Results of the X International Family Festival “We are Together - Wir gemeinsam!” 2020

18/01/2021 12:55

On Sunday, January 17, the results of the X International Family Festival “We are Together - Wir gemeinsam!” 2020 were announced.

This year, the festival was held with the information support of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly. Due to objective reasons associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and the current strict restrictive measures to counter the coronavirus it was held online for the first time.

The main idea of the “We are Together!” – to show a wide audience of talents in the field of music and song art, dance and original genres, artistic reading in the format of an open competition.

The initiators and permanent organizers of the X International Family Festival “We are Together - Wir gemeinsam!” are the youth organization of the Association of Russian Germans in Germany (Jugendorganisation des Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland e.V., Jugend-LmDR) and the society of Russian Germans Lyra Marzahn e. V. (Berlin).

International family festivals “We are together - Wir gemeinsam!” has turned into a unique action of the Russian Germans in Germany. At the same time, it became an extremely impressive event in the palette of the cultural life of the country and Berlin in particular.

According to an ingrained tradition, the last festival was held for everyone, regardless of the country of residence, age category, religious preferences, political and social views.

The leitmotif of all festivals is “We are together - Wir gemeinsam!” This is the semantic core of all the activities of its organizers and participants, aimed at better understanding of ordinary citizens through direct communication, at creating a reliable platform for cooperation between representatives of civil society and public organizations from different countries. Especially for children and youth.

Festival goals are the creation of a reliable international platform for joint communication of creative teams, individual performers, the establishment of cultural exchange among them, as well as popularization of young gifted talents at all levels.

It is encouraging that, despite the disappointing development of the pandemic situation, interest in the festival has not disappeared. On the contrary, it has increased; the number of participants in the creative competition had been increasing every day. Here are just some statistics on the festival:

  • 193 participants (soloists and creative teams, videos) from five countries (Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Germany) - the list of participants is by link;
  • the number of views on the festival website exceeded half a million, said Festival organizer, member of its Organizing Committee, Chairman of the Board of the Youth Organization of the Association of Russian Germans in Germany, Chairman of the Board of the Society of Russian Germans Lyra Marzahn e. V. (Berlin) Walter Gauks.

List of winners of the X Anniversary International Family Festival “We Are Together - Wir gemeinsam!” 2020 is on the festival website.

We sincerely congratulate all the participants of the X Anniversary International Family Festival “We are Together - Wir gemeinsam!”, its winners and international jury members!