Team
Kaspar Schuler
Director
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Working for the Alps: when and where necessary
Background: Change Manager, Journalist, Cheese maker & pastoralist, businessman
Languages: German (mother tongue), English, French
My favourite place in the Alps: those small meadows at those last mountain streams that still roar unused and unspoilt over rocks
What excites me: encounters
Jakob Dietachmair
Deputy Director
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Working for the Alps: Monday-Friday
Background: Communication Sciences, Sustainaible Tourism Management
Languages: German, English, French (advanced)
My favourite place in the Alps: Anywhere the sun awakes me from a cosy bivouac
What excites me: rugged landscapes and mountains, high valleys with meandering rivers, cooking with high-quality products, every single minute on my bike(s)
Magdalena Holzer
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Working for the Alps: Monday - Friday
Background: master degree in conference interpreting, Higher vocational college for tourism
Languages: German (mother tongue), Italian, English, French, basic skills in Spanish and Portuguese
My favourite place in the Alps: unspoiled coniferous forests & mountain pastures (such as in the High Tauern National Park)
What excites me: nature in kitchen, cellar and garden, travelling and international dialogues
Marion Ebster
Project Manager / Nature and people
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Working for the Alps: on maternity leave
Background: Social- and Cultural Anthropology, Regional- and Location Management, Regional Development
Languages: German (Native Speaker), English (advanced), French (basic)
My favourite place in the Alps: in winter, on my skitouring skies in the backcountry, above the treeline – anywhere but gladly in the Montafon
What excites me: outdoors, immersed in nature, alone or in the company of equally enthusastic people, natural cuisine, typical regional food, good coffee
Manon Wallenberger
Project Manager / Nature and people, Social Innovation
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Working for the Alps: Tuesday - Thursday
Background: Plant and Soil Sciences, Biodiversity Conservation and Management
Languages: French, German, English, Italian
My favourite place in the Alps: The mountain pastures (Alps) where I worked : Monte San Lucio, Ticino, with 100 goats and 8 cows, Staffel alp Zermatt, with 27 cows, above the Geneva lake, and with 600 sheep and a baby in Starlera, Grisons.
What excites me: earth architecture, Tango, choir singing and travelling without the need of airplanes
Christina Thanner
Project Manager / Social Innovation
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Working for the Alps: Tuesday - Thursday
Background: Geographer, long time experience in environmental analysis, development cooperation and education, with a detour into regional development and spatial planning
Languages: German (mother tongue), English, French
My favorite place in the Alps: Old Rhine near Lustenau
What excites me: wide and wild landscapes, water, encounters and good conversations, slow travelling, the south of France, spinning ideas, intelligence and eloquence, dance and yoga
Wolfgang Pfefferkorn
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Working for the Alps: almost always and everywhere
Background: Regional Development, Organizational Development, Moderation- Conflict Management
Languages: French, German, English, Italian
My favourite place in the Alps: the whole terrain in the Silvretta in the Vorarlberg region of Austria
What excites me: language itself, backcountry ski-touring, music, the sea
Caroline Begle
Head of Communications
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Working for the Alps: Monday - Thursday
Background: German Philology, Media Studies
Languages: German, English
My favourite place in the Alps: river Lutz in the Walsertal
What excites me: singing, dancing, and the lust for life (in the Alps)
Maya Mathias
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Working for the Alps: Monday - Wednesday, Friday
Background: Master in Psychology and Political Science
Languages: German (mother tongue), English (advanced), French, Italian and Spanish (basic)
My favourite places in the Alps: Dolomites
What excites me: nature, mountain sports, environmental psychology, books and movies
Michael Gams
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Working for the Alps: Monday - Friday
Background: Journalism, PR in Tourism, Master in Communication Science/Journalism
Languages: German (mother tongue), English (advanced), Italian (basic)
My favourite places in the Alps: Villach, where I grew up. Innsbruck, where I used to live several years. And Montafon valley
What excites me: climbing mountains, exploring new places and sharing my passion for the Alps with others
Christina Bachner
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Working for the Alps: Tuesday (all day), Wednesday - Friday (mornings)
Background: French and English Studies
Languages: German, English, French,
My favourite place in the Alps: my garden with a beautiful view onto the Alps
What excites me: pleasureable dining and drinking, untouched snowy slopes glistering in the sun, Yoga
Julitta Eller
Financial management
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Working for the Alps: Monday-Thursday
Background: studies in international economics
Languages: German (mother tongue), English, French and Italian (basic knowledge)
My favourite place in the Alps: my garden, Ruggeller Riet, Örfla gorge
What excites me: my children, music, sunrises, nature after a thunderstorm
Nora Leszczynski
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Working for the Alps: Tuesday-Thursday
Background: B.Sc. in Geography & Philosophy, M.Sc. in Spatial Research and Planning
Languages: German (mother tongue), English, Italian, French
My favourite place in the Alps: Centovalli, Valle Onsernone, Pedemonte, Valle Maggia, in short: all remote valleys and areas in northern Ticino
What excites me: Everything preferably with a connection to the Alps... Old books and maps, (long-distance) hiking, dancing, languages and dialects, preservation of cultural landscapes
Anna Mehrmann
Event- and Communication Manager
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Working for the Alps: Monday – Thursday
Background: Master in Non-Profit and Public Management
Languages: German (mother tongue), English, French
My favourite place in the Alps: Ponte Brolla as a starting point for exploring and enjoying the valley of the Maggia river and the city of Locarno.
What excites me: Walks in the forest, animal observations, the diversity of plants, music, movies, books
Anna Fuchs
Intern
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Working for the Alps: Monday - Friday
Background: Master`s degree in Organic agricultural systems and agroecology
Languages: German (mother tongue), English, French Spanish (basic)
My favourite place in the Alps: where cultural landscape and wilderness meet, the top of mount Queyrel and the lake of Pétarel in the National Park Écrins, France
What excites me: making wild cheese of raw milk on remote alps, small-scale agriculture and pastoralism, the southern Alps in France, long-distance trekking and bike tours
Andreas Radin
Intern
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Working for the Alps: Monday - Friday
Background: Master‘s in Geography
Languages: German (mother tongue), English, French (un petit peu)
My favourite place in the Alps: The hidden Hochwiesalm valley, Salzburg, Austria
What excites me: Experiencing nature with other people, panoramic high trails and the starry sky
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