M'era Luna Academy

Medieval Dance / "Dance on the Market"

This workshop is open to everyone: men, women, and non-binary individuals of all kinds. No prior knowledge is required.

So grab your partner, your best friend, your friendly tent neighbor, or whoever you like. Even if no one from your camp is interested, you can come alone! We'll start with a speed dating session in the center of the circle. After all, the main purpose of dancing is to FLIRT!

In the past, there was no better way to get rid of a chaperone than through dancing. Why do you think in historical dances, almost every gentleman grabs a new lady for the next round?

Since we plan to dance 2-3 fun, lively, and energetic dances, please wear flat shoes; high heels will have to wait a little longer to make their appearance.

The medieval dance will take place in the open area of the medieval market. Just come and join in.

Schizophrenia: Living with Delusion - Between Fictional Pop Culture Depiction and Forensic Reality

Dr. Juliane Meyer is a forensic psychologist working in a secure psychiatric facility and holds degrees in psychology, literature, modern history, and art history. In the clinical inpatient setting, her psychological work focuses on Section §63, dealing with patients who have committed crimes due to mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, personality disorders, and more. This year, she will give several lectures on "Schizophrenia: Living with Delusion."

Sunday, 11.08.2024: 10:30 – 11:20 AM & 18:15 – 18:45 PM

Who's Afraid of the Blank Page? How to Start Writing!

Isa Theobald is an author, editor, translator, actress, booking agent, and moderator. Her books are published both traditionally and through self-publishing. She volunteers as the chairwoman of the Phantastik-Autoren-Netzwerk e.V. and works in cancer counseling. In her spare time, she attends concerts and festivals, dancing in the front row with her fellow Losties. At M'era Luna 2024, she will lead an exciting workshop for all aspiring writers!

Sunday, 11.08.2024: 11:40 – 12:05 PM, 15:40 – 16:05 PM & 16:55 – 17:20 PM

Ambient Paint Act

People have painted in front of audiences before, but never in this format (200 x 240 cm), in this quantity, and at this speed! For fifteen years, Marc Westermann has been captivating ever-larger crowds across Europe, both outdoors and indoors. Now, we welcome the fusion of his studies of the Old Masters for technical expertise and his interest in animation for sequences where anything can emerge from anything as part of the M'era Luna Academy 2024. Instead of "Watch Out for Art," it's "Don't Blink," or you'll miss something!

Sunday, 11.08.2024: 12:30 – 13:15 PM, 13:30 – 14:15 PM & 14:30 – 15:30 PM

Markus Heitz

Black-wearer & venerable Goth, ironic-sarcastic & always on the next project. Full-time story inventor, studied historian & Germanist, occasional songwriter at QNTAL & Corvus Corax, multi-SPIEGEL bestselling writer, radio play hobbyist & born in '71. Authored more than 70 books. Predominantly fantasy, horror & space fiction. Even children's books and political short stories were added. Manic and creative. As Maxim Voland he writes thrillers. Crazy. But he sucks at math and crafts. You don't have to be able to do everything.

READING & cuddly schnitzel to go
BOOK PREMIERE on the M'era Luna: "THE LEGENDS OF THE ALBAE - Dark Legacy"

Finally - Markus Heitz continues his great bestseller saga about the art-loving and deadly Albae! A dark, relentless people with a sense of art and poetry tells a new chapter in the Hidden Land: The Albae, the feared Dark Elves, are far from defeated. A legend that is as bloody as it is fascinating, which Markus Heitz is finally continuing to write here.

How do the cuddly schnitzels fit in?

You can see that in the reading on site…

Friday, 19:40 – 20:15 PM, Disco Hangar

Christian von Aster

This year Christian von Aster is presenting you a reading entitled "PREMIUMPLUSDUNKEL: About transience, coffee trips & love letter pigeons". Mr. von Aster offers the interested hangar inmates an almost truthful report from the Gothic periphery, the romantic adventure of an obese misanthropic pigeon, as well as a semi-sensible truth about death.

Friday, 21:25 – 22:00 PM, Disco Hangar

Lydia Benecke 

Toxic Relationships – What We Can Learn from Unhealthy Love Relationships in Fairy Tales

Criminal psychologist Lydia Benecke explains what we can learn from fairy tales and stories using examples such as "Beauty and the Beast" and "Twilight." In many romantic fairy tales, dysfunctional relationship patterns are romantically glorified. These notions can become especially dangerous when someone in such a partnership clings to the hope that it might have a happy ending like in the fairy tales. The lecture will cover warning signs of dysfunctional to toxic relationships and discuss the realistic courses of such relationships in real life.

Friday, 20:25– 21:15 PM, Disco Hangar

Crypt Talk

We learned to love the crypt talk with Chris Harms from Lord of the Lost and M'era Luna chief booker Stephan Thanscheidt during the two digital editions of M'era Luna. This year we can again attend the conversation live.

We look forward to exciting insights into the world of music and background information about our beloved festival, the music business in general and a firework of anecdotes.

Friday, 18:30 – 19:30 a.m., Disco Hangar

Warm-up and After-Show-Party

We kick off the festival weekend on Friday evening with the legendary M’era Luna Warm-up Party, where the finest dark tunes will be served up. Get ready for an ecstatic weekend with the DJ Suicide Commando DJ Team MD 75.

But that's not all: On Saturday, after the last concert, the After-Show Party awaits you. Dance out the last of your energy or wind down the day at the bar. In the Disco Hangar, you can turn night into day with DJ Ferret and DJane Loreley.

Friday, 22:45 – 05:00 a.m., Disco Hangar // Saturday: 0:00 - 05:00 a.m., Disco Hangar