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The main characters of the carnival and the city authorities met in Lucerne today, Monday. She is looking for ways in which Carnival can be celebrated despite the corona pandemic. No decisions have been made yet.
It will be around five months until the planned start of the Lucerne Carnival on February 11, 2021. It is not yet known if this can take place and, if so, under what conditions. Much depends on how the pandemic develops. On Monday evening, the heads of Fasnacht, the authorities, the blue-light organizations and the highway inspection met for an internal exchange of ideas. Only item on the agenda: Crown.
Large crowds of people like here at the Fritschitagwache 2017 on Kapellplatz in the old town of Lucerne are unthinkable for the next Carnival.
No decisions have been made. There was also no official announcement afterwards. But we were able to speak with Peti Federer, head of media at the Lozärner Fasnachtskomitees (LFK). “I am convinced that there will also be a carnival in 2021,” he says: “It will simply not be the same carnival that we have known in recent years, but a slightly different one.”
Avoid the crowds in the old town
You can’t say anything about big events like the Dirty Thursday Fritschitagwache or parades: “It’s still too early for that.” But it will certainly try to prevent large concentrations of people and crowds in the old town. There should be no taboos, says LFK’s media chief:
“Maybe the carnival has to go back to the neighborhoods more, like it used to do.”
Federer is currently having a lot of conversations with the carnival people. You often hear the saying: “If there is no street carnival or parades, this time I will do nothing.” He hopes it doesn’t stay like this: “We want to sensitize carnival people and, above all, clubs and collectives, so that they think about it and develop new ideas about how carnival can be done in spite of everything.” According to the motto of this year’s LFK President Dani Abächerli: “Face the corona virus with the carnival virus positive.”
Peti Federer himself is a member of the Guuggemusig “Chottlebotzer”. It is clear to him: “We are not defined by movements. There are also other ways to celebrate Carnival. “Also included in the discussion are the Kulturfasnachtler and the Vereinigte, the largest carnival association in Central Switzerland. There will be another meeting with the city authorities after the autumn holidays.
Regular exchange of ideas with Basel
Around the same time as Lucerne, an internal information event on Carnival took place in Basel on Monday evening. In the city of the Rhine, the 2020 Carnival had to be canceled due to the crown, the next morning is scheduled for February 22, 2021. “We have a regular exchange of ideas with Basel, our concerns are almost identical,” says Peti Federer. Pia Inderbitzin, chair of the Basel Carnival Committee, confirms that the decentralization of the carnival is also a problem in Basel: “We are currently planning the carnival with the authorities, but we cannot yet present a ready-made project. But we hope, as in Lucerne, that the spark will jump for us too. “
