13.5.10 Construction Flashes ahead!
We finally are on-site and started the construction works! A big bunch of motivated experts of all kinds of jobs is out to prepare you a perfect festival! Our daily newsflashes will be in german mainly, so switch languages if you would like to stay informed over the time of construction! In addition we offer you:
- a Picture Gallery from the Construction works
- the plan for the site
- the A4 Pocketguide for self-printing!
30.4.10 POA Styles everywhere!
A new edition of our design-poster is out for weeks now! Designed by Andreas Sauer a warm sunny yellow provides sunshine from posters, flyers and programs! Available in bars, clubs, pubs and concert locations it's easy to be seen! A big thanks goes out to all roadcheckers which hang up and distribute all the nice stuff! With this design we kick-off in the final weeks because in two weeks the Construction of the site will take place and everyone is excited that we will be all together again! Stay tuned!
26.4.10 It moves - POA10-Trailer online! Bustickets sold out!
To further increase your festival mood we have a new Schmankerl online in our Happy-Low-Budget-Movie Section: The POA-Trailer on our YouTube Channel shows you animated pictures, cool artists, evil guests and a super atmosphere! Watch it go and get your ticket for the happening 2010! Bustickets are sold out, we don't have more flat grounds good enough for parking your bus. The 3-Days-Passes are getting sold as well, so be on time in the shops and book now!!
22.4.10 Alarm on the Guerilla-Stage – 6 Bands playing for eternal honour!
The first 6 bands to play on the NEW POA Guerilla-Stage 2010 are chosen by ruling the dice. auf der Guerilla-Stage 2010! We received an overwhelming amount of >100 applications and choose 4 bands per week by coin throwing like it should be for real guerillas! There are still 10 slots left to be packed with heroes for one day and a case of beer! You can still apply HERE! Equipped with various fighting slogans the trailer-stage will be part of the show on Saturday and Sunday from 11 to 18 o' clock! Already in the Guerilla Mode are: M*Bates, Faint Mirrors, Konrad und der Löwe, Sexshop, Stressed-Out, Reflected Black! The winner slogan (having no influence on the election) was created by Konrad und der Löwe ab: „Rosi i hoi di mit meim tracktor ob“ - Welcome to the Guerilla-Mode!
15.4.10 Become Fan of our POA-Facebook Page
Already over 1400 friends of the Pfingst-Open-Air use this feature to receive regular updates, special gimmicks and quizes! You'll be the first to know about new Bands and upcoming highlights without leaving the facebook page! The forum is further enlarged by add-ons like a discussion Board where you can post free rides to the POA and Lost&Found things, etc. Be part of the network and go to: www.facebook.com/pfingstopenair
1.4.10 Apply now: POArt and Guerilla-Stage
You always wanted to be part of the show? You have creative ideas coming up all the time? Here's your chance to realise your ideas: the „POArt 2010“, a competition for young artists kicks of NOW! This year's topic will be "Total Networking – blessing or curse?“. Discuss this in public just with the help of your created light-sculptures. Applications will be accepted until 1st of May. More infos and the actual call can be found here at POArt.
In addition you can now apply for our Guerilla-Stage if you have a garage band! This Low-Budget-Hyper-Roll feature will supply you with a trashy backline on a trailer. Inspire the public while rolling along the campgrounds! The election is guerilla-sty, too: Every friday we'll draw lots and chose 4 bands who play for free entrance and a case of beer - and become POA-All-time-Guerilla-Heroes! Here's more about the Guerilla Stage!
Happy Easter!
29.3.10 Line-Up complete! Atari Teenage Riot, I-Fire and Urlaub in Polen!
Ladies and Gentleman, please stand up for our line-up 2010! One of the last bands announced for this year’s edition are ATARI TEENAGE RIOT! Back in the match after their 10 years break, the revolotionists by trade will start with a few concerts in May. Their first stops: London, Paris, Rom and Hauzenberg! In the 90’s they invented a whole new style with their wild, aggressive, noisy and revolutionary electronic-shout-mix and we promise they didn’t lose one of their aspects when conquering the place on Friday night!
Moreover I-FIRE confirmed their gig and will make you enjoy their Roots-Reggae-Styles. The nine Jah-Guys from Hamburg are driven by reggae-riddims mixed with modern HipHop Sound and sing german lyrics. Saturday afternoon URLAUB IN POLEN will be another highlight opening a new field of atmospheric sound-landscapes and real individual electronic.rock. These are the last bands on our mainstage, but apart from our second so-called “Culture-Stage” many surprises will wait for you on-site! ! Here's the complete Line-Up.
21.3.10 New bands confirmed: Fiddler’s Green and Grossstadtgeflüster
A warm welcome to the personified Irish Speed! Since 20 years on the road Fiddler’s Green is one of the best-live bands Germany can offer. Their shows for celebrating the anniversary are already completely sold out - The kings of speedfolk will make you dance on Saturday – 100% guaranteed!
On Sunday Grossstadtgeflüster continues celebrating the elecrotronic-pop-punk-party-trash with. Their new longplayer „Alles muss man selber machen“ is a great example of dance-beats mixed with aggressively spoken lyrics. With this mixture they’ll just make you a bit happier!
