Review: Summer Festival 2022

Ready for change

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„Toll, toller, Tollwood“ – Mark Forster summed up what the audience experienced at the Tollwood Summer Festival 2022 in three words: a happy break, magical moments, holiday feeling – in short: pure joie de vivre. With the large number of visitors, Tollwood was able to build on its success in the pre-pandemic period.

33,995 minutes – that’s more than 560 hours of music, theatre and shows that enchanted and thrilled Tollwood visitors in the summer of 2022. And that’s with 385 hours of opening times and 554 events, around 90 percent of which were free of charge. Of these, over 5,000 minutes of music and shows took place in the Tollwood Music Arena. Top-class stars thrilled the audience. Many concerts were sold out – the tent shook thanks to a total of around 130,000 listeners. ‘This experience in a sold-out music arena with such an euphoric Tollwood audience always gives me goose bumps,’ recalls Mathias Schaettgen, the booker responsible for the international line-up at the Tollwood Music Arena, ‘irreplaceable for fans and also for the artists who have been waiting so long for the live experience.’ The bands were also enthusiastic – Johannes Oerding put it this way: ‘Munich – what was that? I’m still blown away!’ Alvaro Soler added: “Wow, wow, wow!! How crazy was that today? I love you, Munich!‘ These two were among the ranks of big stars such as Zaz, Sting, Jeff Beck & Johnny Depp, the Spider Murphy Gang, and many more, who made this year’s line-up an extraordinary programme. The fans were enthusiastic in their praise – comments ranged from ’mega‘ and ’great‘ to “sensational” and ’terrific”.

With more than 8,000 minutes of music, the Andechser Tent celebrated its 25th anniversary with many top-class bands and a great atmosphere; in the Fassbar, the musicians played for almost 2,900 minutes; in the Hacker-Pschorr Brettl, it was around 4,660 minutes. The Silent Disco attracted visitors for around 4,000 minutes from Monday to Saturday – the 400 headphones were quickly snapped up every evening. In the amphitheatre, international companies transported the audience into a world of fantasy for around 3,800 minutes; the walk acts put smiles on people’s faces at the festival site for around 2,500 minutes. And Luke Jerram’s moon shone over the site for around 1,600 minutes. Friedi Kühne, the world record slackliner, and his team completed around 100,000 metres on the line 14 metres above the audience – a special attraction on the weekends.

And every day, visitors were greeted by the Orca, the twelve-metre-high ‘Balance’ sculpture by Hungarian artist Gábor Miklós Szőke: a giant whale leaping out of a mountain of rubbish, balancing a large tractor tyre – a symbol of the destruction of the environment and its fragile balance. Together, they contributed to unforgettable experiences, countless photos and videos at the Tollwood Summer Festival, leaving many visitors wishing that it could go on forever.

Among the guests at Tollwood in the summer of 2022 was Markus Söder, the Bavarian Minister-President, who visited the miniature state chancellery on the grounds. The focus here was on wind power, in keeping with the motto of the 2022 Tollwood Summer Festival: ‘Ready for change’. Munich’s second mayor, Katrin Habenschaden, joined around 1,000 cyclists for the bike safety check organised by ‘München unterwegs’, the brand of the State Capital Munich’s Mobility Department. The bike was the focus of the ‘Ride your bike to Tollwood’ campaign, a collaboration between Tollwood and ‘München unterwegs’.

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Rückblick

Das waren die Veranstaltungen auf dem Sommerfestival 2022