For over 800 years, during the first weekend of May, the city of Hamburg has been celebrating the birthday of its port. This is a great opportunity to see parades of sailing ships from all times and boats from around the world.

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The 18th edition of the International Festival of Animated Film (Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart), will be inaugurated in Stuttgart on May 3, while in Oberhausen, 30 kilometers north of Düsseldorf, there will be the 57th edition of the International Short Film Festival (Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen).

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One of the most important 2011 exhibitions in Germany will last until the end of May. In Frankfurt’s Schirn Kunsthalle, in Romerberg – on the banks of river Main, are on display 150 works by artists such as Dali, Duchamp, Picasso, Magritte, Mirò and many others.

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Three times a year, on Munich’s Mariahilfplatz, a great festival is held since 1300. The Auer Dult is a traditional market characterized by the presence of stalls of small objects, antiques, used clothing, crafts and local foods.

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The Dresden Music Festival is one of the major events on classical music in Germany. As always, the 2011 edition will include the participation of the main international orchestras. The thread that unites this year’s edition are the ‘Five Elements’ and the links between East and West.

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Since 1985, the Rock am Ring of Nürburg, a town in the region of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, is one of the most important rock music festivals in Europe. At the 2011 edition, more than eighty groups and soloists will perform on the stage set up inside the Nürburgring, the Formula 1 racetrack snaking around the Nürburg castle.

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Since 1994 in the town of Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt region, a great festival is held in memory of Martin Luther’s marriage to Katharina von Bora. Katharina was a nun who left the convent because of her love for Luther, after he published his ‘claims’ against Indulgences, giving rise to the Protestant Reformation (1517).

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The Munich Filmfest is one of the leading film events in Germany, as is that of Berlin. Every year, filmmakers, directors and famed actors gather in Munich to enjoy a festival featuring over 150 films for an audience of more than 65 000 spectators.

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