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September 16, 2023 at 5:57 AM Watch as Oktoberfest , the world's largest beer festival, opens for the 188th time in Munich , Germany, on Saturday (16 October).
Oktoberfest (German pronunciation: [ɔkˈtoːbɐˌfɛst] ⓘ; Bavarian: Wiesn, Oktobafest) is the world's largest Volksfest, featuring a beer festival and a travelling carnival, and is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, from mid- or late-September to the first Sunday in October.
Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter tapped the first barrel of Oktoberfest beer in the Schottenhamel Festhalle. The long-standing tradition, dating back to 1950, involves the mayor of Munich attempting to ...
The Oktoberfest is a two-week festival held each year in Munich, Germany during late September and early October.It is attended by six million people each year and has inspired numerous similar events using the name Oktoberfest in Germany and around the world, many of which were founded by German immigrants or their descendants.
Dieter Reiter opening the barrel in 2017 Dieter Reiter exclaiming "O'zapft is!" The Schottenhamel tent. The exclamation "O'zapft is!" (Bavarian for "It is tapped", standard German: "Es ist angezapft") is a tradition during the tapping of the first beer barrel by the mayor of Munich in the Schottenhamel tent at the opening of the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany since 1950.
A large beer tent will have hundreds of wooden benches with a seating capacity in the thousands and offer live music, being a favourite place for patrons to spend the evening. The Oktoberfest is the world's biggest Volksfest and occurs yearly in Munich, Bavaria. [1] [2]
5 April – Peter Sodann, 87, actor; 7 April – Michael Boder, 65, conductor; 9 April – Eckart Dux, 97, actor and voice artist; 9 April – Dieter Rexroth, 83, musicologist, dramaturge and cultural manager; 11 April – Peter Fulde, 88, physicist; 11 April – Peter Förtig, 90, composer and music theorist
Oktoberfest of Blumenau. The Oktoberfest of Blumenau is a festival of German traditions that happens in middle October in the city of Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil. [1] It is considered the 2nd biggest German festival in the Americas, [2] [3] and the third biggest Oktoberfest celebration in the world after the original Oktoberfest from Munich.