The Lausitz Festival 2026 wants to encourage new beginnings - and is bringing acting stars Corinna Harfouch and Götz Schubert to the stage for a production of "Hamlet". The three-week arts festival (August 25 to September 13) was created to provide a cultural accompaniment to the changes brought about by the coal phase-out in the mining region of southern Brandenburg and Saxony.
It is about constantly recreating and reshaping the world, said festival director Daniel Kühnel at the presentation of the program in Berlin.
The seventh edition of the cultural festival at some unusual venues in Lusatia in Brandenburg and Saxony has the motto "creatively" - an artificial word made up of creature and creative. According to the festival organizers, this is intended to celebrate the human ability to always dare to make a new start, despite all setbacks and obstacles.
