Town: Leipzig, Germany (at more than 20 venues, spread all over the city), camping site and main venue at the edge of town at the "agra-fairground" Markkleeberg (a location plan will be published on our internet page within the next weeks)
Music styles: All kinds of dark music: Gothic; EBM; Industrial; Ambient; Neofolk; Synthpop, Goth-Metal etc.
Camping: Possible with "Obsorge" ticket, limited up to 9999 tickets for 21,- Euro (includes advance sale charges), contains the following service-package:
• Camping at the Treffen-Campground (agra-fairground) • Silver Disc (Compact Disc) "Artists at the 16th WGT" • "Pfingstbote" ("Whitsun-herald") - the Treffen-programbook
Please note: Entrance to and use of the campground is impossible without an "Obsorge" ticket. The "Obsorge" ticket is only valid in connection with the Treffen-Event-Ticket.
Parking: For car parking at the main venue of the Treffen-area you have to purchase a Parking Vignette for 15,- Euro (includes advance sale charges).
Please note: Parking at the Treffen-area (agra-fairground) is definitely impossible without a Parking Vignette.
Capacity (expected number of visitors): about 20 000
Advance ticket sale: 4-days ticket for all events within the 16th Wave-Gotik-Treffen Whitsun 2007, 58,- Euro in advance ticket sale (including advance sale charges), available via "Ticket Order" at our internet page. Treffen ticket includes free use of public transportation (tram, city-busses, regional trains, surburban trains) within the zone 110 of MDV ("Mitteldeutscher Verkehrs Verbund") from 2007-05-25 12.00h to 2007-05-29 12.00h (without special routes)
Infoline: 0049-341-2120862
Photos: See "Photogallery" at our internet page
Description: Like every year on Whitsun the next Wave-Gotik-Treffen (the 16th !) will take place in Leipzig / Germany from 25th to 28th of May. Since many years we've been celebrating the Treffen as a big gathering of the "dark family”. It is the biggest gathering of its kind worldwide.
All over the city we´ll have more than 150 bands, projects and single artists, performing on about 20 stages. Our events take place for instance in the morbid, ancient cinema "UT Connewitz”, in the splendid cupola hall of the "Volkspalast”, in the crypt of the "Völkerschlachtdenkmal”, a famous monument of the battle of 1813, as well as in large concerthalls. Once more we´ll cover the whole wide range of Gothic-music: from Electro-Pop to Goth-Metal, from EBM to Neofolk, from medieval music to Industrial.
However, from its beginning the Wave-Gotik-Treffen has been much more than a music festival: Our guests will find a medieval market place and a pagan village, we will have authors reading, theatre and cinematic performances. One of the big halls on agra-fairground (the wide place of the German agricultural fair) will turn into the biggest Gothic-warehouse of the world for four days.
On this fairground there is also the Treffen camping ground. To enter, you need a special ticket (we call it "Obsorgekarte”) which includes also the extensive WGT-program-book with a CD featuring some of the artists who will perform. The public transport in the city is free for all WGT-guests.
The inhabitants of Leipzig are familiar with the Treffen since 15 years. You will be welcome here. The most fascinating thing during the Wave Gotik Treffen is the unique atmosphere. Gothics from all over the world are celebrating their gathering peacefully and with relish, turning the whole city into a diverse black. Once a year about twenty thousand Gothics are coming home: to the Wave-Gotik-Treffen.
We would be happy to welcome you in Leipzig too. Visit the Treffen – your friends from all over the world are already there! See you!
The Treffen-Team
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Currently there are 125 artists confirmed:
45 Grave (USA) - :Golgatha: (D) first gig - Absolute Body Control (B) after 23 years reunited for a German premiere - Absurd Minds (D) - Adam (I) - Adorned Brood (D) - Amatris (D) - Amorphis (FIN) - Angels & Agony (NL) - Angelspit (AUS) European premiere - Architect (D) - ASP (D) additional acoustic gig - Bella Donna (D) - Beloved Enemy (D) - Big Boy (S) - Breathe (D) - Cinema Strange (USA) - Conetik (N) - Coppelius (D) - Crematory (D) - Cruachan (IRL) - Dandelion Wine (AUS) - De / Vision (D) - Der Fluch (D) - Dernière Volontè (F) - Disillusion (D) - Dismantled (USA) - Dive (B) - Dolor (D) - Dope Stars Inc. (I) - Dornenreich (A) acoustical gig - Eisbrecher (D) - Elegant Machinery (S) - Elster Silberflug (D) the legend from the seventies - Elusive (N) - Emilie Autumn (USA) - Entwine (FIN) - Estampie (D) - Faderhead (CH) - Felsenreich (D) - Fetisch:Mensch (D) venture of Oswald Henke - Fixmer / McCarthy (F/UK) - Frank The Baptist (USA) - Frankenstein (USA) - Front 242 (B) - Haggard (D) - Heimataerde (D) first gig - Heimstatt Yipotash (D) - I:Scintilla (USA) German premiere - In Strict Confidence (D) - Jesus & The Gurus (CH) - Kiew (D) - Kosmic Horrör (D) - Krypteria (D) - Les Anges De La Nuit (USA) European premiere - Liquid Divine (D) - Lycosia (F) - Müllér Of Death (D) - Merlons Lichter (D) - Midge Ure (UK) the legendary voice of ULTRAVOX - Midnattsol (D/N) - Moonspell (P) - New Skin (UK) - Nim Vind (CDN) - Northern Lite (D) - Nvmph (S) - Obscenity Trial (D) - Occculture (D) - Orange Sector (D) - Plastique Noir (BR) - Poisonblack (FIN) - Potentia Animi (D) - Pre.Emptive Strike 0.1 (GR) - Pride & Fall (S) - Primordial (IRL) - Proceed (D) - Psyclon Nine (USA) - Punto Omega (RA) - Pzychobitch (D) - Qntal (D) special performance with Estampie and guests - Rabia Sorda (MEX) - Reflexion (FIN) - Reliquary (USA) - Remember Twilight (D) - Rosa Crux (F) - Rotersand (D) - Seabound (D) - Secret Discovery (D) - Seelenfunken (D) - Shadow Reichenstein (USA) - Soman (D) - Subway To Sally (D) - Suicide Commando (B) - Suidakra (D) - Tamtrum (F) - Terminal Choice (D) - The Cassandra Complex (UK) - The Crimson Ghosts (D) - The Deep Eynde (D) - The Illusion Fades (GR) - The Killerheels (UK) - The Last Days Of Jesus (SK) - The Levellers (UK) - The Lovecrave (I) - The Promise (D) - The Pussybats (D) - The Retrosic (D) World premiere - The Superheroines (USA) European premiere - This Morn` Omina (B) - Unter Null (D) - Unterart (D) - Untoten (D) acoustic gig - Vive La Fete (B) - Warren Suicide (D) - Wolfenmond (D) - Zadera (D) - Zeraphine (D) - Zombina & The Skeletons (UK)
