Overview
- About 3,500 attendees gathered in Jamel for the volunteer-run festival opposing right-wing extremism.
- Die Toten Hosen made an unannounced return on Friday, and Kraftklub headlined as a surprise on Saturday, joining artists such as Paula Hartmann and Betterov.
- After fee demands, organizers classified the gathering as a political assembly, and courts overturned a county alcohol ban but kept a glass-bottle prohibition and higher steward numbers.
- A path between the campsite and the stage stayed open during concert hours following brief plans to close it over anonymous reports of a protected toad species.
- Frontman Campino criticized AfD and CDU county leader Tino Schomann over restrictions, Schomann rejected the accusations as a mischaracterization of lawful decisions, and the Lohmeyers received the Solbach-Freise Prize for civic courage.