"Georgian Times" (c)
Oktoberfest was held in Tbilisi on 25th of September by Goethe Institute administration.
The famous beer festival called Oktoberfest was organized last week by the Goethe Institute in Tbilisi. Traditionally the guests were allowed to participate in the encouraging lottery, in which one could get a lot of interesting prizes and the main prizeman got her ticket to Germany. The event was organized with the collaboration of the Goethe administration and its students. The festival was opened at 3 P.M and lasted until the late night. This year on Oktoberfest one could enjoy not only jazz and rock music, but also some other performances including the one by Marjanishvili theatre actors. The (Georgian) beer price was 3 GEL and the sausage cost 5 GEL.
The famous beer festival called Oktoberfest was organized last week by the Goethe Institute in Tbilisi. Traditionally the guests were allowed to participate in the encouraging lottery, in which one could get a lot of interesting prizes and the main prizeman got her ticket to Germany. The event was organized with the collaboration of the Goethe administration and its students. The festival was opened at 3 P.M and lasted until the late night. This year on Oktoberfest one could enjoy not only jazz and rock music, but also some other performances including the one by Marjanishvili theatre actors. The (Georgian) beer price was 3 GEL and the sausage cost 5 GEL.
Oktoberfest is annual German festival held in Munich, Bavaria. The event duration is approximately 16-18 days. The Oktoberfest 2010 is ongoing event and it finishes on 4th of October exceptionally, marking its 200 years jubilee. As usual people come to the festival from all over the world to taste traditional German food. This year, in Munich the beer price for one liter varies from 8, 40 EUR to 8, 90 EUR.
Ralph was one of those who assisted the organizers in arranging the event. He says that the festival had been taking place for several years, but this year came much more people than in the previous ones. The main prize of the lottery, the travel tour in Germany was sponsored by the Lufthansa, the largest European airline and flag carrier of Germany, but most of the other staff by the Goethe Institute itself. As Ralph says, organizing this kind of celebration is quite a labour-consuming job, so the Institute is grateful to its students for giving a hand;
The nineteen years old students, Eqvtime Kherodinashvili and Gocha Gabodze come to Oktoberfest each year (the Oktoberfest had been celebrated in Tbilisi for three years). As Eqvtime says he was informed about the event by the social media cell Facebook and decided to attend right away. He likes German culture a lot and hopes to find interesting people on festival each year but has no success yet. He and his friend were just enjoying their beer--watching the performance from time to time. Gocha Gabodze says, that a year later when he was a Goethe Institute student, he himself took a part in decorating the yard for the festival. He is quite a beer lover person so he never loses this kind of celebrations. Unfortunately Gocha was upset this year, because this was the very one festival in which he could not win any of the lottery prizes.
As the guys say the Oktoberfest 2010 in Tbilisi was much more fun then the previous ones, they just complained about the prizes-admitting that students does no have this high income to sit here until the very finish of the festival and buy the drinks and snacks. However, Georgian Oktoberfest is over for this year, but next late September the Goethe Institute will welcome you once more to brand new festival.
29.09.2010.
