The hitchhiker protects both climate and wallet and broadens the horizon. In Germany, you see, trampers, nevertheless, only a few. Why? And who is hitchhiking today? A form of travel in the convertible.
A little over an hour’s drive disconnect Lübeck and Hamburg. Felix Kösters the around 70 kilometres, often with Strangers. “The track to hitch a lift is not absolutely makes sense, because I bound to any departure times am,” says the Student. “I can turn myself in to the street and get a ride-and 99-percent probability, within a quarter of an hour. So I’m much more flexible.” Although the need to do Hitchhiking to strangers, and often repeat, but “it’s a surprise again and again, how much New experience and the lack of language comprehension in the foreign countries need to understand any other Person.”
In addition to his graduate work at the University of kosters organized in these days, along with other Tramp Fans, a Tramprennen through Europe. The match will take place already for the 12. Time instead. As of mid-August, hitchhiking from Görlitz and Bad Grönenbach from around 20 to Two – and three teams with 19 – to 40-Year-old on various routes to the bet to Romania and collect donations for the civilian search and rescue.
Many hitchhikers to share their experiences on Blogs and Social Media
Teams register online and follow via a live Ticker on their progress to date. On Youtube you can find a kind of promotional video for the race, there is a Blog, a Facebook page and an Instagram Account. That social networks for hitchhikers play an important role today, shows such as the Facebook group “Hitchhiking Europe”, which currently has 30,000 members. “Digital platforms will ensure that you manage to connect a Community of a Europe-wide or even worldwide, who hitchhikes a lot. So there is a much greater exchange of experience takes place, for example about where you can do best,” says kosters.
“This can be uncomfortable”
What makes him the Hitchhiking attractive, deters others more – for example, Orlando Reijndrop. “I think the Hitchhiking is just not for me,” says 24-Year-old from Amsterdam with a few friends in the Parking lot of a rest stop on the A3. On the opposite side of the traffic to the South of the rushes, next to a truck from Poland, Slovenia and Austria are in sealing in pumps anthracite refuels-colored SUV up, an older Couple pulls out in front of his car bread and butter.
The information portal Hitchwiki recommend the diner as a starting point for hitchhikers who want to travel in the direction of Frankfurt. But the hitchhiker with the backpack, holding a cardboard sign or motorists directly ask you to take a piece of wide and not wide.
Reijndorp and his friends are travelling by car to Munich for a soccer game to watch. Hitchhiking, it never says the Student. “I while traveling the ability to plan is important. I would like to know when I arrive where. In addition, you’ll need to talk to the Hitch-hike a lot with people. This can be uncomfortable.”
History Harvest Spontaenität
Even if the young Dutchman is speaking for himself Alone, he should stand with his opinion. Although it is a member of several clubs numbers – data that provide information about the number of hitchhikers in Germany has developed. Clearly The times in which a hitchhiker, the country lined the streets and freeway on-ramps is, however, to leave to the next city or in a foreign country, are long gone. And also the now popular Response of drivers at motorway rest areas is, apparently, not a mass phenomenon.
Before the Hitch-Hiking, especially strenuous: Orlando Reijndorp
More cars, cheap flyer, a better rail network, are cheap Alternatives such as long-distance buses, and Online carpooling: Some of the possible reasons for the Disappearance of the Trampens from the Mainstream to the Hand. But other new travel habits could also play a role, believed Kerstin Heuwinkel. “It’s a lot more is planned,” says the Professor of International tourism Management with focus on tourism sociology at the University of applied Sciences of the Saarland.
So even adventures were calculated in the vacation often. “You take the Bungee Jumping or Shark Cage Diving. This is pure adrenaline, but they also know that nothing can happen.” High expectations of the travel caused the pressure to be informed in advance, so Heuwinkel. And even if in front of a holiday everything was booked, we could not access on Booking Apps, Online ratings and reviews. Perhaps the people would have to learn again, to experience the “true spontaneity” of the Trampens.
“My life has priority”
In addition, many believe that “a fundamental, intangible uncertainty,” from Hitchhiking – or, hitching a ride, believes Heuwinkel. The tourism researcher refers to past terrorist attacks, the nachwirkten, and the attack on Frankfurt’s main train station.
Police statistics on crime while Hitchhiking does not exist, and news such as the murder of the hitchhiker Sophia L. to determine rarely in the headlines. Also in the history of the Tramprennens Kösters, according to Felix never anything really Dangerous happens. “The worst was a broken Arm”.
