Overview
- Wave-Gotik-Treffen ran from June 5 to 8 with events spread across venues including Clara-Zetkin-Park, Moritzbastei and the Südfriedhof cemetery
- About 50 elaborately decorated hearses formed a police-escorted procession through Leipzig’s city center on Saturday
- Music offerings ranged from Gothic Rock and Dark Wave to Post-Punk, EBM, Industrial, Medieval and classical performances
- The festival’s Heidnische Dorf provided hands-on demonstrations of pre-Christian European traditions
- An estimated 300,000 Leipzig City Festival visitors and Wave-Gotik-Treffen participants mingled peacefully throughout concurrent festivities