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Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg Draws More Than 400,000 Visitors

From Die Zeit · () German

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  • The Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg passed 400,000 visitors for the sixth consecutive season.
  • Melanie Heuser of Barsbüttel received €4,000 as the 400,000th visitor.
  • The season’s production, “In the Valley of Death,” continues through Sept. 6.

The Karl May plays in Bad Segeberg have passed the 400,000-visitor mark for the sixth consecutive season. Organizers welcomed Melanie Heuser from Barsbüttel as the milestone visitor on Thursday evening.

Heuser, 35, received a €4,000 cash prize. She had come to the performance with two friends and said she had visited the plays since childhood and still attended every year.

A computer system selected her winning ticket. Bad Segeberg Mayor Toni Köppen presented the prize, which gave Heuser a one-cent share of each of the 400,000 tickets sold up to that point.

The 73-year-old festival is staging “In the Valley of Death” this season. Alexander Klaws plays Winnetou and Bastian Semm plays Old Shatterhand, who confront the villain Roulin, a character who captures people and forces them to work in his mercury mine. The season runs until Sept. 6, with five performances remaining.

I have always come here since I was a child.

· Melanie HeuserShe spoke after being identified as the festival’s 400,000th visitor.
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