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SPECIAL SECTION<br />
Munich Oktoberfest<br />
Text:<br />
Photos:<br />
Karl Ruisinger<br />
Heiko Schimanzik, Norman Vogt, Archive<br />
Another 58 days, 1 hour, and 12 minutes until the<br />
tapping of the keg – that was as things stood when<br />
the event manager Gabriele Weishäupl took the microphone<br />
at the press conference on July 21 st for<br />
the 178 th Oktoberfest: According to the Wiesn<br />
manager, a countdown clock discovered on the Internet<br />
and counting even the seconds up until it is<br />
“Ozapft is!”, proves how much not only the locals,<br />
but also fans from all over the world are longing for<br />
the most famous Volksfest event of all.<br />
Four days earlier, the build up of the gigantic Wirtsbudenstadt,<br />
or beer tent city, had begun. Actually,<br />
the Wiesn is on the agenda the whole year round, not<br />
least for the press and in local political life. Throughout<br />
the year, articles have appeared that ranged in<br />
subject from the long overdue sentence for the “Robber-Duo”,<br />
who had robbed and beaten up Oktoberfest<br />
visitors at the Wiesn 2010, to the “criminal Wiesn ripoff”<br />
on the Internet with illegal reservations of fiercely<br />
contested seats inside the beer tents at horrendous<br />
prices. Party-political in-fighting became clear around<br />
the proposal to install photovoltaic modules on top of<br />
the Wiesn tents (Die Grünen), or the attempts by the<br />
aspirants to the office of Munich Lord Mayor (from SPD<br />
and CSU) to outdo each other in respect of finding original<br />
names for the historic Wiesn; with the “Oide Wiesn”<br />
(“Old Wiesn”, as rendered in Bavarian) from the “red”<br />
economic counsellor, Dieter Reiter, being the winner.<br />
anniversary” in 2010, has now been established as a<br />
permanent fixture at the Oktoberfest (with the exception<br />
every four years during the “small Wiesn”), and is<br />
in the focus of this year's advertising in the state capital<br />
of Munich. Nostalgia and Bavarian folk music, local<br />
customs and tradition are the keywords, emphasizing<br />
The Wiesn 2010<br />
Embroidered Wiesn<br />
The “Oide Wiesn”, which due to it being so highly<br />
popular with the public during the “200 th Oktoberfest<br />
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