Thresl came into this world on April 21 1912 as Thresl Deutinger, at Poltenhof, a farm in Pfaffenhofen. Pfaffenhofen is a small farming village at the foot of the Steinerne Meer, and is part of Saalfelden. This is where Thresl grew up, alongside her parents, her sister Moidei and her brother Sepp.

By dint of sharing the same route to school, she met Hans Handl. He was the oldest son of the Harhamhof farmstead, a farm and an inn in Harham. The two fell in love. Thresl became pregnant and a son was born. Two years later, on June 30, 1938, Thresl and Hans married, and since then, Thresl has at the Harham farmstead.

"And when we were together I got pregnant. When the boy was 2,
Hans said he wanted us to marry because he had to pay my mother
15 shillings a month he could hardly afford.
And so we left for Dürnberg at 5:30 in the morning to marry."

Her husband Hans died in August 1958 at the age of 48. Thresl stayed with her two children Maresi and Hans at the Harham inn. Day-in, day-out she worked to maintain the farm and the inn. She has never re-married. Today Thresl is 99 years old.
She still runs the Harham inn alone.