Usually everyone in Munich just wants to know who the next economics speaker will be. Hardly anyone is crowing about the cultural officer job, which is currently the subject of heated debate. After all, the economics officer is responsible for the Oktoberfest, but not the head of the cultural department. The city’s quasi-economics minister alone is also the “Wiesn mayor” by virtue of his office, and therefore the most important man in those weeks in which the world stares wide-eyed at Munich: “Wow, the city of Beerfest!” – “The capital of culture,” no one says. Unfortunately.

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