Munich's Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) is already announcing clear corona containment measures for Oktoberfest 2022.

“There will definitely be no Oktoberfest for everyone,” he told the “Augsburger Allgemeine” on Saturday.

"If someone does not want to be tested or vaccinated, then he will not be able to go to the Oktoberfest in 2022." There are only exceptions for children.

In return, the beer tents and on the festival site should be the same as before Corona, assured Reiter.

"There can be no castrated Oktoberfest."

In the tents, for example, there could be no regulations such as keeping your distance or wearing masks, said the mayor.

“Then this is not an Oktoberfest.

Before something like that happens, we'd better let it be. "

The Oktoberfest was canceled due to the corona pandemic in 2020 and 2021.

According to Reiter, it should be finally clear by April at the latest whether it will actually work again in 2022.

"In any case, I would like that there will be two Oktoberfest cancellations during my term of office." However, it must be ensured "that it is a safe Oktoberfest".

Meanwhile, beer kegs were tapped on Saturday for the originally planned Oktoberfest start at 12 noon. On the Theresienwiese, folk festival fans gathered with a snack basket and beer they had brought with them and toasted each other at 12 noon. Normally, the incumbent mayor of Munich would have opened the largest festival in the world with the tap ritual. Now the master brewer, sometimes the landlord, sometimes a pastor and sometimes a playmate swung the mallet in restaurants. A minister was also there. While Bavaria's Justice Minister Georg Eisenreich (CSU) needed two blows in the Augustiner Klosterwirt, the Wiesn playmate 2021, Vanessa Teske (26), had to strike twelve times before the beer flowed a few steps further in the Hofbräuhaus.

The former mayor of Munich and former tap king Christian Ude (SPD) tapped the Schiller Bräu with two strokes as in the old days - he was the first mayor to do so in 2005 with the 200-liter keg at the Oktoberfest. Last year Ude wasn't in that good shape and needed a couple more strokes. "At my age you no longer ask how many strokes he needs, but how many more strokes he can manage," joked the 73-year-old.