About Us
About Our Association
The Frankfurt Tour Guide Association has around 100 qualified members who showcase Frankfurt am Main with expertise, enthusiasm and passion.
Our members come from a wide range of professional backgrounds and offer diverse language skills and areas of expertise. Together, we are committed to maintaining high standards of quality in guided tours, promoting continuous professional development, and sharing the history, culture and contemporary life of our city in an engaging and professional way.
As a professional association, we have been promoting the exchange of knowledge and experience among Frankfurt’s tour guides for many years and regularly organise training and professional development opportunities. We also represent the interests of Frankfurt’s tour guides in dealings with institutions, partners and other professional associations.
Current Board of Directors
The Frankfurt Tour Guide Association is run on a voluntary basis by elected members.
Our aim is to continuously develop and strengthen our association for the benefit of all members, while fostering exchange and collaboration within Frankfurt’s tour guide community.
Melanie Behringer | Chairwoman
As a true Frankfurt native, Melanie Behringer has a deep connection to her home city.
A trained tourism professional, she has been helping people discover the world for more than 30 years. Today, she also dedicates her time to the city that is closest to her heart: Frankfurt am Main.
Since 2020, Melanie has been working as a tour guide, sharing the stories, unique character and special spirit of Frankfurt with great passion. And of course, there’s always plenty of warmth, humour and a little bit of authentic Frankfurt dialect along the way.
Philip Bierig | Chairman
For Philipp Bierig, Frankfurt is much more than a place to live – it is his home and his passion. As a certified tour guide and a native of Frankfurt, he shares the history, culture and diversity of the city on the Main with visitors from all over the world, combining his expertise with genuine enthusiasm and personal commitment.
His particular areas of interest include the history of Frankfurt, Jewish Frankfurt, and the city’s role as the coronation city of the Holy Roman Emperors.
Bettina Buggle | Chairwoman
Bettina Buggle describes herself as a “typical Frankfurt local” – she wasn’t born here, but moved to the city more than 30 years ago for work and has never left.
Since 2004, she has been giving talks on the history and culture of Frankfurt, initially as a volunteer at various cultural institutions and, since 2019, as a trained and certified city tour guide.
What fascinates her most are the stories beneath the surface of the cityscape: the people and the stories that have shaped Frankfurt, both in the past and today.
Cristina Burger Piovera | Chairwoman
Cristina Burger-Piovera was born in Italy and has lived in Frankfurt am Main for many years. She has been a certified Frankfurt tour guide since 2006.
What fascinates her about Frankfurt is the city’s unique blend of history and modernity. Her particular areas of interest include Frankfurt’s history, architecture, literature, and the cultural connections between Germany and Italy.
She takes great pleasure in sharing the many facets of Frankfurt with her guests and inviting them to discover both the city’s well-known highlights and its lesser-known sides.
Adriane Dolce | Chairwoman
Adriane Dolce is a native of Frankfurt and has been a certified tour guide in Frankfurt am Main since 2000.
With deep family roots and a strong personal connection to Frankfurt, she shares the history, unique character and surprising sides of her home city and the surrounding region with both visitors and locals. Her tours combine in-depth knowledge with genuine enthusiasm. She has also completed additional training as a tour guide in Mainz and Wiesbaden.
Her diverse range of tours covers everything from historical and unusual topics to engaging walks through various neighbourhoods of Frankfurt.
Hannes Pflügner | Chairman
Hannes Pflügner was born in Frankfurt and has had a lifelong interest in the history of the city. After studying history, he began leading city and museum tours in Frankfurt and throughout the Rhine-Main region in 2008.
For him, the fascination of Frankfurt lies particularly in its past, which he enjoys bringing to life in an engaging and entertaining way.
