4th Heringsdorf Bodypainting Festival 2016

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Preview: For the fourth time this year, the bodypainting family is starting a bodypainting weekend on the sunny island of Usedom. The seaside resort of Heringsdorf will be particularly colorful from August 19-21, 2016.

A wide variety of artists come from different countries to create their creations in public at the concert shell on the theme of“The Emperor’s New (Bathing) Clothes“.
It will be particularly interesting to see how the topic is implemented. The ideas go far beyond simple swimwear. In any case, the interpretation will range from the simple to the fantastic throughout the colorful event.
All painting techniques are permitted and encouraged. So we can expect body paintings with brushes, airbrushes and SFX special effects. The entire range of Senjo-Color products is therefore required.

On the subject: The imperial family at the bathing festival on Usedom

The fishing villages on Usedom’s Baltic coast rapidly developed into fashionable spas in the 19th century after the high nobility discovered them as official vacation resorts.

Since the office of emperor was vested in the King of Prussia, the retinue consisted of the hunchbacked relatives of the ancestors and forefathers … the ancient legacy of the European royal families.

While some held high positions, more or less successfully, the Unwanted Relatives continued to develop.

Many of them had to live in secret for hundreds of years. They traveled the world with a great spirit of discovery, with more or less magnificent ships.

Some names were so scary that they were not allowed to be spoken in the royal families.

And yet it was unavoidable that the “others” could not hide their presence at the annual bathing festival in the Kaiserbäder.

They came (and some still come today!) from the depths of the sea, from unknown islands and from fantastic worlds to the annual bathing meeting with their royal brothers and sisters.

Many an emperor also sought the sinister pack with them in secret. No less a figure than Neptune is said to have been involved.

This fantastic mixture of staid monarchy with an eerie, imaginative entourage made the bathing festivals so unique.

Let us celebrate this festival again this year and take their place for a day in the absence of the old, magnificent figures.

What a feast for the world of fantasy! In addition to the body paintings, there will of course also be Kids’ Face Painting and airbrush tattoos for the guests.

We also had a browse through the history of Usedom. With the help of http://www.kaiserbaeder-auf-usedom.de/geschichte/ and Google, we then filtered out the following interesting data:

Heringsdorf history

1070
This is the first report on a small, mysterious island off the island of Usedom. This island called Vineta has often been compared to the legendary Atlantis.
Vineta also disappeared without a trace and attracted numerous treasure hunters to the coast. Dukes and other adventurers have searched in vain for the ancient treasures of the rich city of Vineta alias Jumne.

1256
The village of Bansin was first mentioned in a document in 1256. At that time it bore the Wendish name Banzino. The towns of Ahlbeck and Heringsdorf were only founded a good 450 and 550 years later respectively.

1700
The village of “Ahlbeck adlig” is created by the construction of a watermill on the Beek.

1808
Ahlbeck becomes a seaside resort.

1820
Prussian King Frederick William III and his sons, including the future King Frederick William IV, are guests of von Bülow. During an excursion to the fishermen who are salting herring on the beach, the crown prince gives the small settlement below the Kulm the name Heringsdorf.

1825
Heringsdorf with its 113 inhabitants becomes the second seaside resort on Usedom after Swinemünde (1824)

Von Bülow builds the first lodging house on the Kulmberg, which is later called the “White Castle”. Later guests include Crown Princess Viktoria of Prussia with her sons and Kurt Tucholsky.

1850
The “Concert Garden Italy” with Swan Lake, winding paths and secluded corners is created. Here, men and women stroll, chat, play boccia, cricket or badminton. Heinrich Mann likes to read the newspaper here.

1872
The enterprising Delbrück brothers, Hugo and Adelbert, found the “Aktiengesellschaft Seebad Heringsdorf”. The town quickly rose to become an elegant seaside resort with illustrious guests from Berlin’s aristocracy and haute volee.

1876
The Berlin-Swinemünde railroad line commences operations. The journey from the capital across the Karnin swing bridge now only takes four hours.

1891
The Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge in Heringsdorf is christened by “imperial cabinet order”. First, the 500-meter-long pier is built, followed two years later by the land-side pier with its towering superstructures, colonnades, stores and restaurants. There is a viewing platform with a restaurant at the top of the pier. Steamships to Swinemünde/Stettin, Rügen and Bornholm depart from here.

1999
First bodypaintings on the beach
Enrico Lein and Peter Richter grabbed a compressed gas cylinder, a model and paints and looked for a spot on the beach in Heringsdorf, where the first swimwear painting took place in the sand.

2013
First Heringsdorf Bodypainting Festival
For the first time, body painting will be the focus of the Family Week by the Sea on the concert square in Heringsdorf. On Friday, the kids painted themselves on the theme of Neptune’s sunken worlds and were looking forward to the award ceremony.
On Saturday, the “Big Body Painting” took over the entire square and stage.

Heringsdorf Bodypainting Festival Audience

The audience waits enthusiastically for the award ceremony for the painted models. Here it’s still the little ones. Soon the grown-ups will also get their money’s worth and can admire and award prizes for the body painters’ work of the day.

Heringsdorf Bodypainting Festival models on the pier
The first painted models present themselves for the photo shoot on the beach in front of the Heringsdorf pier.
Map of heringsdorf on usedom
Directions to the 4th Heringsdorf Bodypainting Festival on Usedom Island in August 2016

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Seit 1992 in der Welt der Körperfarben unterwegs. Mit Theatermakeup.de versorgte ich die ersten Bodypainting Künstlerfreunde mit Farben seit 1998. Bis 2009 endlich die Marke Senjo Color daraus geboren wurde.

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