German headquarters for globetrotters

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German headquarters for globetrotters
(dzg)
legal form registered association
founding 1974 in Haarstorf near Ebstorf
Seat Berlin
purpose Community of travelers
Chair Petra Decker, Jens Hövelmann
Members > 1,000 (2900 since foundation)
Website globetrotter.org

The German headquarters for globetrotters e. V. (dzg), with more than 1,000 members in 23 countries, is the largest non-commercial community of globetrotters in Europe and the oldest globetrotter association besides the English Globetrotters Club .

history

In 1974 Ludmilla Tüting , Friedemann von Engel, Lutz Fehling, Norbert Denninghaus, Erich Drönner, Peter Fritze, Werner Gätze, Wolfgang Köhler, Reinhold Korte and Hannelore Vasel founded the association. The Globetrotters Club founded in England in 1948 served as a model . The idea and name came from Ludmilla Tüting, who in her 1972 Globetrotter Handbook From Alaska to Tierra del Fuego named the 1st German Central Office for Globetrotters in the imprint. This alternative travel guide has sold 70,000 copies. Then in 1974 a meeting took place in Hagen and the association was founded.

In total, the association has had over 3,000 members since it was founded.

The name-like company Deutsche Globetrotter-Zentrale - later International Globetrotter-Zentrale - Interglo, then Globetrott-Zentrale - had no connections to the Association of German Headquarters for Globetrotters . Bernd Tesch founded it in 1975 initially as a mail order company for travel guides and later set up a shop for globetrotter equipment in Kornelimünster near Aachen.

aims

The goals are to collect and pass on information, search for travel partners, support in preparing for world trips, reintegration into society after long-term travel, ideas that unite people as well as association work. The club functions practically as a “haven” for like-minded people between trips.

The members include backpackers , backpackers , Sahara drivers, motorhome enthusiasts , outdoor fans, long-distance hikers , touring cyclists and cyclists, hitchhikers , motorcycle travelers, truck and 4x4 drivers and motorhome enthusiasts. They describe themselves as globetrotters or globetrotters, without restricting this to a certain form of travel, rarely as travelers or travelers. They are characterized by a pronounced individualism. The globetrotters identify with their travels. The fulfillment that the globetrotter finds is his top priority. The globetrotter differs from mass tourism through the individual organization of trips and the rejection of package tours .

The association work is carried out on a voluntary basis; commercial interests are not pursued. Service for non-members is provided at cost. The member list with travel register as well as the contact details for the other members is used for direct exchange and is only accessible to members.

Publications

The magazine "Der Trotter" has been published since 1975. The Trotter appears 5 times a year. Around 14,000 editorial pages have appeared so far. About 50% of the content focuses on travel reports, travel book reviews, appointments, invitations to and reports from globetrotter meetings, background articles on individual travel and association communications.

The dzg has been operating a website since 1996 . This contains a public Globetrotter forum with travel partner search, background information on the purpose of the association, information on travel preparation, book reviews and a member area. This contains country information with travel reports and downloads of the members' magazine.

Globetrotter meeting

The association has been organizing globetrotter meetings in Germany since 1974. The annual summer meeting on the last weekend in June takes place in Hachenburg / Westerwald. In addition to campfires and talks, slide shows and a flea market, workshops and readings by travel book authors take place. There are also around 12 regional meetings nationwide, an autumn meeting in the Eifel and a winter meeting in the Weser Uplands.

Globetrotter's Handbook

The self-travel manual was created after inquiries since the company was founded. Frequent interests were initially answered with loose pages such as Udo Schwark's low-cost flight list, which Peter Meyer then bundled into an information booklet in 1984 , which was replaced after the ninth edition in 1998 by the self-travel manual in two volumes, created by Norbert Lüdtke on behalf of the dzg , published by Peter Meyer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main.

Known members

Numerous members not only wrote about their travel experiences in the Trotter, but also published travel guides. Their books, the series and publishers they founded had a fundamental influence on the travel literature market and are known to this day.

