Despite Corona lockdown: The culture in the Miesbach district should soon pick up speed again. There are already ideas. Example: central venues for music and theater groups.
district – In the federal government’s step-by-step plan, culture only appears in the fourth opening step. Depending on the corona incidence, theaters / concert halls / opera houses and cinemas may not receive an audience again until March 22 at the earliest, possibly only with a daily quick test or self-test. The participants in the virtual round table of the Kulturvision association in the Miesbach district have not yet given any thought to these details. Rather, they focus on a long-term revival of cultural life. There is no shortage of good ideas, says Kulturvision chairwoman Monika Ziegler. “You can feel a real spirit of optimism,” enthuses Ziegler.
That wasn’t exactly to be expected. The round table fell asleep in the past few months “out of sorrow”. No wonder, given that the results for 2020 are quite frustrating. Above all, the cancellation of the open studio days, which were planned with great personal and financial commitment, hit those involved in the project hard. “The studio days are close to the heart of the cultural vision,” says Ziegler. On top of that, the association also had to cancel the art auction planned to finance the artist catalog due to corona.
Atelier days postponed to 2022
It gets even more bitter: As the participants of the round table unanimously decided, the open studio days will also be canceled in 2021. “Given the current situation, the April deadline could not have been kept,” reports Ziegler. In the early summer of 2022, it should finally work.
But the culture in the district should not remain in the pandemic-induced paralysis for so long. During the lockdown, Kulturvision started a kind of replacement program together with the Holzkirchen location promotion with the joint project “Culture in the shop window”. Until March 14th, 19 local artists are exhibiting their works in the center of the village. The idea has already found imitators, reported Sibylle von Löwis as the new head of the round table. In Otterfing, the one-month art trail has been running according to the same scheme since March 6th. In Bad Wiessee and Miesbach, too, they are thinking about implementing it, in Tegernsee Volkstheater boss Andreas Kern wants to campaign for it.
Common venues for music and theater
But culture should not only take place in silence through window panes. Musicians and theater players also want to entertain the people in the district again. During the discussion, Johannes Wegmann, head of the cultural autumn festival in Schliersee, suggested how this could work. He could imagine setting up three to four permanent locations for various groups to perform in the district. These open-air venues should remain in place for at least the summer and through access controls also guarantee compliance with hygiene and distance rules.
The advantage: Not every theater or every music group would have to develop a complex and often cost-intensive hygiene concept on its own. In addition, the multiple-use venues have the charm that, for example, the Schliersee Farmers’ Theater could also appear in the Tegernsee Valley – and vice versa.
Ziegler was very impressed by the idea of ”softening the boundaries” between Tegernsee and Schliersee: “Something healthy can emerge from it,” said the chairwoman of Kulturvision. At the suggestion of Otterfinger Stefan Späth, after more intensive networking also in the north of the district, Ziegler offered to build a “bridge between Holzkirchen and Otterfing”.
All of the ideas mentioned are now to be pursued in small working groups, Ziegler assures our newspaper when asked. The result of the round table is a good motivation for this: “The results were extremely satisfactory.” The culture in the district, it draws hope again.
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