From Brandner Kasper to Bräustüberl Paradise

Franz von Kobell's famous story of "Brandner Kasper" turned the Tegernsee Valley into a Bavarian paradise. Anyone who wants to taste it today can experience it in the Bräustüberl (Bräustüberl) – quite down-to-earth, with a cozy half-liter of Tegernseer beer.

In 1871, Franz von Kobell published his famous "The Story of Brandner Kasper," which is unmistakably set in the Tegernsee Valley. When Kasper steals a few extra years from death and finally glimpses paradise, he is surprised to discover that paradise resembles his home on Lake Tegernsee. Kurt Wilhelm later revisited this sympathetic image in his successful play and the popular television adaptation. A paradise on earth may not quite correspond to reality, but in the Tegernseer Bräustüberl, you at least feel very close to it: The warm, convivial, and classless atmosphere gives you a glimpse of what a heavenly feast might mean—especially with an affordable half-liter of Tegernseer beer.

Illustration: Kaspar Brandner and the Boandlkramer with cherry schnapps and a card game. Illustration by Ferdinand Barth for the first edition in the "Fliegende Blätter" newspaper, 1871 © Museum Tegernseer Tal. Photo: Thomas Plettenberg.