After a two-year Corona break: the first folk festival in Bavaria opens - Söder celebrates with them
Created: 03/26/2022, 19:21
By: Leyla Yildiz
Selfie with Söder: The Bavarian Prime Minister was the guest of honor at the opening of the Würzburg Spring Folk Festival.
© Nicolas Armer/dpa
The first folk festival of the year has opened in Würzburg - after a two-year Corona break.
Prime Minister Markus Söder was the guest of honor.
Würzburg – The first folk festival in Bavaria has opened after a two-year Corona break.
Today, Saturday (March 26), the mayor of Würzburg, Christian Schuchardt, pierced the first barrel at the spring folk festival in his city.
The visitors in the marquee cheered the event, as reported by the German Press Agency.
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Guest of honor was Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU), who then drove a lap of the Ferris wheel.
The Würzburg Spring Folk Festival lasts until April 10th.
On Wednesday, Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) expressed skepticism about the Munich Spring Festival planned for April on the Theresienwiese.
"Personally, I find it difficult to imagine visiting one, being happy, drinking beer, riding a carousel when at the same time there is war in Ukraine and people are dying every day," Reiter told radio station Gong 96.3.
"I have to see what's happening in this world and then there are overriding reasons that are even more important than holding a folk festival."
This also applies to the Oktoberfest.
He couldn't imagine an Oktoberfest without corona restrictions anyway.
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- Oktoberfest as international understanding
The Wiesn hosts replied that it would help promote international understanding when people from all over the world celebrated peacefully together.
The longing for a peaceful Oktoberfest is very great after a two-year break.
A Ukrainian national dish could be offered in the tents to donate money for refugee aid.
(dpa/ly)
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