EAST 2027 is scheduled for Sep 15-19, 2027 at Ringberg Hotel.
The price for 2027 has not been announced. The figure is from 2024, for reference only, so check the convention's own site before you budget.
≈ $ figures are approximate US dollars, rates as of 9 Oct 2026 from ExchangeRate-API open access.
The nearest airport is Erfurt-Weimar Airport (ERF), roughly 60 km north of Suhl, though it has limited scheduled service. Most attendees fly into Frankfurt Airport (FRA) or Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ) and travel onward. Suhl is reachable by regional train via Suhl station on the Erfurt-Würzburg line. From there, the Ringberg Hotel is perched on a hilltop above the city and is accessible by taxi or a convention shuttle. Drivers can reach Suhl via the A71 motorway from Erfurt or the A73 from Nuremberg.
Curated stays near Ringberg Hotel, Suhl, Germany.
EAST 14 occupied the entire Ringberg Hotel, a 460-guest hilltop property in the Thuringian Forest. For that edition, booking through the convention was the standard approach, as the hotel became the convention space for the weekend. EAST 15 is confirmed for September 15-19, 2027 at the same hotel, with registration details still to be announced.
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EAST 14 ran from August 5-9, 2026 at the Ringberg Hotel in Suhl. The official pages checked after the convention do not yet publish final attendance, a 2026 charity total, or a guest name.
EAST 13 drew 948 attendees for its horror-inspired 'EAST THE 13TH' theme, and raised €14,200 for Förderverein Tierpark Suhl e.V., the support association for the Suhl wildlife park.
Recorded headline rate for this edition.
≈ $ figures are approximate US dollars, rates as of 9 Oct 2026 from ExchangeRate-API open access.
Source-linked results and moments recorded for 2023.
Charity
#GoPfandMe result
EAST 11 recorded 5,332 bottles and cans, 26 crates, and €1,226.36 through its deposit-recycling drive.
SourceEAST 11 ran September 13-17, 2023 at the Ringberg Hotel in Suhl. The official charity history reports €8,000 for TSV Tierisch Grenzenlos e.V., while its #GoPfandMe table records 5,332 bottles and cans, 26 crates, and €1,226.36. No final attendance, theme, or Guest of Honor record appears in the reviewed official 2023 pages.
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2027
Sep 15-19
2026
Aug 5-9
Theme
Tropical Dreams
2025
Sep 17-21
Theme
EAST THE 13TH
2024
Aug 14-18
Theme
The 90s and Beyond
2023
Sep 13-17
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#GoPfandMe: 5 editions of bottle-deposit charity stats published
Germany''s Pfand (deposit-return) system places a €0.25 surcharge on plastic bottles and cans, refundable at any reverse-vending machine. EAST''s #GoPfandMe campaign asks attendees to donate their convention-weekend Pfand vouchers to the charity total, and publishes a 5-edition longitudinal stats table tracking the campaign''s growth:
Full 460-guest hilltop buyout, no overflow possible
EAST occupies the entire 460-guest Ringberg Hotel sitting atop a mountain in the Thuringian Forest, for the full weekend. With 1,076 attendees registered for 2026 against the room cap of 460, registration effectively sells out with the hotel block, there are no nearby overflow hotels because the venue is on an isolated hilltop, so the buyout doubles as the attendance cap.
EAST is one of four Sachsen Furs events per year
EAST is the flagship annual convention, but parent org Sachsen Furs e.V. runs four events per year with smaller regional meets between editions. The con is the once-a-year peak of a continuous regional-meet cadence rather than a standalone, most German cons sit as one-off annual events with no recurring infrastructure between editions.
