Miesbach and Hausham are finally getting folk festivals again this year

Created: 02/18/2022, 10:00 am

By: Dieter Dorby

When the world was still fine: In 2019, when this picture was taken, the Miesbach beer tent had 1400 seats plus 300 outside in the beer garden.

This year, Anian and Yvonne Kurz are planning on the same scale.

© Andreas Leather

The corona virus was the killer for the folk festivals in Miesbach and Hausham.

Now the omens look better.

Both folk festivals are to take place this year.

Miesbach – Now is the time to make a decision, and Anian Kurz has made it together with his wife Yvonne and the showmen: in 2022 there will finally be another folk festival in Miesbach – from June 24th to July 3rd.

After a two-year break, a third cancellation without a really good reason is no longer possible, he states: "People are looking forward to a folk festival and some normalcy and conviviality again." In addition, the folk festival now has an existential meaning for the showmen.

"You need the appointments, otherwise you won't get over it." Kurz knows from his own experience what he's talking about.

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Kurz is currently working as a temporary worker on the Speckalm.

A job that he enjoys and also helps the alpine farm.

"The Speckalm has the same problem as we do," he explains.

"Due to Corona, many waitresses, employees and temporary workers have looked for other jobs.

They are now missing from their former companies.” It is still unclear how many of these will return – or find out for themselves that they can do without night and weekend work.

His team has already informed Kurz about his festival dates in 2022 - it starts in May with the boys' festivals in Holzolling and Warngau - and found that not all of them are available anymore.

The offer is also scarce elsewhere: in the chapels.

"We have to book the music now, otherwise we won't get any more."

Here, too, the reason is Corona.

Because many wedding celebrations had been postponed due to the pandemic, the bridal couples would now take the opportunity in summer to say yes.

"Many need music, and the relevant groups are quickly booked up," Kurz knows.

Especially since many clubs also want to hold their Festl after the cancellations of the past two years.

“There will be a lot of celebrations this year,” Kurz is convinced.

"Many clubs are also dependent on this income."

However, it is uncertain how the public response will turn out.

On the one hand, many people will feel the need to experience sociability and normalcy again.

On the other hand, some will also show greater caution and restraint due to Corona.

Kurz assumes that the two will balance each other out.

As usual, he plans for Miesbach with a tent with 1400 seats plus 300 in the beer garden.

Especially since a postponed anniversary is to be celebrated in the run-up to the folk festival: the 100th anniversary of the Hopf wheat beer brewery, which should actually have been in 2021.

Now the celebration is to be rescheduled from June 15th to 19th - including a large classic car show by the Miesbach classic car friends on Saturday, June 18th.

The best prerequisites for realizing the goal of the innkeeper: "We just want a really gritty folk festival again."

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In Hausham, too, it will soon be said again: "Ozapft is!"

A folk festival is finally to take place again this year in Hausham.

As Mayor Jens Zangenfeind informed our newspaper when asked, the time window from Friday, June 10th to Sunday, June 19th, is planned.

The event team consists of the same comrades-in-arms as before the pandemic: The Hausham trade association is the organizer, with Christian Baur at the helm and Hans Seidl from Alpengasthof Glück Auf as well as the showman team around Kerstin and Romanus Münch.

The municipality takes over the patronage again.

For the second festival weekend, i.e. June 17th to 19th, the people of Hausham want to invite their friends from the partner communities Seiersberg-Pirka (Styria) and Levico Terme (Trentino) - for a special reason, as Zangenfeind explains: "We want to celebrate anniversaries or celebrate later .” After all, they have been connected to Seiersberg-Pirka for 30 years.

At Levico Terme it is even 60 years.

In addition, the club's anniversary is planned for Sunday, June 19th.

Subject to any official requirements, the folk festival should take place as usual.

According to Zangenfeind, you don't want to do things by halves in the interests of the citizens.

Many have already asked "whether they can look forward to the Haushamer Volksfest 2022," says Zangenfeind.

"According to the current planning status: yes." The head of the town hall praises the willingness of the trade association, which takes on the "extensive organizational work every year on a voluntary basis by the board and committee".

In general, the tradition of the folk festival in Hausham is “an expression of cohesion and the lively local community as well as the solidarity of the many clubs and institutions”.