Eberhard Stanjek

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Eberhard Stanjek (born September 20, 1934 in Berlin ; † July 8, 2001 in Munich ) was a German sports reporter and sports journalist .

Life

Stanjek began his professional career in the early 1960s with Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), among other things, directing and moderating the youth program Sport-Spiel -spannung . In 1968 in Mexico he was a member of the BR Olympic team for the first time. From 1970 he became known nationwide as the presenter of the sports show on ARD . In 1977 Stanjek took over the management of the sports department at BR and ten years later he became head of the sports and leisure program.

In 1974, as a radio reporter for the BR, he reported on Bayern Munich's first title win in the European Cup, where he and Heribert Faßbender commented on the final of the 1976 European Football Championship between Germany and Czechoslovakia. It was Stanjek who commented on the decisive and now legendary Panenka jack on penalties. At the 1982 World Cup , he commented on the preliminary round match between Germany and Austria, which went down in football history as the Gijón non-aggression pact . Before he retired in 1999, he often commented on golf broadcasts on Bavarian television .

Before he retired, Stanjek was a TV reporter and coordinator at almost all European and World Cups and Olympic Games. Stanjek died at the age of 66 after a long and serious illness. He was buried in Munich's Westfriedhof .

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  5. welt.de: Mourning for Eberhard Stanjek Article from July 10, 2001