However, safety is also on the Rasthof at the A3 as a theme. “In Frankfurt, Germany sometimes I see hitchhikers, but as a woman, I would never take her to someone when I’m alone. I’d be afraid of,” says the seller Hameda Fathi. The Dutch teacher Karin Deen, paused with her husband on the way to the vacation in Italy on the Parking lot, it looks exactly the same. And also Boloi Costal, a truck driver from Romania, driving a load of sugar to Potsdam, would not stop for hitchhikers. “My life is a priority,” he says.
Would never take hitchhikers, if you are sitting alone in the car: Karin Deen (left)
And the safety of the hitchhikers themselves? The crime prevention of the Länder and the Federal government advises that only in women or couples ride, to hitchhike alone, a person of trust at the beginning of the travel indicator and travel aim to inform and, if possible, to use a public transport service.
The Tramp-the Renaissance comes?
A Renaissance of the Trampens such statements can not be more close. Kösters is convinced, however, that the hitchhiker fits into the present – also against the Background of the current climate debate. “Actually, it should be the task to fill the cars, which at the Moment is almost completely empty for many kilometres to either, or to get completely of the road.” If more people we hitchhiked to get, get possibly the awareness of “how mobility is today and how it excludes explicitly people who do not have a lot of money, because you can’t afford to own a car and because train tickets are fucking expensive.”
The registration period for the Tramprennen is expired since Wednesday. This Time there were considerably less applications than in some other year, ‘ says kosters. About the reasons one could speculate at the moment. Possibly the first participants has grown, generation from the hitchhiker out. “We will put together in the connection of times and see how we can raise the Whole thing might be new.”
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Generation of Hitchhiking – DW-editors to rememberThumbs up for the love of luck
“Without the Hitchhiking, it would not give me. My father drove at the beginning of the 1970s in the holidays in the former Yugoslavia, and has seen on a coastal road, two women who wanted to go to the next place. He took it with him, and with a particularly well maintained. You have a date for the evening, it sparked, and she became his wife and my mother.” Thomas Latschan
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Generation of Hitchhiking – DW-editors to rememberFastest Girl In Israel
“I’m hitchhiking in South America and South Africa, but also in Israel. There Hitchhiking in rural areas is very popular. In 2004, I won a Tramprennen from the North to Eilat. Also during the military service I’m hitchhiking. Soldiers are usually abducted because of the risk to be banned, but for travelling in remote places, you can get a permit.” Dana Regev
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Generation of Hitchhiking – DW-editors to rememberEast-West Friendship
“With friends, I hitchhiked in the 1980s, from the Baltic to the Black sea. On the way back in the GDR we we hitchhiked to get from Budapest to the bet. I always lost, but moved once in Prague on the go: A Punk in a Citroen DS with a West Berlin license plate drove me up to the first S-Bahn Station in East Berlin. There, our ways parted. We are friends and we still are today.” Claus Stäcker
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Generation of Hitchhiking – DW-editors to rememberA trunk full of weapons
“In 1981, I traveled with my boyfriend at the time in the United States and Mexico. We are with truckers and Hippies in California and on the East coast hitchhiking and have experienced a lot. Again, we are along for the ride with two former prisoners, whose trunk was full of weapons. We were glad to be without damage from the number come out.” Astrid Prange (with original shield)
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Generation of Hitchhiking – DW-editors to rememberFear of death in the mountains
“I’m hitchhiking in the early 1990s with my friend from Berlin to Prague. Behind Dresden, it went over the mountains. A man took us in his poison green BMW. He was very excited and went so fast on the switchbacks that we to death were afraid of. In the Morning we went to the next restaurant, where he us a beer and invited – a happy ending.” Nancy Isenson
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Generation of Hitchhiking – DW-editors to rememberA short visit of the Cathedral
“In the early 1980s, I lived in Paris. I wanted to visit in Heidelberg friends and am a Frenchman has been taken. We talked about churches. Behind Reims, he drove a detour, to me, the Cathedral of Châlons-en-show Champagne to. It was a great addition to go with someone who wanted to show a little of his country.” Peter Koppen
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Generation of Hitchhiking – DW-editors to rememberOne country, two worlds
“I came at a young age in Italy, very good with Hitchhiking forward. As I’ve tried eight years ago to hitchhike in Calabria, I was against it for a very long time by the roadside. Later, I took a young Couple, and explained to me that the Italians were now only reluctantly hitchhikers out of fear that you are risking your safety.” Malgorzata Matzke-Bresinski
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Generation of Hitchhiking – DW-editors to rememberBy Kuhtransporter to Islamabad
“In Pakistan there is no Trampkultur. In 2009, my mother and I stayed between Lahore and Islamabad on the motorway are. There were no buses or taxis, so we have stretched the whole of the thumb out. For an hour and wanted to take us, no one. Probably they thought we were prostitutes. Finally, pity the driver of a Kuhtransporters.” Rachel Baig