WEBVTT - https://subtitletools.com 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:42.200 Ow! That were my fingers. 00:01:45.160 --> 00:01:47.120 I hate these tent poles. 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:55.200 I prefer those ones. They are rapidly put together and then gone. 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:05.040 The dirty bags of shit, they’re the worst. 00:02:05.720 --> 00:02:08.720 When the sun’s been on them for a few days... nice... 00:02:18.320 --> 00:02:22.320 I need it. I need to get up early in the morning and to put a shift in. 00:02:22.880 --> 00:02:27.480 Then at night I know what I’ve achieved, fall into bed and fall to sleep. 00:02:29.880 --> 00:02:35.120 The alternative is wasting away all day, doing nothing and waiting for the next pay cheque – no thanks! 00:02:36.440 --> 00:02:37.960 - Did you apply? 00:02:38.040 --> 00:02:38.760 - What for? 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:39.800 - For the job here? 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:40.400 - Nah. 00:02:42.160 --> 00:02:43.880 I mean sort of, I suppose. 00:02:44.320 --> 00:02:45.840 Otherwise I wouldn’t be doing it. 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:48.240 A bit of conviction is what it takes. 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:50.640 You need to show that you can work well and say what you can’t do. 00:02:52.640 --> 00:02:54.800 What good is some joker who doesn’t get it? 00:02:56.600 --> 00:03:00.080 Someone you have explain everything 10 or 20 times to – no way! 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:07.400 - But this is a completely normal company here, with a boss and everything, right? 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:10.600 What does normal even mean these days? Nothing is normal. 00:03:15.040 --> 00:03:20.800 Apart from those aliens in the ‘real world’, who just create their own shitty rules, 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:23.040 although they don’t have the rights to do it. 00:03:24.920 --> 00:03:27.840 House, yard, garden, great… 00:03:30.320 --> 00:03:32.720 nice ride, sweet yacht, whatever… 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:34.840 Nah... 00:03:35.600 --> 00:03:39.440 This is just fine for me – more than enough. 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:42.280 More often than not, less is more. 00:04:01.760 --> 00:04:02.760 Alright Krücki? 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:06.960 Everything dry already? Not coming apart, no? 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:11.920 I like it this way – it’s how I want it. 00:04:12.880 --> 00:04:13.960 All is great. 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:16.920 Back in a minute, off for a pee. 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:23.160 Nah. 00:04:25.640 --> 00:04:26.960 It's just amazing. 00:04:33.840 --> 00:04:36.040 Work 00:04:36.080 --> 00:04:38.080 1. An activity which produces results or achieves a purpose. “To be a lot of work for someone”. 00:04:38.080 --> 00:04:40.800 2. Activity as a means to earn income, to be employed. “To go to work” 00:05:20.640 --> 00:05:24.600 Of course, we knew that it was a rather unstable matter. 00:05:26.200 --> 00:05:35.760 And that the cultural use of 14 hangars in open fields without neighbours sort of sounds like a free space, 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:40.440 like an adventure playground, where anything and everything goes. 00:05:40.760 --> 00:05:43.720 And that’s how we thought we could approach the planning process. 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:50.960 We’d draw a line around the whole area, paint everything orange, and write “Special Cultural Site” on it. 00:05:51.400 --> 00:05:55.520 Then we’d give the place a name and submit a draft of a plan 00:05:55.520 --> 00:05:59.920 with the option that Kulturkosmos could do basically whatever it sees fit around here. 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:03.360 That didn’t work… 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:11.480 That’s sort of the weakness of the building laws. 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:17.680 They just can’t handle such a basic-use project. 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:23.600 Instead they always think: to build means to build something new, 00:06:24.520 --> 00:06:31.720 to develop an area, to invest big and leave a big footprint somewhere. 00:06:33.880 --> 00:06:39.600 It was pretty difficult to communicate to the authorities that we pretty much didn’t want to do anything with this space. 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:42.040 We didn’t want to change anything. 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:47.400 Ultimately, it’s artistic ideas that should shape the space. 00:06:47.400 --> 00:06:50.080 And that should be allowed to do so. 00:07:12.880 --> 00:07:14.640 Here’s my hair bobble! 00:07:14.640 --> 00:07:16.080 Hold the tension! 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:25.200 Right, let’s do it. Ready: one, two, three...! Hair bobble! 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:31.960 I’ve got it, I’ve got it, you can let go. 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:38.160 Where’s the rallying cry? 00:07:38.200 --> 00:07:39.880 We need some help over here! 00:07:39.880 --> 00:07:41.880 The People’s Front of Judea. 00:07:47.200 --> 00:07:50.360 When we stand here, it becomes clear, what we we’re working for. 00:07:50.840 --> 00:07:51.800 At last! 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:54.560 At last, we know. 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:57.120 It took a bit for us to realise. 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:26.440 It’s a great thing of course that the festival produces a relatively safe income to allow us to do things like this here at all. 00:08:27.320 --> 00:08:34.480 Obviously as a non-profit association, whatever we take in as revenue is legally required to go out again. 00:08:34.880 --> 00:08:38.080 We can’t just say that we’re going to do something else with it – 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:42.400 our statue outlines cultural activity and youth work 00:08:42.680 --> 00:08:45.960 and that is where the money has to go to. 00:08:47.760 --> 00:08:52.840 We have the aspiration to open this place for others to use it all year around. 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:56.640 We created our own building company – with all the bells and whistles – 00:08:56.640 --> 00:08:58.920 just temporary for a few years because it’s obvious that, 00:08:58.920 --> 00:09:03.760 given our extensive building needs, there’s no point contracting others to do it. 00:09:03.760 --> 00:09:07.880 So we’re doing 70% of it ourselves. 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:11.360 Yeah, I reckon 70% is probably about right. 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:26.840 There’s a real clear hierarchy in the building trade: 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:36.560 The architect leads the planning and the coordination and everyone else follows his or her direction. 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.320 Here it’s of course very different. 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:44.480 Here everyone works across all levels in partnership with each other. 00:09:48.800 --> 00:09:51.800 The classical working order is secondary here. 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:57.080 The handrail, for instance. Now that’s a tale. 00:09:57.080 --> 00:10:00.080 When I drew up the plans for the balcony here, 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:11.920 I drew the handrail of course and specified that it was angled so that the rods had to be made of this round steel 00:10:11.920 --> 00:10:15.480 and of course drew them vertically. 00:10:15.560 --> 00:10:18.440 When I arrived at the building site I got a right shock. 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:22.640 That’s Kulturkosmos for you. 00:10:22.640 --> 00:10:26.520 Someone draws something, gives the measurements, bish bash bosh. 00:10:27.280 --> 00:10:29.880 And they are welding suns out of it. 00:10:29.880 --> 00:10:32.240 You have to expect that here. 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:34.360 I could just stop them or ...have they done it? 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:37.720 Walling up a pentagram. I think they did it, right? 00:10:56.760 --> 00:10:59.080 - How long have you been working on this? 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:03.640 - In total on the mirrors? For about two weeks. 