Media championships
| General information | |
| place |
Obermehler-Schlotheim Airfield , Obermehler , Germany
|
| Website | www.medimemeisterschaften.com |
| Visitor numbers | |
|---|---|
| 2013 | 5,000 |
| 2014 | 8,000 |
| 2015 | 10,000 |
| 2018 | 22,000 |
| 2019 | 25,000 |
| Previous venues | |
| 2002 | Bochum , Germany |
| 2003-2013 | The venue for the media championships changed annually |
| 2014-2017 | Obermehler-Schlotheim Airfield , Obermehler , Germany |
| 2018 | Magdeburg-Cochstedt Airport , Hecklingen , Germany |
| 2019 | Obermehler-Schlotheim Airfield , Obermehler , Germany |
The media championships (called "Medis" for short) are a sports festival where German-speaking medical students from all over Europe meet. In addition to students from Germany , the participants also include participants from Austria , Hungary , Switzerland , Bulgaria , Latvia and France .
festival
Originally, the media championships were a football tournament between medical faculties at some universities in Germany. The first media championships took place in Bochum in 2002. With the steadily increasing number of visitors, the media championships changed from a football tournament with a party to a sports festival with 22,000 visitors. Nevertheless, football remained an essential part of the media championships. In addition to this soccer tournament, other sporting competitions such as volleyball , flunkyball , basketball or bubble soccer take place.
As at many other festivals, the media championships have several stages designed by the universities, as well as a main stage on which medical students perform as DJs and bands.
While around 10,000 students arrived in 2015, 22,000 came in 2018 and over 25,000 in 2019.
The unofficial motto of the media championships is: #nurLiebe. The venue is divided into different tent sites during the festival, with each university usually having its own area. Over the years, different teams and alliances between different cities have formed at the media championships. An example of this would be the “Dirty South” team, which consists of the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Tübingen and Ulm . These allied universities are then usually housed in neighboring campsites and sometimes implement joint projects, such as a stage.
The best-known song of the annual competition, "Medicopter Mainz17", which took 1st place in the German Spotify Viral Charts for a long time in 2017 , has now been covered by German pop singer Tobee (Helikopter 117) and has become his most famous hit. The winning song of 2019 “Napoleon Bonnerparty” from the University of Bonn or “I love the Medis” by einpaarbois also stayed in the German Spotify Viral Charts for a few weeks.
Most of the deposit is collected and donated to organizations such as UNICEF or Medinetz .
Mottos
The university-internal, annually changing mottos play an important role at the media championships. These are primarily used by the universities as a distinguishing feature on the festival site. The students align the entire organization with the respective motto. There are costumes that match the motto, motto-related songs are composed, stages are built and much more. The mottos consist, for example, of allusions to medical topics, of clichés about the respective city or region or mostly of topics that at first glance have nothing to do with the respective city.
Venues
The first media championships took place in Bochum in 2002. In the following years the tournament changed its venue every year. Medical students met between 2003 and 2013 in cities such as Kiel, Leipzig and Munich. From 2014 to 2017, the media championships were held at Obermehler Airport . In 2018 the festival took place for the first time at Magdeburg-Cochstedt Airport , and in 2019 there was again a change to Obermehler Airport.
winner
The media championships are still shaped today by their tournament character. The various universities compete in numerous competitions. The two most important categories are of course the title of "Medimeister", and thus the winner of the soccer cup, as well as the title of "Best Fan Video". These are the best of the songs composed by students from various universities.
| year | Best fan video | Football Cup Men, "Medimeister" |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Bonn, "Napoleon Bonnerparty" | Vienna |
| 2018 | Rostock, "Woodstock Peace & Love" | Marburg |
| 2017 | Göttingen, "From GÖht the Post" | Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| 2016 | Göttingen, "Swinging Heart" | Freiburg |
| 2015 | Rostock, "Butter with the fish" | Marburg |
| 2014 | Göttingen, "GÖrillaz" | Cologne |
Individual evidence
- ↑ History Medi championships. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Media Championships. Retrieved July 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Ruhr Uni Bochum: Medical students easily donate over 7500 euros
- ↑ Laura Backes: Medical Festival in Thuringia: Spring Break for young doctors. Spiegel-Online, August 9, 2015, accessed July 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Medi championships evacuated due to storms: 25,000 festival visitors had to leave the site. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Site plan Medimemeisterschaften 2019. Medimemeisterschaften GmbH, accessed on September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Students make it to number 1 on the charts with Sauf-Song. July 7, 2017, accessed September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Summer hits 2017 - Four syllables for the world. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ FOCUS Online: Make the hub-hub-hub: Mainz students land number 1 hit with Gaga song - video. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
- ^ "Ballermann" mood on the Lerchenberg. Mercury, accessed September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Questions & Answers - Media Championships. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Media Championships 2018 | Be like Tim - donate your pledge. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Laura Backes: Medical Festival in Thuringia: Spring Break for young doctors. Spiegel-Online, August 9, 2015, accessed July 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Ole-Jonathan Gömmel: Which of these seven songs will be the new “Medicopter Mainz17”? Bento, accessed July 4, 2018 .
- ↑ MediMemeisterschaften homepage. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
- ↑ History Medi championships. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Media Championships 2018 Rostock - Woodstock Peace & Love. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .