An Italian man who forgot where he parked his car during a visit to Munich’s Oktoberfest has finally got it back – but only after five weeks, three trips to the city and a local newspaper campaign.
The world’s biggest folk festival wrapped up on Sunday. Visitors managed to get through 6.7 million litres of beer, eat 114 oxen and lose one pair of false teeth. To mark the end of Munich's Oktoberfest, The Local looked at the key facts.
Munich hospitals treat a drinker every 10 minutes during Oktoberfest. This time of year the city's accident and emergency departments become, for some, just another tent at the festival.
Jamaican sprint sensation Usain Bolt celebrated at Munich's Oktoberfest after German sportswear giant Puma announced it had renewed his sponsorship contract to beyond the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.
Single-minded revellers gathered for the world-famous Oktoberfest beer festival Saturday, hoping the heady atmopshere of ale, lederhosen and oompah music will not be flattened by Germany's election fever.
The world's biggest beer festival opens in Munich on Saturday. Running until October 6th, it is expected to attract more than six million visitors, drinking seven million litres of beer and eating 116 oxen.
Hotels in Munich are getting ready to cash in on the world’s biggest beer festival, the Oktoberfest, which starts next Saturday. The Local has found some room prices up by 500 percent.
Oktoberfest publicans are hiking up beer prices again this year – but while they are bubbling up towards the unspoken limit of €10 for a litre <i>Maß</i>, nobody has yet dared exceed it.
Some 500,000 fewer people visited this year’s Oktoberfest than in 2011, but more revellers boozed to the point of unconsciousness, stats released Monday say. The Red Cross had to deal with more than 800 incapacitated binge-drinkers.
It took seven years, but Munich police say they may have finally found the man who raped a teenage girl on the sidewalk on her way home from the Oktoberfest festival back in 2005.
Reports of spiked drinks and sexual assault have emerged from the women's security point at this year's Oktoberfest, which said it has had to help 40 percent more women this year.
A Canadian man visiting the Munich Oktoberfest died at the weekend after he was knocked down by a tram while drunk, police said on Monday. Officials also said that beer consumption was up – as well as booze-related injuries.
Bavarian health authorities shut down last week an industrial bakery producing pretzels for the Oktoberfest after they found it did not comply with hygiene standards. Everything produced in the past five days has been recalled.
Whether you want to know how long until you're sober, flirt with like-minded single revellers or where to stumble home after a few, help is only a click away at this year's Munich Oktoberfest.
The world's largest drinking festival opened with a pop on Saturday as the first keg was tapped at Munich's Oktoberfest - a 16-day extravaganza of lederhosen, oompah music and most importantly, beer.
<b>Looking to head to Munich this year for Oktoberfest? The Local has put together a guide to the world’s biggest beer bash that might get you out of Bavaria alive.</b>
Beating the crowds at Oktoberfest often means reserving a table – but as it gets tougher to find a place to park one’s Bierstein, scalpers are sensing opportunity. Tent landlords are now cracking down on the black market for table reservations.
A group of beer-loving Munich citizens have come together to try to put brakes on the escalating price of the golden Bavarian nectar at the annual Oktoberfest.
Changes are afoot for Munich’s legendary Oktoberfest, as a plan to crack down on binge-drinking, loud live music and endless queuing for seats will be examined by the city council.