00:11:05.800 --> 00:11:07.120 - And what is it? 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:11.080 - Disco balls. 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:12.320 - But those aren’t balls. 00:11:12.400 --> 00:11:15.920 - Yeah balls are pretty boring I think. 00:11:17.520 --> 00:11:19.920 I’ve done a skull and stuff. 00:11:21.640 --> 00:11:25.720 Together it’s a massive CHIUUUUUUUA 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:35.120 The process is really exciting for me. 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.200 I learn a lot here. 00:11:37.280 --> 00:11:41.440 I am constantly involved in things that I haven't been in touch with before. 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:45.360 I haven't spent the night here either... There's the sunrise! 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.520 My whole life consists of new learning and broadening my horizon. 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:54.720 I am so penniless that I would never have the means to buy a house. 00:11:55.040 --> 00:11:59.600  But I have the opportunity to build a house for the association. 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:06.240 That is something that I enjoy more than other tasks I have to fulfill for Kulturkosmos. 00:12:07.280 --> 00:12:09.720 That brings me to reminding you to uncover the concrete element. 00:12:10.560 --> 00:12:12.760 We need to uncover the concrete element? Which one? 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:14.360 The artistic one. 00:12:15.880 --> 00:12:25.200 I moved out and into a squat when I was 18, 19. And there we were trying out new ways of living. 00:12:27.280 --> 00:12:30.360 I’m from a working class family with middle class aspirations. 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:32.440 And had a Christian-fundamentalist upbringing, 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:38.520 and five siblings and a detached house in the suburbs and… so kind of typical really. 00:12:41.160 --> 00:12:51.480 I think my father felt at the end of his life like… Well, at the beginning, it was like “I do everything wrong". 00:12:51.680 --> 00:12:55.040 "I won’t amount to anything and I’ll wind up in the gutter”. 00:12:55.560 --> 00:13:00.520 Looking back many years later, I think he ended up thinking I did something right that he didn’t. 00:13:00.520 --> 00:13:07.440 That I had a very fulfilled life and he asked himself what he could or should have done differently. 00:13:12.800 --> 00:13:14.880 What did he do? 00:13:14.880 --> 00:13:21.320 I guess, his family... He was a white-collar worker in a factory for 30, 40 years. 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:31.040 When we were young, we always said to him: “You and your company are just as capitalistic as all the others. They just use you”. 00:13:31.040 --> 00:13:33.760 And he never believed us until they fired him. 00:13:33.760 --> 00:13:35.440 That was his family. 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:41.920 At some point when you’re 50 or so, you notice... that you’ve got much less time left on the clock. 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:47.800 That question of what value material goods have when life comes to an end. 00:13:47.920 --> 00:13:51.400 And you can’t buy everything with money, of course. 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:54.680 I think that makes a lot of people stop and think. 00:14:12.800 --> 00:14:15.800 I reckon I would have just taken any small or part-time job. 00:14:15.800 --> 00:14:18.040 I just wanted to leave home. 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:24.720 When I was 14, I went to Rechlin to the shipyard to a restaurant, 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:27.880 where I cleaned and cleared up other people’s crap. 00:14:27.880 --> 00:14:30.360 The working environment didn’t suit me there any more though. 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:32.160 I was just used and messed about. 00:14:32.160 --> 00:14:34.800 So then I came here to the Kindergarten in Rechlin. 00:14:38.040 --> 00:14:40.600 My dream was always to work with kids, but hey: 00:14:41.560 --> 00:14:45.080 Having dreams doesn’t mean they’ll come true, I always say. 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:54.720 Then I applied in Retzow as I was on benefits. 00:14:56.160 --> 00:14:59.800 And when I asked more in the interview, they said it was Kulturkosmos. 00:15:00.520 --> 00:15:01.360 Oh god. 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:02.720 Shit. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.480 Okay, well go take a look. 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:14.400 And when I went for the first time, I thought: 00:15:14.400 --> 00:15:20.560 “Get out of here. There is no system. It’s just complete chaos.” 00:15:24.920 --> 00:15:28.760 But then I spoke to Eule… and I thought he was pretty cool. 00:15:30.160 --> 00:15:35.800 No prejudices. You could just be as you were. 00:15:36.760 --> 00:15:39.400 And then I started here and I was the happiest person ever. 00:15:39.400 --> 00:15:44.160 And my family was really happy. It all just clicked. 00:16:14.880 --> 00:16:20.040 That was the hangar! We made it! 00:16:36.920 --> 00:16:40.680 - holiday communism instead of turbo capitalism - 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:51.040 I don’t really like the term “holiday communism”, 00:16:51.040 --> 00:16:54.520 but it does feel a bit like a holiday camp. 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:59.000 And it takes people out of their usual routine and structures. 00:17:01.280 --> 00:17:05.120 I think it’s a lot about community and living together. 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.840 At the end of the day, that’s something a lot of people are missing. 00:17:08.840 --> 00:17:14.760 They live alone; do lots of stuff on their own. 00:17:14.760 --> 00:17:23.920 And this “time being with other people in the same place and working on a joint project“ 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:27.400 is something a lot of people are missing. 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:39.480 Karl Kutter. 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:42.720 I’ll push it later. 00:17:42.760 --> 00:17:43.760 You have to give yourself some time. 00:17:43.840 --> 00:17:47.680 I’ll be busy for another five minutes and then I have to do something else for ten minutes. 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:49.200 ThenI’ll sort it out. 00:17:52.120 --> 00:18:01.400 It really started from this thing: opening up space for creativity, togetherness – all that hippy stuff. 00:18:02.320 --> 00:18:06.800 And this two-week set-up phase. That’s what we do it all for. 00:18:06.800 --> 00:18:10.000 We get together and work on projects together. You build something with other people. 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:12.200 And at some point it looks great. 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:19.040 That gives you such a high to know that everyone is enjoying looking around and saying: 00:18:19.040 --> 00:18:21.880 “Wow, there’s just nowhere I don’t want to look.” 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:32.040 This creative aspect of life, it’s a really deep need to search for ways to express our individuality. 00:18:32.040 --> 00:18:36.560 And these statements are constantly being made here and create pleasure. 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:06.600 This is the “dance desert”. 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:10.800 Before there was a meadow here. 00:20:10.840 --> 00:20:15.320 But at some point everything was drowned here and so we replaced it all with sand. 00:20:15.320 --> 00:20:17.360 So since then it’s been the dance desert. 00:20:18.760 --> 00:20:23.360 And this year, as you can see, we’ve built a universe. 00:20:24.320 --> 00:20:26.640 The universe wasn’t created in a day. 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:33.160 The planets were slowly built, and then we put them up in stages 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:36.160 – first forwards and then up. 00:20:37.760 --> 00:20:40.920 That’s what it looks like when I do sketches of it all. 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:44.200 This one is now being used as the blueprint for the construction. 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:47.600 These are all drawings that have got a bit wet under the tent... 00:20:49.040 --> 00:20:54.080 This one is a more detailed sketch of what the sun will look like. 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:58.160 These are earlier sketches of how you might build it. 