The Lusatia Festival faces a particular challenge, according to director Daniel Kühnel: the culturally diverse region can hardly be reduced to a common denominator. "Lusatia is a very large and very heterogeneous region. It would be almost overconfident to believe that you could formulate one artistic idea in which all the people living there could find themselves reflected," he said before the start of the festival (August 24 to September 14).
This year's motto is "unsbewusst", according to Kühnel. "It's about the big 'we', about the world in which many people live. If we don't have the community of people, the individual can't make an impact." We should always be aware of this. The motto ties in with the idea of togetherness in structural change: "We are moving towards a new world together and shaping it."
