Eberhard und Peter Riedel on 23th of February 2014 in MDR-broadcast „Fabled - The Erzgebirge“

RASCHAU – The MDR-broadcast "Fabled - The Erzgebirge" abducted their viewers in our home on 23th of February. It shows not only nature that make the Erzgebirge so worth living, but especially the who represent it in today and yesterday. On the 23th of February 2014 will be presented a father-son story at 20:15 clock that made it with "Spuren des Erfolgs" up in the book shops last year.  

Eberhard Riedel is still a term to diehard fans of winter sport. Although he celebrated his 76th birthday on the 14th of February his successes for alpine skiing in the GDR still exist today. Unforgotten his victory in the giant slalom in Adelboden 1961 - until Felix Neureuther imitated this feat the beginning of the year, no other German managed a victory on the difficult track. However, less well known is what Riedel made after the GDR had pulped professional alpine skiing. In a diploma thesis he already dealt with the development of start-up (inrun) tracks in ski jumping. A long time his test results and suggestions have been stored forgotten in a drawer until his son Peter Riedel took the thesis. His father had provided and the son developed there from the latest inrun track in the world, which is now used as far away as Japan on the international ski jumps. Impressively, the two described as the thesis of the father influenced the success story of the son in the book "Spuren des Erfolgs" published in 2013. Worked Eberhard Riedel due to the time-limited technical possibilities even without snow cooling, belongs the modern ice track now to the standard repertoire of the Peter Riedel company. These celebrated the world cup premiere in December in Sapporo, but you do not have to travel to Japan to admire the result of the father-son work as the MDR report will show.

Right there, in the Erzgebirge, lies with the inrun track on the hill in Oberwiesenthal the same high-tech development almost literally in its doorstep. "Oberwiesenthal was a matter of the heart for me", says Peter Riedel. "The location and the many dedicated people here in the region have the renovation of the ski jumping facilities more than deserved!"