Oktoberfest: There will be no “Wiesn for everyone” in 2022 either

Oktoberfest
There will be no “Oktoberfest for everyone” in 2022 either

The Oktoberfest should take place again in 2022.

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In 2021 the Oktoberfest was canceled again. According to the mayor of Munich, it should take place again in 2022 – with restrictions.

It was already clear in May that there would be no Oktoberfest in 2021 due to the corona pandemic. In a new interview, Munich’s Mayor Dieter Reiter (63, SPD) now declares that the Oktoberfest should definitely take place again next year. But it is also certain that not everyone will be admitted if the mega-folk festival increases.

No more than two Oktoberfest cancellations

“In any case, I would like to see two Oktoberfest cancellations during my term of office”, tells Reiter in an interview with the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. That is why you are already thinking about what Oktoberfest could look like in 2022. But he is certain of one point: “There will definitely be no Oktoberfest for everyone. If someone does not want to be tested or vaccinated, they will not be able to go to the Oktoberfest in 2022 either.”

Reiter does not want to take this risk. That is why we have to think about “how we can control that only those who we want to let in” come in “. There are different variants that are conceivable, including personnel and technical controls. “Of course we only have to make an exception for the children, otherwise it is not a real folk festival,” says Reiter.

He could “promise that I will do everything I can” for there to be an Oktoberfest. But it shouldn’t be a “castrated Oktoberfest”. “There will be no restrictions in the tents – for example that clearances must be maintained, mask must be worn or only every fifth bench can be occupied.” This is not an Oktoberfest and then you can leave it alone.

At the beginning of May, Reiter and Prime Minister Markus Söder (54) announced that the Oktoberfest would also be canceled in 2021. “The tendency was clearly that we, as local politicians, simply assume this responsibility for our people […] must weight more than the justified and understandable interest of the population in folk festivals, “he explained. Söder said the situation was simply” too unsafe “.

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