Henning Harnisch

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Basketball player
Henning Harnisch
Player information
Nickname Flying Henning
birthday April 15, 1968
place of birth Marburg , Germany
size 202 cm
position Small forward /
power forward
Clubs as active
1985-1988 GermanyGermany MTV 1846 Giessen
1988-1996 GermanyGermany TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1996-1998 GermanyGermany Alba Berlin
National team 1
1987-1997 Germany 169
1 As of October 14, 2008
Henning Harnisch
medal table

Basketball (men)

GermanyGermany Germany
European Championship
gold 1993 Germany Germany

Henning Jan Harnisch (born April 15, 1968 in Marburg ) is Vice President of the basketball Bundesliga club Alba Berlin and a former German national basketball player . The greatest success of the forward was winning the European Championship in 1993. Between 1990 and 1998, he won the German Championship nine times in a row with Bayer Leverkusen and Alba Berlin . Because of his spectacular style of play, with which he made dunking socially acceptable in the Bundesliga , he was also called Hanging Harnisch or Flying Henning .

Life

Harnisch grew up in Marburg. He attended the Philippinum high school , where he spent a year in 1984 at a school in Upland (US state California). When it came to basketball, the year in the United States was “a single disaster,” Harnisch later said. From 1985 Harnisch was in the squad of the Bundesliga club MTV 1846 Gießen. After graduating from high school in 1988, Harnisch went to the University of Washington . His compatriots Detlef Schrempf and Christian Welp had played at the university . Harnisch left the University of Washington after nine days, during which he had to paint the university's football stadium, among other things, and returned to Germany. He joined Bayer Leverkusen for the 1988/89 season and, along with Michael Koch and Christian Welp, was one of the key players in the team that was subscribed to the German championship between 1990 and 1996. With his move to Alba Berlin, the Leverkusen title series ended and that of Berlin began. In addition to nine German championship titles, Harnisch also won the trophy five times with Leverkusen and Berlin (1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997). He scored 6152 points in 13 Bundesliga game series. The readers of a specialist magazine voted him German basketball player of the year in 1990 and 1991 . In addition to his spectacular style of play, a headband and long hair were his trademarks for much of his career. Thanks to his appearance and appearance, Harnisch was considered to be the ideal image of a swarm of young people with high impact in the media in the 1990s. However, he did not claim this role for himself. In the book “50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga”, Harnisch's public image is classified as follows under the heading “Der Andersdenker”: “Harnisch was not a Bravo sport . The taz was armored . "

In 169 international matches, Harnisch recorded 2079 points. He took part in one world and four European championships and the 1992 Olympic Games . As the third best German scorer, he got 9.6 points per encounter during the Olympic tournament. At the European Championship in 1993 he scored an average of 12 points and was one of the guarantors of the unexpected title win in front of his own audience. In the final against Russia, Harnisch had 13 points and was the third-best thrower of the German team in the last tournament game. He described winning the European Championship as his career highlight. In 1989 he won bronze at the Universiade in Duisburg with the German student selection.

After the 1997/98 season, Harnisch ended his playing career at the age of only 30. He then studied cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and film studies at the Free University of Berlin between 1998 and 2004 , while also working as a journalist. In 2004 he returned to the Bundesliga as team manager for Alba Berlin. From January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2010, he held the post of sports director. Since then, he has been vice president of the association and in this role is responsible for promoting young talent. In 2016, Harnisch received the “Golden Ribbon” from the Association of Sports Journalists Berlin-Brandenburg for his commitment to the youth sector. At Alba Berlin, he initiated collaborations with the Beijing Basketball Association and German schools in Shanghai and Beijing. In May 2017, in a conversation with the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , Harnisch suggested a comprehensive restructuring of school sports, including the use of professional trainers. In 2018 he took over the patronage of the Berlin initiative “Sport macht Schule”. With his sports concept, he supported the SPD top candidate Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel in the election campaign for the state elections in Hesse in 2018 . In November 2018, Harnisch and Marco Baldi belonged to the delegation of Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas during a trip to China at the invitation of the Federal Foreign Office .

As a columnist in the taz , Harnisch regularly publishes articles on the topics of culture, sport and education. During his playing days, Harnisch completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller, wrote columns for the taz and hosted his own radio program on Radio Fritz under the title Hennings Hausmusik . At the Humboldt University in Berlin , he gave a lecture on "The Aesthetic of Sports".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ These are our 12 giants ; in: Sport-Bild from June 23, 1993, p. 32 f.
  2. ↑ https://www.basketball-reference.com/olympics/athletes/henning-harnisch-1/
  3. ↑ a b c Harnisch, Rödl. Part 1. In: bz-berlin.de. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ The 200 best basket hunters in the Bundesliga since 1975 . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 212 .
  5. ↑ Sebastian Gehrmann: Golden Boys. The different thinker . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 145 .
  6. ↑ Henning Harnisch profile, Olympic Games: Tournament for Men 1992. Accessed May 25, 2020 .
  7. ↑ archive.fiba.com: 1993 European Championship for Men. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Christoph Büker: Once upon a time ... bronze 25 years ago . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund (Ed.): DBB Journal . No. 41 , October 2014, p. 36, 37 .
  9. ↑ Henning Harnisch. In: Humboldt University Berlin on youtube.com. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
  10. ↑ “Das Goldene Band” by the sports journalists Berlin-Brandenburg 2016 Basketball player Henning Harnisch receives award for social engagement - Das Goldene Band. Retrieved December 15, 2017 (German).
  11. ^ Theo Breiding: Henning Harnisch - Albas Ambassador to China . ( Morgenpost.de [accessed September 4, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Henning Harnisch: "You just want to play" . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed September 4, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Sport makes school - Interview with Henning Harnisch . In: Berliner Akzente . April 19, 2018 ( berliner-akzente.de [accessed September 4, 2018]).
  14. ^ Friedhard Teuffel: Henning Harnisch helps Hessian SPD in the election campaign . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . August 10, 2018, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed September 4, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Alba delegation travels to China with Foreign Minister Maas. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Henning Harnisch: Column Henningway: I whistle, therefore I am . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 17, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed September 4, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Harnisch, Henning
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harnisch, Henning Jan (full name); Flying Henning (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg