Contribute
In ZEGG you can find big and small solutions for a sustainable economy and life. We create a place where nature and humans can thrive together. Practically that means creating diverse, flexible, and resilient systems, which regulate and maintain themselves.
If you want to contribute, you are more than welcome to. Through a working event or as a volunteer: You help to manifest this vision of a spirited and cooperative life.
As a summer guest
As a summer guest you will be given a direct glimpse at the sustainable and communal Economy and the way of living in ZEGG.
You work with us in the kitchen, the garden, in the cleaning team, on construction sites or on maintaining the site. Varying from light to physically demanding work, you will work four hours a day except Sunday. Normally, during the week, you will have the opportunity to work in different areas with different people who live in ZEGG. There is a communal dish-washing service once a week.
Generally summer guest weeks can be booked for families with children.
The daily group meeting provides a possibility for contact and exchange with the summer guest guide and the other summer guests, as well as information about ZEGG. There are exercises for community building, exchange and contact. Being embedded in a group during your summer guest week gives you the opportunity to experience temporary community. There will be no deep processes (like “Forum”) in these group meetings.
You can take part in our morning activities (silent sitting meditation, mantra chanting, yoga) and other activities offered for guests at ZEGG during this week. Our village pub (café and pub) is open after lunch and in the evening. You can spend a majority of the time as you wish, for example playing volleyball, swimming in the pool, going on bike tours (you can lend bikes here) - etc.
When there are international guests in the summer guest weeks the group will either be in english or there will be translation.
Arrival and Departure will be on Sundays. An earlier arrival or a delayed departure is not possible. However, there are short summer guest weeks before our festivals (see program to book these weeks).
If it is your first time in ZEGG we ask you to join the site tour on Sunday. It will start at 15:00 at the ZEGG-entrance.
Accommodation is provided exclusively in group tents during the tent season from mid-May to mid-August and exclusively in group dormitories (shared rooms or summer huts) outside the tent season. Of course, you can also bring your own private tent or camper van at any time. From 2025 there is now also the possibility to stay in one of our summer huts. The summer hut can be booked as a single room (if you are traveling alone) or as a double room (if you are traveling as a couple).
If you are planning to stay longer than a week, a summer internship (from 1 month / 280,- U&V/month) may also be of interest to you. Further information on summer internships can be found on this page.
If there are open questions you can contact us via mail: sommergaeste@zegg.de
Next summer guest dates
As a guest helper at festivals
During the festivals you can work for four hours a day in one of the different areas of ZEGG. In exchange you only have to pay half of the festival fee. As there is a program from morning till evening you will miss some of the events. The areas of work are: Cleaning, Kitchen and Garden (Pfingstcamp, Sommercamp). We try to fulfill your wish to work in a specific field but we cannot give guarantee.
As a Guesthelper it is necessary that you have been to a festival in ZEGG before, because the split between taking part in the program and volunteering as a Guesthelper can be challenging and overwhelming without prior experience.
The places are limited and in high demand, so please contact us in time via email: . Please name the area of work you want to work in, which festival you have already participated in ZEGG and your phone number.