Stageco Germany Looks Back On ‘Super Year 2019’

Dirk Lauenstein, CEO of Stageco Deutschland GmbH, the German business of Belgian staging giant Stageco, is looking back on a successful year.

By the end of 2019, the company will have worked on some 180 events in Germany and abroad. This includes 17 open-air shows on the Muse’s European tour, concerts by German superstar Herbert Grönemeyer, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Phil Collins in Vienna, Austria, and Kiss in Prag, Czech Republic.

Stageco Germany also supplied German twin festivals Rock am Ring/Rock im Park and Hurricane/Southside, as well as Wireless Festival, Airbeat One, Melt, Wacken, Bang Your Head, Nature One and SonneMondSterne.

Outside of Germany, Stageco’s crews built stages at Sziget in Budapest, Hungary, Colours of Ostrava in Czech Republic and Untold festival in Cluj, Romania.

The last event of the 2019 festival season Stageco Germany worked on was Lollapalooza Berlin, which welcomed 85,000 visitors to the Olympic Stadium in the German capital, Sept. 7-8. Stageco Germany built a total of six stages on site as well as scaffolding around the stadium.

The work on Lolla Berlin alone required a crew of 26, 40 trailers and ten days of construction and de-construction.

“All in all, 2019 is a super year,” Stageco Deutschland GmbH CEO Dirk Lauenstein summarized. “I’m really glad that we continued to work with our regular customers in a trustful, collaborative and successful manner. At the same time, we were able to realize exciting events with new clients.”

Apart from the work on Muse’s European tour, Lauenstein counts the first “floating stage” in company history, for Swedish House Mafia’s May concerts in Stockholm, Sweden, amongst his 2019 highlights.

Stageco Germany’s team is currently looking to expand into new markets and working on its first projects for 2020. One of the pressing questions is how to achieve a greater utilisation in the winter months. Indoor events offer great potential in that regard, according to Launestein, mentioning Stageco’s flexible and rollable systems, which are particularly interesting for concert productions that are too big to be using a venue’s stock staging.