Germany's Top Five

Slip into the festive spirit in Bavaria at a Christmas market with a difference. Munich's Tollwood Winter Festival offers an extensive cultural program, with cabaret, theater, readings, concerts and performances, all against a colorful backdrop of traditional market stalls and culinary delights from the world over.

Combine war, media and art in an exhibition of the same name at the Bietigheim-Bissingen gallery. With work by artists such as Gerhard Richter, Martin Kippenberger and Anselm Kiefer, the show doesn't only deal with the way mass-media such as newspapers, television and the Internet tackle war-time coverage, but also looks at memorials, medals, historical symbols and gestures and documentary and amateur photography.

Follow the hype and check out the premiere of Eldorado at Berlin's Schaubühne theater. The play by Marius von Mayenburg is both old and topical. It tells the tale of an unusual couple looking for fulfilment in a world which has its own yardsticks, and of their hopes and dreams which are threatened by the reality of modern life.

Sink your teeth into Roman Polanski's erotic and spooky musical parody, Dance of the Vampires. Based on his film of the same name, in which took on the lead role himself. Showing at Hamburg's Neue Flora Theater. The music has made its mark on the musical landscape, with a rock score by Jim Steinman which has sold 80 million copies over the past few years.

Rock through the night with Queen in the highly successful musical rendition of the British band’s story. After two years of sold-out performances in London and more than a million viewers world-wide, “We Will Rock You” takes the story of the British rock sensation on the road to the Musical Dome in Cologne, Germany. Written and directed by former Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor, the musical features 25 of the group’s greatest hits, some sung in German, others in their original.