Dockville

Dockville

Location(s)	Wilhelmsburg, Germany
Years active	2007 – present
Founded by	Enno Arndt
Date(s)	August
Genre	Music, Visual arts
Website	www.dockville.de (German)

Dockville is a music and art festival on Europe's biggest river island, Hamburg's district Wilhelmsburg. It is sponsored by the German Internationalen Bauausstellung (IBA) and for the first time it took place in 2007. Many parts of the festival area are located directly in front of the river Elbe, in a territory, which is not protected against flood.^[1] Characteristic for this festival is the combination of music and visual arts.

2007

In 2007, when the festival took place for the first time, it had 5,000 festival visitors. Musical headliners were the German bands 2Raumwohnung and Tocotronic. The art director was the German artist Daniel Richter.

2008

This year the festival took three days. It went from Friday, the 15th August to Sunday, the 18th August. Headliners were the German und British bands The Ting Tings, Deichkind, Fettes Brot and Television Personalities. The German artist Daniel Richter had the patronage of the artistic projects.

The German newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt reported, that nearly 10,000 people visited the festival and that the programme and the infrastructure had improved.^[2]

2009

2009 the festival took place in the same area as before from Friday the 14th until Sunday the 18th of August. Musical headliners were MGMT, Turbonegro and the German bands Kettcar, Element of Crime and The Whitest Boy Alive. Again there was a combination of music and works of visual artists. The public radio and television broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk and the German newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt reported, that 15,000 people visited the festival on its second day, occasionally causing some llogistic problems.^{[3] [4]}

1. ^ photo of the festival area on flickr
2. ^ "Pop, Art, Party und ein bisschen Ponyhof"; newspaper article about the festival in 2008 (German)
3. ^ Dockville-Festival: Tausende feiern in Wilhelmsburg; Norddeutscher Rundfunk article about the festival in 2009 (German)
4. ^ Ein Gefühl wie beim endlosen Sommer - Dockville: Besucherrekord und tolle Stimmung; newspaper article about the festival in 2009 (German)

• Official website (German)
• Festival pictures