Fusion Festival
узион
 Fusion lettering |
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| General information | |
| place | Müritz Airpark , Lärz , Germany |
| Website | www.fusion-festival.de |
| Visitor numbers | |
|---|---|
| approx. 70,000 visitors | |
The Fusion Festival (pronunciation: [ 'fjuːʒən ], also written in Cyrillic : ФУЗИОН) is a German music festival with cultural accompaniment such as theater, art installations and performance art .
It has taken place every summer since 1997 on the former military airfield in Lärz near Lake Müritz ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ) and usually extends over four days (Thursday to Sunday) with around 70,000 visitors. The predecessor of the festival was called "U-Site-OA" and took place in 1996 with around 800 guests. The festival sponsor is the Kulturkosmos Müritzsee e. V.
concept
According to the organizers, the aim of the merger is “holiday communism”. Far away from society, a parallel society should emerge that should be free from constraints and controls. According to their own statements, the organizers attach great importance to mutual tolerance and an environmentally friendly and non-commercial orientation of the festival. There are no major sponsors and no advertising on the festival site. Only vegetarian and vegan dishes are offered on the festival site .
Because of this positioning and the avant-garde art, the fusion is sometimes referred to as the European “ Burning Man Festival”. Also installations from Burning Man've been seen on the merger, such as "Charon" by Peter Hudson .
music
The program covers almost the entire range of electronic music , such as minimal , techno , house , drum and bass , dubstep , breakbeat , dub , (progressive) trance and Goa . However, hip-hop , jazz , songwriting , rock , punk , metal , polka , ska and reggae as well as dancehall , and to a lesser extent klezmer and more specialized music styles such as Finnish tango and other live music are also on offer. There is also a diverse theater, cabaret, radio play and cinema program, as well as performances and live installations.
Event site
The Lärz airfield was abandoned by the Russian army in 1993 . The site was opened on April 30, 2003 by the association Kulturkosmos Müritzsee e. V. bought. There are twelve former aircraft hangars that are overgrown with lawns. As green hills, they give the site an unmistakable character and enable an extensive program even in bad weather. There is no structural separation between the camping area and the festival area. According to the association's board member Martin Eulenhaupt, the external fences had to be doubled due to "several thousand ticket lots" that climbed over the fences in 2013.
View from the hangar towards the tower stage, 2014
A stage at night, 2013
Trance floor, 2014
Walk-in installation, 2015
development
Visitor numbers
According to official information, the number of visitors in 2013 was 62,500 (excluding around 8,000 free tickets and Sunday tickets). Since 2010 the tickets have been limited and only sold in advance and since 2012 only sold by lottery.
| year | Visitors |
|---|---|
| 2004 | 15,000 |
| 2005 | 22,000 |
| 2006 | 30,000 |
| 2007 | 34,000 |
| 2008 | 45,000 |
| 2009 | 60,000 |
| 2010 | 53,000 |
| 2011 | 55,000 |
| 2012 | 55,000 |
| 2013 | 70,000 |
| 2014 | 70,000 |
| 2015 | 70,000 |
| 2016 | 70,000 |
| 2018 | 70,000 |
Controversy about the security concept 2019
Since 2013, a security concept has been required in order to obtain approval for the event. At the beginning of May 2019, the President of the Neubrandenburg Police Headquarters in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Nils Hoffmann-Ritterbusch , announced that the festival's security concept did not meet the new police requirements. Among other things, there is no adequate escape and rescue route plan. In addition, a police station must be set up on the site. He turned down a compromise offer from the festival organizers for a guard next to the site. The police's deployment concept for the festival, which had already been drawn up two months earlier, provided for clearing tanks , water cannons and up to 1000 officers with “ evidence preservation and arrest units ” as well as “technical measures to open and release”. The organizers launched an appeal that over 130,000 people signed within a few days. After Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Interior Minister Lorenz Caffier stepped in and the organizers presented a new security concept, the festival was approved. As in previous years, a guard should be stationed directly at the festival area; the officers should have unhindered access to the site as required.
Cancellation of the 2020 festival
On April 9, 2020, the organizers announced that the festival planned for the summer would be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . According to the organizers, the festival was already sold out with around 70,000 tickets.
Social Commitment
The Kulturkosmos Müritz association supports youth culture projects and school projects in cooperation with the neighboring communities.
He acquired 1.8 hectares of land on Gaarzer Strasse in Lärz. In December 2018, he gave away a 2500 square meter part of the property to the community so that they can build a daycare center on it, since the previous building would have to give way to a new building.
Web links
- Official website
- Jan Friday: Fusion is the program . In: The time . June 25, 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fusion Festival in Lärz - armadillo in the pageant . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on May 22, 2018]).
- ↑ fest300.com ( Memento from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Much like Burning Man, Fusion is a polarizer and not for everyone
- ↑ schoenhaesslich.de ( Memento from July 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), The whole thing is reminiscent of the Burning Man, which takes place annually in Nevada
- ↑ 10 alternatives to the "Burning Man Festival" . In: virtualnights.com , March 5, 2014, accessed September 28, 2014.
- ↑ Wüstengeflüster ( Memento from August 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), One of the most spectacular works of art by Burning Man 2011 will be shown at the Fusion Festival in 2012: Charon by Peter Hudson. May 29, 2012.
- ↑ Johanna Ickert: Der Kulturkosmos Müritz: Social Capital, Placemaking and Local Governance as Development Factors in Rural Peripheral Regions of Eastern Germany . VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009, ISBN 978-3-639-12354-8 , pp. 168 ( Online ( Memento from September 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )). The cultural cosmos of Müritz: Social capital, placemaking and local governance as development factors in rural-peripheral regions of Eastern Germany ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Elke Enders: No chance at the Fusion Festival without a ticket. In: Nordkurier . June 22, 2014, accessed July 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Vanessa Kopp: 70,000 guests at the Fusion Festival. In: Ostsee-Zeitung . June 29, 2014, accessed July 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Fusion 2016: 70,000 fans of electronic music in MV. Ostsee-Zeitung, July 4, 2016, accessed on July 30, 2016 .
- ↑ dpa / mv: "Fusion" - started: 70,000 guests expected. (No longer available online.) Ostsee-Zeitung , June 27, 2018, archived from the original ; accessed on July 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Frida Thurm: Trial of strength on the Müritz. In: The time . May 8, 2019, accessed May 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Christoph Twickel: Dispute over police officers at the Fusion Festival. It's better to celebrate without a water cannon. In: Spiegel Online . May 28, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Explanation and call for co-signing . In: kulturkosmos.de .
- ↑ mal / dpa: After a dispute over police officers - Fusion Festival can take place. In: Spiegel Online . May 29, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Fusion" festival will be canceled in 2020 due to the corona crisis. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
- ↑ - The “Fusion” festival is also canceled. Accessed April 9, 2020 (German).
- ↑ detail. In: Federal Cultural Foundation . Accessed December 31, 2018 .
- ^ Youth work by Kulturkosmos Müritzsee. Accessed December 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Susann Salzmann: New daycare center: Fusion-Verein gives Lärz a large piece of land. In: Nordkurier . December 21, 2018, accessed June 8, 2019 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ′ 28.1 ″ N , 12 ° 44 ′ 8.1 ″ E