Béla Réthy

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Béla Réthy during a 2018 press conference

Béla Andreas Réthy (born December 14, 1956 in Vienna ) is a German sports journalist and commentator .

Life

Réthy was born in Vienna after his parents had shortly before left their homeland, Hungary, after the popular uprising in 1956. Shortly after his birth, the young family moved to São Paulo . In 1968 she returned with the then 12-year-old Béla to Europe back in the German Rhine-Main area , where he attended the Gutenberg school in Wiesbaden , the High School took off. He then studied journalism , sociology and ethnology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . He improved his pocket money in the sports archive of the ZDF and became a freelance editor.

Réthy speaks German , Hungarian , Portuguese , English , French and Spanish . He lives in Wiesbaden.

Career at ZDF

Since 1987 he has been employed as an editor at ZDF. At first he worked in the motorsport division , and since 1991 he has been working as a live football commentator . He started in the field of football as an assistant to commentators Rolf Kramer and Marcel Reif . With Kramer's comment “73. Minute, Béla Réthy tells me. “During the World Cup final between Germany and Argentina on June 29, 1986, Réthy entered the history of World Cup broadcasts.

Réthy's first live report was an international match between the German and Irish U16s in 1991. Primarily active as a commentator for the Second German Television , since 1996 he has commented on all the finals of the World and European Championships broadcast by ZDF. H. the 1996 European Championship in England ( Germany against the Czech Republic ), the 2002 World Championship in Japan and South Korea (Germany against Brazil ), the 2004 European Championship in Portugal ( Portugal against Greece ), the 2010 World Championship in South Africa ( Spain against the Netherlands ), the 2012 European Championship in Poland / Ukraine (Spain against Italy ) and the 2018 World Cup in Russia ( France against Croatia ).

In addition, Rethy was a commentator on many of the 2006 World Cup games in Germany broadcast by ZDF , including the German games against Costa Rica , Sweden , Italy and Portugal. At the 2014 World Cup , he commented, among other things, on the German 7-1 victory in the semi-finals against Brazil .

He commented on hockey games at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro .

From 2012 to 2018, Rethy, alternating with Oliver Schmidt, commented on the UEFA Champions League games on ZDF as well as the annual final of the competition.

Media coverage

  • After Réthy's report on the quarter-finals between France and Brazil at the 2006 World Cup, the Süddeutsche Zeitung commented : “Réthy probably doesn't want to become immortal, not the new Herbert Zimmermann , he doesn't want to be brilliant, just good. He's not a talk and show host [...], but actually a football critic who doesn't get drunk so easily. "
  • During the European Championships in 2008 , Réthy had to briefly comment on the semi-finals between Germany and Turkey in a detailed radio style due to a bad weather-related picture failure . Spiegel Online criticized: "The failure revealed how little TV people still have to say [...] Béla Réthy had previously looked as if he were not quite on the ball in terms of commentary."

engagement

As an ambassador, Réthy supports the Respekt! No place for racism .

Awards

Herbert Award

  • 2007 : Award in the category Best TV Live Commentator
  • 2009 : Award in the category Most Emotional Reportage (audience award)
  • 2009: Award in the Best Sports Commentator category

literature

Web links

Commons : Béla Réthy  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography of Béla Réthy ( memento from March 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at berner-block.de
  2. ^ Daniel Stolpe: When Toni Schumacher made a mistake in the 1986 World Cup final . Welt Online , June 30, 2010; Retrieved July 2, 2014.
  3. ↑ (dpa): Béla Réthy comments on the final of the World Cup . Merkur Online , April 22, 2010.
  4. ↑ UEFA EURO 2012 ™ - ZDF EM live Spain - Italy , announcement on zdf.de
  5. ↑ Bodo Marks ( dpa ): Béla Réthy would have preferred the other final . Focus Online , June 29, 2012.
  6. ↑ July 3, 2006
  7. ^ Reinhard Mohr: Béla Réthy: Seer in the stadium . Spiegel Online . June 26, 2008. Retrieved March 26, 2011.
  8. ↑ Ambassador - TV: Thomas Wark and Béla Réthy ( Memento from November 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ table book respect! 100 people - 100 stories . Chapter Béla Réthy & Thomas Wark , pp. 194–197
personal data
SURNAME Réthy, Béla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Réthy, Béla Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports journalist and commentator of Hungarian origin
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria