Günther Koch

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Günther Koch (2011)

Günther Koch (born November 22, 1941 in Posen ) is a former radio and television reporter and best known throughout Germany for his reports on football games.

Life

Koch grew up in Traunstein in Upper Bavaria ; when he was eight years old, the family moved to Munich . At the Gisela-Oberrealschule there, he graduated from high school in 1961 and completed a teaching degree at the Ludwig Maximilians University . His first job as a teacher began in Nuremberg in 1964 at the Peter-Henlein-Realschule in the Nuremberg district of Eibach. Out of conviction, Koch stayed in this profession until his retirement as seminar rector in 2006, which, however, after the first few years of his additional activity as a freelance sports reporter, he had only held half a position. He taught German, English and Protestant religion.

As a 35-year-old, out of displeasure, he wrote a letter to the then BR sports director Fritz Hausmann about - in his opinion - bad radio reports on Bayerischer Rundfunk , in which he offered himself a "better alternative". After a few test reports, Koch made his reporting debut at BR on April 3, 1977 in the Bavarian second division derby Bayern Hof against FC Augsburg .

Among other things, Koch has been awarded the Herbert Zimmermann Prize for Sports Journalists several times . Even for the BBC , he regularly sits at the microphone as an expert on German football. He is considered one of the best sports reporters in Germany and has achieved a kind of cult status among football fans. He is arguably the only radio reporter whose reports have been immortalized on two CDs ( We call Günther Koch (1997), We hear Günther Koch (1998)) and also incorporated into a music project ( Günther Koch revisited (2001)).

Even during his childhood and adolescence in Munich, he was enthusiastic about playing soccer himself. His connections to the clubs in the north of Munich also date from this time, which he repeatedly incorporates into his reports. During the duel between Manchester United and FC Bayern Munich , you heard the following statement (analogously): "Beckham's free kick - oh my oh my - that would have been better at FC Alte Haide ." But his FT Gern or Teutonia also leaves he always likes to come back to life in his reports.

Koch is an avowed fan of 1. FC Nürnberg , whose supervisory board he has also been a member since his election in October 2011, and is known throughout Germany as the “voice of Franconia ”.

In 2000, Koch lent his voice to the PC game Kick 3 as a football commentator.

In 2003, Koch was elected to the Bavarian State Parliament with a record result for the SPD , although he was only a hopeless list candidate . But since an old service instruction of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation from 1974 was changed immediately before the state elections in 2003 so that freelancers of the BR may not be members of the state parliament at the same time, Koch did not accept the mandate under protest . This statement made a big stir in the public eye, and there was speculation in the media that pressure from the CSU had put this statement up so high.

In 2005, the first book by Koch was published with Der Ball SPEAK (printed and as an audio book). In the form of little anecdotes and stories, Koch recalls his almost 30 reporting years and his decades with football.

In the past few years at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Koch was also increasingly involved in projects in the culture department. For Bayern 2 Radio he produced a. a. a real-time radio play on the occasion of the ghost game between Alemannia Aachen and 1. FC Nürnberg in January 2004. In the summer of the same year he took on two roles at the same time as Sepp Bierbichler and Michael Tregor (as a sports reporter and as a Russian denazification officer) in a Karl- Valentin-Sprach-Oper ("Heimspiel") by Andreas Ammer as part of the Munich Opera Festival , which was also broadcast as a live radio play on BR. During the 2006 World Cup , Koch appeared as a live reporter on the stage of the Nuremberg State Theater in Wittenbrink's singspiel “Secretaries” and in Schiller's drama Die Räuber . At the end of 2007 he had another theater engagement, this time again in Munich. During the Spielart theater festival , under the direction of Stefan Kaegi , he was a reporter for a final Gaudi soccer game between two mixed Brazilian-German police teams on six evenings in the documentary theater “Soko Sao Paulo”. Günther Koch is also a member of the German Academy for Football Culture . In another large cultural project, GüKo played himself during the 2011 Women's World Cup for the Augsburg Theater on the open-air stage at the Red Gate in the musical and scenic revue Die Abseitsfalle by Marcel Keller .

Since Bayerischer Rundfunk had not nominated him for the ARD radio team for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, he gave up his work there at the end of the 2005/06 Bundesliga season . He switched to the new arena TV channel , where he commented on Bundesliga games for the first time. He worked for arena until summer 2007 . The pay-TV broadcaster then sublicensed the Bundesliga rights to Premiere in summer 2007 . From mid-2008 to the end of 2011, Günther Koch was a football expert and live reporter with 90-minute full reports from the Bundesliga stadiums on 90elf , the first German football radio station . On December 20, 2011, he commented on his last game with the cup game and 254th Frankenderby 1. FC Nürnberg against SpVgg Greuther Fürth .

Koch also writes a regular newspaper column for the Mittelbayerische Zeitung / Neumarkter Tagblatt and is always at the microphone as an expert for the British media BBC and talksport .

In 2005, Koch was voted one of the top 10 German sports journalists by mediummagazin . At the end of 2006, he was also selected by a jury of 22 radio journalists by ViSdP magazine and was also nominated for the 2007 Golden Prometheus .

He is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture and supported the German Football Culture Prize several times as a jury member .

Koch is married and has two daughters.

Publications

  • We call Günther Koch (1997)
  • We hear Günther Koch (1998)
  • Günther Koch revisited (2001)
  • The Ball Speaks (2005)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Do you already know ...", Sport-Bild from March 10, 1993, p. 81.
  2. ↑ "Oechler out - Reporter legend Koch in" in Kicker from October 9, 2011, accessed on October 10, 2011.
  3. ↑ Koch's announcement on his website
  4. ↑ https://www.fussball-kultur.org/adresse/address/guenther-koch
  5. ^ Günther Koch, German Academy for Football Culture
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio reporter
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses