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By: Silke Reinbold-Jandretzki
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In motion: ride at the Murnauer Volksfest 2022. Some things will change this year.
© Andreas Mayr
After the Fahrenschon decades, a new folk festival season begins in Murnau: The Mörz company is taking over the traditional event in July, initially for a trial year - and will do some things differently.
But one important pillar remains.
Murnau
– Jochen Mörz (66) was once a successful ice hockey player and even stormed for the national team.
At the same time, he grew up with his father Josef Mörz's marquee business, which he took over in the mid-1980s.
“I stood in the beer tent when I was seven or eight years old and was able to experience it,” says Mörz.
Folk festival: Murnau debut of the Mörz company in July
Today the third generation has long since joined the family business and hosts spring, folk and autumn festivals with four variable tents.
In the summer, Mörz Festzeltbetriebs GmbH, which is based in Amberg, will make its Murnau debut and host the local Oktoberfest from July 12th to 21st.
Mörz follows the Fahrenschon company, which had been in business for decades.
Probationary year for community and landlord: “After that everyone can decide”
It will be a trial year for Mörz and the municipality, which has advertised a one-year contract: “After that, everyone can decide.
If we are both happy, we will do this in the long term,” says Mörz, who has eight folk festivals on the calendar so far this year.
For Murnau he is planning a tent that can accommodate around 2,500 people, as well as a beer garden that is as extensive as possible.
The event is not one of the largest that Mörz organizes.
In Freising he is building for 7,500 people, in Fürstenfeldbruck for 4,500, and in Plattling for almost 4,000.
Musikexpress, Salto Mortale - and the fixed repertoire in the showman area
The preparations for Murnau have progressed “far, far,” says Mörz.
The showman area is finished on paper, “the place is completely full”.
Two large rides - Musikexpress and Salto Mortale, a rollover spectacle - are also there, as is the regular folk festival repertoire with bumper cars, raffles, shooting cars and more.
Mörz also contributes with Steckerlfisch and a nostalgic snack bar and arrives with Ochsengrill.
25 semi-trailers are on the road for the Mörz company
He knows the Murnau folk festival “from way back,” when the innkeeper was still called Walter Fahrenschon.
Mörz says he had planned to buy a Fahrenschon, there had already been half-liter jugs with the inscription Fahrenschon/Mörz, “but we didn’t end up together.”
Now Mörz is taking over in Murnau.
He emphasizes that he is “very complex” with the kitchen and tent interior design.
Around 30 employees stand behind the counter and around 40 to 45 work in front of it.
25 semi-trailers curve through the area for him.
Mörz wants to talk to local clubs soon and “see what to expect”.
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Manyana Monday, one of the festival highlights, remains
Even if the new host announces that one thing or another will “certainly” change at the folk festival, there will be no changes on Manyana Monday, which for many is the highlight of the folk festival and a magnet especially for the young people who celebrate.
“He’s definitely staying,” says Mörz.
His daughter Nadine Mörz, who is responsible for organization and management, confirms this with identical words and explains: “We have been working with Manyana for what feels like 150 years and are also private friends.” They don’t want to reinvent the wheel, “tried and tested should stay.”
She is currently planning the music program and wants to contact the town hall to find out which groups should be there.
Mörz often works with the party band “Zruck zu Dir”, and “Volksbeat” is also often there.
You definitely want to bring a breath of fresh air.
And: “The mix has to be right,” says Nadine Mörz.
The older generation should be considered like the young, “and the local bands should also be given their platform.
This is a folk festival, and classic Bavarian brass music cannot be missed.”