Campus Festival Mittweida

What Campus Festival Mittweida does

Campus Festival Mittweida is an annual two-day open-air music festival held each June at Technikumplatz on the campus of Hochschule Mittweida in Saxony, Germany. It was founded in 2019 and is organized end-to-end by a 15-person student core team drawn from the Fakultät Medien (Faculty of Media) at Hochschule Mittweida, with Franz Bürger and Hans Wendler serving as Producers for the 2026 edition. The festival's main product is a multi-genre live music lineup across two evenings, supplemented by two standing side events — CF Music Talk (industry discussion panel with live band) and CF Music Clash (music quiz game show) — held at the Zentrum für Medien und Soziale Arbeit (Haus 39). The legal entity carrying the event is Medienförderung Mittweida e.V., a registered association at Amtsgericht Chemnitz (VR 3134), which operates under the institutional umbrella of Hochschule Mittweida.

The business model combines three revenue streams: ticket sales for the Main Stage distributed through the third-party Pretix platform (pretix.eu), free entry granted to Kulturpass holders born in 2006, and a diversified regional sponsorship base that includes CityBahn, enviaM, AOK, LVM, Sparkasse Mittweida, MLP, Mauritius, Köder, Medimax, Arnold Physio, Ackermann Events, Ratsapotheke Mittweida, Sonnenapo, Studentenwerk Freiberg, the Förderkreis Hochschule Mittweida e.V., the Stura student council, and five Fachschaftsräte. Distribution is hybrid: self-serve online ticketing via Pretix plus an on-site box office at the venue, with regional marketing through Instagram, the official campusfestival-mittweida.de website, and YouTube livestreams on the @medien_studieren channel. The underlying technology is a standard WordPress web stack with embedded third-party services (Pretix, Google Analytics, Google reCAPTCHA, YouTube); no proprietary platform or AI components are involved.

The customer base is consumer-driven and broadly distributed across Hochschule Mittweida students, university employees, citizens of Mittweida and the surrounding region (including Chemnitz commuters reached via the CityBahn partnership), and Kulturpass-eligible youth. Geographic reach is regional within Saxony, with no disclosed international or national expansion. The festival continues to operate on an annual cadence and is scheduled for June 16-17, 2026.

Name

Campus Festival Mittweida

Legal name

Hochschule Mittweida

Website

https://campusfestival-mittweida.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Campus Festival Mittweida is a student-organized annual two-day open-air music festival held in June at Hochschule Mittweida's campus in Saxony, Germany, serving students, university staff, and regional visitors with live music and side events, funded by ticket sales, regional sponsors, and university support.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Music Festival Events

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Music & Dance Festivals (Non-Commercial/Local) (MPAGAEAH)

Keywords

• Open-air music festival
• Student-organized event
• Live music entertainment
• Cultural event production
• University festival

Headquarters

HQ city

Mittweida

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Ticket Sales: Revenue generated from selling tickets to the two-day Open-Air music festival. Tickets are sold online through pretix.eu platform. Kulturpass holders (born 2006) get free entry.
2. Sponsoring: Funding received from sponsors and supporters including enviaM, CityBahn, AOK, LVM, and various local businesses and organizations.
3. University Support: Institutional support from Hochschule Mittweida for the student-organized event.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Campus Festival Mittweida is a student-organized annual open-air music festival held over two days in June at Technikumplatz on the campus of Hochschule Mittweida in Saxony, Germany. The festival features multi-genre live performances, complementary side events (CF Music Talk and CF Music Clash), food and beverage stands, and is open to the general public with free entry for Kulturpass holders born in 2006. Tickets are sold through the Pretix online platform.

Product overview

Campus Festival Mittweida is a student-organized open-air music festival held annually at Technikumplatz in Mittweida, Germany. The core product is the two-day music festival featuring multiple artist performances across different genres. Supporting offerings include side events such as CF Music Talk (industry discussion panels with live music) and CF Music Clash (musical game show competitions). Tickets are sold through the Pretix third-party platform. The festival is planned and executed by students of the Faculty of Media at Hochschule Mittweida, with funding from ticket sales, sponsorships, and university support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Campus Festival Mittweida (Main Stage Festival) Student-organized open-air music event held annually in June at Technikumplatz in Mittweida. Features performances by various artists across multiple genres (Deutschrap, Indie-Pop, Rock, Neo-Soul, Techno, Lo-Fi) over two consecutive evenings, with food and beverage stands on the festival grounds. Open to the general public.
• CF Music Talk Discussion event featuring industry representatives who talk about current trends, challenges, and developments in the music industry. Accompanied by a live band for atmosphere. Held as a side event of the main festival.
• CF Music Clash Musical game show where four teams compete against each other testing their music knowledge. Features musical games, live performances, and audience participation. Held as a side event of the main festival.
• Main Stage Tickets (via Pretix) Ticket sales service for the main festival stage, sold through the Pretix platform. Includes free entry for KULTURPASS holders (born 2006 cohort).

