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Thousands of people across Germany took to the streets against the Corona restrictions on Saturday.
There were also demonstrations despite previous bans.
Twelve police officers were injured in Dresden.
Media representatives were attacked in Stuttgart.
The German Association of Journalists denounced attacks.
"If the Corona frustration is discharged in violence against reporters as well as against police officers, that cannot be excused," said the DJV federal chairman Frank Überall on Saturday evening.
Despite the ban on the “lateral thinking” demonstration confirmed by the Saxon Higher Administrative Court, many critics of the corona measures in the city had gathered in Dresden.
According to the police operations record, more than 1000 people gathered at the congress center near the state parliament alone - many without a mask and a minimum distance.
According to the police operations record, twelve officers were injured.
In addition, 47 criminal offenses were recorded - including nine physical attacks on law enforcement officers, seven insults and two violations of the Arms Act and two violations of the Law on Assemblies.
In addition, law enforcement officers were resisted 17 times.
915 reprimands were issued and 943 reports were made for violating the Saxon Corona Protection Ordinance.
In Stuttgart, many hundreds of people demonstrated on Saturday in Stuttgart against a year of lockdown policy, school closings, isolation and bankruptcies.
After the demonstration broke up, media representatives were attacked.
A television team from Südwestrundfunk (SWR) was thrown from a demonstration participant with an object, as a police spokesman said in the evening.
Nobody was injured.
A spokesman for the SWR confirmed the incident.
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The police reported that other media representatives who had pitched their tents in front of the state parliament to report on the state elections were verbally attacked by the participants in the demonstration and described in chants as "lying press".
There was a "particularly heated mood", said the spokesman.
From circles around the rally there was talk of up to 1500 participants at the demo under the motto "Enough".
A police spokesman only wanted to confirm that the number of participants was "well over the originally registered 750 participants".
In numerous other cities, too, people took to the streets under the motto “One year of lockdown policy - it's enough”.
In Munich, the police broke up a demonstration because conditions were not met and the number of participants allowed had been exceeded.
According to the police, around 2000 people demonstrated against Corona restrictions in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament in Düsseldorf.
The police counted up to 1,000 demonstrators in Berlin, and there were hundreds each in Kiel, Hanover, Erfurt, Cottbus and Potsdam.
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Meanwhile, several federal states have announced consequences of the cuts in vaccine deliveries by the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company Astrazeneca.
Thuringia therefore stopped the appointment of vaccinations and postponed the planned start of vaccinations with general practitioners.
Saxony-Anhalt is putting the vaccinations of police officers on hold for the time being.
In Berlin, new vaccination dates are to be stretched, as a spokesman for the health administration said.
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Astrazeneca announced on Friday that instead of the last targeted 220 million cans, it would only deliver 100 million to EU countries by the middle of the year.
The group justified this, among other things, with export restrictions from other countries.
The announcement is “absolutely unacceptable” and massively destroys trust, said Bavaria's Minister of Health Klaus Holetschek (CSU politician) of “Bild am Sonntag”.
“It cannot be that export restrictions are at the expense of the people.
It's enough, ”said Holetschek.
Bavaria still wants to start vaccination by general practitioners on April 1st, especially in the border regions.