ФУЗИОН

Animals

Please leave your dogs, cats, guinea pigs, goldfish and any other pets at home! Local authorities have ruled that the entire festival area is off-limits for dogs and pets. Dogs and other pets must therefore remain in the camping area. Free-running dogs will be brought to the animal shelter at the owners expenses.

Barrier free access

Most of the festival takes place on level ground and there are no steps at the entrances of the hangars (some of the stages). There are paths with reinforced surfaces connecting all the different stages and areas. There is a wheelchair accessible chemical toilet at the backstage entrance, opposite the DuB Station, and a flushable toilet with wheelchair access in the sanitation area between the Tubebox hangar stage and the Luftschloss tent stage.

Please note: If you can present a valid »disability pass« – a written document stating your disability (in Germany there’s a special pass with a “B” as a marker...) – the person accompanying you can come to the festival free of charge.

Barrier free camping

As always we will have barrier free camping this year. Everybody who needs to use this camping sit, now has the possibility to camp there together with their friends. We will have paths with reinforced surfacesand we will provide a big tent with 5 cots for those who have problems with the transfer from the wheelchair to the ground level. Furthermore we will have fridge to store medicines and a power connection for CPAP machines or other needs. Our barrier free camping can be found in the map as B1 next to the "Konsum". Directly on the opposite side you can find barrier free showers and toilets.

In order to be able to meet your demands, we ask you to register at barrierefrei@fusion-festival.de

Black Market

With so much demand and so little supply, it seems inevitable that profiteers, gamblers and other assholes will try to take advantage of the situation and enrich themselves.

The tickets are non-transferable, the guest's name is on them.

This puts us in a good legal and technical position to prevent overpriced resale. In our own Kulturkosmos Ticket:Bourse, sellers and buyers find each other.

If you are angry about the capitalist gamblers, you are welcome to tell them what you think. We count on you to intervene on your own initiative, to speak your mind and simply not play along.

Don't fall for dubious offers - the only way to get a festival wristband is through the advance ticket sales (raffles) or the Ticket:Bourse on our website.

Camping

The camping area will open on the Wednesday at 7am and have to be cleared during the day after the festival on Tuesday. There are no electricity points for campers in the camping area.

There are extra tickets for large carts and caravans over 6.5 metres in length. You will also need an additional ticket if you want to enter our island areas by car. All about this in the Ticket area.

Cash machine / ATM

There's a cash machine / ATM at the tower near the main entrance and the central bus station (ZOB) on the air field. There will be transactional fees.

Children and Teenagers

Fusion from 18 means that people under 18 years of age are not allowed to enter the festival area, even if accompanied by their parents. Admission will only be granted to people who are on festival start 18 years or older.

However, there will be no age checks at the entrances and accesses to the camping areas I1 to I4 (known as the "Insel" or formerly "Ruhe & Family Camping"). It would still be possible to bring children and young people here. Nonetheless, these camping areas are known to be fully occupied after only a few hours after the festival gates have opened. If you want to get here by car, you will need an additional ticket.

Anyone arriving with people under 18 after that will have to look for accommodation away from the festival grounds (campsites, holiday flats,...).

At all other festival entrances (vehicle or people), such as the footbridge, age checks will be carried out around the clock and only people over 18 will be allowed through.

Kulturkosmos enabled many parents and their children to experience Fusion together and even organised a supporting programme for the younger generation until 2023, even though it has been pointed out for years that this festival is not a suitable environment for children. A Fusion for all age groups, with the stricter requirements of the Youth Welfare Office (Jugendamt), would mean a considerable additional effort at the check-ins, the bars, the ticketing, the securities and for the youth protection responsibles. This effort is sadly out of proportion to the unfortunate and upsetting refusal of those parents who wanted to bring their children.

We hope that all Fusion parents will be able to place their children in trustworthy care at the end of June. For those who cannot or do not wish to do so, we ask for your understanding.

Deposit Raising

The rules of the game are very simple:

all bottles purchased at our bars should either be returned to the bars, or placed in the beverage crates at the designated stations. It would be nice if these bottles are not used as ashtrays and do not lie in the dirt forever, because then they will be sorted out and destroyed by the brewery after the return.

all other bottles that are not from our bars are foreign glass. These must be disposed of at the glass stations in the IBC plastic tanks. Foreign bottles all go into the broken glass i.e. glass recycling, as it is impossible for us to collect all the different bottles (about 150,000 pieces), sort them and return them to the manufacturing companies. If you bring deposit bottles, take them home again - for the sake of the environment.

Garbage must be disposed of in the garbage cans provided for this purpose and not in the broken glass plastic tanks! Otherwise we have to laboriously and manually separate it from the broken glass.

