1500 people want to camp on Theresienwiese during the IAA to protest against the car show. The city fears that it could get too tight there – of all places where the Oktoberfest takes place
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The city should have gradually got used to the fact that there are tents on the Theresienwiese in September. And that a few tens of thousands of people are really no problem for the major Munich event industry at the foot of Bavaria, the Oktoberfest proves every corona-free year. So even if 30,000 or more demonstrators come together on September 11 to protest against the IAA – why shouldn’t there be space for 1,500 people camping in the protest camp next to them? Just for comparison: 1500 people sit in the toilet at the same time during the Oktoberfest and six times as many partiers fit into a single marquee. Which police clients do more work in an emergency remains to be found out.
So why is the city having such a hard time approving the climate camp? Munich likes to boast of the civic engagement of its citizens and wants – keyword: mobility department – to be a pioneer in the field of traffic turnaround. The application to host a climate camp should really only need one thing: the green tick behind it.
Those who park Porsche and Audi on Wittelsbacherplatz, Daimler in front of Feldherrnhalle and BMW on Max-Joseph-Platz should also find a place in town for climate protectors. Or does anyone fear critical images that could be detrimental to the image of the car show?
“We will turn Munich’s most beautiful places into a stage and experience locations for everything to do with the future of mobility,” the IAA organizers promise. That sounds a bit like an extended catwalk, on which the beautiful new car world, sorry: “Mobility” world is to be staged brilliantly. But that would be a misunderstanding. Because, again from the IAA: Munich should become “the venue for a city-wide dialogue about visions, innovations and sustainable mobility solutions for the future”.
Whoever believes this does not necessarily have to be saved. But it must also give those who vehemently demand this dialogue a place at the venue. Otherwise Munich’s Mobility Show would be fraudulent even before the start.
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