You can apply for becoming as a POA-Roadchecker RIGHT HERE . There you’ll find an exact list in which cities we’re stillsearching Roadchecker.
15.3.10 Event limited to 6000 Tickets
To remain a comfortable festival with loads of space for camping, thinking and partying we decided to limit this year’s ticket capacity to 6000 three-day passes. There will be pre-sale only and no sale of tickets at the doors! Additional day-passes will be sold which don’t allow camping though. We decided to do this as we would like to stay in Hauzenberg with the POA and the camping is at its limits. With this, we assure no waiting lines at the toilets, and a nice green piece of lawn for everyone to set up his or her tent! So, get your ticket, before it’s too late! The bus-tickets for camping vans are almost sold out already. More here.
9.3.10 The Soul and the Allgäu come to visit Hauzenberg
Experience a „geschenkter Tag" on the festival – the second album of singer songwriter and former Freundeskreis-frontman Max Herre describes his personal development in peotical episodes. Full of passion, Max Herre will sing songs from real life on Saturday night! A warm welcome Max, we're proud to having you playing here!
On sunday evening, a completely crazy mixture from the Allgäu will get your ears into positive trouble: Rainer Von Vielen is music which incorporates the breeze from the alpine sleeves and mixes it up with ragga-like, critical vocals. There’s no genre invented yet to describe this great type of music. Welcome to the POA, we’re looking forward to having these two groups on our mainstage!
28.2.10 Contest II: Two bands hit the first place
...and we think: both should play! After five spectacular gigs the jury decided to go for two bands as winners: The Mariachis de las Fiestas Locas from Pettenbach in Austria convinced the audience with their performance and individual variety. The local band Zierkürbis came up with an incredible amount of power and a hymn for Hauzenberg especially written for the festival and by this won a slot on the mainstage! Thanks a lot to the other three bands: Nice Guy Eddie, The Pussies of Death und Jonny Rider It was a tough decision. Many thanks to all bands playing during these two days for great contest-concerts! The pics from Friday can be found on Passau-Live!
27.2.10 Unbelievable: Contest I done!
After 20 minutes of heated discussions the jury decided which band won the a gig on the mainstage: DIE UNFASSBAREN (exactly translated „The unbelievables“) found a way into the hearts of the audience by singing a local-dialect-rap. We greatly appreciated the gigs of all other bands of the day and are looking forward to having the second Contest-final today: One more time, 5 bands will join the battle for Hauzenberg – be part of the show!
25.2.10 Contest Countdown (26.2./27.2): (Find the complete programm for the two shows here)
3.2.10 First bands confirmed: Revolverheld, Bonaparte, Irie Révoltés and Frittenbude! - On Friday the X-Mas special for tickets ends
Having a brandnew album in March REVOLVERHELD will come into the bavarian forest to play real Indie-Rock and by this following the tradition of our hall of Indie-Fame in Hauzenberg! In addition the sweat will pearl from all bodies when screaming “Anti Anti!” and female dancers move their legs burlesque like! Around ten people in masks will enter the stage and go crazy. Celebrating a revolution they'll ask you: „Do you want to party with the BONAPARTE ?!“ The Circus Show - live at the POA!
More rebels are coming up, being more into Reggae, Dancehall, Hip Hop, Ska and Punk: The nine guys from IRIE RÉVOLTÉS will enter the stagewerden armed with their driving sound and sociocritical, partly german, partly french lyrics. Formed during a car-drive to the Pfingst-Open-Air FRITTENBUDE is now well established in the genre of Elektropunk and play a leader role! It's time to come back to where it all began and party with you!
Attention: The extetended deadline for the X-Mas special for our Tickets is running out on Friday. After this the ticket will cost 5 Euro more.
28.1.10 It is official: Pfingst-Open-Air 2010 stays in Hauzenberg!
Wow...yesterday the panel for environmental issues of the bavarian ministry decided animously and with the votes from all different parties that the POA is as important for our regionas Rock im Park is for the Nürnberg area and put the rights for permiting the event back to the City of Hauzenberg. The city council had a special meeting directly afterwards and permitted the event with 17:1 votes!
The best thing is: We can move things in our democracy if all people participate and stand up for their rights! This will be a positive signal for all other event managers! We are thankful for the broad support from all different sides and want to shout out loud A Big Up for all of you!
Enough bureaucratical talk: Next week we'll present you the first bands - promised!!
For further reading click:
- PNP: „Wir wünschen Ihnen alles Glück und gutes Wetter für Ihr Open Air“ Umweltausschuss des Landtags befürwortet einstimmig Pfingstfestival
- PaWo: Thema der Woche: Danke Herr Umweltminister
26.1.10 POA seems rescued - Final decision on Thursday - Traineeships available
The Pfingst Open Air seems rescued like you might have read in the last days. Until it's official on Thursday we remain quiet, but will inform you immediately if the OKAY should arrive. News from the Media:
- PNP: Das Pfingst-Open-Air bleibt in Hauzenberg
- PaWo: Umweltministerium: Grünes Licht für Hauzenberg
- Nürnberger Nachrichten: Pfingst-Open-Air kann stattfinden
- ÖO Nachrichten: Pfingst-Open-Air schrammt an einer Absage vorbei
- Bild.de: Ministerium nimmt Veto gegen Rockfestival zurück
Join the POA team and apply for a traineeship! To still get the Hauzenberg grounds ready for Pentecost we offer two positions to make a traineeship in a challenging environment. Whoever wanted to come closer to the field of event mnagement can do this between the middle of February until the End of May. Here's our exact Job offer!
