Fusion Festival in Lärz, Germany: 2027 gap, 2028 dates and tickets

What is Fusion Festival?

Fusion Festival, also searched as Fusion Festival Germany, is held in most summers at the former military airfield on the Müritz lake plateau, and it is organised by Kulturkosmos Müritz, a non-profit association that has run it since 1999. The festival's own English page says the association has about 50 employees through the year, more than 200 crews and over 10,000 people working at the event, with 2,500 supporters. It also says there is no private profit from the bars.

The programme is wide: the festival describes more than 1,000 programme elements and over 3,000 artists, across music, theatre, film, performance and workshops. Much of it is electronic music on open-air floors, and most of the programme is announced only once the festival starts.

The festival traces itself to the summer of 1996, when the site hosted the U-Site Gathering. Fusion Festival followed in 1997, and the organisers marked 30 years of music in Lärz in 2026. A photograph policy runs through all of it: guests are asked to respect "unphotographed" areas, which is why there is little official footage to point you to, and why the sets further down this page were recorded elsewhere.

Fusion Festival 2026

The 2026 edition ran from Wednesday 24 June to Sunday 28 June, according to the official FAQ read on 5 October 2026. Gates opened on Wednesday at 07:00, the Wednesday programme started at 16:00 and the big open-air floors started on Thursday at 18:00. On the loud stages there is a daily break from 11:00 to 14:00 from Friday to Sunday.

The official June 2026 newsletter said tickets had sold out and that the only legitimate route to a ticket was the organisers' own exchange, the Ticket:Bourse. Wristbands carry a chip and are scanned. Sunday tickets were €65 online and €70 on site for Sunday 28 June, 08:00 to 16:00. Motorised vehicles in camping areas needed a vehicle add-on ticket in 2026, with free parking on the airfield otherwise. Fusion Festival 2025 had a different problem: the organisers noted Deutsche Bahn construction on the Berlin to Neustrelitz line during the festival week.

The same newsletter described drug-checking run with the University of Rostock, support teams from Eclipse e.V., and a rule that open dealing leads to removal. It also asked guests not to bring national flags, and said there would be no public viewing of the World Cup.

Fusion Festival 2027 and 2028

There is no Fusion Festival in 2027. The organisers' November 2025 newsletter calls 2027 a Fusion-free year and a free year for the sister theatre festival at.tension too, with the reasons given as breathing, reflecting, tidying up and envisioning. There is a precedent: 2017 was a break year after 20 years of Fusion. The ticket shop, read on 5 October 2026, states that the next edition runs from 28 June to 2 July 2028, and both Fusion and at.tension return in 2028.

So the Fusion Festival 2027 question has a plain answer. If you are searching for a summer 2027 date, none exists, and anything advertising one is not from the organisers' pages read here. The Fusion Festival dates to note are 28 June to 2 July 2028, a Wednesday to a Sunday.

Fusion Festival tickets

Fusion Festival tickets are allocated by registration and lottery, because demand has long exceeded the number of places. Tickets are name-bound and cannot be passed on at will. If you cannot go, the official exchange is the Ticket:Bourse, and the organisers warn against the black market.

How the ticket lottery works

The 2026 process is the best guide to how the 2028 one is likely to run, though the organisers have not confirmed that. Registration ran from 1 to 14 December 2025 through the Fusion Ticketshop, and groups could register together. A first draw followed on 18 December, with payment due from 1 January 2026, and a second draw on 5 February. The December registration counted for both draws and no later registration was possible. Ticket:Bourse and Sunday tickets opened on 5 February, supporter applications ran from 1 to 10 December and vehicle tickets followed in spring.

The 2026 ticket cost €220 including a €10 deposit for waste. Local tickets, at €30 for people over 50 and €60 for ages 18 to 50, were available to residents of listed municipalities and sold from 16:00 on the festival Saturday. The 2028 price and registration window had not been published on 5 October 2026.

Fusion Festival Lärz and Kulturkosmos

The Fusion Festival Lärz question is simple: the festival is held at the Müritz Airpark, a former Soviet military airfield outside Lärz in the district of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte in northeast Germany. Kulturkosmos Lärz, the cultural centre the organisers run there, has owned the site for 25 years according to the official site, and has used it for culture for 30 years.

That ownership was briefly in question. On 28 November 2025 the organisers published the Bundeswehr's reply to a press inquiry from the Tagesspiegel: the Lärz site was "currently as of now not yet" in the strategic property reserve that the defence ministry had frozen in October 2025. The wording leaves the outcome open, and I found no later statement on the pages read.

