Lusatia Festival · 23 to 25 July 2027 · Wilde Möhre, Brandenburg
The Brandenburgische Sommerkonzerte bring classical music into the forest and combine it with electronic music.
Three days of electronic music, art and workshops in the forest of Wilde Möhre, in the Lausitz, on ground that was once mined for coal. Camping included. Paused in the pandemic, back in 2027.
Tickets · from 139 €How Lusatia came backCommunity · 139 €
Why this festival
Lusatia is an international festival of electronic music, art and workshops on former mining land in Lower Lusatia, on the grounds of Wilde Möhre near Drebkau. The Lausitz is part of the program: for three days, the legends, the music and the craft of the region come onto the grounds. Around the floors stands a forest on ground that was dug up for coal and is slowly growing back.
The Brandenburgische Sommerkonzerte are a partner of Lusatia 2027. Together we bring classical music onto the forest floors and let it meet electronic music. Musicians and times follow with the program.
Many villages in the Lausitz were dug away for lignite. Their legends stayed with the people who left: cats that chase off whole bears, and other tales. At Lusatia they are performed on the grounds.
The Lausitz comes onto the grounds: the legends of villages that were dug away for coal, Sorbian dance sticks with traditional patterns, and classical music from the Brandenburgische Sommerkonzerte. Everything happens on the festival grounds.
Electronic music runs in five habitats, from the first hour of the afternoon until the birds, and this year it shares the forest with the Brandenburgische Sommerkonzerte. Names come in waves, newsletter first.
Open pits, lakes where the mines were, villages that stayed, and a festival ground that has been growing back for years. What happened here you can see under your feet. The legends of those villages are part of this year's program.
Lusatia ran for several editions in this forest, then paused in the pandemic. In 2027 Lusatia returns with a clearer profile: classical music with the Brandenburgische Sommerkonzerte, the legends of the lost villages, Sorbian dance sticks, a cacao ceremony, and saunas and hot tubs in the forest.
How Lusatia came backBeneath the pines
Beneath the pines, water moves through old mining ground. What was taken is slowly given back: reeds, roots, minerals, memory.The Myth of Lusatia, I
Program follows
Wetland, Forest, Clay, Fire and Night Sky: each habitat has its own music, its own pace and its own hour.
See the habitats
Workshops run from late morning, all weekend. Clay, textiles, light and sound, some of them led by people from the region. You leave with something you made and someone you met.
Illustration based on a photo by Lukas Strauss
Saunas and hot tubs in the forest, a few steps from the floors. You go in warm and come out into the smell of pines.
Illustration based on a photo by Julia Bauer
A cacao ceremony with warm cups from the big pot, shared at long tables. When the pot comes out, the tables fill faster than the cups.
Illustration based on a photo by Julia BauerDance sticks painted with traditional Sorbian patterns. The Sorbs are the Slavic minority of the Lausitz, with their own language, costumes and customs. How you can take part follows with the program.
Made together with
and many more, published here soon
Lusatia is made by the makers of Wilde Möhre, the Wilde Habitate and the members of the Mit Freude eG, with the Brandenburgische Sommerkonzerte as program partner, and by many more who will be announced here soon.
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Fire, light and a dance floor that takes its time. At the fire habitat the night runs slower than in the forest.
Electronic music under the pines, until the birds. Artists are announced in waves, newsletter first.
Illustration: Lisa Ghio
Lanterns, a cube of light and a crowd between the trunks. The forest floor is the one you hear first when you arrive and the last one you leave.
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Two hands on the mixer, a sail of light above. From the first afternoon set to the last morning, the booths in the habitats are the quiet center of the noise.
Illustration based on a photo by Julia Bauer
Lusatia is built by its community: artists, workshop hosts, cooks, builders and guests shape the grounds side by side.
Everyone ends up here sooner or later. The sofas stand between the floors, a little out of the loud, and nobody asks you to move on.
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A heart of embers, a circle of people, and the night gets long. Someone always makes room on the bench.
IllustrationWhen
Friday to Sunday 2027, three days and three nights.
A forest in the south of Brandenburg, reeds at the water, ground that was mined for coal and is slowly growing back. Many lakes in the Lausitz were open pits a generation ago. Standing at the reeds, you see what the region is turning into.
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Bags, friends, the first pines. The camp is a few minutes further on foot, and on Friday afternoon the paths fill up slowly.
Illustration based on a photo by Julia BauerWhere
Wilde Möhre, Göritz 5, 03116 Drebkau, Brandenburg, Germany, near Gräbendorfer See.
By train to Calau (Niederlausitz): RE7 from Berlin Ostbahnhof, RE10 from Leipzig, both without changing. By car to Göritz 5, 03116 Drebkau. Shuttle times and parking passes for Lusatia follow.
All travel detailsWhat is Lusatia
Lusatia is an international festival of electronic music, art and workshops on former mining land in Lower Lusatia, in the south of Brandenburg, on the grounds of Wilde Möhre. The region is part of the story: old pits that became lakes, a forest growing back over sand, and people who stayed and are building something new here.
Friday 23 to Sunday 25 July 2027. Opening hours follow.
Camping for the festival weekend is part of the ticket. Cars stay off the camping areas.
Train to Calau, RE7 from Berlin or RE10 from Leipzig, or car to Göritz 5, Drebkau.
Under 18 only with a parent or legal guardian.
No, no and no. The forest and the neighbours thank you.
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