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title: '"Mit guten Taten überall voran zum X. Festival!": hand-painted sign, Dresden funicular station'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-festival-sign-standseilbahn-dresden-1973/
description: 'A white hand-painted board in red script stands behind a railing at a funicular station entrance, under the station''s own lettering: ''Mit guten Taten…'
section: Collection
---

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[!["Mit guten Taten überall voran zum X. Festival!": hand-painted sign, Dresden funicular station](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-festival-sign-standseilbahn-dresden-1973.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-festival-sign-standseilbahn-dresden-1973.jpg)

# "Mit guten Taten überall voran zum X. Festival!": hand-painted sign, Dresden funicular station

A white hand-painted board in red script stands behind a railing at a funicular station entrance, under the station's own lettering: 'Mit guten Taten überall voran zum X. Festival!'. The festival's multicoloured flower-and-globe emblem sits at its left edge. The slogan names no deed, task or sponsor; the virtue word 'good deeds' and the festival emblem carry the whole message. A visitor stands in front of the board.

## Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Standseilbahn

Mit guten Taten überall
voran zum
X. FESTIVAL!

[the festival emblem (flower-petal globe) at the left of the sign; two notice boards at left and right of the station entrance are not legible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Funicular railway

With good deeds everywhere
forward to the
10th FESTIVAL!

[the festival emblem (flower-petal globe) at the left of the sign; two notice boards at left and right of the station entrance are not legible]
```

Read from the committed 1280 px image. The station lettering 'Standseilbahn' is background; the Commons description spells the slogan 'vorna', the sign itself reads 'voran'.

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