22.1.10 A gleam of hope: Ministry reassesses the situation!
The immense efforts from the city administration, all citizens of Hauzenberg, the phenomenous resonance in the media and last but not least the support from all friends and guests of the POA seems to pay off:
On friday afternoon we received news from the bavarian ministry for environment that the situation will be reassessed. The right to give permission should be given back to the City.
The policital decision has to becom official though which will heopefully happen next Thursday. Only if there are no new requirements whatsoever the POA has to fulfill we can become active again. We'll keep you updated!
20.1.10 The heat is on! Update about the protest!
The support for rescueing the POA is taken to a new level: Peopl blog, twitter, write on discussion boards and download and send our remonstrative letter. The newly found Facebook-Group already reached 1100 members within 3 days! New from the media as well: After the article in the SZ many other newspapers brought the topic! The Radioshow Zündfunk from Bayern2 asked themselves "Why...?" in a special issue and recommended downloading our letter. Tomorrow at 4:30 pm the TV-show ON3 Südwild on Br-alpha will broadcast a special as well. Stay tuned
Here are some links for further reading:
- Bayern 2 Zündfunk Audiobeitrag: Lärmschutz vor Jugendkultur - Aus für das Pfingst Open Air?
- PNP 19.01.10: Streit um Open-Air: Finale nächste Woche
- PaWo 20.01.10: Pfingst-Open-Air 2010 in Hauzenberg: Letzter Strohhalm ist der Landtag
- Facebook-Group: FÜR ein Pfingst-Open-Air 2010! Warum wollt ihr es verbieten?!
15.1.10 Remonstrative Letters! Save the POA in Hauzenberg!
Download the remonstrative letter here!
Since December the our plans for the 29th Pfingst-Open-Air are on hold. We'll definitely perform the band-contest, but the fact is: The bavarian ministry of environment is against the event due to the noise. The whole city council and the population of Hauzenberg are all comited to the festival but seem to be helpless. It's not the case that we are against any environmental issues: Our festival gained the "Sounds for Nature" Award last year, offered generously by the federal agency for nature conservationfor a sustainable festival management. Especially our new recycling concept for the trash is loutstanding and eading the environmental movement for german festivals.
The last year's noise recordings are the base for the decision of the bavarian ministry of environment, but they can be questioned. The result of this is that we can't book any bands or sign contracts without knowing if the festival actually can take place and we understand that neither you nor the musicians want to wait any longer.
Our last chance: The environmental panel will discuss this issue on January 28th. We count on a healthy decision which takes the public opinion as a senseful base. To support the right decision you can now download a remonstrative letter and send it directly to the bavarian environment minister Söder. Download <herer> and send it until Jan, 26th to:
Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Gesundheit, Herrn Umweltminister Dr. Markus Söder, Rosenkavalierplatz 2, 81925 München
Here's an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung concerning this issue: SZ-Artikel 15.01.10.
13.1.10 The 10 winners are chosen!
The band-contest is close to its 3rd edition. From the 150 bands who applied 10 were chosen to play against each other in two shows. The two final winners will enter the POA-Mainstage! The concerts will take place in the Zeughaus 26./27. Februar. We proudly present the winners:
Friday, 26.2.10 | Saturday, 27.2.10 |
Der Jungbrunn | Mariachis de las fiestas locas |
Many thanks for all the creative applications. It wasn't an easy decision. If you were not chosen this time there's still a chance to get nominated directly short before the booking is finished.
12.1.10 Administration will decide about the future of the Pfingst-Open-Airs end of Jan!
Dear friends of the Pfingst-Open-Air, times are tough and in the opinion of some people too loud as well. The ministry for environment is of this opinion. In contrast the city of Hauzenberg wants to rescue the festival and handed a petition to the bavarian parliament to keep the festival. By the end of January the parliament will decide about the future of the POA. A vast majority of the city council supports the festival and a private initiative collected over 3000 signatures pro Festival in a couple of days. If you want to know more, here's some background information from the media:
- the formal approval in the city council (July 09)
- the Newspaper article about the private initiative (Dec 09)
- the Press release of the Rockoffice Bavaria, about the situation (Dec 09)
- the associated article in the UI Hauzenberg (Jan 10)
We hope the best to be able to organise the 10th Hauzenberger edition. Tickets will be still valid. If the festival won't take place you'll get your money back, of course. The early bird special will be extended, the contest-shows will take place no matter which decision is taken.
21.12.09 Pfingst-Open-Air wishes you merry x-mas and a happy new year!
We wish all friends of the POA a Merry X-Mas and a Happy New Year! Party like you never did before and don't forget to vote for your favorites in our band-contest. Our office will be closed for the upcoming week. After that we'll announce the finalists for the Contest-Shows in late February! Stay tuned!
25.11.09 VOTE for your favorites!
Vote for any newcomer-band on the Community-Section. Whoever should play our Contest-Final-Shows in Feb. You can choose 3 out of 140 Applicants.
To vote you have to register in our Community and click the link which will be directly sent to you via e-mail. The contest will be the only active feature in the community, we wonÄt use the e-mail for any other purpose.
5.11.09 Go for it: Tickets 2010 are available from now on!
Here they come: The 3-days-pass for the POA edition 2010. Our early bird special costs 39 Euro plus 5 Euro trash deposit and taxes. It will be available until x-mas, then the second-bird comes up until the end of Feb
In addition our bus-ticket is available in the Shop-Section as well. Details about this special ticket for camping vans can be found Here. From now on there'll be regular news around the POA!
12.10.09 Get ready for the Band-Contest 2010! Kick-Off now!!
Like a storm in the autumn the new festival year is starting: The POA Band-Contest 2010 offers you the unique chance to celebrate your band on our mainstage together with the pro's! To the left you can see one of the lst year's winners The Sensational Skydrunk Heartbeat Orchestra rockn the stage! To apply you have to register until 13.11.09 in our Contest-Section registrieren. There you'll get to know more about the details. If you don't have a band, no worries: It's thrilling for you, too! In about a months time you can listen to all applicants and vote for your favourite!
3.10.09 Take-Off for 2010 in 7 Days
The summer is over the our little break is about over, thank God! Full of anticipation we want to move our feet again and will kick-off the new year in 7 days. We'll bring the Band-Contest 2010 on its way and will start the early bird ticket sale! Until then, you can enjoy the Gallery from this year, which includes the exclusive art-shots from Holger Pick and Stephan Katzlinger! In addition our YouTube Channel is waiting for you broadcasting the Interview Series 09 with Soulfly, Jamaram and many more! See you in a week!!
18.7.09 Interviews approaching: We get you over this summer!
After the extremely bad weather on all festivals this weekend we bring you back the summer! From now on we upload a video of our 2009er interview series weekly! Live from our little retrostudio directly broadcasted on YouTube.
The Stereo MCs take the lead and speak about the beautiful scenery of the bavarian forest, their style of dirty electro Funk and their unbroken will to move the people! They give insights about their new album plans and present a new I-Phone App to split their own Songs in individual Tracks!
More: www.youtube.com/pfingstopenair
1.7.09 Ready for Sofa TV?
A dynamic duo made its way through the masses. This happened not without receiving funny comments from everyone. The result was an authentic festival report with the visitors in the front. Go for some movies of spontaneous party packed with loads of fun and live impressions
2.6.09 A great festival is coming to its end!!
For three days 10.000 Guests including all volunteers, Bands, Stands, Day Visitors and local guests celebrated one big party! People from all tents came towards the stage on a sunny sunday and brought Hauzenberg and the main acts The Whitest Boy Alive and La Vela Puerca an enthusiastic audience! Especially the surprise guest for the Weisswurt-Breakfast on sunday morning „La Brass Banda“ was taken to an emotional outer space by a massive crowd! The Pfingst-Open-Air was sold out for the first time in its History! We'relooking ofrward to continue in 2010 and will keep you posted on this site. If you want to know more, please submit to our newsletter!
Now Online: All Digi-Shots in our Foto Section!
In Kürze: Interviews auf der Retrocouch mit unseren Bands auf unserem YouTube Channel!
31.5.09 Soulfly and Stereo MCs shake grounds!
An almost dry saturday rocked all guests! The live gigs of Guadalajara, Monsters of Liedermaching, Soulfly and of the Stereo MCs the crowd almost got mad! A wild micture of Hardcore, Ska, Electro and acoustic guitars made everyone dance to the beats! The weather will further improve and we can't stop partying!
30.5.09 Bilder Update now
The Images of friday are updated! A big thanks to Lukas and Stefan!
29.5.09 We are on Party Safari...
The first days bands really kicked ass and brought a sunny mood in the crowd! So far there's no rain and it might stay dry the whole saturday. The first pictures are displayed in our Foto section! Day visitors have to use the shuttle parking. The shuttle bus rides every 15 minutes and needs 10 minutes to bring you to our site. Please keep this little extra time in mind when planing your stay here!
28.5.09 Welcome!
The Gates are wide open to having you all here! There still quite some nice little spots for your tent! The only parking possibilities for your cars are in Wotzdorf. From there the Shuttlebus rides every 10 minutes from 7:30 in the morning till 2 at night. 10 hours to go until the Kilians, Itchy Poopzkid and Blumentopf headline the Friday! All friends and volunteers are looking forward to welcoming you and with a bavarian "Grüß Gott im Luftkurort Hauzenberg" we take over that place!
20.5.09 New mobile locker units at the Pfingst-Open-Air!
Now you can secure your clothes and valuable items in the specially designed trucks from CarDeRobe Services! The trucks park next to the inner festival area and are accompanied by two service men. You can rent a lock easily and use it throughout the whole time. The locked items are insured and you will get a personal key for every locker. The lockers are available in two sizes:
Small: 3 Euro per day (for small valuables only)
Large: 5 Euro per day (for bags and larger valuable items)
You can pay directly on-site. The CarDeRobe Service Team is looking forward to offering you the best security for a great festival!
13.5.09 Only one week to go – The Pre-Sale on our page is closing!
You can buy tickets online here in our shop only untilnext Tuesday! The three days pass costs only 40,-€ (plus additional fees). After Tuesday the tickets can be bought at the official pre-sale counters and in some shops still selling hard-tickets. Order now!
On-site you can get the ticket for 50,-€ (plus additional fees) if the event is not sold out. There you can also buy tickets valid for one day only. The day-passes cost 25,-€ on Friday and 30,-€ on Saturday and Sunday. This again is assuming that the event is not sold out.
11.5.09 New T-Shirts available
The new Pfingst-Open-Air shirt is now available in our shop! After last year’s total sell out you have the chance to get a shirt in advance and be ready for take-off. The boy’s shirt comes in a dark blue where as the girl’s shirt is of a light blue slightly. We guarantee you to get the shirt in time before the festival starts until next Tuesday!
10.4.09 Poster-time! Easter becomes blue-greenish!
Finally they're approaching: Our new Programs, Posters and Flyers can be found on all tracks from now on! Just in time for easter we present the new style: Pentecost will become blue-green this year and though it's egg-shape time we're looking forward to having a well-rounded package! A big welcome as well to our POA Flyer Collector's Edition 2009, Number 57-64!
Our roadcheckers should be equipped with all the colourful Posters. Whoever applied for a roadchecker status, got confirmed and didn't receive any package sends an e-mail to our Great-Grand-Uncle of Roadchecking Alex!
4.4.09 Line-Up complete: The Whitest Boy Alive headline th e Sunday!
Mission accomplished! We are greatly looking forward to having a massive variety of Rock, Reggae, Punk, Hardcore, Elektro and HipHop on stage and hope to have meet your taste. Boredom is definitely over! Ourlast band to complete the Line-Up is „The Whitest Boy Alive“! The quartet around the norwegian mastermind Erlend Øye (Kings of Convenience) found itself in 2003 in Berlin to create a driving type of Easy-Electro-Pop. For their new album "Rules“ they received a wave of enthusiasm and will get you from dreaming to dancing on Sunday evening.
THE COMPLETE LINE-UP NOW IN THE PROGRAM SECTION!
31.3.09 Take-Off for the program on the Culture Stage!
A crowded tent and ready to burst? Welcome to our second stage: The culture tent! Here, we offer a vast variety for all people ready for surprises and interaction. We are happy to announce Skupina 22, a cabaret fromTschechia, a Live-Juke Box of 3 people ready to play whatever you want and dancing with the champions of Dancevolution (picture left). Further sets include infamous classics like our quiz, the night of the short movies and our traditional bavarian morning breakfast with the morning pint band. Just browse in our Program for the second stage!
22.3.09 The Campingbusticket is coming!
The ticket for camping-busses is new this year and unavoidable. Reasons for this are our limited space for these nice little vehicles and hence the resulting arrival on thursday. As the city restricts us to let guests in on friday morning the earliest we found a solution that this is not essential anymore anyways: You can buy a ticket for a camping-bus or a campervan, but not for a car (no exception for station wagons). A ticket costs 10 Euro spend on the extra work involved. To buy a ticket you have to send us the number on the numberplate which will be checked at the entrance together with a security code number. The ticket is invalid if the number is from a normal car. This is to protect the busses and its people relying on it as a pülace to sleep in.
The tickets are limited on the available space. If sold out, there's a chance to park on our carpark connected to the festival area by a shuttle bus running almost around the clock.
17.3.09 New arrivals: Itchy Poopzkid & Monsters of Liedermaching!
A warm welcome to two new bands: We are very happy to announce the “Monsters of Liedermaching” jamming the stage on saturday afternoon. The Singer/Songwriter team containing of 6 gifted artists offer a high level of interaction, fun & power. They celebrate basically everything, starting with tough rock and continuing with soft accoustic balads. The friday evening will be in contrast full of Funpunk-Rock with a guarantee to jump! This is made sure by „Itchy Poopzkid“! This is gona be a happening full of choruses which just get stuck in your ear and riffs with only one goal: Going straight forward! The guys from Baden-Württtemberg are on their way up and just released their new CD "Dead serious".
13.3.09 Roadchecking for everyone!
We still search for roadcheckers who want to make the sun rise over bavaria and the neighbouring regions. There are still some places to promote the festival in the following areas: Isartal, Oberpfalz, Chiemgau, Oberland, Ingolstadt and Hallertau, Schwaben, Oberösterreich, Salzkammergut, Nürnberg and Wien. Whoever wants to join the crew just sends an e-mail with his full address to alex@pfingstopenair.de until March 19th. Further information for roadcheckers and their status can be found in our Roadchecker-Section.
10.3.09 This is the Prophecy: Max Cavalera rocks the saturday!
Full Speed with full throttle ahead! The POA mainstage gets what it deserves: After being kicked by Agnostic Front and Sick Of It All in the last year the stage gives way for one of the eternal hardcore heroes of all times: Max Cavalera will searchs seek and strike with SOULFLY in Hauzenberg! This will be the prime time event on Saturday evening ramming the distinctive mixture of Hardcore-Thrash-Metal and tribal drums in your ears - with maximum power! Umbabarauma!
25.2.09 Kilians and Gloria Cycles rock the POA!
We welcome a fresh and highly talented band on our Stage: The "Kilians" will rock the POA and create an awesome atmosphere playing Alternative Rock. They already successfully supported shows of the Babyshambles Tocotronic or Tomte & Co. Their new album will be released in a month's time and we're more than keen on getting our hands on it!
