Oktoberfest 2022 only for vaccinated people? Söder gives a cautious forecast

A year without the Oktoberfest is bad - but three!

To prevent this, those responsible are already working on a secure implementation for 2022.

Update from August 24th:

Oktoberfest or no Oktoberfest - that is also the question that Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder * (CSU) now seems to have asked himself. In his opinion, the implementation of Oktoberfest 2022 depends on global vaccination progress. If the vaccination goes on like this, also globally, "we have the best options," said the CSU * boss on Tuesday to the television station

münchen.tv

. "I can imagine an Oktoberfest when everyone is vaccinated, when the tests are there." But it is still too early to make decisions for the Oktoberfest in 2022. "You should wish that," said Söder, but the pandemic has shown time and again that it is better to "drive on sight".

First report from August 23:

Munich - no Oktoberfest for two years!

Numerous Bavarians are already walking on their gums.

So that there is no third due to Corona, those responsible are already working on possible access rules.

A 2G restriction could also be used here.

Those who were tested would then only be able to drink their measure in the garden at home.

Oktoberfest 2022: Oktoberfest boss could imagine a 2G rule

So far, there has only been such a long Oktoberfest break in times of war. That is why Bavaria's top event should definitely go into its next edition in 2022. To make this possible, Clemens Baumgärtner (CSU), Wiesn boss and Munich economics officer, has already thought about it. "I am sure that we will have a Oktoberfest in 2022," he told the German press agency. "Our job is to fine-tune the requirements."

Certain access rules and digital surveillance are conceivable, says Baumgärtner.

He thinks it tends to be possible that the folk festival can be celebrated with those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered.

An Oktoberfest with spaces and masks is hardly imaginable for him.

Since the Oktoberfest will not be the only major event under Corona conditions in the coming year, there is still time to learn about measures and techniques, according to the Wiesn boss.

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Oktoberfest 2022: Mayor Reiter is expecting an Oktoberfest in the coming year

One who also does not want to do without the Oktoberfest is Munich's Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD).

In June he had already said in an online citizen's consultation that two years without Oktoberfest would be enough.

He wants to create a concept with experts.

After all, he did not want to forget how to tap, he announced at the time.

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Munich mayor Dieter Reiter is afraid that he will have forgotten how to tap after two years.

In 2019 it still worked.

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But can six million people really come to celebrate in the Bavarian capital again despite the corona pandemic?

Every year, numerous visitors from the USA, China, Australia and other distant countries came to the Isar.

Many of them were or are now areas of high incidence again - or can become so again.

And how will the corona mutations develop?

Oktoberfest boss Baumgärtner is happy about the foreign visitors, but they would hardly matter.

Most of the guests come from Munich and the surrounding area.

“We have international guests that we are proud of.

But numerically that's the smallest part. " 

Oktoberfest 2022: Scientists are skeptical about the Oktoberfest plans

There would be no Oktoberfest without hosts and showmen. In the past two years they have incurred enormous costs simply because of the storage of the tents and rides. Not least because of this, they are optimistic about the coming year. “We think positively! The city's top also absolutely wants to avoid that the Oktoberfest is canceled a third time, ”said the second Wiesnwirt spokesman, Christian Schottenhamel. “I also think that in 2022 we will still have to deal with the effects of the pandemic. But we will also learn to deal with it. I firmly assume that the Oktoberfest will take place in 2022. "

Researchers and scientists, however, throttle the anticipation of an Oktoberfest in 2022. "Indeed, from an infectiological point of view, no serious statement currently seems possible to me," said the pandemic officer of the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich, Christoph Spinner, of the dpa.

The development of the pandemic and of worrying virus variants, the progress of vaccination and many more factors played a role in the risk assessment.

“And at the end of the day, the risks and benefits must be weighed up politically.

In my opinion, we have done well in the pandemic to keep the observation periods shorter and more manageable, ”says Spinner.

(tel / dpa)

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