Feel Festival (Lichterfeld-Schacksdorf, Germany) 2026

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Feel Festival takes over Bergheider See in Lichterfeld-Schacksdorf, in the Lusatian lake district of southern Brandenburg, from 23 to 26 July 2026. The 2026 edition runs under the motto “Feel Unterwegs”, which the organisers translate as crossing borders together, and is built around 17 stages, more than 40 collectives, over 400 acts and 96 hours of continuous programming on a lakeside site roughly 100 kilometres south of Berlin.

The festival keeps its full line-up secret until the gates open, a policy it has held for years and defends as a way of leaving room for discovery. What it does publish in advance is the roster of collectives that curate each stage. For 2026 that list runs from Toy Tonics, BCCO, Berliner Techno Zaehne, Crème Club and Cura Berlin through Sachsentrance, Heisss, Teenage Dreams, Gabber Industries and THF Radio to Bipolar, GGVybe, Mystic Creatures, Decompression and Porzellan Bar. Musically the site stretches well beyond a techno music festival, taking in indie, rock and punk as well as hip hop, disco, house and live bands.

Feel was first held in 2013 at Kiekebuscher See in Schönefeld on the southern edge of Berlin. Attendance grew from around 5,500 in 2014 to 11,500 the following year, and in 2015 the festival moved to the larger Bergheider See site, a lake left behind by open cast lignite mining in Lusatia. Beyond the stages, the programme includes art and light installations and a schedule of workshops, discussions and talks covering sustainability and queer feminist themes. Tickets are sold on the festival website as individual and group passes, with day tickets released for the closing Sunday.