Second band announced in this flash is the Emergenza World Winner 2008: The "Gloria Cycles" from UK! They offer you wonderful Indie-Popsongs in the individual british style somehwere between the Kinks, Clash, Arctic Monkeys and Art Brut.
20.2.09 Stereo MCs and Guadalajara confirmed!
Amazing! The guys from Broxton are back - on our Stage! Having released a great new album just recently the STEREO MCs will headline this year's Saturday at the Pfingst-Open-Air! With Beats, Funk, Rhymes and a big portion of good Vibes the band around mastermind Rob Birch guarantees for an awesome atmosphere and dancing to the limit. They even were announced as the best Live-Dance Band ever rocked this planet by various magazines! And the confirmations donÄt stop: Guadalajara from Austria! They play a mixture somehere between Ska, Punk & Pop and combine it with an explosive Live-Show! A warm welcome to one of Austria's best alternative bands at the moment!
17.2.09 Successful Take-Off for the POA-SCHMANKERL
A furious take-off could be examined on saturday, when Haydamaky rocked the ProLi with a wild mixture of Carpathian-Folk-Rock-Ska! The eight guys from Ukraine and an amazed crowd supporting the Eastern-Ska-Sound changed the ProLi in a boiling pot of legs, arms and thrilled screams! A great warm-up show was performed by the band Gasmac Gilmore from Vienna. Here you can find pictures from Rudi Melcak (passau-live.de)
Let's get ready for 28.2., when POA-SCHMANKERL will return, this time with THE GREAT BERTHOLINIS from Hungary.
13.2.09 POA-SCHMANKERL: 14.2.09 Haydamaky!
Haydamaki will play for the opening show of the POA Schmankerl-Series. Celebrated already by half of Europe the band made it's way coming from the far eastern Ukraine! Instrument-wise there's tradition involved: The bandura, a ukrainian zither, a mandoline, trumpet and flute (Sopilka) and an accordion are part of the equipment. Influenced by rock and ska a good portion of ukrainan roots music is mixed together with dub, ska and rap to form thir unique sound. LetÄs groove!
12.2.09 The POA-SCHMANKERL Series!
NEW at the ProLi - Passau's hottest Live-Club: The POA Schmankerl Series! Here we present you bandsthroughout the whole year who could play the POA as well! Theme of the first series: "Traditional roots in modern Rock and Pop music of Middle and Eastern Europe“! We proudy present:
14.2. Haydamaky
28.2. The Great Bertholinis
4.4. Attwenger
We are looking forward for great bands, cool gigs and many thrilled visitors!
10.2.09 Contest-Fotos online
We uploaded two Galleries from Contest 1 and Contest 2 to be watched on this page! A thanks goes to Phillipp Breu for these impressions. Furtherpictures can be seen on the Fotoüages of bsm-party as well as on Page 1 and Page 2 by Passau-Live. We thank all the fotographers and media partners for covering the shows. A special thanks goes to the jury, which didn't have an easy decision to make. We are happy about a successfull take-off into the new season!
8.2.09 The 2nd Winner is chosen!
Again, the ProLi was full of curious people! Would it be that interesting as the day before? And the bands confirmed the beliefs by performing fantastic shows! HipHop, Rock and Reggae made the whole audience dance wildly! At the end "The Sensational Skydrunk Hearbeat Orchestra" was the winner and plays with the big acts on the Mainstage. A special price was offered to the band "Heavy Ride", who win a professional band coaching for three days. Congratulations again to all bands and thank you for you great gigs! Fotos of the events are online soon!
7.2.09 THE HEMORIDERS win the first Final!
Great emotions, 350 visitors and a packed ProLi! These where the perfect conditions framing the gigs of the five finalist bands.And they used their chances and rocked: With rhymes, rhythms and rock'n'roll all of them pleased the audience and the jury! Finally a decision had to be made and The Hemoriders won the first show winning a gig on the POA Mainstage! Congratulations and a big thanks to all artists! Tday the next show will already hit the ProLi with the second final.Take-Off is 8 pm. Be with us! More here.
20.1.09 Contest-Countdown! The finals are approaching!
All bands are more than ready to rock and on Feb 6th and 7th the 10 finalists will make out two slots on the mainstage in a great band-clash!
The complete overview with all bands and all infos regarding the contest are on these separate pages (german). Tickets cost 7,- Euro, if you go for two shows there's a combined ticket for 12,-€.
During the contest we present our new trailer and new confirmed bands! The contest venues are the final chance to get our 3-days pass for early bird conditions. See ya!
15.1.09 Happy New Year with La Vela Puerca and Bosse!
New Year - New Bands! A dream comes finally true and La Vela Puerca will play this year's festival after having had to cancel their show in 2008. The big Latin-Ska headliner is looking forward to cast hot rhythms in your legs!
Furthermore we can announce Bosse to rock the Stage this year who will play great german to get the crowd to freak out! We welcome both acts!!!
