Christoph Schumann (sports journalist)

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Christoph Schumann moderates the BMW Sailing Cup in Frankfurt

Christoph Schumann (born May 15, 1949 in Brokstedt ) is a German sports journalist, commentator , author and moderator of major events. His focus is on sailing .

Life

The son of a pastor lived in various places in Schleswig-Holstein , from 1965 in Hamburg . Schumann got into sailing through an uncle who ran a sailing school. In order to motivate him at school, his parents promised him a sailing course, which, unlike the school year in question, he successfully completed. Between 1965 and 1970 he acquired all sailing licenses up to and including the sports high seas skipper certificate at the Hamburg seafaring school. From 1967 Schumann was a season instructor and from 1970 skipper at the Hanseatic Yacht School in the Quellenental in Glücksburg near Flensburg . After graduating from high school , he studied geography and sports at theUniversity of Hamburg for higher education.

He is a licensed sailing instructor and examiner for water sports license. From 1976 he headed the Hamburg Yacht School on the Outer Alster. Between 1978 and 2009 Schumann worked as an editor for the magazine Yacht with different tasks between sport, reporting and seamanship. In the Fastnet race of 1979, when a hurricane capsized many ships at the sailing regatta for offshore yachts in the English Channel off England and in the Atlantic off the coast of Ireland and killed 15 participants and four other sailors, Schumann made a name for himself as more knowledgeable and more anecdotal Rapporteur.

In 1980 he stood in front of a microphone for the first time at the boot trade fair in Düsseldorf, which he accompanied as a moderator until 2015 and was adopted there as the "voice of water sports". Today Schumann is a freelance sports commentator and has been working for Eurosport since 1992 . Since 1985 he has been a moderator at the Kieler Woche , the Sail Bremerhaven , the Port Birthday Hamburg (since 1994), the Hanse Sail , boat fairs, match races and the 150th anniversary of the German Society for Rescue of Shipwrecked People in Bremerhaven of the Extreme 40 Sailing Series in Hamburg. He has also been commenting on the sailing programs for EUROSPORT on television since 1992 and was a member of the crew of the Hamburg harbor concert at NDR 90.3 for 13 years .

As the successor of the well-known and long-standing port festival spokesman Carlheinz Hollmann , he said he never saw him and therefore did not want to copy him. When Hollmann announced his resignation, many - including himself - thought that Hollmann would continue on request, which meant that he did not necessarily take the offer made to him seriously at first. In the meantime he has been tasked with moderating the "Hamburg Harbor Birthday" 27 times.

In 2018, after 25 years on the board of the DHH (Deutscher Hochseesportverband Hansa e.V.), Christoph Schumann moved to the DHH administrative board, is on the presidium of the VDS (Association of German Sport Journalists) and on the board of the VHS (Verein Hamburger Sportjournalisten e . V).

He is married to his wife Corinna, whom he met as a participant in a sailing course he directed, and has two daughters.

Fonts

  • Textbook: This is sailing. Delius-Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 1996, ISBN 3-7688-0922-6
  • Instructional CD-ROM: Learn to sail interactively. Delius-Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 1995, ISBN 3-7688-9500-9
  • Instructional video: Learning to sail made easy. Delius-Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nick Ward, Sinéad O'Brien: Alone with Death. A secret tragedy from the Fastnet Race. 1979. 1st edition Bielefeld, 2009.
  2. ^ Svante Domizlaff: Yachts in a hurricane: The Fastnet race 1979 . 1st edition. Bielefeld 1999
  3. ↑ Sailing Kiel Week ( Memento from August 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ The voices of the Hanse Sail ( Memento from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://www.rostock-matchrace.de/news.htm
  6. ↑ About us - Christoph Schumann. Norddeutscher Rundfunk , archived from the original on January 22, 2013 ; accessed on August 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports journalist, commentator, author and moderator of major events
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Brokstedt