Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Lutherstadt Wittenberg is a town in Germany in the Bundesland Saxony-Anhalt, on the river Elbe.

Wittenberg has a long tradition of cultural events. The City Theatre (Mitteldeutsches Landestheater) reached a great importance in GDR times. Since 1996, the City proposes open-air theatre shows based on the Lutheran history still alive in many historical places of the ancient town. As highlights, in 2001 and 2005, Fernando Scarpa became the artistic director of the "Bühne Wittenberg" (Stage Wittenberg), a project for theatre, art and culture in the whole of Germany which attracts to the City plenty of audience and whose success achieves European echo. The fictional characters, Hamlet and Dr Faustus are said to have studied here.