Solicoin

If you want to buy a bottled drink at one of the festival bars, you either have to bring and hand in an empty glass bottle of your choice, or pay a solitaire of €0.50 as a surcharge for your bottled drink. This Solicoin goes into a donation pot and is donated by Kuko after the festival to organizations that support people who are fleeing.

You collect - We donate

All those who bring glass bottles to the festival should feel responsible that they are not left everywhere and have to be picked up and disposed of by others. Only together we can solve the problem with this amount of bottles. We will provide the 100 collection points and you should dispose of your bottles there. To support this process ideally, the Kuko donates 0,10 € for each bottle that ends up in an IBC plastic tank into the donation pot.

Donations for people on the move

We want to donate to organizations, that supporting people who are fleeing.

Drones

Drones are officially prohibited over our area. Please just leave them at home.

Entrance

The festival gates open on Wednesday at 7:00 am!

The program starts very slowly on Wednesday evening and the big floors start on Thursday evening.

We therefore urge you in the strongest possible terms not to arrive before Wednesday. If you do, it’ll result in no small amount of annoyance and chaos and will, ultimately, just cause delays for everyone arriving on Wednesday. It will not be possible to enter the festival site or the island camping site on Tuesday and you won’t find any parking or camping facilities outside the festival site then either. The first shuttle buses will leave Neustrelitz at 6:30 am on Wednesday.

If you arrive before Wednesday, you will have to find accommodation elsewhere, for example, on the campsite at the Canoo station in Mirow. The campsite is situated right next to a lake and you can comfortably camp there before, during and after the festival.

Fireworks, sky lanterns etc.

Even though fireworks express joy – and we want nothing more than for you to have fun – fireworks are an absolute no-go during the festival!

The constant use of fireworks in recent years has seriously pissed off a lot of people. Sillyness and incompetence have also led to a number of serious incidents and in a few cases people have been injured – lucky not to be badly but still. That means anyone caught selling bangers or rockets will be immediately thrown out. Anyone we catch using fireworks will get an unpleasant earful and be forced to spend a day cleaning the fire engines! Sky lanterns are also an absolute no-go on the festival: they are like flying matches and can cause serious wild forest fires.

Please do not make campfires. Charcoal barbecues are no problem.

Garbage

Festivals produce garbage – that's why we have the garbage fee. Please leave the camping site like you found it in the beginning. The disposal of your garbage through our helpers after the festival leads to back ache and sometimes just to head-shaking. Please use the pocket ashtrays which you can get at the bars and info points and please use another place to dump your old furniture (old sofas ...). There is no place for confetti in nature and it's really grotty to clean it up. Please take care that you remove all tent pegs and metall you put in the soil.

The camping areas are pasture for feeding animals – forgotten tent pegs only piss off the farmer afterwards.

Graffiti and tag-free zones

Fusion festival is proud to be 100% free of advertising. This also applies to all those who narcissistically want to spray their tag in what is a public space.

Stupidity, ignorance and people obsessed with their image and ego have caused huge damage in recent years and this has cost us an enormous amount of money! Dixies and toilet containers, showers and tents are rented by us. We had to pay dearly afterwards for the cleaning of the tags and graffiti. We and many other Fusionists find this incredibly frustrating and it has made us pretty angry.

Think about it: Fusion festival offers a whole load of spaces for street art in its many creative forms. But other spaces, objects and equipment at the festival are off limits and must remain unchanged!

These graffiti and tag-free zones are marked with a crystal-clear pictogram. If you don't respect this rule, you will have to leave the festival and pay for the damage. In the recent years, this approach has shown that respect can be learned.

Guide

The festival programme is packed with all the information you need during the festival, plus a map and – most important of all – a timetable with all the stages and acts. The festival programme is included in the price of your ticket and you’ll receive it at the gates, along with your wristband and trash bag.

Island vehicle & XL camper tickets

For the first time in 2024, you will need additional tickets if you want to enter our island areas with your car or stand on a lawn with a vehicle or caravan longer than 6.50 metres.

All information can be found in the FAQs in our ticket area.

Liability

You enter the festival at your own risk and responsibility. Kulturkosmos e.V. and Fusion Festival can not be held accountable for any material damage that may occur on the festival site, for example in the context of an artist's performance.

Medical Services

Fusion thrives thanks to your imagination and creativity, and because of our common responsibility to each other and to nature. Acting responsibly means looking after yourself too. So please remember to bring a decent basic first aid kit (plasters, antiseptic cream, etc.), any medicines you take regularly, and don’t forget suncream and a sunhat!

The festival is in the middle of the countryside. There aren’t exactly a load of medical services on our doorstep and the next hospital is 25 km away. If you notice that you have a health issue before the festival, sort it out at home. Also, please don’t clog up our Medics tent with trifling issues like a lack of plasters or aspirin. Makes sure you bring those kinds of things with you for you and your friends!

