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Murnau Folk Festival: Fahren's host family back in the running

2023-05-20T04:58:03.191Z

Highlights: Murnau market had put its local Oktoberfest out to public tender. In the winter of 2022, the Joint Committee decided in a non-public meeting in favor of Holger Regler and against the Fahrenschon family – the only two applicants. Both sides are silent about how this happened. According to rumours that persist in the village, the award is said to have been about a coleslaw that got the ball rolling. Some people in Murnau therefore smugly christen the case "the coles Law affair"


U-turn in terms of the Murnau folk festival: The Fahrenschon family will probably serve chicken and beer there this year after all. She and the town hall are keeping a low profile.


U-turn in terms of the Murnau folk festival: The Fahrenschon family will probably serve chicken and beer there this year after all. She and the town hall are keeping a low profile.

Murnau – The message from the town hall comprises exactly two sentences. That's all the bridge of the Murnau market wants to come out of. The communiqué raises more questions than it was supposed to answer. But in one point it provides clarity: A folk festival will take place in Murnau, organized again by the Fahrenschon family from Rosenheim. The innkeepers that Murnau no longer wanted. Both sides are silent about how this happened. And thus cause big question marks among the clubs such as Holger Regler, the landlord from Eichstätt, who had actually been awarded the contract.

At this point, the search for clues begins. For the first time, the market had put its local Oktoberfest out to public tender. In the winter of 2022, the Joint Committee decided in a non-public meeting in favor of Regler and against the Fahrenschon family – the only two applicants. Christian Fahrenschon, the senior boss, announced directly that he would take legal action against the decision. He apparently succeeded in doing so. As several sources confirm, the Fahrenschons won a lawsuit before the Munich Administrative Court and will host the Murnauer Volksfest from July 14 to 23. "The worm was in the tender," explains a local councillor who wishes to remain anonymous.

There is no official information – both from the town hall and from the host family. According to rumours that persist in the village, the award is said to have been about a coleslaw that got the ball rolling. Some people in Murnau therefore smugly christen the case "the coleslaw affair". So far, so funny. But, as the anonymous local councillor notes: "Now we have the problem that we have to take the one we didn't want."

Mail from the court

Holger Regler has also received mail from the administrative court. That was about three weeks ago. In a few sentences, the innkeeper was informed of the verdict. What this means for him, the market town has not told him to this day. He assumes that the municipality will appeal. He doesn't know. For him, the situation is tricky: he has the original commitment of the municipality, the tent has been rented, and the construction should begin in just under five weeks. But according to the latest developments, the Fahrenschon family serves chicken and beer. Not the Eichstätt restaurateur. "We can't go to the square in pairs," he says. A second festival later in the year is also out of the question, because Regler is on the road elsewhere until October. Regler now emphasizes the debate: "I'll stay out of it completely and wait to see what comes out." He doesn't have any other choice anyway.

Call to the Fahrenschon family. Anna-Maria Fahrenschon, who coordinates the organization of the Murnauer Wiesn, answers the phone of the company number. She is very friendly, but does not want to say anything without coordinating with the market town. Two days later, she sends a message in response to the Tagblatt's questionnaire, which the congregation has also received. It states: "From our side, too, everything will proceed as usual. Once again, an attractive offer and a varied festive programme will be offered." About the process? To the lawsuit? On a possible appeal? To the future? No answers.

Michael Montag is fed up

At least one still speaks openly and honestly. Even if he doesn't get any information on his questions. Michael Montag, chairman of the Murnau fire brigade, is fed up. "We're being left hanging in the air – and we've been partners for decades," he complains. For years, Montag has been organizing the festive procession at the start of the folk festival with the clubs. The planning for this always began weeks before. And now? "I don't even know when it is," says Montag. Neither the municipality, nor the Fahrenschon family, nor Regler had responded. Montag expands his criticism to other points. In two years, the firefighters will celebrate their 150th anniversary, actually wanting to use the folk festival including the beer tent for the party. Last year, everything should have been fixed, says Montag. But it didn't work, because no one wants to say what's going on. Another important association in the village, which does not want to be named, had to move its festival locally this year for the same reason. "I absolutely don't like what's been going on for the last two years," Montag complains.

He – and with this he speaks on behalf of several associations in Murnau – deliberately sees himself isolated from the mayor. Even in the course of the award procedure, the clubs were never asked what expectations they had of a folk festival. "It is clear to me that we are not allowed to vote. But a hearing would have been right. We didn't have a chance to incorporate our concerns." Personally, he has invested an incredible amount of time. "Now you're being left hanging from all sides. The pure disappointment is where we already have such a hard time as clubs." Montag brings an interesting model into play for the future, which is often used in smaller villages. At the moment, for example, in Uffing during the festival week: Why don't the clubs become independent and set up their own beer tent? However, this should only work when the contract with the current landlord – as it looks, now the Fahrenschons – expires. When exactly this is, was not to be found out on the part of the municipality.

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Source: merkur

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