Gunnar Meinhardt

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Gunnar Meinhardt (* 1958 in Berlin ) is a German author and sports journalist .

Life

Gunnar Meinhardt grew up in Buckow, Märkische Schweiz . He attended the children's and youth sports school in Frankfurt / Oder and the ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt competitive sports center there . He was GDR weightlifting champion . He then completed his university studies with a degree in sports science and trainer at the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig . His diploma thesis is entitled "The representation of physical culture and sport in the magazines 'Neue Berliner Illustrierte' - 'Die Zeit im Bild' and 'Freie Welt' from 1978 to 1981".

Meinhardt is the cousin of Pierre Lueders , the most successful bobsleigh pilot in Canada, who lives in Calgary . Meinhardt also awakened Lueder's passion for fast-paced skating when he last visited their grandparents in Buckow / Märkische Schweiz in the summer of 1989 before the fall of the Berlin Wall . He provided him with scientific bobsleigh treatises from GDR research and training plans. Lueder's mother was terribly upset when the son's bobsleigh ambitions became known. Meinhardt then called her on the phone: "Do you want Pierre to go to his death?" Later she became a fan of the passion of her son, who took part in five Olympic Games as an athlete, won his first World Cup race in 1992, multiple times world champion and 1998 Olympic champion in the two-man bobsleigh (Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 16, 1998). As head coach, Lüders is currently preparing the Chinese bobsleigh drivers for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing .

Journalistic work

He was press spokesman for the Judo Association of the GDR, press spokesman for the European and World Sumo Association and chairman of the AIPS Judo Commission. After completing his studies, Meinhardt mainly worked as a sports and political correspondent for Junge Welt (Sport 1985–1990), the German Press Agency (Sport 1991–1997), the German Press Agency (Politics 1997/1998), the German press agency in the USA and Canada (Sport 1990-2005). Since 2005 he has been writing for the sport at Welt und Welt am Sonntag and reporting on major international events such as the European and World Championships or the Olympic Games.

Publications

He is editor-in-chief, author and co-author of numerous Olympic, football and boxing books. "Ready to Rumble. Box-Boom Germany. In Conversation with the Stars" (2013), together with Eduard Geyer "Throws. About football, the world and life in conversations with Gunnar Meinhardt" (2015) . He is co-author of the Olympic books from 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014 published by the Neues Leben publishing house, for the work of the century on Muhammad Ali “GOAT” (2004) and the chronicle of the century about Bayern Munich “4 Stars - 111 years "(2011).

Awards

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In 1989 he received the journalist award for the "best report by a foreigner about the Soviet Union" for a report about a four-week expedition by mountain bike in the south of what was then the USSR along the border between Afghanistan and China over the East Pamir tract with six passes over 4000 meters by the world agency TASS . He also received an award for a feature section in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit über Max Schmeling from the Association of German Sports Journalists .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meinhardt, Gunnar: "The representation of physical culture and sport in the magazines" "Neue Berliner Illustrierte" "-" "Die Zeit im Bild" "and" "Freie Welt" "from 1978 to 1981". In: Leipzig University Library. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Michael Farber: Pierre Lueders. Retrieved August 17, 2020 (American English).
  3. ↑ WORLD: Gunnar Meinhardt . In: THE WORLD . September 10, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed June 2, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Ready to rumble - New Life - Eulenspiegel Verlagsgruppe. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Throws - New Life - Eulenspiegel publishing group. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ London 2012 - The New Berlin - Eulenspiegel Publishing Group. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Meinhardt, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book author and sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin