Gerd Rubenbauer

Gerd Rubenbauer (born May 20, 1948 in Munich - Nymphenburg ) is a German sports reporter and television presenter . Rubenbauer lives in Habach in Upper Bavaria .

Gerd Rubenbauer in Studio Fernsehmacher, broadcast by Markus Lanz (2012)

Beginnings

After graduating from high school in 1967 at the Klenze Gymnasium in Munich , Rubenbauer studied chemistry and then worked as a graduate chemist at the Technical University of Munich and as an assistant at the German Research Foundation . He then began his career in 1978 as a sports presenter in the radio of the Bavarian Radio and annotated games of the second Bundesliga for the show today at the stadium .

Career as a sports reporter

In 1980 Rubenbauer switched to television . In addition to games in the Bundesliga , which he continued to comment on for the radio, he was also used at the Summer and Winter Olympics and at all World Cups between 1982 and 1998. Funny comments like (quote: “Now you should have a Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck .”) In the 90th minute of the final of the European Champions Cup are unforgettable .

Rubenbauer, together with Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, commented on the final between Germany and Argentina at the 1990 World Cup in Italy (quote: "Yeah! Goal for Germany! 1-0 through Andreas Brehme. Everything as usual! Flat right into the left corner". Goycochea knew everything - only he couldn't hold him. ”). He also commented on the German national team's 3-0 defeat of Croatia in the quarter -finals of the 1998 World Cup in France. During the European Football Championship in Belgium and the Netherlands in 2000 , he also commented on television on the final between France and Italy, which took place in Rotterdam and was decided by Golden Goal for France.

After Germany's 5-1 home defeat against England on September 1, 2001 as part of qualifying for the 2002 World Cup , Rubenbauer took an almost four-year international break and only signed up for the 2005 Confederations Cup with the game Argentina against Tunisia on June 15 2005 back again.

On March 15, 2006 it was announced that Rubenbauer had ended his career as a sports commentator for ARD as a result of a dispute with sports coordinator Heribert Faßbender . Rubenbauer had accused Faßbender of failing to inform him about the planned reporter assignments for the 2006 World Cup . Then were Reinhold Beckmann , Steffen Simon and Gerd Gottlob as a World Cup commentator named.

However, Rubenbauer continued to work as a commentator for Das Erste at ski and track and field events. In 2007 he also supported Ricco Groß in his entry into the work as an ARD biathlon expert. Until 2008 he was one of the hosts of the show Blickpunkt Sport on Bavarian television .

Career as a television presenter

From 1991 Gerd Rubenbauer moderated the program Gaudimax on Bavarian television, which was broadcast on ARD from 1992 and from which there were offshoots such as “Die Gaudimax-Fernsehshow”, Mardi Gras or New Year's Eve special programs and in 1993 ten episodes under the title “Der Weißblaue Gaudimax ”. This was later followed by Germany Champions , a national remake of Games without Borders . In addition to benefit galas and award ceremonies, he also moderated entertainment programs such as “ Tell the truth ”, “Rubis”, “Bayern Champions”, “White-blue sounds the most beautiful”, “Sternstunden”, “Winterstar”, “A song for Munich” and “Wiesn live ".

Prices

In 2003 Rubenbauer was awarded the Bavarian Sports Prize in the “Outstanding Presentation of Sports” category.

Others

Rubenbauer works for Bayerischer Rundfunk as a freelancer. From February 2009 he was head of media for the organizers of the Alpine Ski World Championships 2011 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and deals with organizational issues relating to journalist support.

literature

• Gerd Rubenbauer , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 08/2004 of February 9, 2004, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Rubenbauer in the Berliner Zeitung
2. ↑ Football World Cup: Beckmann in the final - Rubenbauer no longer plays
3. ↑ The double Rubenbauer