Green sauce, sausages, hand cheese and, above all, music – there should be plenty of that in the city center again this summer.

The cultural organizers Maja Wolff and Thorsten Müller are planning the second "Green Sauce Festival" on the Roßmarkt.

For three weeks, from June 24 to July 16, there will be culinary and culture under a huge umbrella from noon until night.

Inga Janovic

Editor in the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and responsible editor of the business magazine Metropol.

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In addition to concerts, opera evenings and children's theater by the Papageno Theater have also been announced, as well as cabaret, a magic show, theater and poetry slams.

Artists like Jo van Nelsen, Gayle Tuffts and Johannes Scherer are on the program, as well as bands like the Rodgau Monotones, Gastone and Kick la Luna.

More than 200 artists, many from Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main area, will take to the stage over the three weeks.

Cultural enjoyment should be free for the public, made possible by grants from the city and state as well as sponsors and Frankfurt foundations.

Handkäse and sausage variants

Despite this support for the revival of art and culture, according to Wolff, it has not yet been possible to revive the traditional green sauce festival in the marquee.

In order to plan such an event, it only became clear far too late what would be possible this summer in view of the pandemic, and the risk is still too great that employees or artists - and thus entire event evenings - canceled due to corona infections.

The culinary discourse on the many ways in which green sauce is made is nevertheless resumed and even expanded to include the topics of hand cheese and Frankfurter sausages.

"Open tastings" are planned: on five days, plates with seven servings of green sauce - mixed by Frankfurt restaurateurs - will be offered for tasting and evaluation, and on each evening seven companies with hand cheese or sausage variants will compete for the audience favour.

If you want to try it out, you can order your portions in advance, each person pays 25 euros for food and drink.

The buyers of the so-called climate meters are welcome to pay more money.

These are industrial pallets painted by elementary school students with the flags of all countries and planted with herbs, which are first set up behind the stage on the Roßmarkt to form a shady "climate wall" and later passed on to interested parties.

A similar action took place last year.

The entire program and further information on the tastings and the climate wall can be found at www.gruene-sosse-festspiele.de.