Arts.21 - The Atlantis of the Baltic – Our Summer Outing Series Goes to the Vineta Festival - 05.07.2008

Every year at a festival in the northeastern German town of Zinnowitz, the lost city Vineta rises once again from the waters. The legendary city is reputed to be located somewhere off the Baltic Sea Island of Usedom, and has featured in a number of literary works, including two novels by Günter Grass. It was a place of wealth and loose morals, and its citizens paid a high price for their dissolute way of life, it is said. In the first part of our Summer Outing series we send our reporter to watch the start of the Vineta festival, which was first launched in 1997