The Bavarian soul can endure a lot, but after two years in a row without a sway, a Ferris wheel, a ox roll and a fresh Oktoberfest beer, it too is frothing. Munich’s Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) has probably seen protest marches passing in front of the town hall several times in his mind’s eye and posters with inscriptions such as “The measure is full”, “No to the injection – yes to the oral vaccination” or “To the shift with the virus”. . In the meantime, however, there are increasing indications that on Saturday, September 17, at 12 noon, he will finally be calling out “O’zapft is” again in a beer tent at the Oktoberfest and the world’s largest beer festival will take its course. For example, our country’s father, the Cola light drinker Markus Söder (CSU), stated on Tuesday that the Corona crisis had reached its peak, and just two days later Wiesn boss Clemens Baumgärtner presented the winning design for the Wiesn poster. It shows the angel Aloisius, full of anticipation, walking hand in hand with the Munich child in the direction of the Ferris wheel. Even the ox on the spit laughs.
Why do you now see in your own mind’s eye in the drinking halls joyful virus families from all over the world and their ugly descendants sitting at the tables, swaying and laughing, jumping from one host to the other and their Bavarian representatives “Hau di hera, samma more!” bawl? Maybe you’re just one of the many skeptics who don’t want to believe that Omikron & Co can be locked out of marquees, roller coasters and carousels. So far, there have never really been more than six million guests from all over the world at the Wiesn. In addition, there are still 210 days until the opening and until then you can relax and wait and see how the virus has behaved at beer festivals elsewhere.
Unfortunately, the selection is currently not large, because so far only the friends of the Wolfschneiderhof in Taufkirchen have offered to do a test run. While other organizers are still hesitating, the Friends of the Museum of Local History want to pull off their 8th strong beer tapping on March 4th – with funny politicians’ derbabbing, dancing and hoots. Let’s see if and to what extent the incidence values in Taufkirchen will increase after the last one has turned off the light. The result could serve as a reminder or encouragement for the people of Munich, depending on how many visitors were infected by all the fun and laughter and soon realized that laughing is not always healthy.
Unless you book a course in laughter yoga with the specialist for the release of endorphins, Cornelia Reisch from Gräfelfing, so that you no longer have to rely on special occasions for a liberating splurge. It seems that the laughter expert takes the virus seriously. In any case, she is currently only offering her laughter training via Zoom.