Nature One is one of the largest European open-air electronic music festivals, featuring many renowned DJs from Germany and all over the world. In significance it is not as big as Mayday nor as old, having started three years later than the Mayday festival. However, attendance has surpassed the Mayday, even when one takes into account that the Mayday only lasts one evening, while the Nature One has two main evenings with additional smaller events from Thursday till Sunday.

Overview

Nature One tickets cost approximately 70 euros (as of 2010). But unlike the Love Parade, the only real damage to nature occurs due to the trampling of the grass on the bunker hills and the fields used for camping (the crops have always been harvested by the time the festival starts).

As a special attraction there is a fireworks display on Saturday evening.

The festival lasts for one long weekend each year always on the first weekend of August.

In 2004 the festival had an attendance of roughly 53,000, with over 40,000 using the nearby fields for camping over the weekend (officially allowed and organized by the Nature One staff).

The camping ground has always been the second festival, with many hobby DJs and some commercially organized trucks, loaded with generators and fuel, the equipment rivaling small clubs in turntables, loudspeakers and sometimes even lighting. Some people who are either unwilling or unable to pay for admission to the festival area use this fact to have a cheaper alternative festival weekend.

The festival itself is structured into four "main floors" each for a few thousand: Open Air Floor (mostly Trance) Century Circus (Techno) House of House (House, Minimal) Classic Terminal There are also a few smaller areas (in 2012, there are 18 smaller areas), sometimes occupied by techno club crews for a few hundred. The whole thing is located at a US missile base called "Pydna", now decommissioned, which has all necessary infrastructure and space for this kind of festival, a total of 100,000 m2 (without camping, which takes up more than 1 km2).

Since 2002 Nature One is supported by eve&rave Münster e.V. with drug-information desks.

Past and future Nature One

Date Theme Number of acts Miscellaneous Attendance(estimated) 26 August 1995 "Open Air Rave" 38 DJs and live acts at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport 13,000 17 August 1996 "Open Air 96" 40 DJs and live acts moves to Pydna missile base 15,000 1–3 August 1997 "The Festival" 70 DJs and live acts First camping grounds6,000 campers turn Nature One into a true "festival" 20,000 31 July – 2 August 1998 "Festival 98" 125 DJs and live acts 7 techno/house clubs build up their floors at Nature One10,000+ campers 25,000 30 July – 1 August 1999 "Festival 99" 178 DJs and live acts 18,000 campers11 clubs floors 30,000 28–30 July 2000 "Sound of Love" 211 DJs and live acts festival extends to a warm-up party on Thursday16 club floors 36,000 3–5 August 2001 "Super Natural" 250 DJs and live acts 16 club floors 40,000 2–4 August 2002 "Summer Sound System" 228 DJs and live acts 35,000 campers 45,000 1–3 August 2003 "Alive & Kickin'" 217 DJs and live acts 40,000 campers16 club floors 50,000 30 July – 1 August 2004 "The Golden 10" 275 DJs and live acts 40,000 campers16 club floors 52,000 5–7 August 2005 "Mission to future" 300 DJs and live acts 18 club floors 48,000 4–6 August 2006 "Live your passion" 300 DJs and live acts 18 club floors 45,000 3–5 August 2007 "Das dreizehnte Land" 300 DJs and live acts 16 club floors 50,000 1–3 August 2008 "Wake Up In Yellow" 300 DJs and live acts festival area extends by 20,000 m217 club floors 58,000 31 July – 2 August 2009 "Smile is the answer" 300 DJs and live acts 18 club floors 61,000 30 July – 1 August 2010 "The Flag Keeps Flying" 300 DJs and live acts 18 club floors 55,000 5–7 August 2011 "Go Wild – Freak Out" 300 DJs and live acts 18 club floors 54,000 3–5 August 2012 "YOU. ARE. STAR" 300 DJs and live acts 18 club floors 56,000 2–4 August 2013 "a time to shine" 300 DJs and live acts 18 club floors 64,000 1–3 August 2014 "The Golden 20" 350 DJs and live acts 19 club floors 72,000 31 July – 2 August 2015 "stay as you are" 376 DJs and live acts 19 club floors 65,000 5–7 August 2016 "red dancing flames" 300 DJs and live acts 19 club floors 65,000 4–6 August 2017 "we call it home" 350 DJs and live acts 23 club floors 56,000 3–5 August 2018 "all you need to be" 350 DJs and live acts 23 club floors 54,000 2–4 August 2019 "The Twenty Five" 350 DJs and live acts 22 club floors 65,000 5–7 August 2022 "like nowhere else" 350 DJs and live acts 22 club floors 60,000 4–6 August 2023 "where we belong" 350 DJs and live acts 22 club floors 65,000 1–4 August 2024 "full of life" 350 DJs and live acts 22 club floors 50,000 31 July–3 August 2025 "Celebrating Thirty Years" 350 DJs and live acts 22 club floors 65,000 30 July–2 August 2026

Awards Dance Music Award 2003: in the category "Best Event" The Helga Festival Award (from Festivalguide) 2013: in the category "Best Festival National" (Audience Award)

See also List of electronic music festivals

References

External links

https://www.nature-one.de/events/nature-one/