Giving bands a stage that you don't hear on the radio.
That is the aim of festival organizers Monika Schmid and Andrea Härle from Regensburg.
Regensburg - "Wild & Crazy" is the name of the music festival, which is taking place this year in its third edition in Obertraubling near Regensburg.
And wild and crazy, at least a bit, also seem to be Monika Schmid and Andrea Härle.
Obertraubling: Crazy?
Two festivals under Corona conditions
Last year they held this festival over two days at the airport in Obertraubling.
One of the few music festivals that took place in Germany in 2021.
In the middle of Bavaria, under what were probably the toughest Corona conditions at the time.
Monika Schmid speaks of "idealism, love of subculture and a certain amount of stupidity" when asked what drives her in all of this.
In 2019 she launched the "Wild & Crazy".
Back then alone.
That was still a concert evening at the Tiki Beat in Regensburg.
The idea: connecting subcultures.
music and art.
And get something out of it for a good cause.
Three years ago it was an exhibition of paintings and works of art by tattooists, artists and children from the children's home, who received special attention during this campaign.
Since then, the tattoo artist has been the godmother of eight children in care homes.
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"Wild & Crazy" festival near Regensburg: A lot of idealism and a portion of stupidity
Schmid Andrea Härle are now organizing the festival together - a little bigger, a little longer and at a new location - at the airport in Obertraubling.
In 2020 it was still an emergency solution to go there, they say.
Because of the Corona requirements, which were not foreseeable at the time of the initial planning, in order to be able to keep the distances.
Cancellation was out of the question.
Schmid: “There were almost all professional musicians.
People who are not systemically important, fall through the cracks and urgently need the money.” So she went through with it.
It should be five bands.
Then the day before the festival came the bad news: A band from Italy was not allowed to leave the country because of changed corona rules.
The main act had to cancel due to a corona case in its own ranks.
But the festival organizer hung on the phone - and at one o'clock in the morning the line up was ready.
With Thorsten Loher, Erection and Sleezy Gypsy from Regensburg, Dukes of Tijuhana from the Ruhr area and with the Coffin Nails, who drove off early enough to travel 1,400 kilometers from England.
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A subculture festival near Regensburg: you don't earn money with it
It's not about the money.
You don't deserve any either.
"We want to give people who are good a stage," says Andrea Härle.
"Bands whose music is not on the radio." And so in 2021 both went into financial risk again.
On the one hand with success - the festival was sold out.
However, 400 allowed tickets were hardly enough to even cover the expenses.
This year, the two festival organizers finally want to try it under normal conditions - two days, on August 26th and 27th, 13 bands, 1,200 tickets and 150 campsites next door.
Outside until eleven o'clock at night, then we continue in the hall.
Festival organizer from Regensburg "We simply feel closer to the devil than to heaven."
The whole thing can't really be assigned to one genre of music.
Psychobilly and punk, industrial and new wave, blues, ska and garage can be found (among other things) in the line up.
Shotter, Turbomongo and Thorsten Loher from the Regensburg scene are also at the start.
The other bands come from all over Europe: Denmark, Italy, Finland, France, Austria, Holland, Ireland and Belgium...
The ticket costs 66.66 euros.
A price chosen with care.
"We simply feel closer to the devil than to heaven," says Monika Schmid and laughs.
