Information

Fees

Instead of sky-high costs, we would like to ask you for a donation this year (see below for recommended donations). Our convention used to be very inexpensive. However, this year we have to ask for a little bit more. The reasons are not only due to inflation, but we also want to present a terrific gala show, and we outsourced cooking to a professional crew.

We'd like to ask for the following amounts, depending on how long you stay and how old you are:

Preregistration for the Hamburg Convention will be open from 25th Aug to 22th Sep 2025 on this website. You are welcome to come spontaneously to the convention and pay on site. However, we cannot offer meals and cannot guarantee accommodation in the dormitories if you do.

For your information

• Minors require a written document from their parent or legal guardian.
• If you are under 16, bring your own adult to the convention.
• Youth circuses must contact us in advance.
• Take care of each other!
• We need your help to make the convention a surrounding success! Volunteer for jobs at the information desk!
• Take good care of the gyms. You may only enter the gyms with appropriate indoor shoes. Glass bottles may not enter the gyms at all.
• If you want to, attend the workshops or give one.
• No living animals on the site.

Volunteering

By circus folk for circus folk! The only way to make the convention a success is if everyone helps out a little and/or brings their own ideas to the event. Doesn't matter if you are helping with the show, doing badge control, or helping clean up. Please volunteer at the information desk.

The best workshops are given by you. Everyone is invited to give a workshop. If you plan to do something extraordinary and need our support for that, please do get in contact via mail.

Sleeping

We use the classrooms as dormitories. There are dedicated dorms for families, youth circuses, cis-women, and FLINTA*. It is not possible to put up a tent. Camper vans have to stay on the parking lot next to the gym.

Meals

3x breakfast, 3x warm dinner is included in the recommended ticket price. If you are especially hungry, you can pre-order lunch for EUR 6.50 per meal. On site, it is not possible to order meals. The food will be vegetarian and vegan.

Haf­tungs­aus­schluss

This is a bunch of German legalese that we're not qualified to translate and we don't want to risk distorting its meaning by attempting a translation.

Eine Haftung des Veranstalters, gleich aus welchem Rechtsgrund, für Sach- und Vermögensschäden jeder Art und deren Folgen, die dem Teilnehmende während oder im Zusammenhang mit der Teilnahme an der Hamburger Zirkusconvention 2025 durch ein Verhalten des Veranstalters, seiner Vertreter, Erfüllungsgehilfen oder Beauftragten entstehen, ist bei der Verletzung der Pflichten, die nicht Haupt-/bzw. vertragswesentlichen Pflichten (Kardinalspflichten) sind, beschränkt auf Schäden, die vorsätzlich oder grob fahrlässig verursacht werden. Bei der Verletzung von Kardinalspflichten ist die Haftung des Veranstalters in Fällen einfacher Fahrlässigkeit beschränkt auf vorhersehbare, typischerweise eintretende Schäden. Teilnehmende nehmen aus freiem Willen und auf eigenes Risiko an der Veranstaltung teil, verantworten ihren Gesundheitszustand selbst und achten auf diesen.