Fruzsina Szép

Managing & Festival Director, SUPERBLOOM/Lollapalooza Berlin

Germany

Fruzsina is the managing & festival director for SUPERBLOOM, at the historic Olympic Park and Olympic Stadium in Munich.

Fruzsina was in charge to build up and develop the first European version of the US festival brand Lollapalooza in Berlin, which she lead as festival director and head creative between 2015-2020.

Prior to that, she was the program & artistic director of the Sziget Festival in Budapest (H) for seven years.

In 2024 she stepped back again into the role of the festival director for Lollapalooza Berlin. Fruzsina is board member of Yourope, the European Festival Association. She was the funding director of the Hungarian Music Export Office and the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Brussels. She co-founded CEETEP, the Central-Eastern European Talent Exchange Program that is now part of ETEP, the European Talent Exchange Program. Fruzsina co-founded the ‘TAKE A STAND’ movement within the music industry, encouraging social cohesion in our society, promoting awareness and tolerance for all cultures, genders, races, colours and religions. Over 100 festivals and talent agencies joined this initiative. In 2006 Fruzsina established the first CEE Showcase Festival and Conference in Budapest called RegiON.

Awards:

Fruzsina is an honorary associate professor, a recipient of the French national honour “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” and the European Festival Award for Excellence and Passion.

She is a well known panelist on international conferences and a lecturer at international universities where she holds classes on art management, creative concept development and festival organisation.

Her main goal is to create and to establish festivals and events with a unique artistic and creative programming, with valuable content around inclusion, diversity and social responsibility and more importantly with a heart & soul to provide a longlasting positive experience for the audience, the artists and the team.

Fruzsina was born in Budapest (H) and grew up in Munich (GER) and started her professional career in the music and entertainment industry as a band and tour manager at the age of 18.

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