Best trainee in Germany?

Created: 06/01/2023 17:43

Can be proud of himself: Clemens Hagemann achieved fantastic grades in his final exam.

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It's really something very special when someone gets the best qualification in their apprenticeship in all of Bavaria.

Clemens Hagemann succeeded.

The 21-year-old Herrschinger completed his three-year training as a specialist for event technology at the Mammendorf company "Puzzlepie Veranstaltungstechnik KG".

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- Hagemann initially came off as Upper Bavaria's best trainee with an excellent examination result of 95 out of a possible 100 points.

In the meantime, he has also put himself at the top of Bavaria with the result.

Whether Hagemann is also the best in Germany will not be decided until spring 2023, when the test results from the other federal states are available.

For Herrschinger, the path to becoming an event technician began at school.

"The job appealed to me," says Hagemann, who graduated from the Christoph-Probst-Gymnasium in Gilching in 2019 and had already chosen the "Stage Technology" course for career orientation in the upper grades.

There, the high school student made his first experiences when he technically supervised internal and external events at the school.

"Together with the movement arts course and the musical seminar, for example, we put on a big show in 2018," reports the 21-year-old.

This included setting up and dismantling as well as setting up the lighting, sound and video technology.

A 14-day internship at the Gärtnerplatz-Theater then encouraged Hagemann to pursue training as an event technician.

"As a trainee, you should of course be familiar with the main trades of lighting, sound, video and camera technology, as well as stage technology and networking, the Internet and WLAN, which are becoming increasingly important at events and festivals," he says.

Hagemann was thrown in at the deep end, so to speak, when he got to know all the processes right at the beginning of his apprenticeship in September 2019.

"Puzzlepie" was commissioned by the PRG company to implement the lighting for a major television show: the ZDF show "Across the Stars" with Anne-Sophie Mutter and film music by John Williams on Munich's Königsplatz.

Opening up new areas of business, such as computer graphics or virtual events, was on the trainee's agenda during the event-free period of the Corona pandemic.

Hagemann has been studying electrical engineering and information technology at the Technical University of Munich since October, majoring in German.

"In the vocational school I found that I can convey complex relationships well," says Hagemann.

He no longer wants to work as an event technician: he now wants to become a vocational school teacher.

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