The festival, which has served from the beginning to promote cultural exchanges extending across national frontiers, will focus on Budapest, the Hungarian capital, and Pécs, which is a 2010 European Capital of Culture.
The motto of this year's festival is Between Eras and Worlds.
Karlsruhe mayor Heinz Fenrich said Hungary had been invited as a guest to the festival because of its role in changing the history of Europe in the past decades.
"The people of Baden-Württemberg will get to know Hungary at this year's programme by offering an intensive look at the most various areas of Hungarian cultural life," said Dietrich Birk, of the German federal state's culture ministry.
More than 50 Hungarian productions, featuring about 1,000 Hungarian and German performers, will participate at the festival with the support of the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture, the cities of Budapest and Pécs, the Pécs2010 European Capital of Culture Management Office, the Hungarian consulate in Munich and the Hungarian Institute in Stuttgart.
Not for a long time has there been such a significant and concentrated cultural presence by Hungary in the south of German, said Stuttgart Hungarian Institute director Tibor Keresztury.
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