Erich Weiss (journalist)

Erich Weiss (born August 8, 1947 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian television journalist .

Life

After studying law , he joined ORF in 1969 as a freelancer . In 1972 for the first time, as a sports commentator, at the ice hockey world championship at the time , where he presented himself to the Austrian television audience as a very competent and serious sports journalist. The ORF sports director Thaddäus Podgorski , who was newly appointed in the same year , also commissioned him to comment on the sporting events in front of and behind the camera. From now on it was an integral part of the Austrian public sports television. For the television viewer stringent, very close to the action, such as ice hockey world championships (was one of his domains of the sports report), with the legendary ice hockey battles of the Czech Republic , a few years after the Prague Spring , against the multiple world champions USSR ; or USSR against the multiple world champion Canada . Well explained by him. As well as at the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics , ski races , and many other major sporting events. From 1976 to 1991, in the ORF SPORT editorial team , worked as a permanent journalist . From 1991 then chief editor of ORF-TV-Sports. He also moderated Sport Bild and Sport aktuell . Also the show Sport am Montag , next to Sigi Bergmann and Gerhard Zimmer (journalist) , Robert Seeger . Since 2010 Weiss has been a commentator in the ServusTV ice hockey magazine Hockey Night .

His daughter, Constanze Weiss, also devoted herself to sport and is a reporter for Sky SPORT AUSTRIA .

Awards (selection)

In 1987 he received the gold medal from the International Ice Hockey Federation and in 2005 a prize from the AIPS . Furthermore, he was awarded the Romy as the most popular sports presenter in 1991 and 1996 .

personal data
SURNAME	Weiss, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna