Addi Furler
Adolf "Addi" Furler (born March 21, 1933 in Berlin ; † August 30, 2000 in Cologne ) was a German sports journalist and television presenter .
Life
Furler joined Westdeutscher Rundfunk in 1959 as a news and program speaker . From 1961 he was one of the first presenters of the ARD television program Sportschau , along with Günter Siefarth and Ernst Huberty , in the 5000th edition of which he appeared for the last time in 1995. From 1962 to 1965 he was chief reporter at Deutsche Welle . The trotter breeder and, with 39 victories, successful amateur harness racing driver, Furler was a proven equestrian expert and inventor of the Galopper of the Year award . Furler was also a spokesperson for numerous television documentaries, as a voice actor he was involved in around a hundred feature films.
On June 12, 1994 he received the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Addi Furler had suffered from severe kidney disease since 1968 and had to be connected to an artificial kidney three times a week until a donor kidney was found and successfully transplanted in March 1982. He died in 2000 of multiple organ failure after a disc operation .
Fonts
- with Fritz Klein : In saddle and sulky. Everything about equestrian sports. Stalling, Oldenburg; Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-7979-1944-1 .
- Talking to the horses. Addi Furler reads Monty Roberts . Abridged version of the book. 3 audio cassettes. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1998, ISBN 3-7857-1032-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Addi Furler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Addi Furler in the German dubbing file
- Adolf Furler in the synchronous database
Individual evidence
- ↑ 50 years "Sportschau": "I had ice cold hands", Addi Furler , Spiegel Online, June 3, 2011
- ↑ a b August 30, 2010 - 10 years ago: Sports journalist Adolf "Addi" Furler dies in Cologne: The horse whisperer of the WDR , wdr.de, WDR 2 deadline
- ^ WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk: WDR mourns Addi Furler , presseportal.de, August 30, 2000
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Furler, Addi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Furler, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sports journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 2000 |
| Place of death | Cologne |