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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App detail

Integration5 records

Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• CityBahnminorGTM or Marketing PartnerTransportation partner providing rail connections from Chemnitz to Mittweida. DJs are organized for the City-Bahn journey to create festival atmosphere for arriving guests.
• Medienförderung Mittweida e.V.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegistered association (Amtsgericht Chemnitz, VR 3134) serving as the legal entity/trustee (Trägerschaft) for the Campusfestival Mittweida.
• enviaMminorGTM or Marketing PartnerEnergy company sponsor for the 2026 edition of the festival.
• AOKminorGTM or Marketing PartnerHealth insurance provider and sponsor for the 2026 festival.
• LVM (Ronny Schubert)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerInsurance provider and sponsor for the 2026 festival.
• Hochschule MittweidacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity of Applied Sciences provides institutional support, campus facilities (Technikumplatz venue, Haus 39 for side events), and student volunteers for the festival.
• Förderkreis Hochschule Mittweida e.V.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupporting association of the university that provides funding and organizational support for the festival.
• Studentenwerk FreibergminorGTM or Marketing PartnerStudent services organization that supports the festival as a funder.
• Sparkasse MittweidaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerLocal savings bank and funder of the festival.
• KöderminorGTM or Marketing PartnerLocal business sponsor.
• MedimaxminorGTM or Marketing PartnerElectronics retailer sponsor.
• Arnold PhysiominorGTM or Marketing PartnerPhysiotherapy practice sponsor.
• Ackermann EventsminorGTM or Marketing PartnerEvent services company sponsor.
• Ratsapotheke MittweidaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerLocal pharmacy sponsor.
• SonnenapominorGTM or Marketing PartnerPharmacy sponsor.
• Stura (Studentenrat Hochschule Mittweida)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerStudent council of Hochschule Mittweida as funder.
• Various FSR (Fachschaftsräte)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerStudent representative councils (CB2, Ingenieur, Soziale Arbeit, WW, Medien) supporting as funders.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Immergut Festival: Boutique indie festival in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Comparable as a smaller-scale German music festival with similar indie/alternative artist programming and developing regional audience.
• Feel Festival: Annual music festival in Ferropolis, Saxony-Anhalt. Comparable multi-genre festival with similar regional eastern German geography and student-event programming style.
• Common Ground Festival: Independent music festival in Germany with comparable mid-size, indie/alternative-leaning programming and student/young-adult audience demographic.
• Kosmonaut Festival: Indie music festival in Saxony, comparable in regional positioning and mid-size festival scale with similar audience demographic.

Regional players

• Sputnik Springbreak: Mid-size annual music festival held in Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt. Comparable regional multi-day music festival in eastern Germany with similar mainstream/indie artist mix and young audience positioning.
• Helene Beach Festival: Multi-day electronic/indie music festival held in Saxony. Comparable as a regional German multi-genre festival serving a similar young demographic in the same broader geography.

Direct peers

• Uni Sommerfest (TU Dresden): University-organized summer festival at TU Dresden. Directly comparable as a higher-education institution-led music event with student organization, regional audience, and sponsor-funded model.
• Campus Open Air Erlangen: Student-organized open-air music festival at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Directly comparable as a university-campus-led music event with similar student-run structure, sponsor model, and local/regional audience base.
• Juicy Beats: Mid-size annual music festival in Dortmund with a similar student/young-adult audience profile and multi-genre indie/electronic programming. Comparable in scale and event-driven GTM motion.
• Hochschulstadt Sommerfest: Other university summer festivals in German Hochschulstadt locations such as Mittweida, with comparable audience of students, faculty, and local citizens. Note: 'Straßenfestival der Hochschulstadt' was a previous branding of Campus Festival Mittweida itself, indicating tight overlap with the parent event's positioning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@medien_studieren
• Instagraminstagram.com/campusfestival_mittweida
• Facebookfacebook.com/campusfestivalmittweida
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/campusfestival-mittweida

Compliance2 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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