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:02.800 But of course, it wasn’t possible to have it with such long beams. 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:10.120 But then this idea is relatively close to how it’s ended up now. 00:21:18.320 --> 00:21:20.680 I was here two times as a "normal guest". 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:24.480 And then I thought that actually it is much nicer here before and after the Fusion. 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:29.160 Then I wrote an email and asked if they need more Fusion helpers. 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:31.200 And said what I can do and cannot do. 00:21:32.760 --> 00:21:37.040 And then had a missed call. Then called back Monday. 00:21:37.600 --> 00:21:40.640 Punker then said: Cool, you are an electricity expert. 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:43.640 We have two ghettoblasters here that don't work anymore. 00:21:44.040 --> 00:21:47.720 Then I repaired them and also old GDR lamps. 00:21:48.320 --> 00:21:50.880 And then they said: "Now you are an electricity crew." 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:54.840 - Come in Lego, this is Luce. 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:57.120 - This is Lego, go ahead. 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:04.280 - Have you got the list with our diesel inventory. I’d like to make the order. 00:22:05.080 --> 00:22:09.080 It's in front of me. I am in the second backstage kitchen. 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:15.360 - So there’s the line for the cars – that’s also where the THW is. 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:24.720 There’s a giraffe and that where this Honda generators should… There’s also a pedestrian line. 00:22:24.760 --> 00:22:31.160 That’s near the airfield tower where the people arrive on the shuttle buses. 00:22:31.280 --> 00:22:34.440 And there are one or two wooden huts there, too. 00:22:35.080 --> 00:22:40.840 - Exactly. But there’s also a giraffe here. Or does that need to be switched off in the day? 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:47.560 - That's all a bit unclear to me at the moment... 00:23:09.400 --> 00:23:13.120 So I had this time when I had really a lot of freedom, 00:23:13.120 --> 00:23:19.160 but would work now and again on jobs setting up exhibition stands to pay for that lifestyle. 00:23:19.160 --> 00:23:24.240 But then I had this moment when I was building an exhibition stand for a manufacturer of guided missiles. 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:34.040 I thought: “Wait a minute. I’m here financing my hippy lifestyle by building stands for arms manufacturers." 00:23:34.040 --> 00:23:36.280 "That doesn’t make any sense at all.” 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:45.760 So I made a decision that I only wanted to work on things where I believed in the ideas behind them. 00:23:45.760 --> 00:23:47.640 That’s not so easy to define. 00:23:50.360 --> 00:23:55.720 I’ve just not worked within those other structures for years now. 00:23:56.040 --> 00:23:58.880 I just don’t see the point in putting my energy into them. 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:05.840 I see living as being out there and using the skills and energy I have as a human to good effect – 00:24:05.840 --> 00:24:12.240 so I would see it as a waste to put my energy into something that I’d didn’t enjoy and believe in. 00:24:18.320 --> 00:24:26.200 I started working here years ago and was given the opportunity and materials to work on crazy building projects. 00:24:27.320 --> 00:24:33.520 We’re a festival. In the beginning, there were also less rigorous checks on the structures. 00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:38.680 I built towers, platforms in the trees... 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:49.680 For a certain reason or a certain purpose, I could build a temporary structure that was also a bit crazy-looking. 00:24:49.760 --> 00:24:54.720 And it was great because it was crazy – an extra step there, or make it go up and down again. 00:24:54.720 --> 00:25:00.960 This opportunity to create a space where things don’t follow a purely functional logic – 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:05.440 they just need to be fun and stimulate you a bit. 00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:08.720 That’s what makes it crazy – that’s it’s creative. Something new. 00:25:12.600 --> 00:25:17.600 I trained as an engineer and was all set up to go into planning. 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:21.760 But then I decided against that as the content of the work wasn’t for me. 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:28.400 And then it was at that point that I found pleasure in festivals. 00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:31.840 When we do the smaller things, that are much more important to me. 00:25:31.840 --> 00:25:33.960 Like when we go to the beach. 00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:34.000 Like when we go to the beach. We get there, build something for a few days and then take it all down, 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:38.920 We get there, build something for a few days and then take it all down, 00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:40.760 collecting up the cigarette buts from the sand. 00:25:40.760 --> 00:25:44.000 So that afterwards there’s nothing left to show that we were there. 00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:54.120 I think that’s a really healthy and healing dynamic in a society that is so focused on accumulation. 00:25:54.120 --> 00:25:59.360 Where we build more and more, structure and stabilise everything, create more borders... 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:03.680 Here we want to incorporate the deconstruction into the project. 00:26:03.760 --> 00:26:06.520 That means building something, knowing that it’s not going to stay. 00:26:07.840 --> 00:26:09.280 But that it is just for now. 00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:52.200 -Where are we now? 00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:56.000 -In front, no behind the job centre. 00:28:01.560 --> 00:28:06.160 -So it needs painting. The floor needs doing. 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:12.880 There need to be shelves, somewhere to sit in the corner, a sofa, a clothes rack, coffee machine... 00:28:14.320 --> 00:28:19.720 And there then there will be two desks where before there was only one. 00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:21.240 Check in and check out. 00:28:21.280 --> 00:28:22.920 -The people who want a job? 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:29.680 - Hello. Yes, they come here, get registered, get briefed and are then sent out. 00:28:29.760 --> 00:28:32.160 Then we welcome them back and pay them. 00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:37.760 - Woah. Have you just eaten the cake? You didn’t save it? 00:28:38.080 --> 00:28:40.360 - That’s our new intern. 00:28:43.360 --> 00:28:45.360 - He’s got lovely long hair. 00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:48.200 - We might be able to find a job for him. 00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:52.680 - Ronny! Pizza! 00:28:53.760 --> 00:28:55.080 Would be good. 00:28:55.840 --> 00:28:56.880 - Hi! 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:00.200 - I’d like to get something to eat. It’s that way, right? 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:01.240 - Yeah. 00:29:02.560 --> 00:29:04.200 - What stage are you at? 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:06.040 - Hangar stage. 00:29:06.040 --> 00:29:10.640 - OK. Tonight Dritte Wahl are on. That’s gonna be great. 00:29:11.080 --> 00:29:15.400 Have you requested enough people from the job centre? 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.640 So that you also have some spare people to help? 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:21.480 - Come in Job Centre, this is Susi. 00:29:21.520 --> 00:29:23.120 - This is Job Centre, go ahead. 00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:27.760 - Have you thought that you might need to send a lot of helpers for Dritte Wahl tonight? 00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:45.600 So here we are in the job centre, which we set up in the year 2000, I think. 