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After the Oktoberfest cancellation: Munich's alternative plan officially approved - "real new territory that we are entering"

2020-05-14T19:26:18.854Z


Approval for a creative concept: After the Oktoberfest cancellation, Munich wants to help showmen with a new concept. 


Approval for a creative concept: After the Oktoberfest cancellation, Munich wants to help showmen with a new concept. 

  • No Oktoberfest 2020 - that means no income for many operators and showmen.
  • An unusual concept is intended to compensate for the Oktoberfest outage from July.
  • The city council has now officially signaled its approval.
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Update of May 13: The Munich City Council has just decided: Rides and stalls are to be distributed to decentralized places in the Isar metropolis from mid-July . Which shops and places should be involved is still being determined. 

The title of the concept is "Summer in the City". "It is really new territory that we are entering", Wiesn chief Clemens Baumgärtner  had already said in advance.

According to Baumgärtner's template, Munich residents should be given the opportunity to vacation in Munich in the face of limited travel options during the crisis - and rediscover their city.

We are thinking of a "high double-digit number of public and private places", at which there could be a business. Customs events, offers for children and district initiatives could round off the program .

The infection control 'm always at the top. The concept therefore also provides for temporal and spatial equalization; The district committees should be closely involved. The economic department should now develop a corresponding concept and submit it to the city council again. It should start at the start of the summer vacation at the end of July, if possible earlier.

No Oktoberfest in Munich: Oktoberfest replacement plan is very well received - "Very charming idea ..."

Update from May 12th:  The concept of business officer Clemens Baumgärtner (CSU) to support the Oktoberfest showmen arrives. Greens, SPD and CSU signal approval. The city council decides on Wednesday (13th).

Wiesn boss Baumgärtner not only wants to provide the showmen with an income, the concept should enliven the summer in various places and give Munich residents at least a bit of a festival feeling after the Oktoberfest cancellation.

CSU boss Manuel Pretzl said on Tuesday: "I think this is a very charming idea that fits very well with Munich." It was also an opportunity for the showmen and market people, who were in need due to the cancellation of the popular festivals, to generate sales. "So that the trade doesn't die," says Pretzl. "The folk festival culture is an important part of Munich."

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The showmen suffer from the cancellation of the Oktoberfest - now they should liven up the city and save some sales.

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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."

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 need makes you inventive. After the Oktoberfest had to be canceled as a precaution due to 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 not foreseeable to be lifted. 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. Furthermore, the concept apparently also includes cooperation with local district committees , associations and cultural organizers . 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 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. # Folk 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 of the nationwide Ippen Digital editors network

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