Festival 2001
We started advertising by flyers, found sponsors and helpers. The festival should offer an open-air concert and a medieval market. We engaged bands, launched a website and fixed the date for May 12.
March 2001:
The event seems to shipwreck. The City of Magdeburg (the youth welfare office) withdraws and interdicts the festival to be held on the provided terrain.
Well then? The contracts were signed and the dealers and actors for the medieval market engaged. The technical equipment was hired as well.
So Cynthia got in touch with the office for culture. We contacted the owner of the Bike Inn the same day. He was interested in the festival and provided the terrain under very generous terms.
By the way: we even thought about arranging the festival in the church of Johannis in Magdeburg. We asked the office for culture about it... but the rental of mere 5000 DM per day kept us from that plan.
After that set-back we needed a new financial plan. Since we had no sponsors, we had to finance it privately. That's why we didn't have enough money for advertising. So 6,000 flyers, 30 posters and one ad in the ZILLO magazine had to be enough. But we published a lot via Internet.
The day had come. On a self-made stage Frontotem Porale Demenz, Inscape, Kontrast, Dies Natalis and Ghosting played their concerts. More than 300 people had been coming. They were enthusiastic. Though some things about the organisation were improvable and we incurred a loss, we decided to arrange "That Spring 2" in May 2002: a two-day festival, bigger, better, with more bands and activities.