00:29:47.080 --> 00:29:51.960 The idea behind it was that we wanted to have a festival that we did for us and with all of us, 00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:55.240 together with our guests. That was the one idea. 00:29:55.360 --> 00:29:58.960 The other was that by giving the guests a chance to work at the festival, 00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:02.440 they could be part of it and feel invested in it. 00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:06.960 And it gives them the chance to work back some of the money 00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:10.480 that they gave to the festival through their ticket. 00:30:11.320 --> 00:30:15.720 And that enables the festival to cover certain jobs – 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:23.000 for example, supervising the generators, giving out the programme and rubbish bags at the wristband stand. 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:25.360 Then they get €40 from us. 00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:33.120 On the one hand, we need that as we pretty much organise this festival on a voluntary basis and, 00:30:33.120 --> 00:30:38.040 on the other hand, we want people to feel part of the festival they’re at 00:30:38.040 --> 00:30:40.720 and that they contribute to making it happen. 00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:56.040 Of course, a product of that is the massive network that has built up over the years 00:30:56.040 --> 00:31:00.560 and which is also evolving outside of the festival. 00:31:02.760 --> 00:31:05.840 Lots of different groups – political, cultural or whatever – 00:31:05.840 --> 00:31:08.120 get to know each other here. 00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:12.840 They chat – that might be personally or through their job or a project. 00:31:13.520 --> 00:31:17.480 It is a place where people meet, get to know each other and establish long-term connections – 00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:19.160 whatever form they might take. 00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:38.280 It’s like that in the world. If you have money, you have opportunities to make things happen. 00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:43.120 When you don’t have money, you can also get things done – it’s just often that it is harder, 00:31:43.120 --> 00:31:47.760 the road is longer, the process is more taxing, painful, whatever. 00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:54.160 And it might mean that you can’t really realise your ideas to the full, 00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:59.640 because some part of the process is stuck or you get tired of it all and have to stop. 00:31:59.920 --> 00:32:02.760 That’s why it’s the case that if you have money, you have time. 00:32:02.760 --> 00:32:04.800 You have space and you have possibilities. 00:32:04.840 --> 00:32:09.720 In the beginning, every one was excited about this project and was happy to work voluntarily. 00:32:10.080 --> 00:32:16.080 But then it got bigger and bigger until we needed more and more people to help make the festival happen. 00:32:16.760 --> 00:32:22.360 And then we came to the point where we said: “Okay, we have certain financial incomes. 00:32:22.360 --> 00:32:24.680 And no one wants to take them home with them. 00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:32.640 So we’ll distribute it on a basis that means that people can realise their ideas, their projects, their passions. 00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:40.160 That they can make these things reality that would otherwise not come to be. 00:32:47.800 --> 00:32:53.200 You’re all groups that also do all this in the context of your political or association’s values, 00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:56.640 and are also motivated by wanting to support your own projects. 00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:05.600 And we’ve been thinking about what you do and contribute here, with the set-up and the programme – 00:33:05.600 --> 00:33:08.400 at the end of the day, this festival lives because of you. 00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:12.560 And last year we gave for example €300,000 back to the groups. 00:33:14.080 --> 00:33:19.600 We know that we want to support the groups. 00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:25.440 We know that for many groups, we are an important source of additional income. 00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:29.200 For some we are their main source of income to keep their projects going. 00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.880 So we definitely want to support that and we are all behind the idea. 00:33:32.320 --> 00:33:36.960 Perhaps we should also say again that we have a mutual and interdependent relationship here. 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:44.240 The festival massively benefits from all the work and energy you bring here and what you put together. 00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:49.680 The festival could not be otherwise – what it is and how it is has developed into what it is today. 00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:55.800 So at this point I really want to say once again: Thank you, thank you, thank you that you’re all part of this, 00:33:55.800 --> 00:34:04.000 and that you bring all your power, energy and vibrations here to make this festival what it is. 00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:19.080 People who are able take responsibility here also do it. 00:34:19.200 --> 00:34:21.840 As a rule, no one really stops them. 00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:27.400 Otherwise, we live in a world where people tend not to be interested in taking responsibility for things. 00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:32.680 And I think that is something that Fusion really lives from. 00:34:33.320 --> 00:34:39.360 That there are a lot of people here who are prepared to take more responsibilty for things than they need to. 00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:47.280 No one here thinks along the lines of: “I’m only the stage manager” or “I’m only the designer” or “I’m just this and that”. 00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:51.000 People here look beyond their own work and think about how they can help. 00:34:51.600 --> 00:34:55.880 - I don’t believe that anyone here carries all the responsibility, which is great. 00:34:56.320 --> 00:35:03.200 Even Dave – even if he plans everything, he is still reliant on the rest of the team. 00:35:03.520 --> 00:35:08.080 As we tend to say: You have to take the measurements during construction. 00:35:08.080 --> 00:35:09.440 And that’s when it starts. 00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:13.640 The blueprints for a building aren’t enough on their own. 00:35:13.640 --> 00:35:16.880 So we work hand-in-hand with one another. 00:35:18.680 --> 00:35:24.120 The structures that I know always have a "leader" in one way or another. 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:29.960 And for me that is a kind of logical consequence, because there is always one person that had the idea. 00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.320 You always have this kind of root where everything started. 00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:37.960 But I think you can deal with such a postition in this or that way. 00:35:38.680 --> 00:35:42.560 You can consider it as a position that you strive to overcome. 00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:49.560 Or you work yourself into a position where you constantly think that you are irreplaceable. 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:56.360 "Dare less Eule" 00:35:57.120 --> 00:36:06.320 The democratic ideal requires responsible citizens, requires people to take responsibility... 00:36:09.040 --> 00:36:15.080 For example here, very often we hear't: "Eule, the alpha!" 00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:23.320 It took me a while to get it, but I got it: Without subjects, there is no king. 00:36:24.040 --> 00:36:28.920 There is also something developing around Eule or past Eule. Not everything is Eule. 00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:35.120 The guy hasn't done anything else for 15 years, 00:36:35.120 --> 00:36:38.320 he's been putting 100% of his energy into this for 15 years. 00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:41.560 Of course there were always other people who did a similar amount... 00:36:41.560 --> 00:36:45.160 I mean, in the end, all these creative processes are about ego 00:36:45.160 --> 00:36:49.600 and of course there are crazy ego frictions, permanently, 00:36:49.600 --> 00:36:52.520 that alone would be too much for me... 00:36:52.720 --> 00:36:54.160 But there you go again. 