The Thomas Mann Festival of the Arts in Nida

This year’s festival is organised by the Thomas Mann Cultural Centre and the Neringa Municipal Administration. Various art exhibitions, festival concerts, open discussions and literary evenings will be held at different venues in Nida: in the writer’s summer house, which is sure to delight tourists; at the local cultural centre and the Agila; and in the small Lutheran church.

As usual, the festival’s film screenings will be popular with visitors, featuring works by renowned directors in Lithuanian as well as various foreign languages. These screenings take place near the Nida lighthouse, on Mount Urbas.

The festival attracts admirers of intellectual prose who enjoy the great writer’s expansive, detailed and unhurried style of writing. Thomas Mann’s work reflects his premonition of the Old World’s collapse, which leads to the shattering of human lives and people’s perceptions of the world. These themes intertwine in the writer’s work with that of fateful love.

The festival’s main aim is to foster cultural dialogue with different countries and, in this way, promote cultural cooperation between generations and the exchange of cultural experience, while expanding and promoting Lithuanian culture and the arts.