Oktoberfest cancellation / Munich: Oktoberfest replacement plan confirmed – this is how “summer in the city” goes

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The SPD also sees a mini Oktoberfest in the whole city as positive. City Councilor Klaus Peter Rupp said the concept was an opportunity to offer Munich people something that at least reminded a little of a folk festival. Rupp initially wants to wait for the session template, but in principle his group will go along. “I hope that we can achieve good cooperations, for example large beer gardens.” The creative artists should not be neglected either. “You would have to include the cultural citizens’ houses.”

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The Green City Councilor Anja Berger argues similarly. “It depends on what is in the template. It would be important for artists to be able to present themselves on small stages. ”Berger believes that the overall concept is good. “It is important that we do not create any new hotspots and that the infection requirements are met.”

Oktoberfest cancellation: crazy idea should help showmen in Munich – and change the city

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Munich – Special times often require special measures. And the Corona emergency makes you inventive. After the Oktoberfest because of the persistent pandemic had to be canceled as a precaution, the city now wants to come up with an extraordinary concept Oktoberfest showmen under the arms. The showmen break all income, because that Ban on major events is not foreseeable. The spring festival is also known to be canceled.

Oktoberfest replacement 2020: Munich idea should not only help showmen

Now the Department of Labor and Economy has one concept elaborated, which is supposed to ensure showmen nevertheless revenue. It provides that Rides and games to be distributed across the entire city area from July. In this way, the administration not only wants to help the showmen, places with little traffic could be revitalized in summer. Munich, the because of the corona pandemic* would rather not go on vacation or simply couldn’t drive, would have additional incentives to spend the summer in the state capital. Furthermore, the concept apparently also includes collaborations with local ones District committees, Unite and Cultural organizers planned. On top of that, such an approach would also ensure that not everything in Munich takes place at the previously known hotspots, for example at Marienplatz or the Olympic Park. That would also provide incentives for them local gastronomy.

The concept should be implemented in such a way that the existing prohibitions*, such as that of large events, does not run counter to it. Furthermore, the distance and hygiene rules must also be observed for the decentralized offers.

Oktoberfest rides distributed in Munich: liven up individual quarters

The showmen suffer most from the Cancellation of the Oktoberfest. As reported, the idea had already arisen to extend the Oktoberfest in the coming year as compensation. In an interview with our newspaper, OB Dieter Reiter (SPD) had given little prospect of success. “I know that, for example, the waitresses, the paramedics, the police and the security forces at the end of the 16 days of Oktoberfest are pretty much tubed. An extension would therefore be difficult for the employees, but also for the residents, to cope with. ”CSU parliamentary group leader Manuel Pretzl had in the meantime applied to the showmen, for example, in the area of Pedestrian zone in the old town as well as in other suitable places in the city Stands to make available – but for the sale of snacks or the like.

The President of the German Showmen’s Association, Albert Ritter, also had one Bankruptcy warned: “If from the state side Ban on professional practice* is pronounced, then the government must also help. ”Ritter also asked to check whether smaller folk festivals might not be possible later in the year.