alpine ski racer who won the gold medal in the women's giant slalom at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She also won the giant slalom title in the 2011 Alpine Skiing World Cup. The town also is home to the sports association TV Tegernsee, whose chess club played until the 2008-2009 season in the first division of the German Bundesliga. Daughters and sons of the town Egid Quirin Asam (1692-1750), plasterer and sculptor of the late Baroque Mirko Bonné (born 1965), writer and translator Florian Busch (born 1985), ice hockey player Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria (1878-1912), daughter of Duke Karl Theodor in Bavaria and first wife of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria Joseph Kriechbaumer (1819-1902), zoologist (entomologist) Wolfgang Lackerschmid (born 1956), jazz musician Max Leo (1941-2012), luger Eva Mattes (born 1954), Austrian actress Marcus H. Rosenmüller (born 1973), film director Peter Schlickenrieder (born 1970), cross-country skier Marianne Seltsam (1932-2014), German ski racer Michael Veith (born 1957), ski racer Notable residents Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867-1950), had lived in her house at Schwaighofstraße 47 since 1935, where she died British peer and historian John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, died at Tegernsee in 1902 at his wife's family home Ludwig Ganghofer, author Olaf Gulbransson, (1873-1958), Norwegian painter and caricaturist August Macke (1887-1914), painter and member of the artist group Der Blaue Reiter, lived and painted a year in Tegernsee, from 1909 to 1910 Oskar Messter (1866-1943), film pioneer, buried in the Tegernsee cemetery Joseph Karl Stieler, (1781-1858), painter in the service of the Bavarian court Viktoria Rebensburg, (born 1989), alpine ski racer, giant slalom gold medallist in the 2010 Winter Olympics Karl Stieler (1842-1885), jurist and poet; buried in the Tegernsee cemetery Ludwig Thoma (1867-1921), lived since 1908 in his house "Auf der Tuften" in Tegernsee, where he died Karl von Eberstein (1894-1979), German politician (NSDAP) and former Munich police officer lived since 1950 in Tegernsee and found his last retirement at the Tegernsee cemetery References External links Tegernsee.com – Tegernsee International Mountain Film Festival - Miesbach (district)