Bruno Moravetz

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Bruno Moravetz (approx. 2002)

Bruno Moravetz (born September 11, 1921 in Kronstadt , Kingdom of Romania ; † December 31, 2013 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) was a German sports reporter . For various newspapers and television he reported on all eleven Winter Olympic Games between 1952 and 1992 and on five Summer Games between 1960 and 1984 .

Life

Moravetz, who grew up in Transylvania on the edge of the southern Carpathians , learned to ski at the age of seven and was enthusiastic about skiing and mountaineering from a young age. After the war he went to West Germany and in 1949 got a traineeship as a sports reporter for the newspaper Der Allgäuer in Kempten (Allgäu) , which started his journalistic career. He also worked as a press officer for the Allgäu Ski Association (ASV). In 1952 he was sent by his newspaper and the Stuttgart sports newspaper Sportbericht as a correspondent to Norway for the Winter Olympics in Oslo .

In the early 1950s, "Mora", as his friends call him, moved to Kornwestheim as head of the press department of the two-wheeler manufacturer Kreidler . The moped brand names “Florett” and “Amazone” were developed by him there. He was then head of the sports and features section of the Heidenheimer Zeitung , and later he went to Stuttgart .

Finally he came to ZDF in Mainz and Munich . Together with Gerd Mehl and Erwin Dittberner , he shaped Nordic skiing on German television for a long time from the 1950s to the late 1980s. With his constantly repeated question “Where is Behle?” He became known to a wide audience. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Moravetz was looking for the German cross-country skier Jochen Behle during the broadcast of the 15 km cross-country skiing on February 17th , when he was not shown in the picture despite the interim best time and his later interim times were not displayed. In 1998 Marius Müller-Westernhagen recorded the title “Where is Behle?” For his album Radio Maria , using a sample from the original Moravetz report.

At the 1960 Summer Games in Rome , he was the editor-in-chief of the German Olympia newspaper. Moravetz also looked after the specialist journal Ski and was a co-founder of the “ Forum Nordicum ”, an interest group for Nordic ski journalists.

Like Gerd Mehl among his friends, he has remained loyal to alpinism for a long time . Numerous expeditions led to Nepal and the Karakoram and to mountains such as Nanga Parbat , Annapurna (I, II ), Masherbrum , Gasherbrum ( I , II , III , IV ) and Cho Oyu . During an expedition to Dhaulagiri (8,167 meters) in 1977 , the then 55-year-old suffered life-threatening high altitude pulmonary edema at an altitude of 2500 meters and had to be flown to Kathmandu by helicopter . Moravetz shot a report about Reinhold Messner , a mountaineer he was still unknown at the time and with whom he was in the Himalayas, and invited him to his first broadcast in the current sport studio , which he co-founded in 1963 , but which he only moderated four times in 1981/82. Other guests there were Helmut Schön and Jochen Behle .

At the end of 1972, Moravetz and his family moved from Munich to the Allgäu ski resort Nesselwang , to their newly built house there, where the widowed since 2000 lived with his granddaughter. Moravetz retired in October 1986. He had already survived several heart attacks, but was still involved in sports journalism by helping the local community workshop to compile the local ski history.

Bruno Moravetz died on New Year's Eve 2013 at the age of 92 and was buried in the cemetery in Nesselwang.

His daughter Christiane , born in 1946, was also a sports journalist and worked for the FAZ's sports department for a long time .

Awards

literature

  • Bruno Moravetz (Ed.): The big book of the ski. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-455-08784-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reporter legend Bruno Moravetz died ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.borkenerzeitung.de
  2. ↑ rezensator.de: CD review Westernhagen - Radio Maria
  3. ↑ https://www.zdf.de/sport/das-aktuelle-sportstudio/was-sie-wissen-muessen-wenn-sie-als-schrauer-live-beim-100.html
  4. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Bruno Moravetz
  5. ↑ Christiane Moravetz 70 . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 26, 2016, p. 4 .
personal data
SURNAME Moravetz, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports reporter
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronstadt , Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH December 31 2013
Place of death Kempten (Allgäu)