It’s hard to believe in the tranquil days when the people of Munich gather again on the Isar and in the sidewalk cafés: the calm of the city has been disturbed, at least the political calm. At this time of year, neutral observers usually doze off in Isar mode when the city council meets outside of regular session times. Then trivial issues with deadlines are decided, the name of the emergency body alone says it all: Holiday Senate. This meets three times from the beginning of August to mid-September, with the first meeting just this Wednesday. But this time you really can’t speak or write about contemplative decisions in holiday harmony. There was a lot going on, the question of whether the city should let the Theresienwiese to the band Rammstein on New Year’s Eve was debated, so that they could give a concert there in front of 145,000 spectators.
Here are just a few excerpts, so that you feel like reading the report on the meeting, we would also be happy to do so on the Isar or in the Schanigarten. The CSU attested to the Greens that in the future they could be considered the new bourgeois party in City Hall. The left accused CSU economics officer Clemens Baumgärtner that he was running a “special business” with concert organizer Klaus Leutgeb because he was already allowed to hold the major concerts at the Riem exhibition center. Baumgärtner, in turn, threatened the left-wing parliamentary group spokesman Stephan Jagel with legal action if he did not withdraw the defamation. What he persistently does not do. The Greens attested to the CSU, SPD and FDP – who ultimately got the Theresienwiese rented out for the Rammstein concert – that they acted dubious, even negligently.
Now, before all the metalheads and Rammstein freaks do their first dances of joy and wait in front of their computers for the presale to start, here’s a short, but at least mentally loud: stop! The only thing that has been decided is that the Leutgeb agency is allowed to plan the concert. It remains to be seen whether she will be able to prepare this in four and a half months in such a way that the district administration department (KVR) as the approval authority can allow it. This schedule is more than sporty, warns the new KVR boss Hanna Sammüller-Gradl. Even the police are skeptical. It will probably not be clear until sometime in the fall whether Rammstein is allowed to do what the SPD generally thinks is okay: disturb the calm of the city for a day.
Read it, but don’t let yourself be disturbed by the special calm in Munich in August,
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