Dockville

Dockville
Genre	Music, Visual arts
Dates	August
Location(s)	Wilhelmsburg, Germany
Years active	2007 – present
Founded by	Enno Arndt
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 Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) and it took place for the first time 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. Characteristic for this festival is the combination of music and visual arts.

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 . The art director was the German artist Daniel Richter.

This year the festival lasted three days, starting on Friday, August 15th and ending on Sunday, August 18th. Headliners were 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.

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 logistic problems.

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