Dieter Adler

Dieter Adler (born April 16, 1936 in Heidelberg ) is a former German sports journalist specializing in athletics, basketball and soccer.

Adler grew up in Nördlingen , where he also graduated from the humanistic grammar school. He then studied history, politics and classical philology in Tübingen , Munich and Frankfurt am Main . In 1960 he began a traineeship at the Hessischer Rundfunk and stayed with the broadcaster until 1965, when he switched to Deutsche Welle in Cologne . From 1972 to 1988 he worked as a freelance journalist for WDR , after which Adler worked for NDR . There he was first head of the sports department at radio and then head of the service department at the television news department.

Adler, along with Ernst Huberty and Addi Furler , was part of the first team of moderators at ARD Sportschau as early as the 1960s . From 1971 to 2002 Dieter Adler reported for ARD on almost all major athletics events and was live at six Olympic Games, from 1988 to 2002 he formed a team with Gerd Rubenbauer . At the 1999 World Championships , he suffered a heart attack.

In 2006 Dieter Adler was honored with the media prize by the German Athletics Association . At the German Sports Journalist Award 2015 he received the award for his life's work.

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society

Web links

• Dieter Adler celebrates his 80th birthday. In: Leichtathletik.de . April 16, 2016. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maike Jacobs: Dieter Adler flies away in retirement. In: [[Neue Presse (Hanover) |]]. November 16, 2012, accessed July 7, 2018 .