DRESDEN.- In its fifth year the festival deals in the sense of the 1969 published roman by the US-bestseller-author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) “Slaughterhouse Five” with the field of apparently free of structure – between historic and contemporary communicating states. The story of the novel “Slaughterhouse Five” plays for real on the present day area of the OSTRALE during the bombardment of Dresden in the night of the 13th to the 14th of February 1945. The story weaves fantasy and auto-biografic aspects and is telling without a traditional structure and punctuation. The international exhibition of contemporary arts is on view from July 1st through September 4th 2011. But the meaningful referring to the novel means a formale bound in the same time because only the arts are able to tell non-verbal. Every art is a form of telling because `reality´ is showing its essence by telling too. Already words are discribing states of th