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The Danube Island Festival on the Danube Island in Vienna is an open-air music festival with free admission, held annually since 1984 in late June on a weekend. With up to three million visitors over three days, it is the largest open air festival in Europe.

History

Was initiated the event by city politicians Harry Kopietz. Precursor in 1983 was a "cultural Early Years Festival", which took place on the finished area around the Floridsdorfer bridge on the Danube Island at that time located in the final. The performances of Minisex, Tom Hertz Pettings attacks and Heli Deinboek had attracted 160,000 fans instead of the expected 15,000.

From the " trial balloon " was a three day event on a hard terrain, which extends over 6.5 kilometers from the Empire Bridge to the North Bridge over the years. Stepping around 27 stages spread over the area to musicians of various styles of music and German -speaking representatives of the cabaret, and there are numerous performance shows, snack sales and information booths. One of the highlights was the fireworks, each of which took place on Saturday and lasted more than 20 minutes. Since 2008, waived the fireworks, since it too distracted by the numerous stage performances. Security Technically, this is advantageous because the load peaks were smoothed slightly in the drive home the visitors. For 2009, a private fireworks party on the Danube Island was scheduled to another date, but this was rejected.

The 25th Danube Island Festival was held until early September because the discharged under other in Vienna in June 2008 European Football Championship. Since 2009, the fixed end of June will take place again as usual.

Harry Kopietz, who organized the Danube Island Festival until 2008, then handed over the primary responsibility to Christian German, who succeeded Kopietz also in the function of SPÖ provincial party secretary. From 2005 to 2012 was responsible for the project management of the feast Sascha Kostelecky. In November 2012 it was announced that the project management was transferred to Thomas Waldner.

Success

Since a long time to count as specified by the organizer of every day more than half a million visitors - 2007, for example, a total of about 2.6 million (due to the rainy first day and outage performances of some 300,000 less than the year before ). In 2013, 3.2 million people visited the Danube Island Festival. Thus, the Danube Island Festival is the largest open air festival in Europe.

2008, about 40 million euros have been recorded according to the organizer at a budget of 5.5 million euros, which will benefit the food outlets, the hotel industry in particular. The average turnover of around 150 stalls was about 50,000 euros, the stand rent was 400 euro per meter.

To reduce the contamination of the site, just pledge cups are issued officially to be redeemed on collection until midnight again. 2007 saw the first rules of the house, in the transportation of spirits and glass bottles prohibited and random checks are provided. For safety and smooth running alongside a contingent of police worry about 1400 volunteers. 2011, a new security concept has been established, which includes, among other things, more security zones and a video monitoring of inflows and outflows.

Notable concerts

Udo Jürgens 1992 played in front of 220,000 spectators, 1993 was one of the great highlights of the concert Falco (see LIVE Danube Island) with more than 150,000 fans. There is a strong thunderstorms led to partial flooding of the stage and ultimately to failure of the equipment. Previously, the power was already during night flight by a lightning strike failed momentarily. In 1995, the Kelly Family in front of 250,000 visitors, in 2006 Christina Stürmer sang on the Ö3 - stage in front of 180,000 spectators. 2007 joined Rain Fendrich "took place and for" the two days before the deceased Georg Danzer was approximately 200,000 visitors.

Leningrad Cowboys 2008

Christina Stürmer 2009

Anna F. 2010