Eckhard Herholz

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Eckhard Herholz (born June 26, 1946 in Theißen , Kr. Zeitz ) is a German sports reporter.

Life

Herholz made in 1965 at the "Hans and Sophie Scholl High School" in Zeitz his High School and then studied four semesters process engineering at Freiberg (Saxony). He then began studying at the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig , which he graduated in 1971 with a diploma as a specialist teacher for physical culture and biology and as an artistic gymnastics trainer.

After five years as a teacher in Merseburg and Halle-Neustadt , he switched to what was then the German Gymnastics and Sports Association (DTSB) in 1976 and worked as a district trainer for Halle / Magdeburg in the 1st level of support. He was responsible for the talent scouting and selection of young gymnasts, who were transferred to the then high-performance center in Halle / Sa., the SC Chemie Halle . At the same time, as a non-scheduled aspirant, he researched the coordinative skills of the sport of apparatus gymnastics and developed training programs. Their contents came into conflict with the German Gymnastics Association of the GDR (DTV).

As a result and in protest, Herholz resigned before defending his dissertation and switched to GDR television in 1981 (later: Deutscher Fernsehfunk , DFF). Here he made a name for himself as a gymnastics reporter, subsequently also taking over the sport of wrestling, and later also bobsleigh and racing sleds. He first appeared in front of the camera in halftime broadcasts and from the mid-1980s also in the DFF main broadcast “ Sport aktuell (GDR) ”. His daily moderations in the “Friedensfahrt Studio” are remembered. He received the Journalist Prize for his report on Olaf Ludwig's Olympic victory (Seoul 1988) . In the last few months of German television, after personal retirement from GDR reporter legend Heinz-Florian Oertel, he had also taken over his former domain, figure skating, and cooperated e.g. B. at the European Championships in 1990 in Leningrad on the microphone with the Austrians Emmerich Danzer and Ingrid Wendl .

On September 30, 1990, the then sports director of ZDF , Karl Senne , brought Eckhard Herholz to Mainz, where he commented on the first sports competition of a reunited German team for ZDF and 3sat from the Munich Olympic Hall. Herholz was thus the first reporter from the East who was able to continue working seamlessly in the west at the time of political change.

Previously, in August 1990, he was parachute into a 2-hour live broadcast of the DFF with the German ex-gymnastics world champion Eberhard Gienger and the GDR Olympic champion from Munich (1972), Klaus Köste Jumped title "One and One is One", which symbolize the union of the two German gymnastics associations - as the first in German sport.

In addition to his young colleague Wilfried Hark (also DFF, later NDR ), he was the only ex-Eastern reporter who reported on the first Olympic Games in reunified Germany from Albertville (speed skating). Eckhard Herholz and co-commentator Erhard Keller (Munich) commented on the first Olympic gold medal for Germany on February 9, 1992: Gunda Niemann over 3000 m on the open-air artificial ice rink of the temporary Parc Olympique. In the summer of 1992 Eckhard Herholz reported on the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics.

Herholz stayed with ZDF in Mainz until 1994. When the Deutsche Turner-Bund (DTB) sold its television rights to the German Sportfernsehen (DSF) in 1994, the expert followed his discipline and broadcast hundreds of hours of artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline gymnastics at what was then DSF for the next four years.

When Leo Kirch turned even more to the development of pay-TV in the mid-1990s (DF 1), the private broadcaster immediately parted with gymnastics, boxing, e.g. Sometimes also from athletics.

This was Herholz's new beginning as a freelance journalist and publicist, who now only commented sporadically for ZDF. Together with the Berlin journalist Sonja Schmeißer, he founded the GYMmedia agency in 1997. In 1992, together with the ex-Berliner and now Stuttgart journalist Andreas Götze, Herholz published the first all-German gymnastics statistics since 1898 (“The German gymnastics century”).

Herholz also works as a media consultant. He looks after the ex-gymnast of the German national team, Ronny Ziesmer (Cottbus), who fell badly in preparation for the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 and has since been in a wheelchair .

Web links

• Eckhard Herholz ( memento from November 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (gymmedia.com)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Götze; Eckhard Herholz (editor): The German gymnastics century: Olympic Games, World Championships, European Championships and World Cup competitions from 1896 Athens to 1992 Barcelona; Edition East; Berlin 1992; ISBN 978-3-929161-01-4 ; OCLC 1022995801 .