Who long faces found funny in the dimensions of a Nick Static or Joe Dalton, who would have gekugelt at yesterday's press conference of the Karlsruhe City Youth Committee on the future of "The Celebration" with laughter: the city income will the popular free music festival in the Günther-Klotz-Anlage will no longer perform, and stepped up on his actual Education and support contract for young people focus, announced its chairman Christian Klinger.
The experience of the last two years have demonstrated the limits of the current organizational structure, with a club well as a carrier, the final authority for exiting the sometimes difficult security situation, especially during the performance of the singer Peter Fox on Sunday night, where, "said Klinger. It has not worked all escape routes kept clear so that visitors have collapsed partly over the drink counters must be removed. "It is a regrettable fact that the audience dictates to us what happened," admitted a festival organizer Rolf Fluhrer. "Concerts are becoming increasingly expensive, so people come to us. Finally, we give each visitor, in principle, fifty euro entrance fee. It belongs in a radius of one hundred kilometers to the good form to go to the festival. Then, when tens of thousands are facing the entrance, you can control no more. "
was the event at the legendary" Mount-block "also a victim of its own success? Like the Roman Empire, because of imperial overstretch barbarians the thrusting, ie visitors Horden, was no longer master and went? "Access restrictions were inevitable in the future," said Fluhrer. Those with the philosophy of city surplus, however, incompatible. It is required of children and young people, so get an access control, such as by charging for entry, not in question, "said Klinger. Added to the growing problems come with drunken children and young people who can not have, despite the massive deployment of child protection teams to get a grip, said Uta treasurer of Hope.
Overall, the impression was a continuation of the traditional event, had been for the organizers and at optimal course not an option, what Klinger also confirmed indirectly: "The influx is generally too large and we are with our options at the end." Whether the twenty-fifth However hard actually the last one was, is open. If someone wants to take over the organization and submit a convincing plan, the city would be shot entirely willing to brand "The Celebration" release. "Currently we have no one but definitely," said CEO Klaus Pistorius. Interest in the festival as a "Top Five" Music in Germany is certainly undiminished. Rolf Fluhrer: ". Yesterday called Bela B. and asked if he can play in 2010" You Bela, sorry, but we already have to subsidize the Karlsruhe State Theater with 18 million € per year because the fund is empty. However, if you shoot the 100 000 €, for which we the additional security measures would need ...
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