Dear festival friends,

In 2020 the Norwegians will come to Usedom. Although their country is located in the northwest of the Scandinavian peninsula, geographically facing the North Sea, it has been part of the Baltic Sea region culturally since ancient times. In Bergen, the Hanseatic League maintained one of its four external accounts.

There, the merchants of Lübeck had their junior staff trained. Norway with its fjord landscape, but also its culture continues to fascinate the Germans to this day. The art of Edvard Grieg, Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Munch was enthusiastically received here early on.