00:36:54.600 --> 00:37:00.040 There are a lot of people who find it far too exhausting, they don't want to do this. 00:37:00.040 --> 00:37:06.920 That is why there is no culprit here, it is simply a very fundamental social issue. 00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:10.160 Then there would be a way out. 00:37:11.200 --> 00:37:16.400 Otherwise, it would be possible if there were real discussions, 00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:21.200 if there were real spaces in which everyone could participate, 00:37:21.200 --> 00:37:22.200 but that is... 00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:30.520 A good friend of mine has just the term holiday Stalinism... 00:37:30.520 --> 00:37:35.800 so this is the danger that the holiday communism becomes the holiday Stalinism... 00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:41.960 but I think Eule will also learn and realize that it is also about giving up ... 00:37:42.080 --> 00:37:44.880 and that the others must take over. 00:38:12.680 --> 00:38:14.040 It’s always loud and dusty. 00:38:16.720 --> 00:38:19.480 Yeah, this is our metal workshop. 00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:25.120 Since 2014, it’s just been the metalworking workshop in here. 00:38:25.680 --> 00:38:30.120 The wood workshop has now moved and has its own area. 00:38:34.120 --> 00:38:38.360 Here, we work on everything that involves metal. 00:38:38.560 --> 00:38:44.080 For example, we build steps, everything that has to be stable for lots and lots of people. 00:38:44.080 --> 00:38:48.240 We do all the planning, assembly and everything here. 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:50.360 - Morning Captain! 00:38:50.720 --> 00:38:52.440 - I need nails, short nails. 00:38:52.720 --> 00:38:54.560 - Short nails...how many? 00:38:54.680 --> 00:38:56.040 - Just a pack... 00:38:56.040 --> 00:39:01.160 - That’s what I thought. Short nails. 2.5 kg – that’s 3000 nails. What are you planning to do with them? 00:39:01.160 --> 00:39:06.760 - We have to cover something in material. So we probably only need 50 to 100 nails. 00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:08.080 - That sounds better! 00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:18.400 It’s not looking great... 00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:21.840 ...with the nails. 00:39:29.720 --> 00:39:31.240 - What’s your name? 00:39:31.240 --> 00:39:32.560 - Sailor. 00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:35.720 - Sailor. Ok, then let’s do it like this... 00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:46.360 I always say the workshop hangar is better than any DIY store. 00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:53.320 As we have all the standard stuff, but then we also have loads of unusual things too. 00:39:55.240 --> 00:40:01.120 We try to be tidy, but we’re also a bit punk and a bit rock ’n’ roll. 00:40:01.120 --> 00:40:04.720 Sometimes there’s a beer bottle flying around. 00:40:04.720 --> 00:40:06.800 But we try to be orderly at least in what we’re doing. 00:40:11.080 --> 00:40:18.360 When people are into punk and whatnot, and they have a problem with structures and so on, 00:40:18.520 --> 00:40:20.800 then that can cause friction. 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:22.400 But overall... 00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:27.400 I’d say that 95% of the people here are really passionate about what they’re doing 00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:29.240 and want to do it for Fusion and the festivalgoers. 00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:32.840 Everyone tries to do good work and puts a lot of emphasis on safety. 00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:36.280 And that has been an important change in the last few years. 00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:42.240 That people get that organsiation, safety, the budget questions and all that... 00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:45.000 that that compensates a bit. 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:49.400 Things that were totally in Nirvana up in people’s heads before... 00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:52.440 Now everyone concentrates more. 00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:58.200 You can tell and I think that was a really important change in people’s mindset here. 00:41:47.640 --> 00:41:56.280 There’s a light crew, an IT crew, and this year a pyrotechnics crew, I make the sketches, 00:41:56.280 --> 00:42:06.800 and everyone’s thinking about what kind of things they can technologically improve and how they can pimp things up a bit. 00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:12.240 Over the years it’s become more and more organised and planned. 00:42:12.240 --> 00:42:19.160 There were years where it was just getting more and more stressful and everyone was plugging away until the last minute 00:42:19.160 --> 00:42:23.360 and of course this can lead to friction within the group. 00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:32.400 That and due to the organisational problems, food being scarce because there were too many people again. 00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:46.440 In order to escape the cliché that there’s a difference if you’re part of the logistic crew or take care of the utilities... 00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:49.480 in these areas you have different scopes of work or claims. 00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:54.920 And what Susi calls Mischpoke are people who work in completely different areas. 00:42:55.200 --> 00:43:01.640 They are collectives who have a certain potential for chaos 00:43:02.200 --> 00:43:11.600 and - very often because of their creativity or artistic spirit - lack a certain structure that of course we need here to make it all happen. 00:43:12.560 --> 00:43:16.800 That’s the difference here in comparison to the logistic crews. 00:43:17.600 --> 00:43:27.600 The moment I achieve some sense of order, where I set limits so no chaos ensues. 00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:30.240 Well, then there’s no room for chaos. 00:43:30.240 --> 00:43:38.000 What is chaos? Chaos is uncontrolled, chaos is actually what excites us! 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:40.400 So it’s what’s cool. 00:43:40.560 --> 00:43:45.360 If everything is calculated, it’s completely tedious, no fun anymore, 00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:51.120 and exactly these kinds of spaces live of the fact that there can always be a little more chaos… 00:43:51.160 --> 00:43:59.840 but it’s been society’s direction for hundreds or even thousands of years to regulate more and more, more and more and more and more 00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:12.040 and because of that we lose our creativity, spontaneity and emotion. We’re just bored to death. 00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:34.240 - The emails kept going for a bit so the rule was lifted about what the opening day is about. 00:45:34.240 --> 00:45:37.200 We actually wanted to decide that today. 00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:38.920 Not sure if it’s clear for everyone or not… 00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:41.200 - For years now Wednesday has been a day of programme. 00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:46.440 What’s changing is that we’re having a bit more partying and concert as part of a more demanding programme. 00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:51.880 We’ll just have to ackknowledge that there are developments of such a festival that we cannot fully control. 00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:57.840 And when you look at how other festivals as big as us and with such a story behind them have lasted for 20 years and more, 00:45:57.840 --> 00:46:02.840 you see they all started with 2 or 3 days and now go on for much longer. 00:46:02.840 --> 00:46:07.560 It’s probably not because they all say: “yeah, cool, we want to do more – we want a longer festival”, 00:46:07.560 --> 00:46:14.720 but rather because there are logistical constraints in the development of such a huge event. 00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:19.360 60,000 people want to come, they all want to come as early as possible, and everyone has to get in – somehow. 00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:22.600 And then only when they are all in can everyone relax. And then the party starts. 00:46:22.600 --> 00:46:25.400 We have to manage this process somehow. 00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:34.960 Everything has to take on a lovely little spot and that itself of course has its limits. 00:46:35.080 --> 00:46:39.920 As you quite rightly said before, we found the right limit in 2010. 00:46:40.080 --> 00:46:45.520 The right number of crew, visitors, those without ticket too. 00:46:45.520 --> 00:46:48.200 It’s a big topic this year. 00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:54.880 To make it all come together well: that the number of people in the area is right for the days of the festival. 00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:58.440 We’re talking about a small town of 80,000 people bouncing around here. 00:46:58.440 --> 00:47:00.600 All this has to take place in a sensible way. 00:47:04.080 --> 00:47:09.040 For all fusion guests who have just arrived at the platform: Welcome to Neustrelitz! 00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:14.640 Please follow the signs to the tunnel, just follow the Fusion-Shuttle signs. 00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:22.960 When you come out of the tunnel, just go straight ahead, just follow the construction fence and get in line. 00:47:23.520 --> 00:47:29.160 The best would be that everyone who wanted to come, could and they each paid what they wanted. 00:47:29.160 --> 00:47:30.880 But sadly, it’s just not possible anymore. 00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:35.960 We don’t have the infrastructure for it and we don't have the power to do this anymore. 00:47:35.960 --> 00:47:39.720 At some point there is the end of growth. 00:47:41.480 --> 00:47:47.880 People tore their hands open and even lost fingers trying to climb the fence. 00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:56.880 Last year we were so preoccupied with driving around the fence perimeter shouting at people: Don’t do it! 00:47:56.880 --> 00:48:06.720 Please don’t climb over the fence. Don’t do it because you don’t have a ticket, but don’t do it as it’s really dangerous and you can injure yourselves. 00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:17.480 There was not one person within our team who was like: “Cool, double fence! Cool, let’s get watch towers. Security lights, brilliant!" 00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:20.720 It was actually the point to ask ourselves: shall we just leave it? 00:48:20.720 --> 00:48:23.280 No one wanted it, no one wanted to do it. 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:30.120 We come back the point again and again: to what extent shall we let this play out? 00:48:30.160 --> 00:48:35.240 And to what extent can we represent this and stand behind it? 00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:42.640 But knowing at the same time, sure, we can spend all the time in the world criticising ourselves and just going: 00:48:42.640 --> 00:48:43.680 it’s all shit. 00:48:44.680 --> 00:48:46.320 But what are also the options we have? 00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:53.800 And then there were the debates in the groups which took the line of: “well what options do you think we have?” 00:48:53.880 --> 00:48:58.480 There was a lot of criticism and then the question: “How would you implement it?” 00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:01.040 And then it turned more often into: “hmm… ok.” 00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:11.040 And the people who work outside here didn’t really criticise it much. That’s always the thing: 00:49:11.040 --> 00:49:16.320 if I work in the bar in here I don’t hear what’s going on with the fence. 00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:19.680 But what everyone notices is when it’s overflowing with people and completely full, 00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:21.720 and when the whole place is bulging. 00:49:21.720 --> 00:49:25.800 It’s then that the at some point the atmosphere is a lot more stressful and tense. 00:49:48.360 --> 00:49:50.760 Yeah – luckily an engine for the region. 00:49:52.240 --> 00:49:54.840 Where’s the bad in that? 00:49:55.320 --> 00:50:01.760 I hear time and again the accusation of commercialisation from people who don’t understand that growth is not commercialisation. 00:50:04.080 --> 00:50:05.760 But it annoys us as well. 00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:09.280 We’d also be happy if only around 50,000 people wanted tickets and no one more. 00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:14.880 The crews all do it voluntarily and to support their projects. 00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:18.080 And they do it once per year and you can’t do it any more than that. 00:50:18.600 --> 00:50:19.960 You can’t really do it bigger. 00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:26.200 And if you have to say: “Nice, there are 30 of you now and you can work in a three-shift system and achieve a lot more, 00:50:27.160 --> 00:50:30.280 well, it’s perhaps not their perception of those working for Fusion.” 00:54:15.560 --> 00:54:16.800 - Sascha listens. 00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:18.520 - Are you around? 00:54:20.200 --> 00:54:21.200 - Svenno, that's you? 00:54:21.200 --> 00:54:22.800 - Here is Svenno. 00:54:23.400 --> 00:54:24.400 - I'll come around. 00:54:25.040 --> 00:54:26.040 - Super. 00:54:28.920 --> 00:54:35.840 - Hi, we’ve just had a call from the main wristband container saying they’ve caught two girls with loose wristbands. 00:54:36.160 --> 00:54:38.560 I have the wristbands here. The two girls are outside. 00:54:38.600 --> 00:54:40.560 - Right, send them in. 00:54:40.560 --> 00:54:42.160 - And you’ll take care of it from here. 00:54:42.160 --> 00:54:44.760 - We’ll take it from here. Great. Fine. Thanks. 00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:51.120 Thanks again. 00:54:54.680 --> 00:54:55.800 - Hello there! 00:54:55.800 --> 00:54:57.240 - Hi! 00:54:58.440 --> 00:55:01.080 - Are these your wristbands? 00:55:01.080 --> 00:55:02.040 - They are. 00:55:02.040 --> 00:55:03.040 - Where did you get them? 00:55:03.040 --> 00:55:10.520 - From a colleague. A guy I know, and his wife. He said he couldn’t come. We picked them up yesterday. 00:55:10.520 --> 00:55:13.120 - And then you bought them. What did you pay? 00:55:13.120 --> 00:55:14.120 - Fifty euros. 00:55:14.120 --> 00:55:15.120 - Fifty… 00:55:15.120 --> 00:55:19.160 - He probably wouldn’t have got rid of them otherwise. 00:55:19.160 --> 00:55:29.600 - Alright, listen up. This is something we have to look into. Of course we’re annoyed that someone is selling our wristbands. 00:55:30.560 --> 00:55:35.360 - Naturally I’m interested in who exactly you bought them off. You’re going to have to tell me. 00:55:36.600 --> 00:55:38.680 You said it’s someone you know. 00:55:38.680 --> 00:55:47.040 - Like I said. Last week someone hooked me up with him because he had some wristbands. 00:55:47.040 --> 00:55:50.520 - Who hooked you up? 00:55:50.520 --> 00:55:54.480 - You just said you met him at a party. Now you’re saying someone hooked you up. 00:55:54.480 --> 00:56:04.600 - I met someone at a party who told me about it. I mean... I don’t know. I heard on Facebook that he definitely still has some wristbands. 00:56:05.520 --> 00:56:07.040 - So what now? 00:56:08.520 --> 00:56:13.880 - Well, that’s up to you. Whether you throw us out now, or… 00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:18.640 - The festival is sold out. People have been searching for tickets for months. 00:56:18.640 --> 00:56:23.080 - We did enter the draw for tickets. But we didn’t win. Somehow you never... 00:56:23.680 --> 00:56:28.960 - I can’t simply let you in now. I think you can understand that. 00:56:32.200 --> 00:56:34.480 - Fusion office here, hello. 00:56:36.440 --> 00:56:39.320 Fine by me. See you later. 00:56:42.120 --> 00:56:45.360 - Over to you. My suggestion is that you do a work shift. 00:56:46.320 --> 00:56:47.320 That’s the only way. 00:56:47.320 --> 00:56:48.800 - What do you mean, a work shift? 00:56:48.800 --> 00:56:55.320 - We have a Supporter Care team, where people check in who want to help out. 00:56:55.320 --> 00:56:58.040 And that I would suggest to you as well. 00:56:59.040 --> 00:57:01.360 If you’re not up for that, you can leave. 00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:04.160 - No problem. 00:57:04.640 --> 00:57:11.000 - But you have to commit to it. Not just yeah, sure, whatever. You each have to work a proper shift, otherwise... 00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:12.160 - So how does it work exactly? 00:57:12.160 --> 00:57:19.040 - You’ll walk up there with someone now, register with your phone number and your other details. 