-war Nazi Germany during the 1930s. A Thingplatz or Thingstätte was a specially-constructed outdoor amphitheatre built for such performances. About 400 were planned, but only about 40 were built between 1933 and 1939.
Heidmühlen is a municipality in the district of Segeberg in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It contains the areas of Mühlenholz and Klint.
Wakendorf I is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The name "Wakendorf I" was given in Prussian times, in order to distinguish it from another municipality 20 km to the southwest, also called Wakendorf.
Bornhöved is an Amt in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The seat of the Amt is in Bornhöved.
The Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki is a museum in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. It was founded in 1995 following a decision by the Organization for Thessaloniki, Cultural Capital of Europe 1997. Today it is part of the Thessaloniki Film Festival with its own management committee. It is housed in Warehouse 1, a listed building on quay 1 in the harbour, at the end of the old sea front near Aristotelous Square.
The Kalkberg is a 91-metre-high rock in the center of Bad Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The name is a misnomer as it is not made of limestone, but from gypsum.
The Freilichtbühne Mülheim an der Ruhr is an open-air amphitheatre in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, built in 1936 as a Nazi Thingplatz. It is the most important open-air theatre in the Rhine-Ruhr region and with 2,000 seats, one of the largest in Germany.
Elspe Festival is a theatre festival in Elspe (Lennestadt), Germany.
The Freilichtbühne Loreley is an amphitheatre located on top of the Lorelei rock in St. Goarshausen, Germany. Designed by Hermann Senf, it was built between 1934 and 1939 as one of the Nazi Thingplätze and is one of the best known of these. It has been used continuously since World War II, initially mainly for theatrical performances and since 1976, mainly for rock concerts.
The Kalkberg Stadium is an open-air theatre built in a former quarry on the Segeberger Kalkberg, a rocky outcropping in the centre of Bad Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It was built as a Thingplatz under the Third Reich and since 1952 has been the site of the annual Bad Segeberg Karl May Festival.
Sophie Wepper is a German actress.
Native Americans in German popular culture have, since the 18th century, been a topic of fascination, with imaginary Native Americans influencing German ideas and attitudes towards environmentalism, literature, art, historical reenactment, and German theatrical and film depictions of Indigenous Americans. Hartmut Lutz coined the term, Indianthusiasm, for this phenomenon.