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Corona does not exactly interfere, the tours of the Tegernsee home guides are in great demand.

The holiday region is therefore currently in the process of recruiting young people.

But what is the attraction of this task?

A couple of experienced homeland guides chat for us from the sewing box.

Tegernseer Tal

- Rudi Hauptvogel likes to gather his knowledge on site.

He asks the farmers what stories are behind their farms and why the Wechselalm in the Sutten is actually called what it is called.

He then passes the stories on to his guests, with whom he explores the landscape on snowshoes - or on a bike in summer.

The actual training only begins after the training.

Home guide Rudi Hauptvogel

"It's a lot of fun when you can answer the participants' questions inside out," says the local guide, who has climbed over 2000 peaks in 40 years and knows the mountains in the Tegernsee valley like the back of his hand.

“Sometimes people also want to know something about Karl Stieler or the Wittelsbach family,” says Hauptvogel.

And he has something to tell about these topics too.

The Wörnsmühler has more than 50 relevant books about his homeland at home.

“The actual training,” he says, “only begins after the training”.

The Tegernsee local guides see themselves as ambassadors for the region and should convey its values ​​and traditions.

This even resulted in its own code of conduct.

In 2011 there was a corresponding training for the first time, since then the Tegernseer Tal Tourismus GmbH (TTT) has had a permanent base of people to whom it arranges guided tours.

Even if the offer is currently on hold due to the pandemic - under normal circumstances the demand for guided tours is "extremely high", reports TTT boss Christian Kausch.

"We therefore want to continue to accompany and promote the topic."

New home guide at Tegernsee: Next course already booked out

In the past this was not always easy.

Twice the training to become a Tegernsee home guide had to be canceled because there were too few participants.

Kausch is all the more pleased that the tide is now apparently turning: the course, which is scheduled for this summer and which is offered by TTT in cooperation with the adult education center (vhs) Oberland, is already booked with 17 registrations.

"This year it is obviously a sure-fire success," says the tourism boss happily.

However, it takes a few months before the participants hold their certificate in their hands.

It's about knowing exactly the characteristics of the Tegernsee valley, its history and culture and being able to convey them authentically.

Barbara Filipp was one of the local guides from the very beginning.

The 61-year-old qualified landscape architect moved to the Tegernsee Valley in 2006 and initially started guided tours of the church on her own - “for the fun of being happy,” as she says.

At the first opportunity - namely in 2011 - she then trained as a Tegernsee home guide.

Today she tells participants of her tours, for example, interesting facts about “Olaf and the Simplicissimus” or about the Tegernsee and its residents.

“That suits me very much,” says Filipp.

With the job of home leader you can serve all your own interests.

Filipp and her colleagues develop their programs and the content of their tours independently.

According to the Tegernsee, there is no competition among each other.

“We have a colorful potpourri - every local guide can find his niche.” Filipp also deepened her knowledge of the landscape, culture and people at Tegernsee on her own initiative after her training and since then has passed it on to interested guests on many bus trips.

There is a very diverse clientele that can be trained to be the official home guide at Tegernsee, says Kausch.

People who - especially now in Corona times - are looking for a new job, want to realize themselves or are already offering tours and want to expand their activities.

Or there are people like Elisabeth Liedschreiber, who grew up on the Schafstatthof at Tegernsee, where the family's brandy distillery of the same name is now located.

Liedschreiber - who has been a local guide for a number of years - says: "It's really nice to present your own homeland to people - and the guests in turn really appreciate it."

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