Nazis

Nazis, chauvinists and racists of all likes are not welcome and should not gain access to the festival. To guarantee this, we ask you to stay alert. If you see anyone who clearly identifies themselves as having extreme right-wing, nationalist or rascist views, please help us to immediately remove them from the festival. Inform the Fusion security crew immediately if you see any neo-Nazis or racists.

Parking

Everybody who is not sleeping in their car, please leave it at our big parking space. You can reach it easily by walking and it is free of charge. Unbeatable advantage: nobody can block your car with their tent or car and you can leave whenever you want to.

Party Break

As usual. There will be a party break on Friday, Saturday and Sunday noon. This gives us a chance to collect the rubbish from the main dance floors, and everyone else the opportunity to chill out for a while. It also means the smaller stages get a bit more attention.

The chill-out breaks will be on Friday from 11 am to 2 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm and Sunday from 12am to 2pm.

Photos

Please respect the wish for a protected free space where we all - guests, artists, crews - can be who we want to be: free, uncontrolled and unphotographed.

We urgently ask you to handle your photos and films responsibly so that the right to one's own image is protected.

Uploading photos and videos with identifiable fusionists who have not given their consent is a definite no-go!

Police controls in Neustrelitz

Expect to be checked by the federal police at the station if you arrive via Neustrelitz station.

In the case of a control:

The Federal Police naturally have various powers in this context, but in short, they always require a factual reason. If you feel that you have been unfairly addressed/treated, ask for the reason for the measure and a file number. No matter what reason the police give for their action, you must and should not say anything that could incriminate yourself.

Propaganda

...you can find on your way to the Harbour space. There you can get Shirts and Hoodies with Fusion prints while stocks last – so just check out our Propaganda stall or just be creative!

Safe Area

You can store everything that you would rather not leave in your tent in the Safe Area. You can also charge your phone here. This is also Fusion’s lost & found. If you lose anything during the festival, you can contact the crew afterwards at safe@fusion-festival.de.

Shopping

Forgot your suncream or toothbrush? You can buy essential items, along with fresh fruit and bread, at the Konsum supermarket on the festival site. It’s located in the Circus Tent (Zirkuszelt) in camping area B4.

A shuttle bus will take you close to the supermarket.

Fusion ZOB -> Mirow at the youth hostel -> Netto -> Station Mirow -> Edeka and Aldi -> Fusion ZOB

Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9 am until 18pm Return journey for 3 euros Single journey (e.g. from Mirow station to the site) for 2 euros.

Showers

You’ll find cold showers at the Shower Tower and in the Bachstelzen area.

There are warm showers, toilets and cultural entertainment available at the Waschsalon (behind the Luftschloss), at the Oase (in the middle of the camping area) and in front of the Workshop hangar.

Shuttle

Once again, there will be a shuttle service from Neustrelitz train station to the gates of Fusion. Click here for Informations.

There are also buses that take you directly from cities all over Germany to the festival and back again. Check www.bassliner.org for more details.

A shuttle bus also runs between the festival and Mirow. The times can be found under the point "Shopping"

Stop Thor Steinar

Wearing Thor Steinar and similar brands that represent a nationalistic or German national lifestyle is absolutely undesirable at Fusion!

Sunday Tickets

Day tickets for Sunday are available from 8:00 a.m. at the «Botschaft» for €70 (including a €10 garbage deposit). As long as the contingent lasts, Sunday tickets can be purchased online via our Ticket Area for 60€ (incl. garbage deposit). Everything else under Tickets.

Thunderstorm

We booked the best festival weather. However, in case of an approaching thunderstorm we will interrupt the party. If there is no more music on the stages and floors, but you hear announcements, we really mean it! The festival ground is not safe in case of a big thunderstorm. In that case, leave the party ground and go to the camping site, to your tents and cars.

In case of heavy lightning the safest place to be is inside a car. Staying up on a hangar is a really bad idea. Do not try to leave the camping site with your car, keep emergency routes free! Whenever the storm is over, we will turn up the music again and the party can go on.

Tickets

Fusion Festival 2024 ist sold out. Day tickets are only available for Sunday. More information under Sunday tickets.

In order not to expose ourselves to the risk that many people cancel their tickets at short notice and we are then left holding the bag, we have activated a Ticket:Bourse where you can offer your ticket (as well as an XL-Camper-Ticket or Insel-Auto-Ticket) and also still get hold of tickets.

Toilets

Since 2022, the use of all toilets is free of charge, whether Dixi, compost toilets, rocket toilets or WC Royal. There are several positions on the camping areas where a larger number of Dixis stand together. They are emptied three times a day. Our «WC royal», i.e. toilet containers with ceramic bowls and flushing water, are located at five different spots. These toilets are looked after and cleaned on a regular basis. There are new stations with compost toilets, which we are constantly expanding so that soon no one will need a Dixi any more. You are still welcome to make a small donation, as the groups in charge all work for projects worthy of support.

