Wurzelfestival 2025

In the organizer's words:

2011/2012 was the birth of Wurzelbande in the muddy city of Berlin. We were fed up with the usual club events. Without further ado, we rented a sound system and a generator, asked our friends who wanted to play music and started our first "Zurück zu den Wurzeln Free Open Air". The one-off event became the rule and we met regularly at various beautiful locations in and around Berlin - spending wonderful hours together. The Wurzel fan community grew more and more and the 30 Wurzel kids from the first open air soon became hundreds who visited us.

The desire to celebrate together for longer became stronger: we started our first multi-day Wurzel Open Air on an old industrial site. We are still pretty proud that we were able to party for over 70 hours before the police discovered us.

After the many positive experiences we had at our open airs, we simply wanted to spend more time legally with our Wurzel children and so our "zu den Wurzeln" festival was born. Right from the start, we tried to transfer the spirit of our Wurzel Open Airs to our festival. We have been involving our guests/root children in the planning since day one and have now become a real participatory festival.

As one of our root founders said so aptly: "If you have a yellow umbrella and think it's cool as a decoration, then bring it along and hang it up!

In the meantime, we've gone from open air friends to festival organizers, what a journey. We are still the guys and girls from next door and try to keep the spirit of the Free Open Airs at the festivals.

Information about the workshops, the marketplace and everything else you can expect at the Back to the Roots Festival can be found here.