Rhine culture

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Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '34.43 "  N , 7 ° 8' 42.49"  O

Rhine culture
General information
place Rheinaue in Bonn
genre Rock , alternative , punk , pop , hip-hop
Website www.rheinkultur.com
Visitor numbers
1983 approx. 4,000
2000 approx. 130,000
2007 approx. 200,000
2010 approx. 60,000
2011 approx. 160,000

Rheinkultur (also R (h) einkultur and Rheinkultur ) was a 1983-2011 year in the Bonner Rheinaue take-find-day open air - music festival with free admission. In November 2011 it was announced that the event would not continue.

festival

With an average of around 170,000 visitors in recent years, it was one of the largest events of its kind in Germany . The festival was launched in 1983 and was financed almost exclusively through the sale of drinks, sponsors and a grant from the city of Bonn.

In recent years, the stage layout of the festival has been as follows:

There were also sporting activities on the festival site, such as a skate contest or floorball .

RhEINKULTUR in record year 2007, when 200,000 visitors came to the music festival in Bonn's Rheinauen

In addition to already established artists, artists from the local area and newcomers performed at the Rheinkultur-Festival every year. A 1on1 freestyle battle was also held annually at the beginning of the event on the “Mixery Raw Deluxe Stage” .

The visitor record was reached in 2007 at the 25th anniversary with around 200,000 visitors.

The festival mostly took place on the first Saturday in July (parallel to the Roskilde Festival ).

environmental Protection

The organizers attached particular importance to environmental protection , especially since the festival took place in Bonn's Rheinaue, an otherwise public park with sensitive vegetation. Since the first Rheinkultur Festival in 1983, the environmental protection concept has been continuously developed.
In order to avoid rubbish , there was a ban on glass bottles and food and beverages brought along on the festival site; a concept to avoid waste was developed together with various partners. The visitors were made aware of the environmental problems through various activities on the festival site. In addition, the festival, together with the green electricity provider Naturwatt, offered festival visitors the opportunity to have the CO 2 released on their journey compensated for free by reforestation . This enabled the festival to be produced completely CO 2 -neutral in 2009 . Since 2005, the festival has carried the “Sounds for Nature” environmental protection seal of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . The European festival organization Yourope has also presented the festival with its "Green'n'Clean" award for environmental protection and sustainability since 2007. In 2008, the organizers also launched their own environmental label, “Green Rocks”. The festival visitors also had the opportunity to support the festival's environmental protection efforts by purchasing a so-called “Green Card”.


Television broadcasts

The WDR recorded the concerts for the program Rockpalast from 2004 to 2008. Complete concerts were broadcast from 2004 and specials about the festival from 2005 to 2008 (see web links ). In 2011 the WDR Rockpalast accompanied the festival again.
The reporting was expanded from 2007 onwards through the cooperation with the Internet television broadcaster Bunch.TV, which filmed the concerts on the Red Stage and published them on the Internet.
The concerts on the “Mixery Raw Deluxe Stage” were put online in 2008 and 2009 by the broadcaster Yavido and from 2008 on on the MixeryRawDeluxe.tv website. Other media partners included: Radio EinsLive , Radio BigFM , the music channel VIVA , the internet service laut.de , the Visions magazine and the Bonn city magazines Schnüss and bonnaparte.de .

history

The Rheinkultur-Festival was launched in 1983 by the Bonner Rockmusiker Association, which went bankrupt in 2002, and has since recorded a continuous increase in visitor numbers and awareness.

After the success of the first two years, the organizers decided in 1984 to organize a festival in the Rheinaue every year. From 1983 to 1990 the festival was able to increase its popularity to such an extent that the number of visitors rose from an estimated 4,000 in 1983 to over 100,000. This trend continued in the years that followed, with an estimated 200,000 visitors each in 1994, 1995 and 2007. On average, around 150,000 to 170,000 visitors came each year.
Since 2003 the festival has been organized by the newly founded Rheinkultur GmbH.

