Magnus Kaindl is known far beyond the borders of Dießen as a dance master and Schuhplattler.
The 41-year-old is someone who was born with cultural heritage.
Starting in January, he is to strengthen the team of local home nurses in the Landsberg district in this area.
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- Magnus Kaindl is one of the best Schuhplattler in the country.
Things have calmed down around the dance master from Dießen, which has more to do with Corona, because, as reported, he withdrew from the board of the Dießen Heimat- und Trachtenverein D'Ammertaler and is "only" a regular member.
This could now be a godsend for the Landsberg district.
Because that gives the 41-year-old time for something new.
The culture committee has already agreed, and if the district council is also in favor, then Magnus Kaindl will join the team of district home nurses in Landsberg from January.
The focus will be newly occupied.
How could it be otherwise, it is the cultural homeland maintenance.
The past few years have been a time of change for Magnus Kaindl. On the one hand professionally, when the studied archaeologist took over the team management of the folk culture in the cultural department of the state capital Munich. And privately, when he withdrew from the board work of his home club. Three years ago, Kaindl was already in talks about the newly created office of district home administrator for customs and folk music. At the time, however, he wanted to concentrate on the new position at the city of Munich that he had just taken over. But he stayed in good contact with the district authorities. In the meantime established as a team leader in Munich and without any further honorary obligations, Dießen's world champion in Schuhplattln agreed to a new request from the district administration.
Nobody knows better than him how much joy there is in tradition, how it can be lived in a modern way.
The energy with which he now inspires throughout Bavaria as a dance master and dance mediator should now radiate into his home district.
Mainly in the areas of folk music with dance, singing and making music.
In a team of speakers, however, it should also be about dialect, costume and customs.
Everyone should be able to get a taste of the topic of folk culture
"I would like to present all of these topics better in public," says Kaindl, "making them perceptible even for people who have so far not or only partially had contact with folk culture." Everyone should be able to get a taste of folk culture according to their taste. “You don't have to be in a club to do this,” he emphasizes. And anyone who knows him knows that he knows how to set modern accents.
Most recently, while visiting the Dießen partner club in Denver (Colorado), he discovered country line dance for himself and, together with his partner Johannes Sift (35), developed a Bavarian version of it, which is particularly popular during the pandemic.
“A corona-compliant dance form”, says Magnus Kaindl enthusiastically, “because everyone dances for himself”.
Unlike folk dance, you don't need a partner, but folk dance elements are still built in.
Magnus Kaindl and Johannes Sift call this type of dance Bavarian Line Dance.
Ideas like these are there to make customs tangible and to get people excited about them.
