Schleissheim rocks

After a long break, the open-air festival in Schleissheim celebrated a lavish comeback as "Kloster 2.0".

Six bands rocked Corona and the standstill on Saturday.

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To the delight of several hundred fans and the organizer himself, the open-air tradition lives on in Oberschleißheim, this time on the old airfield site.

Dieter Herzog has been part of the “monastery concerts” since 2009.

When the Open Air, designed by Manfred Lährl in 1978, threatened to run out of air, he took the reins in his hand.

The fact that Herzog is emotionally connected to the new venue released additional energies.

His father, who died of Corona, was a pilot at the Schleissheim airfield, says Herzog.

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Applause on the airfield: Hundreds of rock fans come to the "Kloster 2.0" festival despite the lousy weather.

© Gerald Förtsch.

BRK vaccination bus on the festival site

In “We rock Corona;

The historical must not die ”, the motto of the event, culminates what moves Herzog.

The Red Cross took up the steep template.

The BRK developed smart slogans for the vaccination bus, which is going from one event to the next.

"Impf to go" or "Impfbus on the Road" served as eye catchers.

With what is probably the most successful creation, Dr.

Stefan Roncato, medical director of the vaccination center in Unterschleißheim, gave the vaccination campaign additional meaning: "A little prick for us, a big step for mankind", recalled what Neil Armstrong may have moved when he first set the moon in July 1969 Man entered, a sensation of the century.

Dieter Herzog keeps the tradition alive

Reaching that high was not what Dieter Herzog wanted at the Schleissheim airfield.

Herzog, who was involved in the organization of the Kloster-Open Air from 2009 to 2018, grew up with the annual concerts.

To him, monastery means living family history, "an old love", as he says: "I was able to look out of my window." He experienced his first open air monastery when he was nine.

At 14 he was on stage.

The open air as part of history is what he would like for Oberschleißheim as well.

After one last breath in summer 2019, the event seemed to be over.

"The monastery was clinically dead." That shouldn't be!

Herzog revived it.

Six bands from punk to southern rock

The value of the monastery open air for the region became apparent early in the afternoon.

A steady stream of monastery fans hurried along Ferdinand-Schulz-Allee to the airfield.

The open air is known for robust rock, good blues and a dash of metal.

For decades, the monastery has been the event of the Schleissheim summer.

Regional greats such as "Lucy Grave", the nationally known punk'n rollers from "Lustfinger" and the metallers from "JD Power Trio" with the tireless head-banging Jakub Dwornicki, "Black Cadillac", "Clowds Munich" and "CC Topp" gave this year the honor.

The sound of the sixties and seventies, the classic sound of an era when music was still a means to improve the world, unites the Kloster-Open Air with fans of rock'n'roll and live music.

"Monastery of the Merciless Radau Brothers"

As could be seen on Saturday, this does not necessarily have to amount to over 50. Kloster 2.0 continues this tradition. Like the predecessor, you get along without a spiritual background. Neither the former site in the west of Schleissheim nor the airfield was monastic. The name came about because the organizer wanted to give space to a “monastery of the merciless Radau brothers”.