Anticipation for the Oktoberfest
Created: 09/18/2022, 08:04
By: Laura Forster
Everything ready for the Oktoberfest parade on Sunday: Angela Olm, Susanne Bieber, Michaela Olm, Veronika Kräh, Alois Weiß and Thomas Kräh (from left) from the Tutzinger Guild decorated the float on Friday.
© Andrea Jaksch
After a two-year break due to the pandemic, the Oktoberfest is taking place again this year on the Theresienwiese.
The district is also eagerly involved this year - three clubs are taking part in the traditional costume and rifle parade, a district group entertains the audience at the Oide Wiesn.
District – The time has come: 38 marquees and countless booths and rides are waiting for visitors to the 187th Wiesn from this weekend after a two-year Corona break.
On Saturday it was again "O'zapft is!" The district of Starnberg is also represented at the largest folk festival in the world.
Traditional costume association Tutzinger guild
Rudi Sigl, 2nd guild master of the Tutzinger guild, could no longer sleep properly a week before the traditional costume and rifle parade, which starts this Sunday, September 18th at 10 a.m.
“The anticipation is huge,” he says.
For years, the association has been part of the traditional parade that runs right through Munich - from Maximilianstrasse via Odeonsplatz, Ludwigstrasse, Brienner Strasse, Stachus, Schwanthalerstrasse, Paul-Heysestrasse and Schubertstrasse to Esperantoplatz.
“We take turns with the Starnberg homeland and traditional costume association.
It was their turn in 2019, when the Oktoberfest took place for the last time, so we're going with them this year have already received the first confirmations.
Many are looking forward to it being possible again.
The move is the highlight of our club year.
However, some people are not so comfortable with the current corona situation, and of course we understand that too.”
Until late in the evening on Friday, the members were busy decorating and preparing the ship, which is part of the performance of the Tutzinger guild (around 300 members in total), with flowers, old fishing nets and box branches.
"That's something special about moving," says Carola Falkner, 1st Guild Master.
"Not everyone has something like that." The six-meter-long wooden ship, which belonged to the Hirn fishery from Bernried a few decades ago, was originally intended to be placed in front of the Höhenried clinic as decoration.
"A member noticed the end of the 1970s and saved the ship for the association," says Sigl.
On the day of the move, the ship is pulled standing on a trailer by four draft horses owned by a farmer from Diemendorf.
Inside are nine Tutzingers - mostly children and senior citizens.
The S-Bahn takes you to Munich city center early in the morning.
"We're only in 46th place, but we all have to line up at the same time," says Falkner.
Because the fixed ring checks again whether the costumes are sitting correctly.
“Modern wristwatches or umbrellas, for example, are not allowed.
They are very strict.” Each of the members has their own robe.
"At around 1,000 euros, that's an investment," says Sigl.
After the approximately two-hour parade, the traditional costumers spend the rest of the day in the Armbrustschützen tent.
"Then the tension is gone and you can enjoy a beer and a chicken."
Hechendorf brass band music
For Axel Heltzel, 1st chairman of the Hechendorf brass band, it is the first traditional costume and rifle parade - as it is for many other club members.
"We have gained a lot of young people and returnees in the past two years," says the trumpeter.
He himself decided to join the brass band during the pandemic, and he has been chairman of the association since March 2022.
“I played a lot as a kid but stopped because of the braces.
Now I've started playing the instrument again.” Some of the twelve active members will be supported by alumni on Sunday.
"They simply have more experience and the more people, the better it looks," says Heltzel.
A total of around 20 musicians will take part.
Together, the Hechendorfers drive into town in a rented bus.
After the move, the instruments are put back on the bus, and the musicians move on to the Schützen-Festzelt.
"The anticipation is huge."
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Brass band Pöcking
The Pöcking brass band also ends the day in the Schützen marquee.
“I don't think that all the musicians will come to the tent.
One or the other is too sensitive, which I can understand well.
But most of the members don't want to miss the move," says 1st board member Sebastian Scheck.
The association has been involved in the traditional costume and rifle parade since 1963.
"It's a great honor for us," said Scheck.
“Before the pandemic, tens of thousands of viewers came.
The parade will also be broadcast on television.” Around 60 active members will be there on Sunday.
"The drummers go ahead, followed by the brass band." Eight children and young people are also there - two of them as table bearers.
The traditional costume and rifle parade will be shown on Sunday in BR from 7.45 p.m. to 9.45 p.m.
Gau group in the traditional marquee
The district of Starnberg is not only represented during the parade, the traditional folklore and traditional costume association “Huosigau” also has several appearances in the traditional festival tent at the Oide Wiesn on Sunday, October 2nd, from 11 a.m.
Also present: three couples from the Starnberg homeland and traditional costume association.
"We show the guests our customs," says 1st Chairman Roland Kopf.
“The Bavarian Trachtenverband organizes a program every year.
Of course, it's great that a few of our members are allowed to be part of it.” The Gaugruppe, whose members come from the districts of Starnberg, Fürstenfeldbruck and Weilheim, have already had a few rehearsals.
"The dances all have to sit," says Kopf.
"It's a lot of time, but also a lot of fun."