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Loud fire
General information
place Lingen (Ems) , Lower SaxonyLower SaxonyLower Saxony 
genre mixed (including rock, alternative, punk, reggae, hip-hop)
Website Lautfeuer-festival.de
Visitor numbers
20,000
Festival old logo

The Abifestival is a music festival that has been taking place in the southern Emsland near Lingen (Ems) since 1981 and has been held under the name Lautfeuer since 2019 . It is one of the largest music festivals in the region and is organized by other interested young adults in addition to the respective final years of the Lingener Gymnasium Georgianum , the Franziskusgymnasium and the vocational high schools.

Since the end of 2004 the high school graduates have been organizing the Abifestival since 1981 e. V. , who acts as the organizer. The date of the Abifestival depends on the Lower Saxony summer vacation. At the festival with a mixture of rock , alternative , punk , electro and hip-hop , newcomers and unknown artists and groups appear alongside established music groups.

Visitor numbers and marginal information

After the number of visitors had leveled off at 4,000 to 5,000 since 2002, it rose to around 10,000 at the 2009 Abifestival. Since then, the number of guests has remained more or less constant and is around 10,000 guests per day of the event and thus around 20,000 guests per year.

A bus shuttle service has been set up to the EmslandArena and the free parking spaces available there. The Abifestival opens on Friday from 12:00 p.m. and ends on Sunday at 12:00 p.m. Music is played on Friday from around 5:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. and Saturday from around 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. The campsite is directly connected to the festival area.

In addition to many visitors from the Weser-Ems area, there are also visitors from the Netherlands and North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

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The 1981 Festival Poster - front side

The first festival under the title “Abifestival” took place from May 27th to 31st, 1981 on the youth campground in Lünne. The organizers at the time were a small group of high school graduates from Lingen who wanted to celebrate their school days, which were soon to end. The Abifestival has changed a lot since 1981 and finally found its way from a festival organized for high school graduates to a music festival. The most recent musical highlights included the musicians Casper , Kraftklub , KIZ , Cro , AnnenMayKantereit , Incubus , Sportfreunde Stiller , Kilians , Dendemann , Bratze , Sugarplum Fairy and Virginia Jetzt!

At the end of the 80s, the meadow was found near the old Lingen nuclear power plant , the festival site that still exists today. In the years before, the Abifestival was held in various places around Lingen. In the nineties, the participation of the high school graduates of the Gymnasium Leoninum in the preparations for the festival ended. However, the principle “ free and outdoors ” has been retained since the beginning in 1981 . As a reliable legal basis for the 1997 Abifestival, the Abifestival e. V. founded; This was not dissolved as planned after the festival, but continued to organize the Abifestival as the organizer. Since, among other things, the aim was to become non-profit instead of commercializing the Abifestival and the Abifestival e. V. did not offer a sufficient basis for this, it was dissolved at the end of 2004. On December 27, 2004, two non-profit associations that have been active in the area of ​​the Abifestival were newly founded. The Abifestival since 1981 e. V. acts as the organizer, consisting of members of the Abiturentia and other young adults (and also alumni); in the Förderverein Abifestival e. V. support former high school graduates, friends and sponsors of the Abifestival and the Abifestival since 1981 e. V. ideally and materially.

In May 2018, the organizers of the festival announced on Facebook that the planned festival on June 15 and 16, 2018 would not take place and would take a one-year break. The reason they cited was the insufficient number of volunteers. The nine bands released to date included Die Höchste Eisenbahn , Fatoni , Zugezogen Masculin and Fjørt .

In 2019, the festival was held for the first time on August 9th and 10th under the name Lautfeuer.

Bands

The following bands performed at the Abifestival:

Media mention

On July 5th, 2001, VIVA Zwei published a 2'20 "long article about the Abifestival 2001. On July 6th, 2007 the magazine JETZT of the Süddeutsche Zeitung published an article about the Abifestival. On June 22nd, 2011 the youth magazine yaez .de published one Article about the Abifestival and this year's bands KIZ , Bakkushan .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Abifestival: Facebook post on the break in 2018. In: Facebook. May 7, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Abifestival 2018 in Lingen canceled . ( noz.de [accessed on May 8, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Julia Mausch: Abifestival 2018: There is a lack of helpers in Lingen - why is it? ( noz.de [accessed on May 7, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Lautfeuer Festival 2019. Festivals United, accessed December 20, 2019 .
  5. ^ VIVA Zwei contribution to the Abifestival 2001. Accessed on October 6, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Abi joke? Pah! As in Lingen high school graduates become festival makers , articles on Jetzt.sueddeutsche.de from July 6, 2007 /
  7. ↑ Abifestival: Abiparty with over 10,000 people Article on yaez.de from June 22, 2011