Nature One is one of the largest European open-air electronic music festivals, featuring many renowned DJs from Germany and all over the world.
Overview
Nature One tickets cost approximately 70 euros (as of 2010). The festival lasts for one long weekend each year always on the first weekend of August. There is a fireworks display on Saturday evening.
In 2004 the festival had an attendance of roughly 53,000, with over 40,000 camping in nearby fields. The camping ground is effectively a second festival, with many hobby DJs and some commercially organized trucks, loaded with generators and fuel, rivaling small clubs with turntables, loudspeakers and lighting. Some people attend only the campsite as an 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 attendees. The site is a decommissioned US missile base called "Pydna", providing infrastructure and 100,000 m2 space (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 grounds 6,000 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 One 10,000+ campers |
25,000 |
| 30 July – 1 August 1999 | "Festival 99" | 178 DJs and live acts | 18,000 campers 11 clubs floors |
30,000 |
| 28–30 July 2000 | "Sound of Love" | 211 DJs and live acts | festival extends to a warm-up party on Thursday 16 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 campers 16 club floors |
50,000 |
| 30 July – 1 August 2004 | "The Golden 10" | 275 DJs and live acts | 40,000 campers 16 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 m2 17 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)
