Chiemsee Reggae Summer 2026

Line-Up

Mar­te­ria, Spice, Burn­ing Spear, Mac­ka B, Mr. Vegas, Patrice, Lila Iké, Antho­ny B, Ky-Mani Mar­ley, Neville Sta­ple, Jama­ram, Jah­coustix, Tree­sha, Unlim­it­ed Cul­ture, Sil­ly Walks, Afrob & Fer­ris MC, Don Letts, Marley’s Ghost, Soli­na & more.

CHIEMSEE COMEBACK

Some fes­ti­vals leave mem­o­ries. Oth­ers make his­to­ry. For an entire gen­er­a­tion of reg­gae fans, sound sys­tem enthu­si­asts, and fes­ti­val nomads, the Chiem­see Reg­gae Sum­mer was exact­ly that kind of place. A place for days by the water, dusty dance floors, leg­endary per­for­mances, and those mag­i­cal week­ends that peo­ple still talk about long after­ward.

So the news was all the more excit­ing: After near­ly ten years, the Chiem­see Reg­gae Sum­mer is return­ing in 2026. From June 26 to 28, Übersee at Lake Chiem­see will once again become the gath­er­ing place for the Euro­pean reg­gae com­mu­ni­ty. And the response shows just how much this fes­ti­val has been missed: The week­end is near­ly sold out; day tick­ets are cur­rent­ly only avail­able for Sun­day.

Any­one who’s seen the atmos­pher­ic trail­er for the come­back under­stands what it’s all about. It’s not just about nos­tal­gia. It’s not just anoth­er revival. It’s about the return of a way of life. The pre­view show­cas­es exact­ly the images that many vis­i­tors still asso­ciate with Chiem­see: sun­sets over the lake, hap­py peo­ple in camp­ing chairs, echoes of dub music in the night, bare feet in the grass, and that inde­scrib­able feel­ing of sum­mer free­dom.

For many, the Chiem­see Reg­gae Sum­mer marks the offi­cial start of sum­mer. Friend­ships were forged here, sound sys­tem crews came togeth­er, and first fes­ti­val romances began some­where between the camp­ground and the main stage. For many years, the fes­ti­val has con­nect­ed reg­gae, dance­hall, and sound sys­tem cul­ture across a wide vari­ety of scenes.

The line­up thus bridges the genre’s past and present. Head­lin­ing the fes­ti­val is Mar­te­ria, one of the most influ­en­tial voic­es in Ger­man-speak­ing fes­ti­val cul­ture, along­side a diverse selec­tion of reg­gae and dance­hall heavy­weights from Jamaica and beyond.

While fans were orig­i­nal­ly look­ing for­ward to a per­for­mance by Caple­ton, the Jamaican icon unfor­tu­nate­ly had to can­cel his appear­ance due to visa issues. Step­ping in at short notice is none oth­er than Mr. Vegas – a true dance­hall leg­end whose cat­a­log includes inter­na­tion­al hits such as ”Heads High,” ”Bruk It Down,” and ”Pull Up.” Known for his infec­tious stage pres­ence, crowd-mov­ing ener­gy, and anthems that have sound­tracked dance­floors around the world for decades, Mr. Vegas brings exact­ly the kind of Caribbean vibes and fes­ti­val spir­it that make the Chiem­see Reg­gae Sum­mer so spe­cial.

Join­ing them are oth­er top-tier acts such as Burn­ing Spear, Ky-Mani Mar­ley, Antho­ny B, Lila Iké, Patrice, Mac­ka B, Spice, Don Letts, and Neville Sta­ple – a line­up that embod­ies roots tra­di­tion, dance­hall ener­gy, and glob­al bass cul­ture. It is pre­cise­ly this open­ness that has always been part of Chiemsee’s DNA: Here, con­scious reg­gae, hip-hop, dub, ska, and mod­ern fes­ti­val sounds have always coex­ist­ed nat­u­ral­ly side by side.

And, of course, there’s the set­ting itself. A dip in the water dur­ing the day, a cold beer against the back­drop of the Alps in the evening, and deep basslines under the open sky at night – all com­ple­ment­ed by that laid-back Bavar­i­an hos­pi­tal­i­ty that has always giv­en the fes­ti­val its spe­cial char­ac­ter.

Any­one who’s ever been here knows why this fes­ti­val hasn’t lost any of its leg­endary sta­tus, even after a decade-long hia­tus. Per­haps that’s pre­cise­ly the secret behind this come­back: Some fes­ti­vals make a come­back. Oth­ers feel as if they’d nev­er real­ly been gone.

Chiemsee Reggae Summer 2026

26.06.2026 – 29.06.2026

Übersee am Chiem­see

Text: Lisa John­son

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