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No Oktoberfest in Munich: crazy idea should help showmen

2020-05-12T06:12:17.817Z


After the Oktoberfest cancellation, Munich wants to help showmen with a new concept. Accordingly, the Oktoberfest operators should set up their rides and games across the city.


After the Oktoberfest cancellation, Munich wants to help showmen with a new concept. Accordingly, the Oktoberfest operators should set up their rides and games across the city.

  • No Oktoberfest 2020 - means no income for many operators and showmen.
  • An unusual concept is intended to compensate for the Oktoberfest outage from July.
  • Otherwise, rather dreary places could be upgraded.
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Munich - Special times often require special measures. And the corona need makes you inventive. After the Oktoberfest had to be canceled as a precaution because of the ongoing pandemic , the city now wants to help the Oktoberfest showmen with an unusual concept . The showmen break all income because the ban on major events is unlikely to be lifted in the foreseeable future. The spring festival is also known to be canceled.

Oktoberfest replacement 2020: Munich idea should not only help showmen

The Department of Labor and Economy has now developed a concept that is still supposed to ensure revenue for showmen. The plan is to distribute the rides and play shops 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 residents who would rather not go on holiday or simply cannot drive because of the corona pandemic * would have additional incentives to spend the summer in the state capital. In addition, the concept apparently also includes cooperations with local district committees , associations and cultural organizers . On top of that, such a procedure would also ensure that not all of the hotspots known up to now take place in Munich, for example at Marienplatz or the Olympic Park. That would also provide incentives for local gastronomy .

The concept is to be implemented in such a way that it does not run counter to the previous prohibitions *, such as that of large events. 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, for example, that the waitresses, the paramedics, the police and the security forces are pretty exhausted at the end of the 16 days of the Oktoberfest . An extension would be difficult to cope with that is for the employees, but also for local residents. "CSU parliamentary leader Manuel Pretzl had in the meantime requested the showmen in areas such as pedestrian zone in the old town as well as at other suitable locations in the city stands available to places - but for the sale of snacks or the like.

The President of the German Showmen's Association, Albert Ritter, had also warned of a bankruptcy wave : "If a government prohibits a professional practice *, then government must also help." Ritter also asked whether smaller public festivals should not be held later in the year may still be possible.

Bankruptcy with the carousel: The cancellations of #Oktoberfest u. # Popular festivals / # funfair threaten the #existence of #travellers. Many are attached to the #Wiesn. But no branch depends on it as existentially as the #Showroom. Here is an overview. https://t.co/GVSHqttHyG

- SmarteZeitung AHK (@SmarteZeitungAH) May 10, 2020

Upon request, Munich's business consultant Clemens Baumgärnter (CSU) did not want to comment on the details of the concept, whether, for example, the Ferris wheel and ghost trains would also be set up. “We will discuss the concept with the political groups and then in the general assembly. The aim is to help the showmen and to liven up the individual districts in the summer. ”The holiday senate should deal with the concept on Wednesday .

* tz.de is an offer from the nationwide Ippen Digital editors network

Source: tz

Source: merkur

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