History and Audience
After the great success of the Hurricane Festival, FKP Scorpio decided to make a similar event in the south of Germany. In 1999, a former military airbase (Neubiberg bei München) in Neubiberg, near Munich, was selected. In 2000, the festival was moved to another former military airbase, this time in Neuhausen ob Eck, which is near Freiburg and Stuttgart.
Because of the relative proximity to other countries (France, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein are all less than 100 km away), the audience is very multinational. In 2003, the calculated maximum capacity of around 40,000 people was reached and the festival has been sold out well in advance since.
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