Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter would have opened the annual Oktoberfest festivities by tapping the first keg and passing the first glass of beer to Bavarian State Premier Markus Söder, as tradition dictates.
A nighttime view of Munich’s annual Oktoberfest, the world’s largest folk festival, taken in a recent year before the COVID-19 pandemic forced Bavarian officials to cancel the event for 2020.
Revelers at the Oktoberfest in Munich enjoy the intense atmosphere in the Hofbräu Brewery beer tent, the largest tent at the annual beer festival, which can seat just slightly under ten thousand people.
(Courtesy of B. Roemmelt/München Tourismus)
Flea circus director Robert Birk said he normally earns 40,000–70,000 euros ($45,300—$75,300) a year with his troupe of tiny performers who dazzle audiences by pulling wagons, shooting soccer goals and turning a mini carousel thousands of times their body weight.
At Munich’s annual Oktoberfest, tiny performers in The Birk Family Flea Circus have dazzled audiences since 1948 by pulling miniature wagons many times heavier than their own body weight.
