Book tips for the Oktoberfest: You should have read these books for the Oktoberfest
Created: 09/16/2022, 21:00
By: Sven Trautwein
After 1076 days, the Oktoberfest is celebrating its comeback.
You should definitely read these five books for a visit to the Oktoberfest.
What a comeback.
It's been 1076 days.
Now the tapping at the world's largest folk festival in Munich is imminent.
The marquees are set up, the rides are ready and for one or the other it's not just a chicken and a pint of beer.
And maybe the weather will hold up for the opening.
Shortly before the start, the weather report is a bit worrying.
If it rains, all the more reason to delve into one of the books presented here:
O'Zapft is: The book tips for the Oktoberfest
"Oktoberfest 1984-2019"
Oktoberfest 1984-2019 - A Photographic Review © Slanted Publishers
The Munich Oktoberfest, also known as Wiesn, is considered the largest folk festival in the world: two lively weeks with beer, chicken, fairground rides and partying people from all over the world.
But like last year, this year's festival was canceled due to a pandemic.
Sad news for the worldwide fan community.
For 35 years, the Munich photographer Volker Derlath has hardly missed a day at the Oktoberfest.
With his camera he is in the middle of the action and captures intimate moments, touching scenes, moments full of violence and comedy.
The "folk festival of all folk festivals" reminds him of the Middle Ages with its incomparable coarseness of popular entertainment, he says.
The Wiesn is a kind of utopia in which visitors can live out what has long been domesticated in everyday life and swept under the carpet of civilization.
Slanted Publishers
This book with numerous photos is the perfect introduction to looking back at 35 years of Oktoberfest in Munich.
Once you're on the festival grounds, you can reminisce and compare how the festival tents and rides have changed over the past three decades.
Oktoberfest 1984-2019
Published by Melville Brand Design
2022, Slanted Publishers ISBN 978-3-948-44028-2
Price: Hardcover 38 €, 208 pages – order now (promotional link)
Oktoberfest 2022: The perfect books
Petra Grill "Oktoberfest 1900 - Dreams and Dares"
Petra Grill "Oktoberfest 1900 - Dreams and Risks" © Fischer Paperback
Munich, 1900: Colina has to hide the fact that she was a simple barmaid.
Because now she has risen to become the governess of the young, headstrong Clara.
Their father, the brewery magnate Prank, strives for power and influence.
But Clara refuses to obey his orders.
In the midst of the glitz and hustle and bustle of the Oktoberfest, Colina develops a daring plan for Clara and for herself.
Will the two women fight for a chance at happiness?
S. Fischer Verlag
Successfully filmed as an ARD miniseries, the novel by Petra Grill tells the story of Colina and Clara, who see their chance in a male-dominated society and do not give up fighting for their rights.
A readable journey through time in the form of a novel.
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Petra Grill "Oktoberfest 1900 - Dreams and Dares"
2021, Fischer paperback, ISBN 978-3-596-70080-6
Price: paperback €15, e-book €9.99, 493 pages (different format) – Order now (promotional link)
Theo Felix "Oktoberfest criminal"
For language learning: "Oktoberfest criminal" © Klett
The largest folk festival in the world and detective Müller is right in the middle of it.
The Munich police are puzzled.
People who have been robbed keep coming forward.
Detective Müller investigates and sets a trap for the criminals.
Will this go well and can he catch the criminals this way?
Velcro
For anyone who wants to learn the German language at the same time, "Oktoberfest criminal" in connection with the app is the perfect start and companion for the world's largest folk festival in Munich.
Theo Felix "Oktoberfest criminal"
2017, Klett ISBN 978-3-126-75107-0
Price: €6.99, 48 pages – order now (promotional link)
Rüdiger Liedtke "55 1/2 places around the Oktoberfest that you have to see"
Rüdiger Liedtke "55 1/2 places around the Oktoberfest that you have to see" © Emons
The Munich Oktoberfest is the largest folk festival in the world.
With countless copies in many countries.
For Munich this means: 16 days of emergency in autumn.
And a logistical tour de force.
42 hectares of undeveloped land in the best location are transformed into the largest party zone on the globe.
250 showmen, 70 restaurants, 12,000 employees, 100,000 seats.
The Oktoberfest is a pleasure and an economic factor in equal measure.
And the flagship of the city.
The book shows 55½ highlights around the Munich Oktoberfest.
The craziest tents, the greatest rides, the most important places you should have experienced.
There are many tips on tradition and fashion and is a guide to enjoy the Wiesn competently and properly.
emons
Anyone who thinks they know everything about the Oktoberfest in Munich should definitely take a look at Rüdiger Liedtke's book.
It's just bursting with superlatives.
For preparation and for reading, the perfect reading for the Wiesn.
Rüdiger Liedtke "55 1/2 places around the Oktoberfest that you have to see"
2014, Emons ISBN-13 978-3-954-51370-3
Price: Paperback €7.95, 240 pages – Order now (promotional link)
Bruno Jonas "Instructions for use for the Munich Oktoberfest"
Bruno Jonas "Instructions for use for the Munich Oktoberfest" © Piper
The Munich Oktoberfest is a major event of a special kind: every autumn, six million people from all over the world travel to a concrete area, the »Wiesn«, to eat, celebrate, and flirt with typical Bavarian meals and drinks at inflated prices in a confined space, to fight - in short: to enjoy a few hours of happiness.
Bruno Jonas illuminates the dimensions of this event - from the peculiarities of the MVV to the search for a seat in the beer tent, the celebrity box and amateur conducting, from the complete costume set to the "Italian weekend".
The dialectic of Bavarian nature is discussed, as are various states of intoxication and the Wiesn as a symbol of eternity.
piper
Anyone who knows the book series "Instructions for use for ..." will not be disappointed with this Wiesn guide either.
The cabaret artist Bruno Jonas skilfully introduces the topic.
For all fans of the Munich Wiesn and Bruno Jonas.
Bruno Jonas "Instructions for use for the Munich Oktoberfest"
2011, Piper ISBN-13 978-3-492-27610-8
Price: paperback €14.99, e-book €12.99, 224 pages (different format) – Order now (promotional link)
These five book tips are just a small selection of books for the Oktoberfest.
These recommendations are as mixed as the audience.
By the way, here are book tips for the fall with us.