In Penzberg there will be another festival at the end of August and beginning of September.
According to the town hall, the city council has agreed to sign a contract with festival host Christian Fahrenschon.
The atmospheric disturbances have apparently been resolved.
But neither the landlord nor the town hall dare to predict whether the festival can actually take place.
Penzberg - The Penzberg city council recently talked behind closed doors about a contract with festival host Christian Fahrenschon for the 2021 festival.
When asked, Mayor Stefan Korpan (CSU) announced that the city council had agreed to sign a contract.
The folk festival should take place at the usual time: This year it is from Friday, August 27th to Sunday, September 5th.
Volksfest 2021 - if the Corona situation allows
How big the chances are that it can actually take place in view of the corona pandemic, however, can hardly be answered.
“It's like reading in a glass ball,” it says from the Penzberg town hall.
It can definitely only take place if the corona situation allows it, the statement said.
The approval authority is ultimately the district office.
According to the town hall, there is no agreement in the contract with the party host to organize a smaller variant if necessary.
The city council had thought about it.
But you want to let that happen, the city council would then have to deal with it again, the city announced.
Atmospheric disturbances can be regarded as "remedied"
The atmospheric disturbances that recently existed between the city and the landlord can in any case be regarded as "fixed," said spokesman Thomas Sendl when asked.
There was a conversation in the town hall between Mayor Korpan and the Fahrenschon couple.
It was very constructive and open, he said.
As reported, there had only been a dispute over opening times and police controls in 2019, which at the time almost led to a dispute in court.
Then in 2020 the city council canceled the folk festival because of the corona pandemic and demanded stand fees from the showmen for the proposed mini version “Autumn in the city”, which is why the matter finally fell through.
Fixed the glitches?
“That's how I see it,” says the landlord Fahrenschon.
According to him, the fact that the cooperation is improving was already apparent last year when the task was to find places for “autumn in the city”.
When court fees were then requested, he says, his showmen said they didn't want to take the risk.
He himself would have had no problem with it, but showed solidarity.
Festwirt Fahrenschon: Industry has its "back to the wall"
The entrepreneur looks back on 2020 as a terrible year.
You forget, says Fahrenschon, that the travel industry and the event industry have been "in complete lockdown" since March 2020.
“We all have our backs to the wall.” Two of his colleagues in Bavaria have already given up.
The fairgrounds fared even worse.
For the small festival alternatives that took place in some places, the usual number was not allowed, only a selection.
He himself was lucky in comparison because his four events with a beer garden were very well attended.
He counted a total of 50,000 visitors.
A “huge effort”, however, meant the requirements of the health authorities.
50,000 names and addresses have been recorded and kept for four weeks each, "a mess of data".
However, he did not receive a single query about a corona infection.
“There is probably no risk involved in catering,” comments Fahrenschon.
In any case, he says, the behavior of the guests was exemplary.
The Festwirt and the year 2021: planning into the unknown
And how does he see the year 2021?
On the one hand, he describes himself as an “old optimist”.
On the other hand, he does not expect things to improve significantly by the middle of the year.
The planning for the start of the season, the spring festival in Rosenheim, has not even begun.
Otherwise he is planning into the unknown.
He will provide alternatives by the middle of the year.
For Penzberg, he should actually also think about it, says Fahrenschon.
But he is planning for a real folk festival.
The optimist in him says: "I'm looking forward to a normal time with all of the Penzbergers, so that we can sit together and celebrate."
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