Before acting career: “Tatort” star Ferdinand Hofer used to do this job. For a few years he worked at a ski school on Spitzingsee in Bavaria.

“I love skiing and the community at the ski school here, it was always extremely fun,” he enthuses. In the coming-of-age series “School of Champions’ he plays a coach at a skiing academy in Salzburg's Gastein Valley. The first two episodes were broadcast on Wednesday (February 14th) on Erste.