The whole confidence was useless: The Schongau summer has been canceled again.
Manfred Wodarczyk pulled the rip cord and told all Fieranten and musicians that too much is at stake.
With an estimated fixed expenditure of 70,000 euros, this cannot be implemented with only a few permitted visitors.
Schongau - Corona again and again.
The Schongau summer cannot take place again.
Even if we are talking about the possibility of 250 visitors outdoors: “The effort that you have to make to hold this event on a very small scale is simply too great.” That says Manfred Wodarczyk, who was still with us in February had entered the planning of the historic market with full confidence.
But what he had already emphasized at the time: Nothing works below 1000 visitors
.
The fixed costs are just too high
"We would have loved to do it, but the conditions are simply unmanageable," says Wodarczyk.
The vaccinations are not yet as far as announced, and the government does not yet have the appropriate vaccination certificates - all difficult for the organizers, who in the end have to answer for everything.
"But before we have to do something half-flocked, we leave it entirely." He is convinced that even with admission it cannot be carried out.
15,000 to 20,000 euros for the fence and security, plus 50,000 euros for bands and parties, the fixed costs are simply too high, the organizer calculates.
An event that draws a lot of people to the city
So the decision to cancel has been made.
Mayor Falk Sluyterman has already informed Wodarczyk, "Of course he regrets that very much because the Schongau summer is already an event that attracts a lot of people to the city".
The ongoing discussions with the already committed artists and restaurateurs are difficult.
“It hurts myself, it's frustrating what's going on in the cultural scene.” But it can't be changed.
Bright spot: there will be eleven days of summer in Schongau in 2022
But there is still a small ray of hope.
In the coming year, when a Schongau summer can take place again after two years of compulsory break, the date is so favorable that the holiday of the Assumption of Mary on August 15th can be added again.
“Then we have eleven days of summer in Schongau.” So you can make a note of the date from August 5th to 15th, 2022.
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