Frank Buschmann

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Basketball player
Frank Buschmann
Frank Buschmann (2015)

Frank Buschmann at the 1 Live Krone 2015
Player information
Nickname Buschi
birthday November 24, 1964
place of birth Bottrop , Germany
size 186 cm
position Shooting Guard
Clubs as active
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Frank "Buschi" Buschmann (born November 24, 1964 in Bottrop ) is a German television presenter , sports reporter and former basketball player .

Career

Basketball player

Before his media career, Buschmann played basketball in the major league with Boele-Hagen and in the 2nd Bundesliga with BG Hagen . He was considered a good second division player and also had offers from the Bundesliga, including from his former club SSV Hagen and TSV Hagen 1860 . After playing at TV Hohenlimburg and in Munich later, Buschmann ended his basketball career in his late 20s and played for the Maxi basketball team from Boele-Kabel.

Sports reporter and show presenter

After graduating from high school, Buschmann began studying at the German Sport University in Cologne in 1987 and graduated in 1993 with a degree in "Media and Communication" as a sports scientist. Meanwhile, his journalistic activity began as a freelancer in the sports department of 107.7 Radio Hagen . For the station he reported, among other things, from the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona .

For the sports channel (discontinued March 1, 1993) Buschmann commented on the weekly live broadcasts from the basketball league. In August 1993 he switched to DSF (later Sport1 ). There he acted as a commentator and moderator for basketball broadcasts from world and European championships, international matches and matches of the national basketball league until 2013 . A short time later he became a member of the station's team of football commentators and moderators and moderated, among other things, Bundesliga aktuell and Bundesliga Pur .

From summer 2006 to summer 2007, Buschmann commented on the Bundesliga on the pay-TV channel Arena , which sub-licensed the Bundesliga rights to Premiere in summer 2007 . In the Bundesliga season 2009/10 he was total for the former Telekom broadcaster LIGA! active. In the program Fantalk on Sport1, he let the football fans actively participate in the action on Tuesday evenings.

On June 9, 2007 Frank Buschmann was the first time commentator at ProSieben telecast Schlag den Raab with Stefan Raab and Matthias Opdenhövel , later Steven Gätjen , in the variant Beat the Star . From 2010 he also commented on Stefan Raab's Autoball World and European Championships, and from October 2012 on the fights on TV total Quizboxen . He also often took part as a prominent candidate in Raab's programs, for example in the TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge .

In addition to his television work, Frank Buschmann presented numerous SPD election campaign events with Gerhard Schröder in 2002 . Buschmann was also the voice of the Coca-Cola commercial for Euro 2008 . In Beijing, he moderated the 2008 Summer Olympics in the German House. From 2011 to 2015 Buschmann formed together with Manfred Breuckmann and from 2016 together with Wolff-Christoph Fuss the commentator duo in the Fifa game series developed by Electronic Arts .

After the European basketball championship in Lithuania in 2011 , Buschmann announced his premature departure from reporting on the German national basketball team. At the same time, he announced that he would be available again in the event that the 2015 European Basketball Championship was awarded to Germany. This was later given to Ukraine. In February 2013 it became known that Sport1 and Buschmann were separating after about 20 years of working together.

Buschmann was in autumn 2013. ProSiebenSat.1 Media and commented for the broadcasting group, in addition to the Raab impact on ProSieben, some discharged show purposes football games, such as the Telekom Cup or ran -Legendenspiele on Sat.1 , as well as games of the UEFA Europa League at Kabel 1 , where he was occasionally used as a moderator. Buschmann also commented on the Super Bowl for the Ran format in American football from 2012 to 2017 and from 2015 on the regular season and play-off games of the NFL . Since August 2013, he has presented three episodes per week on his YouTube channel Buschi TV , in which he speaks to fans, players and experts.

In April 2014 his book At the end of the poop the duck was published by Edel Verlag, which was placed in the Spiegel bestseller list. From September 2014, Buschmann moderated the web show Buschi geht ran.de on ran.de , which was broadcast after the UEFA Europa League was broadcast on television and live. On the show he received sports guests and showed a review of the Europa League games. Buschmann has also been a commentator for Telekom Basketball since 2014 .

