No. 19 - 10 Jahres Ausgabe, Lech & Zürs

athletic highlights. Hans Truöl accompanied the alpine
heroes of the times, too. Legendary skiers Toni Sailer,
Ernst Hinterseer, Karl Schranz, Egon Zimmermann, Anderl
Molterer or Willy Bogner were all captured when he took his
camera to World Cup events. Prominent off-piste celebrities
made it in front of Truöl’s lense, too, though. Ferry Porsche,
the Dutch Queen Beatrix, Ingrid Bergmann, King Baudoin I
of Belgium, Petra Schürmann, and Luis Trenker can also be
found in his pictures. Many of them formed a long-standing
friendship with Truöl. Thanks to his burning passion
for Lech Zürs and the commitment to making the region
famous all over the world, Truöl was awarded an honorary
certificate by Zürs tourism association.
Hans Truöl was fascinated by the Alps as an easy-to-reach paradise for skiing and
other leisure activities and by the growing ski tourism in the region. On the back
of one photograph, he noted: “Skiing, a business worth millions: four million
skiers in Germany alone. They wedel and wedel and wedel. Over mogul slopes.
Squished into the curves of a well-used slalom route. Without being able to ski.
Men and women, young and old. … Those with a pessimistic view of ski sports
believed “overcrowding” was afoot. That is not true. There are hardly any tracks
visible next to the slopes. And the wide skiing country lies beside the slopes. But
only few can and want to discover it because only few really master the art of
skiing…”. Over the course of four decades a total of 800,000 photographs were
taken, most of which were digitalised in an archive over the course of twelve
years. For most pictures the negatives still exist, as do the precisely listed handpulled
proofs with Hans Truöl’s own notes on where and how the picture was
taken on the back. “It was Hans Truöl’s dying wish that I continue curating the
collection”, explains Mike Schaffara, Hans Truöl Archiv and his godchild.
HANS TRUÖL ARCHIV
Administration: Bettina Schaffara
Röhmerstraße 251, 47495 Rheinberg
Tel. +49 280 / 2946 911, +49 174 / 7589 273
tina20269@t-online.de, www.truöl.info
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