The earliest authors in the field of individual travel guides joined together in the series Globetrotter Write for Globetrotter (GsfG), such as Brigitte Blume, Friedemann von Engel, Rainer Lössl, Jens Peters, Rolf Schettler, Heribert Seul, Ludmilla Tüting. Authors and self-publishers of this series formed with Helmut Hermann, Edgar Hoff, Peter Rump, Sigrid & Wil Tondok and the Peter Meyer Verlag, which was founded in 1976, the Verlegergemeinschaft Individuelles Reisen e. V. (VIR) .

The Reise Know-How Verlag emerged from this . Peter Meyer Verlag has been operating independently again since 1991 and was the first in the world to label its travel books with grip marks. The members Udo Schwark and Gisela Walther were the first to translate the Lonely Planet travel guide from English and to publish it after 1981 by Gisela Walther Verlag. The founders of the publishers Stefan Loose, Michael Müller and Conrad Stein were also members of the dzg.

A number of other members became known after distributing travel equipment and dominating this economic sector today. In 1975, Klaus and Erika Därr opened the first shop in the globetrotter scene with expedition equipment in Munich. Wolfgang Maas and Gerhard Lauche founded Expedition Equipment Lauche and Maas in Munich in 1978 . Klaus Denart founded Globetrotter gear in Hamburg in 1979 as the first north German outfitter shop and is now the largest travel outfitter in Europe.

literature

  • The trotter . The globetrotter's magazine. German headquarters for globetrotters dzg (publisher) ISSN  1860-9031 .
  • The self-travel guide . Created by Norbert Lüdtke on behalf of the German Central Office for Globetrotters (ed.). Peter Meyer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main.
  • Outdoor tips, tricks and tricks for adventurers on a world tour . Prepared by Norbert Lüdtke on behalf of the German Center for Globetrotters (publisher). Peter Meyer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-89859-506-3 .
  • Edith Kresta, Günter Ermlich: World-tested old hippie. In: taz . Magazine dossier 11./12. March 2000, via Ludmilla Tüting.
  • The trotter . Special edition on the Trotter 100: History of the Globetrotters. Published by Norbert Lüdtke on behalf of the German Center for Globetrotters. Düsseldorf 1999. Obtained from www.globetrotter.org
  • Norbert Lüdtke: The diversity threatens to tip over. In: taz . July 15, 2006.
  • Reiner Leinen: Is There Life After Travel? In addition to the world, globetrotters primarily discover themselves. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . July 17, 1999.
  • Christiane Grefe : Travel. Small Philosophy of Passions series. dtv, 1998, ISBN 3-423-20163-0 .
  • Willy Bremkes: Make one on Globi. In: tourist report. March 1, 1985.
  • Brigitte Zander: The dream of traveling differently. In: stern. 8/1984
  • Ariane Barth: The Globetrotters: Escape from all constraints. In: Der Spiegel. 14/1983.
  • Maria Zimmermann: The world conquerors with the sleeping bag. Globetrotters, the loners in the travel company. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. 7th / 8th July 1979.
  • Departure into the death zone . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1979 ( online ).
  • Klaus Betz: You meet in Bombay and help each other in Rio. Globetrotters have friends all over the world. Their clubs, their literature, their equipment. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 9, 1978.
  • A coffin floats on the Blue Nile . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1978 ( online ).
  • Barbara von Ihering: The world in your pocket. Globetrotters write their own travel books . In: The time . No. 36/1976.
  • Christiane Grefe: Away and there . In: The time. No. 35/1999.
  • Christel Burghoff, Edith Kresta: On The Road Again. About hippies, backpackers and hikers. And about the desire to discover the flow of alternative travel. A review with a view. In: taz . January 25, 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin-Charlottenburg VR 5011 Nz
  2. ↑ Marketed Adventure . In: The time . No. 15/1978.
  3. ↑ After 40 years: Munich sports store chain is insolvent. In: www.merkur.de. March 17, 2018, accessed April 7, 2018 .