Fusion Festival capacity

The Fusion Festival capacity is reported at about 70,000 visitors. That figure comes from the taz in May 2019 and from other press reports, not from an official statement on the pages read, so treat it as press reporting. Reports disagree on the site's area, with figures from 100 to 220 hectares in the sources found, so this page gives none.

Fusion Festival stages

Fusion Festival stages number more than 30, according to the official FAQ, and many are converted aircraft hangars. The largest concert stage is the Palapa. Other named places include the Luftschloss, the Palast der Republik, Rootsbase, the Zirkuszelt, the Waschsalon, the Oase and the Sonnendeck, plus a workshop hangar. There is a Konsum supermarket on site near camp B4, and free toilets since 2022. The nearest hospital is 25 km away.

Fusion Festival age limit and rules

Fusion Festival is 18 and over. The festival says under-18s are not allowed on the festival area even with parents, and that the rule was introduced under pressure from authorities. A children's programme ran until 2023. There are age checks at all entrances except the Insel camps I1 to I4, which fill within hours. Pets and dogs, drones, fireworks, sky lanterns, campfires, charcoal barbecues and graffiti are all banned, and guests are asked to respect the photo policy.

Fusion Festival police dispute

The Fusion Festival police dispute began over a security concept. After new security rules were adopted in 2018, the police in Neubrandenburg refused on 15 April 2019 to approve the festival's security concept, the first refusal in more than 20 years, the taz reported on 25 May 2019. The organisers had submitted their plan on 28 February, a permit was denied on 3 May and a revised concept followed on 16 May.

Police President Nils Hoffmann-Ritterbusch demanded a permanent police station on the festival grounds and cited political participants described as partly highly violent. GMX reported on 25 June 2019 that the police first sought about 100 officers working in shifts across the site, and that an early draft mentioned armoured vehicles and water cannons. The organisers, including Martin Eulenhaupt and Jonas Hänschel, said a permanent police presence would feel like harassment, and a petition reached about 138,000 signatures.

The 2019 compromise was a single police station at the entrance, with officers able to enter the site case by case. The festival went ahead from 26 to 30 June 2019. The official site still describes the 2019 demands as disproportionate, and its 2025 newsletter says the 18+ rule was introduced under pressure from authorities.

Fusion Festival lineup

The Fusion Festival lineup is not published as a poster. The programme is announced in the Festival Guide and app from the start of the festival, with some programme information on the website from early June. The 2028 programme was not published on 5 October 2026.

Among the thousands of entries on the official 2026 programme page, names include Acid Pauli, Modeselektor, Apparat, Recondite, Rødhåd, Gerd Janson and Magda. I checked these against the page on 5 October 2026 and did not read all of it, so the list is a sample.

Fusion Festival sets

No set from Fusion itself is linked here, because the festival's photo and film restraint means there is little recorded material. Four sets from the Selector catalogue follow, by artists who appear on the 2026 programme. None of them was recorded at Fusion: they come from Boiler Room, and they are chosen as listening. The Selector plays another recorded DJ set at random when you want something you do not know.

How to get there

Fusion Festival how to get there is a question with several answers, and the official FAQ, read on 5 October 2026, covers the 2026 pattern. For Fusion Festival Berlin is the nearest big city, and the route is the train to Neustrelitz. Special trains ran on Wednesday from Berlin Gesundbrunnen to Neustrelitz at 10:09 and 13:09. From Neustrelitz, shuttle buses leave from the Rummelplatz, five minutes from the station, at €6 one way. The Brandenburg-Ticket (€33 for five people) and the Deutschlandticket both cover the regional trains. Federal police check people at Neustrelitz station.

Direct Bassliner buses run to the festival bus stop and need a valid festival ticket. By car, take the A24, then the A19 towards Rostock, leave at Röbel (exit 18) and follow the B198 towards Neustrelitz. A guided bike tour starts from the S-Bahn at Oranienburg and covers about 87 km, and a bike dismount zone applies at the site. Taxis are available from Neustrelitz or Waren, with no official taxi shuttles. You cannot arrive before Wednesday, so people who come early camp at the Canoo station in Mirow.

Camping opens on Wednesday at 07:00 and must be cleared on the Tuesday afternoon after the festival. Showers are cold at the Shower Tower and warm at the Waschsalon and the Oase, and there is a cash machine near the main entrance. For clubs in the same city many visitors start from, see the guide to the best clubs in Berlin.