Since 2016 he has been moderating Ninja Warrior Germany - Germany's strongest show , which is broadcast on RTL , together with Jan Köppen and Laura Wontorra . He also commented on the ProSieben show Das ProSieben Away Game in 2016 . In October 2016 it was announced that he will be leaving ProSiebenSat.1 TV Germany in the summer of 2017 and will switch to Mediengruppe RTL in the entertainment area, where he will a. continued to comment on Ninja Warrior Germany . In the sports sector, Buschmann has been doing his new job at Sky since the 2017/18 season , where he a. a. Games of the Bundesliga commented. From 2017 to 2018 he hosted the game show The Wall . In December 2017 he took over the moderation of 5 gegen Jauch and moderated a total of four editions of the show until April 2018.

In March 2020, Buschmann, together with Florian Schmidt-Sommerfeld , started the sports podcast eavesdropping - Finally something with sports . Current sports topics are reported and discussed there every Monday. In addition, active and former athletes are regular guests.

Buschmann is married to Lisa Heckl , who is also a sports presenter and reporter, and has two daughters from his first marriage.

criticism

Because of his comments as a commentator on the TV program TV Total Autoball WM 2014 on June 7, 2014 about four participants, Buschmann was accused of “good-humored racism ” and “happy homophobia ” in an article on Spiegel Online , as he described the participant Hans Sarpei as “ dark man ”and about the homosexual Ross Antony , after an accident, lost the words“ his bottom hurts ”. Buschmann described the allegations as "cheek".

Buschmann is sometimes criticized for his "enthusiastic" reportage style, while he is adored by others for precisely this reason. The Focus wrote: “Frank Buschmann comments on each of these programs with his own emotionality. For that, some love him, while others switch off. "

Nominations and Awards

Publications

Web links

Commons : Frank Buschmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Frank Buschmann in an interview: “There is only one direction: straightforward”. In: Spox.com . January 21, 2013, accessed July 1, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Basketball Boele-Kabel Archive: Oberliga season 81/82. In: Basketball Boele-Kabel. Retrieved on July 1, 2013 (photo Oberliga-Kader).
  3. ↑ Man, Otto! - Guest: Frank Buschmann, TV presenter and sports commentator ( website not available. ). In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . January 15, 2013, accessed July 1, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Homepage of the German Sport University Cologne: Well-known students and alumni of the German Sport University Cologne
  5. ↑ FIFA 11 - Change of commentators. In: P3 Media: Play3.de. June 29, 2010, accessed July 1, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Frank Buschmann: “A turning point - for me too”. In: Sport1 . September 12, 2011, Retrieved July 1, 2013 (column).
  7. ↑ TV station gives Buschi a basket. In: evening newspaper . February 18, 2013, accessed February 19, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Frank Buschmann starts web TV show “Buschi.TV” Digitalfernsehen.de, August 2, 2013.
  9. ↑ Frank Buschmann starts his own web TV: "I was tired of it". In: Focus Online . August 17, 2013. Retrieved September 24, 2013 .
  10. ↑ "Buschi goes on" - Buschmann sends it into overtime. In: Ran.de . August 16, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Pocher leaves RTL, Buschi takes over "5 gegen Jauch". In: DWDL.de. September 29, 2017. Retrieved September 29, 2017 .
  12. ^ Website of the podcast , accessed May 15, 2020.
  13. ↑ That's Me. In: own website. January 19, 2019, accessed July 1, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Arno Frank : Watch TV more beautifully: “It’s going to be crazy, ey!” In: Spiegel Online . June 8, 2014, accessed October 12, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Autoball World Cup: Frank Buschmann rejects allegations of racism. In: Stern.de . June 8, 2014, accessed October 12, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Frank Buschmann: "There are people who think my way of throwing up". Interview with Frank Buschmann. (No longer available online.) In: Focus.de . May 6, 2014, archived from the original on May 7, 2014 ; accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Alexander Krei: Grimme Prize: Special honor for Gottschalk - The nominees for the Grimme Prize 2011. In: DWDL.de. January 26, 2011, accessed on July 1, 2013 (double-sided with list of nominations).
  18. ^ The German Television Prize - The Nominations 2013 ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), 02elf.net, September 18, 2013, accessed on September 18, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Bushman, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buschi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television presenter and sports commentator
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottrop , Germany