Street Circus Festival

I read in the paper and saw signs for Bremen’s “Street-Circus Festival,” La Strada. Like the Maritime Festival, I was culturally confused. What exactly is a street circus, and what makes it worthy of its own festival? On Friday after work, I went and found out!

In the grassy park across from the Stadt Bibliothek, there was a puppet theater (with Mr. Roger’s style puppets, rather than the VBS, Muppet or Marionette style puppets I am used to) where a man performed “Rumpelstiskin.” Besides being my first proper German puppet theater show, I could understand the whole thing! A landmark in German-learning.
After the puppet show, I went over to watch some acrobat/dancers at the stage on the other side of the park.