11.8.08 POA goes YouTube!
Again, we welcome a nice little new feature: The Pfingst-Open-Air got a YouTube Channel broadcasting the interviews with our headliners. The Channel will supply you with movies ofthe festival and will link the best privately filmed material of the event. Simply subscribe on the page www.youtube.com/pfingstopenair, become a friend of the POA and automatically get informed about new vids online. Many thanks to our artists for their statements and long live the modern media age!
28.7.08 Starfotos online!
After a short summer break it's time again for the best pictures of the POA 08 you'll be able to see: Our Photo-Pros and POA addicts Holger Pick and Sam Kenst made their way through hundreds of tents for catching the atmosphere in a digital form. In addition we thank Stefan Katzlinger for his shots and the allowance for publishing these. You can watch all these wonderful moments again in our Foto-Section to shorten the waiting time till 2009! Have fun!
09.7.08 Mighty Sounds - Summer Ska Punk Explosion!
Whoever needs more music after our festival is more than invited to join our partner Open-Air in Tschechia: The biggest Ska Punk Festival in Europa takes place 18.-20.7. 2008, in Olší u Tábora, Tschechian Republic, app. 70 kilometers away from Prague. The Mighty Sound 2008 offers you six stages - three Live-Stages, two DJ-Stages and a theater – Chapiteaux.
Over 10.000 visitors are expected! Line-Up so far: Mad Caddies, Dr. Ring Ding, The Toasters, Yellow Umbrella, Irie Revoltes, Obrint Pas, The Upsessions, Rotterdam Ska Jazz Foundation, SKAOS, T-Bone, Citizen Fish, "Scots", The Real Mc Kenzis, Turbo A.C.´s, Vice Squad,…
Apart from the the DJ Stages there will be other activities like various workshops, theater performances, sport (soccer, paintball) and a lot more. Get your ticket in pre-sale: www.ticketpro.cz, www.ticketstream.cz, www.ticketportal.cz.
15.5.08 A huge THANK YOU - A first Conclusion
What a beauty - what a nice festival we've had! We still got goose bumps when thinking back to this wunderful weekend and hope you feel the same!
There's loads of keys, mobile phones and other things in our "lost property" box. Just send an e-mail to Kathi if you miss out on sth. The first quick pics are online now, for the real shots, we ask you to be patient, as our Pro-Photographers need their time. For next year we definitely will improve our entrance system again and after several suggestions from you will make it impossible to campen without a ticket. The time in Hauzenberg comes to an end now as all the trash will be gone by tomorrow the latest. So, Hauzenberg citizens can enjoy their park again in summertime. EA big thanks to all the 6000 visitors, who made this festival a massive party in the sunshine.
Yours, the POA Crew
25.4.08 - 14.5.08 Reports from on-site!
Our Live-Festival ticker between the 25.4.08 and the 14.5.08 is only available in german language. We're sorry for that and hope you still joined the show!
24.4.08 POA goes FM!
Only 14 days to go until the Pfingst-Open-Air opens its doors to start the summer! To shorten the timeof waiting we created a festival-radio in cooperation with our friends from Laut.de. You can listen to your favourite tracks played by all bands hitting the POA-Mainstage in 2008! You can listen either by pushing the play button on our site at the bottom left, or go to the direct link: http://www.laut.fm/pfingstopenair
There you can just play it in the background while surfing on our site! Isn't life just beautiful???
17.4.08 Kick-Off Event on 26th of April!
We're proud to presend a Kick-Off event in Austria in cooperatoin with the nice and comfy Bockmas-Festival (22.-24th of August in the ruins of Altwartenburg close to Timelkam, OÖ): Both Open-Airs will organise the Festival-take-off on the 26th of April in the Premysl in Vöcklamarkt. Apart from music of "TD & the Jammers" and "The Scaredycats" you can look forward for further detailed infos on the festivals itself, watch the new POA movie of 2007, buy or win Tickets and be curious about the line-up of the Bock Ma's Festival exclusively presented. Further infos: http://www.premysl.at/index.htm.
Furthermore we invite you to the Mightysounds Festival -organised by our partner in Tschechia. Being the biggest Ska-Punk Festival in Europe this years' headliner are Dennis Alcapone, Irie Revoltes, The Toasters, Subhumans, Demented Are Go, Real McKenzies, Citizen Fish, Dr. RingDing and many more on 5 stages. The festival will take place from 18.-20th of July, in Olsi close to Tabor, app. 100 km sout of Prague or app. 180 k's away from Passau.
8.4.08 That's what Passau has been waiting for!
Right in the Festivalcountdown another cool Message is spread: Passau is getting a cultural centre for Live-Acts, Theatre, Parties and other various events! Alex and Kathi set out to conquer the old and honourable cinema ProLi (Promenaden Lichtspiele) to transform it into a beautiful location for all live-fans and night owls. The metamorphosis will take place within the next hlf a year, so the ProLi will be ready to rock for the new autumn season with a packed program just in time! For any details pleas contact Alex Gubisch and Kathi (see Contacts).
28.3.08 The new style: Directly printed for your soul!
Just in time to be sent before easter, thousands of posters, flyers and programs left our office! The new style 2008 is expressed in a deep red with black marks and beautiful shapes. Hang the new art-poster up your walls and enjoy the 8th edition next to each other.
In Addition you can watch out for the collector’s edition of the flyers 2008: 8 starshots from last year by Holger Pick are featured on the backside!
