"Winnetou" Joseph
Schützenhofer in Winzendorf (Photo: Festival Winzendorf)
After most of the Karl May
Festivals - including Bad Segeberg and Elspe - announced weeks ago the
corona-related shift in their summer season to 2021, there is now news from
Dasing and Winzendorf.
The South German Karl May
Festival Dasing (Bavaria)
recently announced the postponement of the performance of the play
"Winnetou and Captain Kaiman", which was actually planned for this
summer, "probably" until 2021. However, according to festival
manager Volker Waschk, there is "a plan B to hold the Karl May Festival
this summer - but this is deliberately very different from the usual and
therefore not comparable". Depending on how the situation develops,
one might want to bring "an exciting event with significantly fewer spectators
(approx. 1/5) and a significantly smaller ensemble", "which remains
in the Wild West theme, Karl May and Winnetou, but should and will clearly differ
from a normal festival play”. Waschk calls this an "alternative
festival".
At the request of KARL MAY &
Co., the Karl May Festival in Winzendorf in Lower Austria
confirmed the intention to hold the summer season as planned on August 8 with
the play "Winnetou and the Oil Prince". "According to the
current requirements, we can let our production take place with a reduced
number of visitors as planned from August 8th, 2020," said Helene Exel of
the Festival. And further: “Of course, all legal requirements only apply
as long as the infection numbers are under control. The burden only falls
off our shoulders when the Dernière on August 23, has successfully passed
the stage”. For a few years now, Winzendorf has been playing in a
hall-like building and no longer on an open-air stage, as was the case many
years after the festival was founded in 1994.
Just a few weeks ago, the
western town of Pullman City Bayern
announced that the Karl May games Pullman City Bayern would definitely be held
this summer; however, the premiere was postponed by a month to July
11th. However, the organization of the festival, which wants to show the
play "Winnetou and the Secret About Old Surehand" by October, should
pose challenges for the organizers, because "a minimum distance of 1.50
meters from other people must be observed", as is the case on Pullman -City website called
for.
It is still unclear whether and
if so when the festival in Burgrieden (Baden-Württemberg) will start with
"Old Surehand".
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