Musicians want to go back on stage.
People long for concerts and culture.
Thanks to the currently low incidence values, cultural enjoyment is possible again after tough months of pandemic: Many communities are preparing for a varied festival summer - even if Corona has changed a lot.
Munich -
1500 people, crowded together in front of the town hall, dancing exuberantly: This picture doesn't really fit into the time of the corona pandemic. The
Dachau Music Summer
is therefore taking place in a completely different atmosphere this year. Like last year, the Ludwig-Thoma-Wiese forms the backdrop for the festival, where artists such as the Bavarian hip-hop combo “dense & poignant” and the French cover band “Nouvelle Vague” play. "For many musicians it is the first appearance since 2019", says the Dachau cultural office director Tobias Schneider. "The anticipation is huge". This does not only apply to the musicians - festival fans also long for experiences. “The ticket demand is extremely high,” says Schneider. Most of the events, each with 500 seats, were completely sold out within just two weeks - even though advance sales began in spring. At that time it was completely unclear how the pandemic situation would develop before the start of the music summer.“We wanted to send a signal of hope with the early start of sales,” says Schneider. The hope she's still alive today. The opening concert on Friday evening with the brass band “Moop Mama” was a success: The concert was sold out, the mood left out after months of drought.
Wiessee attracts with a colorful program - it's classic in five districts
Many small and large festivals all over Bavaria were planned for this summer with plenty of optimism.
Like in Bad Wiessee: every two weeks, bands from folk music to Latin jazz play right on the lake promenade.
#wiesseerocks
is the name of the concert series at Tegernsee, which runs until September 24th.
“With the special concerts, we have succeeded in expanding the musical diversity in Bad Wiessee,” says Mayor Robert Kühn.
The
summer of music between the Inn and the Salzach
has already begun.
“We were careful when planning and let small ensembles play in large venues,” says Petra Eisert from the organizers.
The bottom line is, however, an ambitious program: 24 concerts are scheduled in churches, concert halls and castles in the districts of Traunstein, Rosenheim, Mühldorf am Inn, Altötting and Berchtesgadener Land.
The events are smaller than usual.
A woodwind quintet from the BR Symphony Orchestra ushered in the concert series in front of 60 guests in the Seeon Monastery.
In the parish church in Ruhpolding, too, only around a quarter of the seats may be used when the Salzburg string quartet is playing a classical soiree.
Cutbacks at the big festivals are necessary
All organizers have to make compromises. Instead of a large grandstand reminiscent of the world-famous opera house in Sydney, a marquee with raised rows of seats will be set up on the old raft landing in Wolfratshausen (Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district). The
river festival
on the Loisach
begins here on July 9th
. The program - 18 events over 16 days - on the floating stage should not suffer. Regional artists such as choreographer Dominik Halamek and music cabaret artist Josef Brustmann and greats such as the Lower Bavarian political cabaret artist Django Asül, pop singer Laith al-Deen and the Iberl stage are on board.
Freising's cultural advisor Susanne Günther recently announced “The comeback of joie de vivre”. We are talking about the
summer wonder festival
, which starts on July 8th. In the district court garden and in the Lindenkeller beer garden, a Corona-compliant outdoor program is offered - with children's theater, jazz matinees, folk music evenings and theater. The festival was launched last year in order to offer artists a stage and the audience to enjoy culture, although the big Uferlos festival is canceled.
The riding facility on Irschenberg (Miesbach district) is transformed into an open-air stage with colorful pool noodles.
The bathing toys serve the spectators as distance
gauges
to the
next
man when
Austropop, Metal or Woodstock classics are played on the equestrian center
from July 17th
onwards.
Organizers expect fewer visitors - because of the distance and limitations
Before the pandemic, around 20,000 people attended the 300 screenings at the
Five Lakes Film Festival
every year
. Last year only 14,000 visitors came because of the Corona precautions, space restrictions and distance regulations. “That will also be our goal this year,” admits the organizer Matthias Helwig. The program is still to be published, but it is already clear: an open-air cinema series will start in the seaside resort of Starnberg on July 28, the actual film festival will begin on August 18. More than 100 feature, documentary and short films from Central Europe can be seen in Starnberg, Gauting, Seefeld Castle and Weßling. "Right now we need places to come together, to exchange ideas and to inspire," says Helwig.
The organizers hope for a colorful cultural summer - and some also for a golden autumn: The city of Unterschleißheim, for example, wants to
celebrate
a
festival
with a pub garden, brass music and rides
in the Valentinspark
after the summer holidays
. The city would like to offer a smaller, cozy alternative to the largest folk festival in the world for ten to 18 days during the actual Oktoberfest time. Because such huge festivals are out of the question despite the low incidence.
