Carnival show on the Internet
Created: 01/14/2022, 12:01 p.m
By: Sandra Sedlmaier
Waiting for the big day: Mini Mania with trainer Sabine Türkmen has been practicing for her show for months and is looking forward to her performance.
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The Pöckinger Faschingsclub thinks that you can also live out the joy of carnival online.
Since no balls are allowed to take place, the PFC shows the Dancing Mania and Mini Mania shows as a live stream.
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- Corona and carnival, they just don't get along. Nevertheless, Steffi Lörke can see something positive in the current situation. "This season we have at least been able to train with tests so far - last season it ended in October," she says. Of course, given the current pandemic situation, a ball where people sit shoulder to shoulder in the Beccult with alcoholic drinks and the PFC Guards show their shows is unthinkable. That's why the Pöckinger carnival friends go online. They will be presenting their shows tomorrow, Saturday, January 15th, starting at 7:30 p.m. The access data can be called up on the website www.pfc.de on Saturday.
The active members of Dancing Mania and Mini Mania from the Children's and Youth Guard are happy that they can show what they have been doing for months. For PFC President Lörke, one message is particularly important: "We're still here!" After she has little hope that the Corona situation will have improved by the beginning of March, the online show is at least a small compensation for a live appearance. "It's probably the second carnival in a row that will be cancelled." The club had already decided in autumn not to look for a prince couple or child prince couple for this season. The situation was too uncertain.
However, the Garden stayed on the ball and met regularly for training. As always, what the participants have prepared for this year remains a secret – experience has shown that there are imaginative costumes, great music and rousing dances. All dancers will have tested themselves - as always before the rehearsals.
Of course, watching a show on the internet isn't the same as watching it live. The active members – 17 from the Guard and nine young people and children from the Kindergarde – are each allowed to take one companion with them to the Beccult, plus invited guests. Among them, for example, is Deputy Mayor, cultural advisor and PFC veteran Albert Luppart, explains Lörke. "In terms of the number of people, we are still below the 25 percent occupancy rate that we are allowed to have in the Beccult," reports the President. This regulation was also one of the reasons why the PFC opted for the online version. "25 percent occupancy in the hall makes an event impossible - there are costs that we cannot bear at all."
That was the last show before the pandemic: the ladies and gentlemen of the Pöckinger Faschingsclub's Dancing Mania on the Beccult stage at the Coronation Ball 2020. This year there will be another show, but the majority of the audience will be sitting in front of the computer.
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The show is still live: What the ladies and gentlemen of the Garden show on stage is simultaneously broadcast on the Internet.
Later, the show will also be put on the PFC page.
"Our players also want to see what they have shown," says Stefanie Lörke.
The younger ones from the Elferrat take care of the technical implementation.
The evening on Saturday serves two purposes: so that the fans and carnival enthusiasts can see that something is happening, and the PFC members that their club is doing something.
"I'm so proud of our athletes that they decided to perform and stuck with it," says Lörke.
"The only thing that was clear from the beginning of the season was that everything remains unclear."