Oskar Klose

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Oskar Klose (born February 12, 1926 in Cottbus , † July 28, 1976 in Munich ) was a German sports reporter of the first post-war generation at Bayerischer Rundfunk , which he joined in 1955. In the early days of the GDR he was a companion of Heinz-Florian Oertel , who was to become a sports reporter himself in East Germany.

With his distinctive voice, for example, Klose was the first to report on speed skating from Inzell in 1959 or in 1961 on a Sunday afternoon for ARD television in a Eurovision program from three-band billiards from Amsterdam .

With his reporting on ice hockey as well as the Olympic Games and World Championships, he made lasting friends. In 1999 he was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame of the German Ice Hockey Museum.

The coverage of the 1972 Summer Olympics from his adopted city of Munich was one of the great highlights of his career. For the radio, the former so-called Olympic wave of the ARD , he reported "on a wonderful day in Bavaria" together with Eberhard Stanjek and Peter Langer from the opening ceremony.

In 1965 the 3rd program of the Bavarian Radio broadcasted with Die Fußballschule - The football game and its rules a series with Oskar Klose.

In 1972 he made a name for himself with his television series They never come back - the biggest boxing matches of the century - created for the evening program of the Bavarian Radio . In the same year, this was also a great success in book form with co-author Kurt Schauppmeier .

Football coverage

Oskar Klose became known primarily through his reports on football. In the 1950s he was still reporting for the radio about the games of the South Football League . In January 1960, the SpVgg Fürth complained to Bayerischer Rundfunk about Klose and accused them of having reported "distorting" the 4-0 home win against Eintracht Frankfurt. The game association demanded that the "actual events for the ears of the radio listeners be interpreted more objectively and fairly than was the case with this game. For the many listeners in Germany who did not see the game, this absurd report meant a degradation of the athletic performance and thus damage to the reputation and the pulling power of SpVgg Fürth. " At the end of the following season, it was Klose who told the friends of FSV Frankfurt from the Bavarian court about the 1-0 defeat at Bayern Munich , which meant the first relegation from the first class for the Hessians.

At Bayerischer Rundfunk, Klose, together with Günther Wolfbauer and Sammy Drechsel, formed the first ranks of the Munich radio and television broadcaster for Bundesliga coverage, which commented on games in the Bavarian region live for the Saturday radio program Heute im Stadion (→ Bundesliga conference ). He also commented on match reports for the ARD Sportschau , which he occasionally moderated himself. He was the host who presented the first Goal of the Month award. This went to the second division player Gerhard Faltermeier from SSV Jahn Regensburg .

Oskar Klose was considered to be particularly fond of 1. FC Nürnberg - Wolfbauer was the "60s" and Drechsel the "Bavarian" at BR. Klose's coverage of the 7-3 success of "his glubbers" against FC Bayern Munich on matchday 16 of the 1967/68 season, the club's last championship season, to which Franz Brungs contributed five goals, became legendary.

But since the club was relegated from the Bundesliga in the following season, Klose was also used more and more frequently to report on the games of the soon-to-be sole Bavarian Bundesliga representative, FC Bayern. A particular highlight was the finals of the 1973/74 European Cup against Atlético Madrid , which he commented live on television. The emotionality with which he accompanied Uli Hoeneß's goal to make it 4-0 in the 83rd minute of the game in the replay of the final remains unforgotten . After a counterattack, which took Hoeneß halfway across the field, Klose saw disaster break in on the blond boy. "Now they're knocking him out!" He feared. But it turned out differently: "No! He's killing them all! Goal! Goal!", Ended his comment on this move, which sealed the first win of the European Cup for a German team.

National soccer team

Klose also commented on many of the national soccer team's games . One of the highlights was the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, from which he and Kurt Brumme reported for the radio. He supplied Germany with reports from the quarter-final game against England , the World Cup revenge won 3: 2 afterwards, and the semi-final game against Italy , which was lost 3: 4 after extra time. Both games are considered to be historically significant games in Germany, and the latter itself has the international reputation of a game of the century .

At the soccer world championship in 1974 he commented in tandem with Heribert Faßbender from Westdeutscher Rundfunk for the radio from the Munich Olympic Stadium on Germany's victory in the final against the Netherlands . Klose started the report and was able to report in the first minute about the "nerve tearing test" at the penalty between the Dutchman Johan Neeskens and " Sepp Maier in the German goal", which led to the 1-0 for the Dutch. It was also Klose's turn to equalize 1: 1 by Paul Breitner and the final whistle, while Faßbender reported on the spectacular winning goal by Gerd Müller .

death

In the summer of 1976 Oskar Klose died unexpectedly at the age of 50.

Quotes

  • Bayern play completely headless. You want your head against the wall.
  • Gerd Müller probably scared goalkeeper Abramian more with his beard than with his performance.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sound context
  2. ↑ Inzell Ice Stadium ( Memento from December 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ TV program April 23, 1961
  4. ↑ Ice Hockey Museum - Hall of Fame ( Memento from April 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Munich 1972, radio report Oskar Klose (MP3; 5.6 MB)
  6. ↑ SpVgg Fürth - game report SpVgg - E. Frankfurt January 3, 1960
  7. ↑ Die Welt, June 1, 2002, Udo Muras: "We want to see that again!"
personal data
SURNAME Klose, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports presenter on the radio
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1976
Place of death Munich