9 unmissable events to check out in Germany this October

Berlin Festival of Lights, Sep 30th – Oct 16th

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This Oct we get not one though dual light festivals during Berlin’s 17-day jubilee of illumination: The Festival of Lights and “Berlin illuminated” (Berlin leuchtet). Berlin splendid already kicked off on Sep 30th, though a Festival of Lights starts on Oct 7th. Most importantly, they’re both free.

During this time, Berlin’s many famous landmarks will be illuminated adult with splendid artworks and animations by eminent light artists.

This year’s festival revolves around a summary “Light connects”, compelling informative toleration within a city.

Hamburg Film Festival, Sep 29th – Oct 8th

Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly during a festival opening. Photo: DPA.

Fancy going to a cinema and removing divided for a weekend? Why not mix a dual and locate a final few days of a Hamburg Film Festival.

The festival screens around 140 underline and documentary films, both inhabitant and international, in opposite venues around a gulf city, and attracts a engorgement of stars including Clint Eastwood, Jodie Foster and Ewan McGregor.

For information on a report and tickets, click here.

Frankfurt Book Fair, Oct 19th – 23rd

A prior Frankfurt Book Fair in 2012. Photo: DPA.

The world’s largest trade satisfactory for books takes place each Oct in Frankfurt. The Buchmesse dates behind to a 15th century when Johannes Gutenberg grown automatic mobile form in Frankfurt and sparked a Printing Revolution in Europe.

Notable prizes during a book satisfactory embody a endowment for a oddest book pretension of a year.

The initial 3 days are usually open to trade visitors, though on a weekend unchanging visitors can join a some-more than 270,000 people who revisit each year.

FOOD AND DRINK

Stuttgart’s Cannstatter Volksfest, Sep 23rd – Oct 9th

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This is Germany’s second largest folk festival behind a some-more universe famous Oktoberfest in Munich, and this year it indeed brought in twice as many people in a initial weekend as Munich’s fest did.

Another of Germany’s many splash celebrations, that started in 1818 as a collect invocation celebration, has turn one of a world’s largest fests.

The festival centers around a special emblem, a 26-metre high “fruit column”.

Each of a hulk marquees serves splash from a accumulation of informal brewers, and can lay adult to 5,000 guests, while children are acquire too and can make a many of a Ferris wheel.

Weimar Onion Festival (Zwiebelmarkt), Oct 7th – 9th

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For a city with a race of usually 65,000, it’s flattering considerable that around 350,000 people routinely revisit Weimar’s onion festival, that takes place annually on a second weekend of Oct (this year a 7th-9th).

What started as an rural marketplace “for beasts and onions” in 1653 has now turn a most bigger affair, celebrating internal culture, beer, and music, though a onions positively take core stage.

Many of a stalls are elaborately flashy with garlands of onions, and some of a cloying vegetables are even done into small dolls.

There’s shallot to do, and it will positively put a open in your step! 

Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival, Baden-Württemberg, Sep 2nd – Nov 6th

Don’t step on Elvis’ orange suede shoes. Photo: DPA

The world’s largest pumpkin festival is prepared to get we in a mood for Halloween, where some-more than 800 opposite kinds and over 450,000 pumpkins are on display.

Notable events embody a pumpkin regatta, European pumpkin championship and hulk pumpkin carving.

Munich’s Auer Dalt, Oct 15th – 23rd

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For those already penetrating to start Christmas shopping, Munich’s “Auer Dult” takes place this month.

This normal character marketplace that dates behind to a Middle Ages usually takes place 3 times a year in a city’s Mariahilf Square and offers handmade products to a visitors, and even a merry-go-round for a kids.

Berlin Oktoberfest, Sep 23rd – Oct 16th

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If we missed out on Munich’s Oktoberfest, afterwards because not conduct to a collateral city’s possess version.

There is still copiousness of time to splash breeze beer, enclose Lederhosen and eat pretzels and pig knuckles during Berlin’s possess sharp-witted splash festival, that runs until a center of October.

And there’s even another Oktoberfest in Berlin that goes on until Oct 22nd.

HALLOWEEN

Halloween in Frankenstein’s castle, nearby Darmstadt in Hesse, Oct 21st – Nov 6th

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Where improved to spend Halloween than in a palace that allegedly desirous Mary Shelley when essay her 1818 Gothic classical Frankenstein.

Over a entrance weekends, this vivid space unaware Darmstadt will play horde to a accumulation of monsters. Germany’s supposed “oldest Halloween extravaganza” promises to “make your nightmares come true”, for children and adults alike.

“Safety not guaranteed.”

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