Can Oktoberfest 2021 take place despite Corona?
A CSU member of the Bundestag has already thought about it in detail.
A decision on whether to hold this year's Oktoberfest should be made by June 2021 at the latest.
Wiesn boss Clemens Baumgärtner has made an optimistic forecast.
The CSU member of the Bundestag Stephan Pilsinger brings an Oktoberfest into play only for vaccinated people.
Munich -
Clemens Baumgärtner
left no doubts.
"We assume that there will be an
Oktoberfest
this year
," the
Oktoberfest boss
told the radio station
Charivari 95.5
.
It is the combination of
corona vaccine
, falling
incidences
and "also emerging
treatment options
" that make him confident, the
economic advisor for
the
city of Munich *
stated.
Oktoberfest 2021 despite Corona?
Wiesn boss firmly believes in implementation
Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) *
had announced that he would decide whether to hold the Oktoberfest by the beginning of June at the latest.
Until then, after the cancellation in 2020 *, people want to be prepared for an
event as
normal
, says Baumgärtner: "That has a crazy lead time, it is also a very well-organized event that cannot simply be stamped out of the ground".
The search for the poster for the Oktoberfest 2021 has already started online.
Does it have to set up a
"Wiesn light"
if necessary
?
Baumgärtner - similar to Reiter * - is not very open-minded on this point: a slimmed-down version would damage the image of the world's largest festival too much.
What the Wiesn boss does not want to rule out: Access to the festival area could be
linked
to a negative
corona rapid
test.
+
Economic advisor Clemens Baumgärtner is optimistic: "Assume that there will be an Oktoberfest this year".
© dpa / Felix Hörhager
Another Corona-Aus for Oktoberfest?
CSU politician: "Can only be imagined with a sophisticated concept"
The
CSU member of the Bundestag Stephan Pilsinger
is already thinking about how to design an Oktoberfest during
pandemic
times.
In an interview with the
Abendzeitung
, the 33-year-old doctor said: “From a health policy perspective, I am convinced that this can only be
imagined
with a sophisticated
hygiene and protection
concept”.
This must include, among other things, that only "registered,
Covid-19 *
vaccinated and currently tested people who do not come from a
risk area
are
allowed to participate in
the
Oktoberfest
".
From a health policy perspective, I am convinced that this can only be imagined with a sophisticated hygiene and protection concept
Stephan Pilsinger (CSU) about a possible Oktoberfest in 2021
According to Pilsinger, some
basic requirements are
essential
beforehand
.
All risk groups would have to be vaccinated before the start of the Oktoberfest, and all those who would like to be vaccinated would have to be granted easy access to the vaccine by then.
And: "As
last summer and early autumn, the
numbers
must be low".
Oktoberfest 2021 only for vaccinated people?
Söder does not want to make a forecast yet
Pilsinger advocates a decentralized
accreditation system
with which visitors could be recorded for specified periods of time: "There it must be checked whether the
vaccination has been
carried out, a current corona-negative
test result
is available and whether the person comes from a risk area".
At the entrances controls comparable to a football stadium are conceivable.
At his press conference on Tuesday (January 12),
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder
was also
asked
about the Oktoberfest 2021 *.
A date will certainly take place, that will be the
federal election
, "we will see everything else", the CSU politician was not able to
elicit
a
forecast
.
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