Once in two years, the International Puppet Theatre Festival is held in Nuremberg. This is the greatest Puppet Theatre festival in Germany. The events last for ten days with the participation of more than fifty theatre groups from all over the world. The main events are held in Tafelhalle.
IMPORTANT: Please note that the details of the event are subject to change.
We strongly recommended that you check with the organizers
before making any travel arrangements.
Amt für Kultur und Freizeit Nürnberg Abt. Tafelhalle und Festivals Äußere Sulzbacher Str. 60-62 90491 Nürnberg Phone: +49(0)911/231-5297, Fax 231-2310
Admission fee:
Various
background and overview:
As Europe's largest economy and second most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.