00:57:19.680 --> 00:57:22.880 So now you need to wait outside and I’ll ask someone to escort you. 00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:23.880 - Ok. Many thanks! 00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:31.600 - Could you escort the two ladies to Supporter Care, please? Tell them they need to work two penalty shifts. 00:57:31.600 --> 00:57:32.600 - Penalty shifts, really? 00:57:32.880 --> 00:57:36.680 - Yes. In a manner of speaking. Then they’ll know the deal. Would you do that? 00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:38.920 - Sure. If you give me the key for the water storage. 00:57:39.120 --> 00:57:40.560 - Sure, when you get back. 00:57:40.640 --> 00:57:41.240 - What? 00:57:41.400 --> 00:57:42.920 - Fusion office here, hello. 00:57:49.320 --> 00:57:50.680 - We’ll be on our way in a minute! 00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:52.000 - Shall I help you unload? 00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:53.480 -Yes, please! 00:57:54.560 --> 00:57:56.840 And you can put that bottle of schnapps away... 00:57:57.840 --> 00:58:00.200 - I’ll be back in 5 minutes. 00:58:00.560 --> 00:58:03.000 - No... did you drink it already or what? 00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:04.000 - Of course. 00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:07.160 - Forget it then, stay here. You’re a fence guard, you can’t be doing that. 00:58:07.160 --> 00:58:12.440 So. You’re all from the Duck group? Take it easy. 00:58:12.440 --> 00:58:15.200 No pushing! Hop in! I can’t take you all at once. 00:58:15.200 --> 00:58:17.000 I’ll make two trips. Or three. 00:58:17.480 --> 00:58:29.880 Okay, one after the other. Hop in please. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.. 00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:37.720 There’s room up front too. 10, 11, 12... 00:58:37.720 --> 00:58:43.880 Everyone from the Duck group! Duck group for a 6-hour shift? Perfect! 00:58:45.680 --> 00:58:48.400 - Hail to the bus driver! 00:58:48.400 --> 00:58:51.000 - No one’s done that before! 00:58:53.320 --> 00:58:57.560 We’ll check them in now that they’re here. They’ve registered already. 00:58:57.560 --> 00:59:03.080 Now I’ll take them there and drop them off. Then they get one of these nice little cards. 00:59:03.080 --> 00:59:07.920 And they only get their cash if they bring this little card back after their shift. 00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:16.600 If they lose it, go off partying or get caught hanging around somewhere they haven’t been posted, they’ll lose their wristband 00:59:20.160 --> 00:59:21.480 and not get paid. 00:59:24.600 --> 00:59:25.760 - Felix for Ronny? 00:59:26.680 --> 00:59:28.080 - Receiving. 00:59:28.080 --> 00:59:34.440 - Felix, you said something about rain ponchos. Do you remember where they are? Or have they all gone? 00:59:39.640 --> 00:59:41.000 - They are still there? 00:59:42.160 --> 00:59:48.200 Your job is to guard the fence from the corner over there, next to the white container - or the white caravan. 00:59:48.240 --> 00:59:49.120 See it? 00:59:51.320 --> 00:59:56.360 From there to this corner over here, this fence is yours for the next 6 hours. 00:59:56.360 --> 01:00:00.080 No one gets in or out past your fence. Got it? 01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:21.440 This is the direction things have been moving at the Job Centre. 01:00:22.200 --> 01:00:32.400 Two years ago we had over 6,000 shifts to allocate, to organise, to supervise, people to check in, bring to their posts, pay them, check up on them now and again… 01:00:33.200 --> 01:00:43.040 The way it’s been developing, people who are looking for a ticket have just been taking advantage of the Job Centre as a way of getting in. 01:00:43.040 --> 01:00:52.520 So we’ve had an incredible number of people simply not turning up to their shifts, to the point that it was getting ridiculous. 01:00:53.800 --> 01:00:58.280 In any case, what we’ve lost along the way is the voluntary spirit. 01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:09.080 People who aren’t concerned about financial reward, but are primarily here to give something back to the festival that you’re here to enjoy. 01:01:20.160 --> 01:01:24.440 And we cannot reach the firebrigade right now as they are on their way. 01:01:24.440 --> 01:01:29.640 The fire service is just arriving at the backstage area with several vans. 01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:33.760 - We urgently need more people to direct the traffic! 01:01:35.120 --> 01:01:37.920 - Try to get your own people out there! We have other problems to deal with. 01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:40.080 Wake your own people up, please! 01:01:44.160 --> 01:01:46.360 We cannot contact the first aid helpers. 01:01:46.360 --> 01:01:48.080 We have an injured person on camp B1. 01:01:48.080 --> 01:01:48.800 B4! 01:01:49.520 --> 01:01:51.680 They have to come to B4. 01:01:52.160 --> 01:01:55.400 Please come to B4 where the fire service is standing. 01:02:31.040 --> 01:02:36.960 I want to know how many people are moving over the field, I want to know where critical zones are, 01:02:37.240 --> 01:02:45.960 crazier zones with potentially dangerous shows, as we sometimes get here. Shows involving a lot of fire, for example. 01:02:45.960 --> 01:02:48.720 I want to know where there are any bottlenecks. 01:02:48.760 --> 01:02:50.640 All of this is crucial to know. 01:02:50.640 --> 01:02:53.160 Because emergency medical care is all a matter of time. 01:02:53.160 --> 01:02:56.360 You have to estimate how much manpower is needed, how many doctors. 01:02:56.360 --> 01:03:02.920 You make certain calculations... For example, there's an extremely low risk of panic breaking out on this site. 01:03:02.920 --> 01:03:05.520 Extremely low. 01:03:05.520 --> 01:03:08.160 Simply because there's so much space. 01:03:08.160 --> 01:03:13.280 Besides, everybody here looks out for each other a little bit. That's a rarity for a festival. 01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:18.520 So if you see someone lying there and not reacting, the organisers have been preaching for years 01:03:18.520 --> 01:03:22.560 that you should look out for other people, see how they are doing if you get the feeling they're in a bad way. 01:03:22.560 --> 01:03:25.120 And people really do it. 01:03:25.280 --> 01:03:27.840 There are dark nooks and crannies all over the site. And the night is long. 01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:32.400 If festivalgoers weren't looking out for each other, there would be some patients who we simply wouldn't find. 01:03:54.640 --> 01:03:57.640 - What’s going on now? Is the power out? 01:03:57.720 --> 01:03:59.440 What was that about the phase? 01:03:59.920 --> 01:04:00.920 - Sorry? 01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:01.920 - About the phase? 01:04:02.360 --> 01:04:07.720 - I’m not sure. I didn’t catch that. I wasn’t… 01:04:07.760 --> 01:04:08.960 - Did you catch that? 01:04:10.640 --> 01:04:15.000 - Didn’t you hear? The power went down for “Our Darkness”. 01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:19.280 I can’t believe it. What a time for a power cut. Did you hear that? 01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:21.200 - We’re down one phase. 01:04:21.200 --> 01:04:23.040 - We only have one phase here. 01:04:23.520 --> 01:04:24.760 - Only one phase here? 01:04:24.760 --> 01:04:27.120 - You’ve got two. 01:04:27.120 --> 01:04:29.080 - So, what’s phase? 01:04:37.560 --> 01:04:40.280 - Get people down from the hangar please. 01:04:40.280 --> 01:04:44.520 - Is the power down all over the site or do you have an overview? 01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:49.320 - You can stay in the Workshop Hangar. 01:04:50.880 --> 01:04:54.000 - You can come to the Job Centre. 01:04:56.040 --> 01:05:01.920 - Channel 3 to the office, it’s blown over, we’re starting again. 01:05:04.080 --> 01:05:05.480 - It’s out of fuel! 01:05:07.120 --> 01:05:08.120 - Which one? 01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:11.920 - This one, the one that’s been running for so long. 01:05:12.760 --> 01:05:16.120 - It’s at 40 amps now. 01:08:32.160 --> 01:08:45.920 - To explain to the viewers why our camp looks in this post-apocalyptic state, we built a kind of massive… a kind of trailer park, 01:08:47.440 --> 01:08:51.000 and we’re the idiots who’ve been left to look after the mess. 01:08:51.520 --> 01:08:53.760 - There were 40 of us here at one point. 01:08:58.560 --> 01:09:04.320 - But I think, for the simple reason that they hand out free garbage bags at the entrance, 01:09:04.320 --> 01:09:06.640 you can give that back and say: 01:09:06.640 --> 01:09:12.960 “Here, you don’t have to do all the work and pick up my chocolate wrappers.” 