"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.
- Date
- 1973
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Not named on the sign; displayed at the lower station of the Standseilbahn (funicular), Dresden, GDR (Commons file description)
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Leader
- Willi Stoph
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- Labor, Media and information
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Leader
- Willi Stoph
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (photographer: Robert Schediwy), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 (Commons file page: self-published work of the photographer); covers the photograph only
Robert Schediwy, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Text on the object
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]
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'.
