No. 19 - 10 Jahres Ausgabe, Lech & Zürs

Sport & Freizeit
“I’ve known the Porsche-Jump since I was a boy,
and it is known all around the world. Hans Truöl
photographed my family, too. That’s why it’s a huge
honour for me and the whole thing is coming full circle
on a personal level. The mountains and the snow are
embedded in my DNA, too.”
Stefan Bogner, photographer
© Foto: Stefan Bogner, Porsche AG
The legendary shot, newly interpreted
Let’s jump to the year 2021: Porsche decides to stage the famous
photo once again, but this time in colour and with the first fully
electric sports car Taycan as the motif. The jumper? None other
than Aksel Lund Svindal, two-time Olympic Champion and
five-time World Champion, one of the most successful ski
racers of our times. “The entire family loves the idea of seeing this
jump brought to life once more”, says Michael Zimmermann, Egon
Zimmermann’s nephew, in an interview during the preparations.
Meanwhile, up on Timmelsjoch, at 2,500 metres above sea level,
Svindal gets ready for the perfect jump
He starts easy, not too fast, towards a jump made from snow,
about 100 metres away. The act itself is over in just over a second.
“It is an honour to get to write the next chapter in this story”, he
admits. He feels connected to Egon Zimmermann, whom he actually
knew personally, because he, too, was an Olympic Downhill
Champion. “And both of us,”, Svindal remembers happily, “wore
the start number 7” – albeit 54 years apart.
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