01:09:13.920 --> 01:09:20.880 - But it’s not an equal exchange. They could say to me from the start: “Take all your garbage with you.” 01:09:23.160 --> 01:09:25.520 - Okay, so now I’m telling you: “Take the garbage with you!” 01:09:25.520 --> 01:09:31.080 - Why? What about the locals who are happy to get some work? 01:09:31.080 --> 01:09:37.080 - Well then you have to drive around the festival site and look at all… 01:09:37.080 --> 01:09:42.600 - Have a look at all that tiny plastic crap! There’s no way you can pick it all up. 01:09:42.600 --> 01:09:46.200 Not on such a huge site. So it will all be spread around the local environment… 01:09:46.200 --> 01:09:50.400 - We could agree to meet up in the street every week now to clean up the street. 01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:04.280 It’s a crime against the environment. 01:10:08.200 --> 01:10:09.840 Unfortunately that’s how it is. 01:10:12.240 --> 01:10:14.520 But that needs to be made clear to the festivalgoers. 01:10:31.240 --> 01:10:35.200 A word about me: I’m René Muchow. 32 years old. I am the operations manager of ABG. 01:10:35.200 --> 01:10:39.440 We're right on top of the landfill here. We've reached the 30m summit. 01:10:40.280 --> 01:10:42.960 This is where the waste from Fusion has been dumped for 16 years. 01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:49.720 This garbage will probably – no, definitely – stay here forever, unless someone comes up with something, 01:10:49.720 --> 01:10:52.080 for example, to dig it out again, the whole body of waste. 01:10:52.080 --> 01:10:56.280 Maybe to retrieve all the metals. Maybe to turn it into fuel. 01:10:56.280 --> 01:10:59.040 Maybe we'll open it up again sometime. Who knows? 01:10:59.040 --> 01:11:02.440 Maybe in a hundred years. Or even longer. We'll see. 01:11:08.240 --> 01:11:13.200 Well, the alternative scene is paying more and more attention to things like the environment, broadly speaking. 01:11:13.200 --> 01:11:16.400 If you listen to their views, they should be used to doing things differently. 01:11:16.400 --> 01:11:21.280 But I don’t believe alternative thinkers are the only ones who attend. 01:11:21.440 --> 01:11:25.680 You get all sorts. I don’t think it’s particularly alternative any more, is it? 01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:28.600 I could be wrong, I’m no expert, but... 01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:44.720 Sara, you got a minute? 01:11:48.920 --> 01:11:55.120 So I wrote the beginning and then we can go over it together. 01:11:55.120 --> 01:12:00.280 I brought in the fusion-free year: The rumors are already going around and some sparrows have already whistled it from the rooftops. 01:12:00.760 --> 01:12:04.680 Those who are busy full-time with festival planning have been running at the limit for years. 01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:13.160 We want a year in which not one festival chases the next, in which we don't have to start something new, while the last one is not even finished yet. 01:12:13.160 --> 01:12:20.960 A year in which we have time to re-organize among ourselves, also to intensify the contact and communication with you, the groups. 01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:27.880 - I think that's pretty cool. - Is it? 01:12:28.600 --> 01:12:35.840 Next item is Supporter Crew: Besides the registration for the ticket raffle, the registration for the Supporter Crew will start these days. 01:12:37.080 --> 01:12:42.080 The idea for this project came from the question of how we get there, 01:12:42.080 --> 01:12:46.640 that the fusion receives so much support that it can continue to be realized in its size, versatility and beauty. 01:12:49.360 --> 01:12:58.440 We started thinking: how much longer can we do this? How can we afford to keep the festival going at this size? 01:12:58.440 --> 01:13:04.920 And for the kind of project we're running here, there should really be more voluntary work. 01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:16.880 So then we thought it would be cool if people also had the chance to pay nothing for their ticket and simply become a part of the crew. 01:13:17.520 --> 01:13:24.200 What's really crucial for us is that people's voluntary work is appreciated. 01:13:24.200 --> 01:13:32.440 But our project, the Fusion project, also deeply relies on it. So what we're attempting to do now is to take voluntary work a step further, 01:13:32.440 --> 01:13:36.920 and you're now a big part of it, along with the Supporters themselves. 01:13:38.880 --> 01:13:44.640 Right. It's also my expectation that you'll be able to tell us that we have an idea of how the merger will go. 01:13:44.640 --> 01:13:47.920 What's going where. 01:13:51.240 --> 01:14:01.040 Hopefully, in 4-5 years, we'll be down to super reliable people who'll do their shifts and be totally buck-wild and come back. 01:14:01.040 --> 01:14:03.480 Flower, flower, flower... 01:14:03.880 --> 01:14:09.600 - This feeling of “I’m not on out here on my own, you didn’t simply leave me here for 8 hours to fend for myself…” 01:14:09.600 --> 01:14:13.040 Because maybe I'll stay ten minutes longer than the eight hours because I know: "Ok, the person will definitely come get me."   01:14:14.640 --> 01:14:20.680 - We’re all one festival, everyone takes responsibility, and I’m not blowing my own trumpet because I’m from the Supporter Crew. 01:14:20.680 --> 01:14:21.800 Or any crew for that matter… 01:14:22.280 --> 01:14:24.800 - I would like the flow of information to be improved… 01:14:24.800 --> 01:14:28.800 - So that people realise when it’s getting too much and say something in time. 01:14:29.800 --> 01:14:33.560 - Solution-focused communication… 01:14:34.280 --> 01:14:37.320 Transparency belongs up there too! 01:14:45.800 --> 01:14:53.400 I can definitely feel a sense of calm again. It's cool to have this space back without all those thousands of people. 01:15:02.160 --> 01:15:07.240 As a culture, we're programmed to follow a certain logic. 01:15:09.440 --> 01:15:15.280 And if we don't overcome this logic, nothing can change. 01:15:15.880 --> 01:15:22.000 We've learned a certain way of ordering the world around us. 01:15:22.880 --> 01:15:24.440 And that's what we do. 01:15:24.720 --> 01:15:36.080 You see it in everyone. For example, when people have children you suddenly see programmes kicking in that weren't relevant before, 01:15:36.080 --> 01:15:41.560 but now they have children they start doing precisely those things they hated to see in their parents. 01:15:42.720 --> 01:15:45.720 And there's nothing new anymore in terms of social discourse. 01:15:45.800 --> 01:15:47.280 We’ve been programmed to an extreme extent. 01:15:49.280 --> 01:15:55.520 What we haven’t quite grasped yet is that if we don’t engage in active deprogramming, 01:15:55.520 --> 01:16:00.080 if we’re not looking to actively dismantle the whole thing… 01:16:00.080 --> 01:16:02.800 Look! There we have this building up and dismantling theme again. 01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:04.160 All we’ve been doing is building up! 01:16:04.160 --> 01:16:09.960 So you do an internship here, a degree there, then a master’s until you’re 30, 40. 01:16:09.960 --> 01:16:14.720 We learn, learn, learn. But it’s not learning, it’s programming. We keep on programming. 01:16:14.720 --> 01:16:19.200 And we think it’s making us competent, which is ultimately not the case... 01:16:19.200 --> 01:16:21.600 The sky’s even nicer over there... 01:16:24.880 --> 01:16:32.120 If free minds work together, things can change.   01:16:32.760 --> 01:16:45.600 But since we’re hardly free in the first place, even those of us in the Résistance, who see ourselves in opposition to the old system… 01:16:46.640 --> 01:16:52.880 If we don’t start the transformation from within – and that means using precise language as we communicate on a daily basis – 01:16:54.720 --> 01:17:06.840 less violence, more respect, all the things we know already, we’ve all heard it all before. 01:17:07.560 --> 01:17:10.760 But so long as we’re not acting it out, nothing will change. 01:17:13.960 --> 01:17:24.480 I think one of the most exciting directions for us – as hyper-civilised people – 01:17:24.480 --> 01:17:34.280 is decivilisation, de-structuring, less industrial and more animalistic, in a positive sense: 01:17:34.280 --> 01:17:37.440 I move around when I build something myself. 01:17:37.440 --> 01:17:44.160 If I grow my food in the garden, I’m also moving around and I don’t have the problem of getting too fat for lack of exercise... 01:17:45.160 --> 01:17:48.800 Yeah – there they are, the animals!