oktoberfest
The price of beer at Germany's Oktoberfest is to rise by an average of 3.9% and exceed the €15 ($16) mark for the first time, the City of Munich announced on Wednesday. A 1-litre glass of beer at the festival in the Bavarian capital will cost between €13.60 and €15.30 this year, the city said. Last year, the price range for a litre of festival beer was between €12.60 and €14.90. As the organizer of the Oktoberfest, the city checks whether the prices calculated by the pub owners are reasonable. To do this, it compares them with the prices charged by large catering establishments in Munich. They...
DPA International
Builders began putting up the festival grounds for Munich's famous Oktoberfest on Monday morning, about two and a half months before the beer-soaked festivities will kick off on the Theresienwiese fairgrounds, known locally as the Wiesn. Oktoberfest, which bills itself as the largest folk festival in the world and draws millions of visitors each year, is scheduled to run from September 21 to October 6. This year, set-up work began even earlier than usual, after the operators of the tents and kitchens at the festival complained that preparations have become increasingly complex. A big remaining...
DPA International
Organizers of the world-famous Oktoberfest in Munich will not allow the song "L'Amour Toujours" to be played at the beer festival after a series of incidents where crowds in Germany shouted far-right chants to the melody of the decades-old pop tune. "We want to ban it and I will ban it," Oktoberfest boss Clemens Baumgärtner told dpa on Monday with regard to the song by Italian DJ Gigi D'Agostino. "There's no place for all that right-wing bullshit at the Wiesn," he said, referring to the Theresienweise fairgrounds where Oktoberfest is held each year The song itself does not contain any right-wi...
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