For the 25th anniversary of the festival, the previous rule that bands were only allowed to perform once at Rheinkultur was lifted and numerous well-known bands and artists, most of whom had played at the festival earlier, could be presented. Just two weeks before the festival, Die Fantastischen Vier were announced as headliners. They had applied in 1991 but had been rejected by the organizers at the time.

Savior offensive

In 2010 the festival was only able to attract around 60,000 visitors due to a violent storm on festival day and the World Cup quarter-final of the German national soccer team that was taking place at the same time . As the income from the sale of drinks and food on the festival site, through which the festival is largely financed, was too low, a financial loss of around 60,000 euros resulted. In addition, there was the tight budget situation in the city of Bonn, because of which the public subsidies for the festival were called into question. In order to still be able to finance a festival for the next year, the organizers started the “Rheinkultur Retter Offensive”, in which a successful attempt was made to raise additional funds, including the sale of special “Rheinkultur Retter” T-shirts, a competition , various concerts and a Christmas gala (canceled at short notice due to insufficient ticket sales). In addition, numerous bands and artists demonstrated their support for the festival with photos of them wearing the “rescue” shirts. In addition, a support association for the Rhine Culture Festival was founded.

At the beginning of February 2011, the organizers announced that the 29th edition of the festival, mainly due to the income from the rescuer offensive and the fact that the subsidies from the city of Bonn were returned to the budget at the usual level, as planned on 2 July 2011 can take place.

