Dieter Gruschwitz

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Dieter Gruschwitz (born January 9, 1954 in Neuwied , Rhineland-Palatinate ) is a German journalist who, after starting at the Sender Freies Berlin, switched to the Second German Television , where he was in charge of the main sports department from 2005 to 2017.

Career

After graduating from high school in 1972 and completing military service, Gruschwitz studied journalism, Slavic and English studies in Mainz from 1974 to 1979 . He was also an active judoka at the Neuwied Judo Club . In March 1979, he and Peter Jupke took third place at the German championships in Hamburg .

From April 1979 he found a permanent position at the Sender Freies Berlin . From 1979 to 1982 he was a reporter and editor for the “Berliner Abendschau” and from 1983 to 1996 he was a reporter, editor, and presenter of “Sport Fernsehen”, from April 1992 on as head of the “Sport Fernsehen” department. Gruschwitz was also an editor and reporter at the Olympic Games since 1988 and at the World Cup in 1990 in Italy and in 1994 in the USA.

In April 1996 he switched to the second German television . There he became the absent representative of ZDF's main editor-in-chief for sport and was also the ZDF team manager at the 1998 soccer world championships in France and 2002 in South Korea and Japan.

According to the announcement in December 2004, he became head of the main sports department on February 1, 2005 after ZDF editor-in-chief Nikolaus Brender found that Wolf-Dieter Poschmann , who was praised for the newly introduced post of “chief reporter” , found that the relationship between “team and player-coach “no longer agree. Gruschwitz, on the other hand, is "a team player and offers the best conditions."

On February 1, 2017, Gruschwitz retired. His successor is Thomas Fuhrmann .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judoka> Dieter Gruschwitz> Results , JudoInside.com 2002–2012.
  2. ↑ Sports on television: ZDF sports director Poschmann moves to the second row dpa via Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 3, 2004.
  3. ↑ New head of sport: Gruschwitz gives up office , quotenmeter.de , July 1, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Gruschwitz, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwied , Rhineland-Palatinate