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The biggest hip hop festival in Europe is history. Due to the depletion of stocks, 50,000 visitors a day made a stop at Grosse Allmend. The organizer reports a record result and strives to remain attractive.
Groups of visitors leave the Grosse Allmend with bag and bag. (Image: Reto Martin)
What remains as the highlight of the 2018 Open Air Frauenfeld is clear. The American rapper Eminem returned Saturday night on the stage of the Great Allmend and delighted 50,000 visitors. Enthusiastic about Eminem 's performance and this year' s festival, it is also the organizer. "All is positive, we conclude with a record result," said media spokesman Joachim Bodmer. For the first time, the organizers announced months before the festival that he would be exhausted. So since last Thursday there were 50,000 hip-hop fans every day at Allmend, the organizer has already sold 180,000 tickets in advance. There were no major incidents. "It was a peaceful and cheerful atmosphere," says Bodmer.
Despite record results, the organizer still sees opportunities for improvement. "We did not want to grow economically, but stay exciting, interesting and attractive," he says. This has been achieved with the musical offering with a total of 51 acts, among others with Eminem, Migos, J. Cole or Sido and Kool Savas. In addition, most Internet gigs for everyone were freely accessible and live. "It's thanks to Live Nation's involvement," says Bodmer. Shortly after the festival of the previous year, the American entertainment company bought the majority of the shares of the Frauenfelder First Event AG, which was appointed by the board of directors, Wolfgang Sahli. "Live Nation has always told us to continue as we have done," says Bodmer. This year's record festival proves that this stage was the right one
Smaller problems with the cashless payment system
The organizer does not want to change strategy. It is clear that the capacity limit was reached on the Grosse Allmend field. "The question of a different place does not arise for us," says Bodmer. Neither are there any considerations for organizing a second air in Frauenfeld each year. "Not in Frauenfeld," says Bodmer. There are no other comments. Not even on the subject of waste. "It's too early for now," he says.
The organizer introduced the Cashless cashless payment system. This worked well except for minor technical issues. "But it was not visible to the festival visitor," says Bodmer. The organizer remains helpless in the face of the problem of black market tickets. "There are every year, but unfortunately many still fall for it," he says. How many visitors stood at the entrance with fake tickets, he does not say. "In the future, though, tickets could be customized, like the OpenAir St. Gallen," says Bodmer. But definitely not decided yet. Nobody knows who will be the highlight on the scene from July 11th to 13th.
"The soil has suffered, but not as in the year of mud"
"Very positively surprised", reveals Joggi Rieder, ecological consultant for Armasuisse, which provides land for the Open air as a landowner. "For a long time, we felt like needles, because for the first time, we knew for a long time that the capacity limit of Allmend would be reached with 50,000 visitors a day," says Rieder. Shortly before the festival, the organizers announced that it was forbidden for festival visitors to cool off for the first time in a Thur Nature Reserve. On the one hand, it has moved to Murg and the city with Murg-Auen-Park or Badi. On the other hand, the organizers took precautions with showers and water points. "It worked well," says Rieder. He had reservations especially with the approach of the open air: "If there had been four days of heat as in previous years, the pressure on the site and the organizer would have increased "In the nature reserve next door, he was several times photographed" And I did not see a single festival ". Because of the rain on Friday, the organizers had to make suckers or wood chips against the mud. Of course, the soil had suffered, "but it was not as bad as in the muddy year 2014". Now everything is cleaned until the last Fätzli, the soil plowed and sown again. "Nothing will be visible until the autumn." (Sko)
Joggi Rieder, ecological consultant for Armasuisse. (Image: Andrea Stalder)
Few complaints about noise
For the city of Frauenfeld, the outdoors is a stroke of luck, as city president Anders Stokholm says. "All visitors now bear the name of our city in the world," he says. What they still remember after, where Frauenfeld lies, he doubts though. On the part of the city, Stokholm draws "a very positive conclusion of a very well organized event". He is happy that the festival has the greatest acceptance among the population. "The noise was almost not a problem," he says. In the open air, there was only one complaint. With 50,000 visitors a day, Frauenfeld, with its 25,000 inhabitants, has become a big city for a short time. "Yes, I've been for almost four days Stapi of St. Gallen," Stokholm jokes. He was unaware of any major incident, except for the incident involving the injured woman, when a stranger jumped on his tent and robbed Schmidgasse. Stokholm was informed in each case by security reports on the events. Since the takeover by Live Nation, little has changed for the city in cooperation with the outdoor organizer, except that Stokholm has met new people. "The same people are still in the OK," he says. He was particularly fascinated by the show of rap superstar Eminem, which he followed Friday in the VIP area. "The atmosphere was great and he made his show." (Sko)
Anders Stokholm, Mayor of Frauenfeld. (Image: Andrea Stalder)
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