Munich’s Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter has repeatedly doubted whether it was right to let the Wiesn take place this year. A conversation about the risk of infection there, the energy consumption and the reaction of the innkeepers to his suggestion not to increase the beer price.
Interviewed by
Anna Hoben
Next Saturday it’s time, then it’s “Ozapft is'” – for the first time after a two-year break at the Oktoberfest. In an interview, Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) talks about why he believes that people urgently need the Oktoberfest again, what fears he has with regard to a possible corona wave afterwards – and why he lost two minutes on the first day of the Oktoberfest tension is at its highest before twelve.