The middle of June and a trip to Rügen can only mean one thing: it’s time for a new production of the Störtebeker Festspiele.
Having returned to the beginning of the story last year, we fast forward to the year 1393 and the siege of Stockholm. Margarete, Queen of Denmark and Norway, has occupied most of Sweden and is hoping to add a third crown to her collection. However Stockholm refusing to surrender, with the pirates provided a supply route back to Mecklenburg. Similar to the division of Berlin many hundred years later, the siege has torn families appart, in some case with members of the same family forced to fight each other.
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