The idea is actually not bad: beach chairs are something cozy and suggest privacy in public spaces. While bathing. And at concerts that actually cannot take place in too much public due to the corona-owed requirements. It is understandable that this can be a bit irritating for those on stage at times when the audience sits in their baskets so privately and privately entertained.
Helge Schneider found this situation too much at one of these beach chair concerts in Augsburg: “Well, I’m going to cancel the beach chair concerts at this point. I’m very sorry. Maybe you can get your money back,” he said to the visitors. as can be seen in a video on Youtube. “It’s really no fun. You don’t get any contact with the audience. There are people walking around here all the time.”
He also describes the “system” as “threadbare and stupid” – it is not clear whether he is referring to the Corona requirements. However, the 65-year-old later explained on Twitter: The restaurant staff who kept walking past bothered him, he felt distracted and only found out later that these people were serving others.
Nevertheless, the scandal caused a stir. And for legal consequences. It is now being checked, for example, whether Schneider would have to pay compensation. “If Mr. Schneider says he does not get any feedback from the audience, then he has to ask himself whether it is perhaps because of him,” said Birgit Gibson, spokeswoman for the company for the festival series in Augsburg and Rosenheim, on Sunday of the dpa. The organizers have now called on a lawyer.