The Oktoberfest takes place this year from September 16th to October 3rd. For fans there is already an opportunity to get in the mood with a vote. The audience survey started this Monday to determine which motif should be used to advertise the Oktoberfest 2023 on posters. Interested parties can vote until January 27th.Five places in the city council box including consumption vouchers and five Oktoberfest collector mugs with the new motif will be raffled off twice among the participants....
It's not easy for a Wiesn boss either. Clemens Baumgärtner (CSU) recently poured out his heart to colleagues from the tabloid press: an increase in the price of beer at this year's Wiesn is to be expected, he said, "it is to be feared that the 14-euro limit will fall". . That gives him a lot of stomach ache, he says.Which you really don't want to wish him, because Baumgärtner's belly is phenotypically typical of Bavaria and thus offers a...
The Christmas days came to a fitting conclusion on the TV station RTL, which broadcast the quiz show "Who wants to be a millionaire?" on Monday evening. has served. Moderator Günther Jauch sat there opposite a candidate who had worked as a reporter in Austria, among other things. Unfortunately, she was not accepted there, she said, because she had not mastered the idiom.Jauch then gave a similar experience for the best. As a young man, he was looking around at...
Of Franz KottederIt was a scuffle in which Bräurosl host Peter Reichert was involved: A good two months after the end of the Oktoberfest, the Munich public prosecutor announced that the police investigation had now been received by the public prosecutor, which is why they had registered a case.The background to the argument was a dispute between Reichert and an employee of his security service in the tent, which led to a violent scuffle. The surveillance camera recording was first...
It was a scuffle with long-term consequences: A good two months after the end of the Oktoberfest, the Munich public prosecutor's office has now announced that a criminal complaint has now been filed against the Oktoberfest host of the Bräurosl, Peter Reichert.The background to the argument was a dispute between Reichert and an employee of his security service in the tent, which led to a violent scuffle. The surveillance camera recording was first leaked to a tabloid newspaper, which reported...
Usually, at the end of September, the Wiesn hosts wait more or less impatiently for the redeeming words that the Mayor of Munich calls into the Schottenhamel marquee: "Ozapft is!" A few weeks after the beer-filled event on the Theresienwiese, the innkeepers of the Schottenhamel, the Münchner Stubn, Poschner's Hendlbraterei and Käfer's Weinzelt now changed the slogan to "Eiplanted is!" - while boasting about their own carbon footprint. Because in the marquees at the Oktoberfest, thanks to a climate package,...
Shortly thereafter, Andreas Schinharl became kitchen director at Käfer's Wiesn-Schänke and party service. In his book, he writes about honest suppliers, Bavarian stubborn heads and the balancing act between caviar and grandma's potato chunks.Of Franz KottederIn any case, hesitation is not part of his trade, that much is clear. That may have something to do with his job, where things are the way they are: the water boils at 100 degrees - at sea level. And when a schnitzel is...
Somehow they are now trying to get together, the Münchner Kindl GmbH and the Stiftl GmbH. But will that work? The two companies are arguing in court about the use of the so-called "Schützenlisl" for their advertising. The Münchner Kindl GmbH, which wants to revive the tradition of the former brewery of the same name, plans to market its beer with the name and image of the "Schützenlisl" from 2024.However, Stiftl GmbH, which operates the Alte Hackerhaus on Sendlinger Strasse...
Even if the 2022 Wiesn was rather quiet due to the weather and corona, the local politicians in the Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt district committee see their fellow citizens unnecessarily left alone with the side effects and propose improvements: That garbage cans and recycling containers around the fairground must be removed for safety reasons, understood. From BA's point of view, it remains unclear why this happened around the St. Paul's Church, but not at the Bavariaring.If dismantling around St. Paul is still necessary,...
If things continue like this, the people of Munich will be faced with the big philosophical question in the beer tent over the next few years: whether the glass is half full or half empty. And that's before you've even had a sip of it. The bar morale has drastically decreased at this year's Oktoberfest, as has now become known. Most of the controlled beer mugs were anything but full this year. In times of high inflation and rising energy...