Trash Deposit

Each ticket is sold with an additional 10 € trash deposit. When you arrive at the festival, you’ll be given a big plastic trash bag at the gate, along with your wristband and festival programme. If you return this bag full of trash before you leave, you will get the 10 € back. And yo - it’s not cool to steal other people’s trash!

New this year is the digital trash deposit token on the chip on the wristband. The trash deposit is redeemed there when you hand in the filled trash bag on departure.

Water

You can fill your water containers and bottles with drinking water at the shower tower and at various drinking water stations around the festival area. The big dance floors will also have water bars giving out free drinking water.

by bike

Cycling to the fusion together.

We meet Wednesday and Thursday 26 and 27.6.24 10:00 am at S-Bhf Oranienburg.
The route will be approximatly 87 km long.
No luggage transport from our side
If you have any questions please join our Telegram Group: Link
or write us via bikex@mail.de

All informations are here:

Get going with us! We are looking forward to seeing you. Your bikeX Crew!

by Bus

Together with BASSLINER we offer you as usual several bus connections from many German and international metropolitan regions . With the BASSLINER buses you not only travel safely, stress-free and cheap, but also have a great opportunity to make new friends on the way. Like this you land directly on the festival ZOB and save yourself the hustle and bustle in the overloaded trains and the stressful change in Neustrelitz.

The principle applies to all Bassline bus bookings: the earlier you book, the cheaper the price.

All infos to all journeys as always under:

www.bassliner.de

It is only possible to travel with the BASSLINER with a valid festival ticket.

by Car

When coming from Hamburg or Berlin on the A24, take the A19 towards Rostock. Then take the second exit (junction 18 at Röbel) and follow the B198 towards Neustrelitz. After the small town of Vietzen, turn right onto the Lärz airfield.

Beware: there are two speed cameras on the B198!

by train

We expect the train connection from Berlin to Neustrelitz to be congested again this year. However, if you would like to travel by train, we recommend that you take trains as early as possible. The shuttle service Neustrelitz - Lärz starts at 6:30 AM.

From Berlin and Brandenburg, the Brandenburg ticket is the best choice: 5 people travel from 9 AM on all RE and IR trains of the Bahn and also on underground and S-Bahn trains in Berlin, for a total of EUR 33. At weekends, it is also valid before 9 AM. The Brandenburg ticket is valid as far as Neustrelitz, although that is already in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

You can also travel by train from Hamburg. The journey can be made with the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ticket or the Schleswig-Holstein ticket.

For people travelling together by train from other parts of Germany, the Quer-durchs-Land ticket from DB may also be of interest.

Otherwise there is the Deutschlandticket.

Festival start Wednesday – 5 days of party?

Wednesday will be a Fusion day in 2024. That doesn't mean that the open-air floors will already be turning up. They will start in the old tradition from 6 pm on Thursday.

On Wednesday, we start at 4 pm on various stages with an exquisite programme of concerts, theatre, circus and club events. Wednesday also offers space for quieter sounds, time for communication, to meet old friends and new ones, to chill out and barbecue and to explore the festival site. With a broad but rather relaxed programme spectrum, you can land comfortably in the fusion cosmos.

The festival gates will open on Wednesday at 7 am.

We therefore urge you in the strongest possible terms not to arrive before Wednesday. If you do, it’ll result in no small amount of annoyance and chaos and will, ultimately, just cause delays for everyone arriving on Wednesday. It will not be possible to enter the festival site on Tuesday and you won’t find any parking or camping facilities outside the festival site then either. The first shuttle buses will leave Neustrelitz at 6:30 am on Wednesday.

When you leave the festival site, please make sure you look at the information in the guide so that everyone leaving on Sunday can get away quickly.

Taxis

Between Neustrelitz and the festival there are also many taxis as an alternative to our shuttle buses. Costs are between 35 € and 50 € depending on negotiation skills and demand.

when you arrive in Neustrelitz…

... from here it goes on with the shuttle buses as usual:

Wednesday: 6:30 AM - 00:30 AM Thursday: 8:00 AM - 00:30 AM Friday: 8:00 AM - 00:30 AM Saturday: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

The shuttle buses are waiting for the last trains arriving in Neustrelitz from Berlin and Hamburg.

From Sunday, buses will be operating between Lärz and Neustrelitz.

Sunday: 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM Monday: 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM

A single trip will cost 5€.

This year the shuttle buses in Neustrelitz depart from the «Rummelplatz» 5 Minute walk from the station and not on the station front square.

A trip to the Fusion Festival without a valid festival ticket is not possible from Neustrelitz.

with your own coach

Groups who have rented their own coach for their journey must register their journey with us and then receive a pass which entitles them to transit to their own private bus area on our ZOB. Please fill out the registration form here.