Gmaade Wiesn wants to host the Dorfen folk festival again in 2023

Created: 09/30/2022, 09:00

By: Timo Aichele

A toast to the Dorfen folk festival: Franz Egerndorfer, Ernst Hennel and Tobias Maier (from left) toast in E3.

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Short tender for reliable calculation: The town of Dorfen is tendering the contract for the innkeepers for the next year.

Dorfen

- "After the folk festival is before the folk festival" - according to this motto of Mayor Heinz Grundner, the main and finance committee in Dorfen discussed the tender for the next Dorfen folk festival from August 11th to 20th, 2023. The committee unanimously decided on the catering to advertise the Festhalle for one year - a contract period that is just as short as this year, while in the past the landlords had three years of planning security.

The uncertainties are simply too great for longer periods, Grundner argued.

"We used to advertise for three years," reported Anita Feckl, the responsible department head in the town hall.

"The landlords have said that it's difficult to calculate even just for next year."

This is confirmed by Tobias Maier, one of the three hosts of the 2022 festival, when asked.

"Yes, we will apply again," he says - and one year is absolutely in the interests of the Gmaade Wiesn GbR, as the trio of Ernst Hennel, Franz Egerndorfer and Maier call themselves.

Already this year, the price increases would have thrown plans overboard, says Maier.

Gmaade Wiesn had originally promised a beer price of 8.60 euros.

"We had already submitted our calculations in the autumn before that," says Maier.

Of course, it was not foreseeable that the breweries would then offer their beer up to 30 percent more expensive.

Without a higher beer price, the economic risk for the innkeepers would not have been manageable.

It was 9.20 euros per measure.

For this, the city had to respond to the needs of restaurateurs.

The main and finance committee approved the price increase, says Maier gratefully.

“Working with the city was great anyway,” he says.

Despite all the uncertainties - "A week before we didn't have any prices for giggers and ducks," reports Maier - the 2022 folk festival was "an all-round success".

That's what the mayor said at the meeting.

"There were no riots, incidents or police intervention," he said.

With 60,000 to 70,000 visitors, according to Maier, things went better than 2019. It was probably also a good date.

Showmen reported to him that the first folk festivals in 2022 went well.

At the later ones, such as the autumn festival in Erding, he was told that sales had dropped by 30 percent.

People were apparently fed up with partying after the hyperactive summer of 2022.

According to Maier, Gmaade Wiesn will definitely make an offer and meet all the conditions – including the minimum lease of 70,000 euros for the festival hall.

But it remains exciting.

"The Giggerl are currently costing twice as much as in 2019." If the beer is just as expensive, "we can't ask for 19 euros for a beer".

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The tender documents have largely remained the same as in previous years.

In 2023 in particular, however, elements relating to the city's 1250th anniversary will still be required.

Dorfen will then have to wait until 2026 for its own folk festival anniversary.

It would then be the 150-year-old.

"1876 was the first folk festival with an agricultural exhibition," reported Grundner.