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Guugger’s monster parade and stages at the Lucerne Carnival in 2021 will surely not take place. In view of the current situation, an implementation is unimaginable, the organizers write.
An image of the monster parade at the 2020 Carnival in Lucerne.
Planning for United Guuggenmusigen’s Monster Parade in Carnival 2021 will be halted. This can be found in a letter that United President Robert Marty sent to members that is in our newspaper. Planning for the guugger sets, in which the carnival guuggers perform in front of a large audience, is also discontinued. “At this moment it is unimaginable that we make this infrastructure available,” the letter says. Plus:
“We cannot and do not want to take responsibility, also in the interests of all members.”
“Cancellation of the monster parade is 99 percent certain,” Robert Marty said upon request. The United board continues to leave a small back door open. “Planning is so advanced that we can continue and implement it in a very short time,” the letter continues. With the Guugger stages, according to Marty, this would be possible in just 48 hours: “This gives us the flexibility to react at short notice in case the epidemiological situation improves enormously.” However, according to Marty, “a miracle would have to happen, specifically a very steep drop in the number of corona cases, for implementation to be possible.” United’s home festival, the Guuggali, will be postponed for a year until 2022. “The United” is the largest carnival organization in Central Switzerland.
An informational event for members of the United Nations on Wednesday night was canceled on short notice. Many Guuggenmusigen canceled their participation. Many of them decided long ago that they would not be able to participate in the 2021 monster parade due to the pandemic.
The Chatzemusig, one of the traditional musicians of the Lucerne Carnival, made an urgent appeal to United’s board of directors. “From our point of view, there should be no organized carnival that draws crowds,” he says:
“Health and responsibility towards our fellow human beings are our highest priority.”
All United events, such as the Guuggerbaumstellen, Guuggali, Monstercorso, Chendermonschter and Guugger stage concerts, must be “canceled without replacement,” Chatzemusig writes.
The actual cancellation of the monster parade by United’s board of directors is a 180-degree change. Just under a month ago, the leadership of Central Switzerland’s largest carnival association was almost categorical: “The monster parade is taking place,” United said in a press release on September 24, but also noted that the city of Lucerne still had a permit. pending. And the association of around 80 Guuggenmusigen with more than 4,000 members said: “We are very aware of the extraordinary situation due to Covid-19. But we are of the clear opinion that a carnival should be held. “
The Lucerne Carnival Committee had already canceled the large Carnival parades in the city of Lucerne in 2021. The big day vigils will not be held either.