Go to the Flyer Collector's Edition Sammeledition 2008
22.3.08 Last Man Standing: Moneybrother!
Last but not least we are extremely happy to announce that Moneybrother completes our this years’ billing! The Swedish guy will fascinate you on stage with fantastic and sweet melodies from the very deep of his heart!
We’re really happy to present you again a great variety of quality bands and hope you like it as well. Please look at the complete Running Order for further information on the Line-Up.
20.3.08 Asian Dub Foundation instead of La Vela Puerca!
Unfortunately La Vela Puerca had to cancel their whole Europe-Tour. We found a more than adequate band tohop into the gap: The Asian Dub Foundation will play one of their rare gigs and celebrate a mixture of Ragga-Vocals and Break-Beats in your ears and brains! Therefore they even arranged to play their new songs of the upcoming album exclusively! We're sorry for the cancellation of La Vela Puerca, but are really thrilled to get the chance to see the Asian Dub Foundation live on stage at the Pfingst-Open-Air!
18.3.08 What's the age limit to go to the Open-Air?
As last year there is special limits to jung people below the age of 18. Jungsters between 16 and 17 years can go to the festival by themselves until the last band of the day has finished (12am). If you want to camp on the festiva site as well your parents must agree to this. Boys and girls between the age of 14 to 15 are allowed to go to the festival as well and can camp there as long as your parents or a supervising person above 18 years accompanies you. Please let your parents fill out the form which can be downloaded at the link location shown below. According to the authorities it is forbidden for Kids under 6 years to join the festival. For further details please look up Jugendschutzour special Pages adressed to these age groups.
7.3.2008 Madsen ahoi!!
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| 5.3.2008 Attwenger confirmed! |
Coming directly from the throne of german Indie-Rock Madsen sets out to rock the crowd in Hauzenberg
20.2.2008 The complete Program of the second stage: Now online! |
| 19.2.2008 Austrian Award Winner "Manuel Normal" confirmed |
16.2.2008 Nosliw and Agnostic Front confirmed! |
| 14.2.2008 Current pictures of the Contest-Concerts and a big Thanks... |
10.2.2008 Smoking Colts win 2nd concert | | 9.2.2008 First winner in the Battle for Hauzenberg: The Scaredycats |
24.1.2008 Tickets in the Early-Bird Special until 10th of Feb! |
| 23.1.2008 Contest players decided! The great band final for Hauzenberg |
22.1.2008 Punk on Stage! Turbostaat confirmed |
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| 21.1.2008 La Vela Puerca and the Ohrbooten rock the spot |
27.12.2007 Bands instead of bombs! First confirmations 08!!!
We're starting the party with one of the most interesting indie-rock bands of last year: The FOTOS. The first album was celebrated by the media already in 2006. German vocals and meet a rocking attitude and the beats go directly into the legs. The second album is announced for this April, the hype-fuze is alreadyin flames and the band will totally go off live in 3D on the Festivalsite of Hauzenberg!
For the final on sunday it is time for Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar to hit the stage! Originating in the electronical Downbeat, Shantel from Frankfurt (singer, multiinstrumentalist, DJ and musical partner of celebrities like Kruder & Dorfmeister) discovered his affinity to the french Savoir Vivre, Funk, Soul, Ska, Speed Folk and eastern european Brass loads of trips and travels. He decided to combine it all! Last autumn his debut record (with active help from Manu Chao) „Disco Partizani“ was released and went straight into the minds and hearts of the audience as well as the media. The title is true and authentic as this is the best description for his concerts.Happy New Year from the POA Crew!
29.7.2007 Attention Musicians and Bands !!!
Due to the fact that we already have a lot of applications for next year's festival, we want to notify you that we are going to change our application procedures. Please do no longer apply via mail. We will eyplain the new procedure here from around October 1st. The deadline for applications for our festival 2008 will be around January, 15th.
[Translate to English:] 26.5.2007 Es rockt und rockt und rollt!
[Translate to English:] Unglaublich! Ein Festival ohne Gleichen geht seinen Gang: Muff Potter und die Donots spielten vor tausenden Besuchern ihre Fans in die Nacht und rockten den Platz und die Cocktailbar hart! Der Sommer ist über Hauzenberg ausgebrochen und wir freuen uns auf ein weiterhin heißes Festival mit zwei dicken Tagen: Heute abend Tocotronic, Jahcoustix, Knorkator, Sugarplum Fairy und unser Weltrekordversuch die längste Polonaise der Welt zu starten, morgen dann Dendemann, Joyside, The Staggers und Panteón Rococó! Und jetzt neu: Die aktuellen Fotos !!!!http://www.pfingstopenair.de/?content=23&gallery=39
[Translate to English:] 24.5.2007 Sonnenschein pur!
[Translate to English:] Der Countdown läuft, und ab geht die Post! Bei hochsommerlichen 29°C ist der Festivaltisch gedeckt und wir freuen uns riesig auf die vielen bunten Besucher, die das Gelände im strahlenden Sonnenschein entern werden. Und die Aussichten sind rosig: Es bleibt heiß und sonnig! Die ersten Bilder vom heutigen Freitag sind morgen früh in der Bilder-Section online! Bis gleich, eure POA Orga Crew.