New Wiesn song was already on the ZDF television garden - party maker announces: "Then the hut will burn"

Created: 08/22/2022, 06:42

By Phillip Plesch

As an entertainer, Gerry Grass sets the mood.

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In our large Oktoberfest series you will learn the comeback stories of the most diverse employees at the Oktoberfest.

Today the party maker and entertainer Gerry Grass tells us about his dazzling everyday life at the Oktoberfest.

Munich - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Thomas Gottschalk and many more: Gerry Grass has been on stage with many a star.

And yet his joy at this year's Wiesn knows no bounds.

The singer and his band will ensure a party atmosphere every evening in the Marstall marquee.

Something special for the 49-year-old in more ways than one.

After the Corona break, Gerry Grass is looking forward to the largest folk festival in the world again

"It's like coming home," says the native of Vorarlberg, who has lived in Munich for twelve years.

"We're on tour all over the world all year round and in the 17 days the world comes to visit us." After a two-year break, the musician is even more excited about the world's biggest folk festival.

Finally standing on stage again, being right in the middle - and partying with the people.

A feeling that probably all musicians missed during the pandemic.

Life as a big stage: Gerry Grass (centre) has also appeared with screen legend Arnold Schwarzenegger (left).

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But that's not all: For the first time, the band will play in a new constellation at the Wiesn.

In 2011, when it was still in the Hippodrome, Grass performed at the Oktoberfest for the first time - as the singer of the Munich Zwietracht.

In 2014, a new host, Sigi Able, took over the campsite.

Since then, the tent has been called the Marstall, but the evening band has remained.

2022 now the restart.

Three former band members found two new colleagues and founded the Royal Bavarian Full Gas Orchestra.

Oktoberfest: The Vollgas Orchester wrote the song "Wiesn i stand up di"

Gerry Grass, Robert Haslinger, Roland Frey, Erwin Fliegel and Mark Fugmann will be performing every evening from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. this year.

"For a good hour we play grouchy and dignified to get in, then the hut catches fire," says Grass.

The band has almost 250 songs in their repertoire, including classics such as Fürstenfeld and Angels, one or the other medley and almost ten of their own songs.

To express their joy at this year's Oktoberfest, the Vollgas Orchester wrote the song "Wiesn i steh auf di".

"A musical declaration of love," Grass calls the song.

The five men even performed it on the ZDF television garden at the end of July.

With "Marstall the very best" the five musicians also wrote a song especially for the marquee.

In addition to returning to the stage, Grass is also looking forward to seeing many acquaintances again - whether staff or guests.

The full-throttle orchestra hopes for the musical support of one or the other celebrity.

After all, the Terminator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was on stage with the boys.

“These are of course formative memories that remain,” says Grass.

And there should be a lot of new ones this year.