Acerca de Erlangen 21/05/08
Erlangen – a young city with a long history
Erlangen has many faces: Huguenot-city, medical valley and university, hotbed for high-tech and meeting point for lovers of culture.
First mentioned in 1002, its rise actually began in 1686, when Margrave Christian Ernst of Brandenburg-Bayreuth took in French Huguenots and built the baroque city “Christian Erlang” for them, which still exists - with its rectangular streets, the Huguenot church and the Margrave´s palace and its garden - one of the best preserved baroque planned cities in Germany.
With the foundation of the university in 1743 and the settling of the global player Siemens, Erlangen made the decisive step towards becoming a major city. Today more than 104.000 people of from over 130 nations live here. This is reflected in the open and light-hearted atmosphere of Erlangen.
www.erlangen.de
13th Erlangen International Comic Salon
May 22 – 25 2008
Every two years, for four days, the comics-world meets up in Erlangen. For the past 25 years, the Erlangen International Comic Salon has been part of writing the history of comics and has therefore also played a role in advancing the acceptance of the mass medium comics as an art form. An art form whose scope is very wide and whose powers of innovation seem to know no boundaries. With a trade fair, exhibitions, the Comic Film Fest, the Max and Moritz-Prize, lec-tures, panel discussions and an extensive supporting program, the Erlangen International Comic Salon, is the only festival in the German-speaking countries that has made it it’s business to re-flect the diversity of the medium – art and commerce, mainstream and avant-garde.
www.comic-salon.de
