Marcel Bergmann

Marcel Bergmann (born May 20, 1964 in Kevelaer ) is a German sports editor and author .

After graduating from high school and completing basic military service , he studied English and French at Saarland University in Saarbrücken . After a year as a translator in Lyon , he started working as a freelancer for ZDF in 1991 , and since 1992 in the sports department.

His father was killed in a car accident in Kenya and Bergmann was paralyzed . He woke up from a coma after two months . After a long period of depression and many operations, he started his life in a wheelchair . He got a permanent position as a sports editor at ZDF. With the sports department he was among other things at the Paralympics in Athens . He traveled to about 60 countries. His dream was to travel to China . In 2007 he traveled with a six-person film team and accompanied by his friend Ham Mow Wai from Shanghai to Beijing .

His trip was under the patronage of Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble , who himself is dependent on a wheelchair. Federal President Horst Köhler supported Bergmann; the medical sponsorship was taken over by Madjid Samii .

Marcel Bergmann wrote the book Nevertheless China - In a wheelchair from Shanghai to Beijing about his adventurous journey .

Marcel Bergmann lives in Mainz.

literature

• Marcel Bergmann: Still China. From Shanghai to Beijing in a wheelchair. ISBN 978-3-451-29848-6

Web links

• Marcel Bergmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Broadcasts on ZDF about Bergmann
• 37 degrees: Travel dream as a "lifeline": Marcel Bergmann travels in a wheelchair. , ZDF, May 13, 2008