The cult ride Teufelsrad
Feldl’s Teufelsrad is an Oktoberfest cult hit! Wiggerl Kugler and his colleagues perfect schadenfreude in a typically charming, Bavarian style. Children and adults can ride on a disc that spins ever faster. The one who stays down the longest, wins!
The speciality: Crude sayings with Bavarian charm
Anyone visiting the Teufelsrad for the first time will be surprised: there is no modern technology here and no ‘faster, higher, wilder’, but a concept that is as simple as it is ingenious.In the centre of the wooden arena is a large disc that spins. At the command of the presenter (including Wiggerl Kugler with his twirled moustache and raspy voice), for example ‘All children aged between 8 and 14 are riding!’ or ‘All girls aged 18 and over in dirndls!’, the chosen ones storm the disc and take their seats. The best seats are in the centre. Then the disc starts to move - slowly at first, then faster and faster, accompanied by the sometimes rather crude but always charming Bavarian sayings and jokes of the presenters. One passenger after the other slips off the disc due to the centrifugal force, and anyone who doesn't get off by themselves is ‘shot off’ with a skilful lasso throw or a large ball hanging from a rope.
Children, police and men: fun for everyone
Who should go to the Teufelsrad? There are two types of Devil's Wheel visitors. Those who ride and those who watch. Who prefers which is a matter of type. Watching is fun for children and adults alike, and once you have paid the low admission fee, you can stay as long as you like. However, anyone who ventures onto the turntable should be a bit tough, both physically and mentally: Wiggerl and his staff are not squeamish and certainly not politically correct. Traditionally, the Munich Wiesnwache police also visit the Teufelsrad at least once and get a good ‘derblecken’.
The Teufelsrad for Gscheidhaferl: Karl Valentin rode along
It's official that the Devil's Wheel is a funny, even comical affair: even Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt have ridden it. The turntable with the best insults of the Wiesn has been at the Oktoberfest since 1910. Wiggerl Kugler is a cult figure - no Oktoberfest visitor is unfamiliar with him! And if you're lucky, you can watch the Lord Mayor himself climb into the ring or onto the disc.
