Wacken Open Air: Festival Founders Sell Additional Shares

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The Wacken founders Holger Hübner and Thomas Jensen have – as planned – transferred further ICS shares to the British investor. Only in July 2026 did the NDR in the podcast ‘Who owns Wacken?' go to the bottom of the changes on the business side of Wacken Open Air. Now there was another structural modification: the festival founders Holger Hübner and Thomas Jensen have further shares in the ICS GmbH International Concert Service to the British in…

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The Wacken founders have sold further shares to a British festival organiser. Thomas Jensen explains the step and evaluates the previous collaboration with Superstruct Entertainment.