Bands and attendance

date Number of visitors Remarks
July 2nd 1983 approx. 4,000 -
7th July 1984 approx. 6,000 12 bands and theater groups
1985 approx. 9,000 As an exception, the festival took place over two days
5th July 1986 about 10,000 Bands include: Trio Rio
4th July 1987 approx. 20,000 Bands ao: Vamp , 3 Mustaphas 3
July 2nd, 1988 approx. 50,000 -
July 1, 1989 approx. 80,000 a total of 25 bands and artists
July 7, 1990 approx. 100,000 -
July 6, 1991 approx. 130,000 Festival took place on the hottest day of the year. Bands ao downwards
4th July 1992 approx. 150,000 u. a. Waltari, Rubbermaids, bright to cloudy
June 26, 1993 approx. 140,000 a total of 46 bands on 4 stages, including: Vitamin X , The Nits , Charles Womack , Big Chief , Advanced Chemistry , Absolute Beginner , Spermbirds, UK Subs
June 25, 1994 approx. 200,000 35 bands in total, including: FFF (from Bonn), NOFX , Sick of It All , Joint Venture , Selig , Celtas Cortos , The Dick Brothers , Aso Pauer
July 1, 1995 approx. 200,000 first enlarged area in the Rheinaue. Bands include: Beverly Joe Scott , The Jeremy Days , Murat Ses , Supergroove , Lagwagon , Dubwar , Lunchbox
July 6, 1996 approx. 80,000 The festival took place despite only 10 ° C outside temperature and continuous rain. Bands include: Paulo Mendoca , Element of Crime , Millencollin , Ignite , Blumfeld , Raw Stylus , Timbalada , Schweisser
5th July 1997 approx. 120,000 Bands including: Spearhead , Del Amitri , Beasts of Bourbon , Pee Wee Ellis , Pyogenesis , Urban Dance Squad , Oomph! , Tab Two , The Puke, Impact, CMF
June 27, 1998 approx. 150,000 Apocalyptica , Extrabreit , Mighty Mighty Bosstones , Macka B , Bürger Lars Dietrich , Pro-Pain , Brings , The Company
July 3, 1999 approx. 190,000 Bands include: Bloodhound Gang , Tito & Tarantula , Billy Cobham , Creed , Reef , K's Choice , Das frivole Burgfräulein, Slapstickers
July 1, 2000 approx. 130,000 a total of 48 bands on 4 stages, including: Gentleman , Donots , Fu Manchu , Spezializtz , A , Therapy? , Soulwax , Nils Petter Molvær , Steakknife, Dumbell. For the first time, the festival also had its own electronic dance area.
June 30, 2001 approx. 100,000 a total of 56 bands on 4 stages, including: Jimmy Eat World , Fun Lovin 'Criminals , Thumb , Backyard Babies , Ash , Incubus , Die Firma , Molotow Soda, Winchester 73, The Weakerthans, Hot Water Music, Leatherface
June 29, 2002 approx. 130,000 a total of 67 bands on 5 stages, including: Die Sterne , Beatsteaks , Ferris MC , Michael Franti & Spearhead , MC Rene , H-Blockx , Dirty Deeds '79, Maclusky. It was the 20th anniversary of the festival.
June 28, 2003 approximately 170,000 55 bands in total on 5 stages, including: Sportfreunde Stiller , De-Phazz , Hellacopters , Boysetsfire , Danko Jones , Kettcar , Curse , Olli Banjo , Kaizers Orchestra, Turbo AC'a, Union Youth, Atreyu, Hobo Johnson II . For the first time, the festival was organized by the newly founded Rheinkultur GmbH.
July 3, 2004 approx. 130,000 a total of 50 bands on 5 stages, including: The Darkness , Stereophonics , Mando Diao , Dover , Götz Widmann , Turbostaat , Peter Pan Speedrock , Azad , Kool Savas , Trend, Zeke
July 2, 2005 approx. 145,000 a total of 50 bands on 5 stages, including: Farin Urlaub Racing Team , ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead , Flogging Molly , Doves , Feeder , Tomte , Nosliw , The BossHoss , Curse , Sido & Harris ( yours Favorite rapper )
July 1, 2006 approx. 110,000 a total of 48 bands on 5 stages, including: Death Cab for Cutie , Mad Caddies , Madsen , Muff Potter , Blumfeld , Prinz Pi , Olli Banjo, Schrott Grenz
July 7, 2007 approx. 200,000 (record) 45 bands in total on 5 stages, including: Die Fantastischen Vier , Calexico , Lambchop , Madsen , Sick of It All , Donots , KIZ , Fire in the Attic, Mother Tongue. It was the 25th anniversary of the festival.
July 5, 2008 approx. 140,000 a total of 49 bands on 5 stages, including: Sportfreunde Stiller, Schandmaul , Anti-Flag , Ben Folds , Blackmail , Bloodlights , Tomte, Trashmonkeys , Hans Nieswandt . Introduction of the Tanzberg, the electronic stage.
4th July 2009 approximately 170,000 a total of 43 bands on 5 stages, including: Selig , Black Stone Cherry , Culcha Candela , Get Well Soon , No Use for a Name , Olli Schulz , Virginia Jetzt! , Dr. moth
July 3, 2010 approx. 60,000 a total of 40 bands on 4 stages, including: Alexisonfire , Juliette Lewis , Madsen , Jennifer Rostock , Triggerfinger , Hammerhead , Asaf Avidan & The Mojos, Max Herre , Kollegah & Favorite . Instead of the Green Stage, there was a public viewing area, as the festival coincided with the semi-finals of the German national team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
July 2, 2011 approx. 160,000 a total of 31 bands on 5 stages, including: Dick Brave And The Backbeats , Razorlight , The Subways , Blumentopf , Royal Republic , Monsters of Liedermaching , Jupiter Jones , Friska Viljor , Kraftklub , Itchy Poopzkid , Gallows , FR , Alin Coen Band , Nils Kopagh , Max Prosa , Montana Max & Shiml . A performance by the rapper Favorite was canceled at the beginning due to riots in the audience. No other performers followed on the Mixery Raw Deluxe stage .

Adjustment of the Rhine culture

On November 9, 2011, the organizers canceled the “Rheinkultur 2012” and announced that they would finally give up the event. There were many reasons for this. On the one hand, the lack of support from the city of Bonn was criticized, which the festival always used for advertising purposes - but at the same time would have hindered the organization. On the other hand, financial aspects were also mentioned, which, however, would not have been decisive. The organizers also criticized the visitors to the festival, especially with regard to the Rhine Culture 2011, in which the number of heavily drunk young people and frequent cases of violent vandalism and even arson had exceeded the tolerance limit.

Web links

Commons : Rheinkultur  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Press release regarding the cancellation of November 9, 2011.
  2. ↑ Press release on Rhine culture 2011