Hans-Jürgen Bäumler

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Hans-Jürgen Bäumler figure skating
Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, 1964
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday January 28, 1942
place of birth Dachau, Bavaria
Career
discipline Single run, pair run
Partner Marika Kilius
Trainer Erich Zeller
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 2 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
EM medals 6 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Squaw Valley 1960 Couples
silver Innsbruck 1964 Couples
ISU World figure skating championships
silver Colorado Springs 1959 Couples
bronze Vancouver 1960 Couples
gold Cortina d'Ampezzo 1963 Couples
gold Dortmund 1964 Couples
ISU European figure skating championships
gold Davos 1959 Couples
gold Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1960 Couples
gold Berlin 1961 Couples
gold Geneva 1962 Couples
gold Budapest 1963 Couples
gold Grenoble 1964 Couples
 

Hans-Jürgen Bäumler (born January 28, 1942 in Dachau ) is a former German figure skater and actor . After his career as an athlete, he was also a pop singer and television presenter .

At the beginning of his ice skating career, Bäumler was one of the most successful German individual skaters. From 1958 he competed at international pair skating championships with Marika Kilius . The couple won six European titles from 1959 to 1964, and were world champions in 1963 and 1964. Kilius / Bäumler won the silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 and 1964. In 1964 they ended their amateur career and appeared at international ice shows in the decades that followed. At the same time, Bäumler completed an acting training and took on roles in entertainment films as well as in theater plays.

career

Beginnings as a single runner (until 1957)

Bäumler started figure skating at the age of eight. He joined the SC Riessersee in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and was trained by Erich Zeller from the early 1950s . In 1954 Bäumler won his first national title as German junior champion, a year later, at the age of 13, he beat the somewhat younger Manfred Schnelldorfer in the Bavarian championship. Schnelldorfer developed into the leading German single runner in the second half of the 1950s and won a total of eight German championship titles by 1964 . Bäumler won four medals at national championships from 1956 to 1959, next to Schnelldorfer Tilo Gutzeit regularly placed before him. As an individual runner, Bäumler was without a medal at major international events: he achieved his best result at the 1957 European Championships , where he was the best German and finished sixth.

In his time as a single runner, Bäumler's strength was his freestyle, while his duty (which is more important for the evaluation) fell short of the performances of his competitors. In addition, he appeared as an ice clown away from the competitions , whereby his comical representations received positive media coverage .

Pair skating successes with Marika Kilius (1957 to 1964)

The Kilius / Bäumler couple (here at the 1964 World Championships)

In October 1957 Bäumler took up - initially parallel to the individual run, from 1959 exclusively - the pair run training with the one year younger Frankfurt Marika Kilius . Kilius had won several medals at world and European championships since 1955 with her first partner Franz Ningel , from whom she had separated because of his small height. The Kilius / Bäumler couple trained under the supervision of Erich Zeller, initially in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and later in Oberstdorf . In their first winter together, the two youngsters became German pair skating champions, and in 1959 they won their first European championship in Davos . Looking back on the couple's sporting career, biographers highlighted the presentation shown in Davos “without blame or blame” as important for Bäumler's self-confidence. Until then, he had been behind his more experienced partner in public perception and (according to the sports writer Roderich Menzel ) "had the feeling [...] that he was only playing second fiddle in pair skating", but at the European Championships he was "the one." strong male response to Marika's graceful invitation ”appeared.

At the beginning of the 1960s, Kilius / Bäumler established themselves among the world's leading figure skating couples. From their first title in 1959 to 1964, they won the European Championships six times in a row. They prevailed above all against the Soviet Russian pairs Schuk / Schuk and Beloussowa / Protopopow as well as against the national competition of Kilius' former partner Franz Ningel and Margret Göbl , who beat Kilius and Bäumler several times at German championships. At the world championships in 1959 and 1960 , the Canadians Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul won , who also became Olympic champions in Squaw Valley in 1960, ahead of Kilius and Bäumler. After Wagner and Paul had finished their amateur careers and switched to professional life, the German couple saw themselves as favorites in a global comparison. At the 1962 World Championships in Prague , Kilius' and Bäumler's ice skates collided at the beginning of their freestyle in a jumped scale pirouette. Both fell and gave up shortly afterwards because their shoes were damaged in the fall. Kilius later wrote that the fall caused the couple's popularity to “skyrocket”, and Bäumler also saw the mishap as having a major advertising effect. In March 1963 Kilius and Bäumler became world champions in Cortina d'Ampezzo - ahead of Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov, who won silver behind the Germans for the fourth time at a major international event.

For Kilius and Bäumler, the winter of 1964 was the last season of their competitive career, the climax of which was the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck . The German couple was considered the first contender for victory, but was placed behind Belousova and Protopopow by the majority of the judges and won the silver medal. In contrast to the freestyle of the Russian runners, which was praised above all for its artistic expression, Kilius / Bäumler's presentation was considered to be "sporty high quality [...]", but at the same time as "somewhat restrained and focused on safety". One month after the Olympic Games, Kilius and Bäumler competed in the world championships for the last time . In Dortmund they defended the title they had won in 1963 with a freestyle, which was partly based on the Olympic appearance of Belousova and Protopopov. The jury's decision was just as tight in Dortmund as in Innsbruck: While five of the nine referees had decided on the Russians at the Olympics, Kilius and Bäumler prevailed at the World Cup with 5: 4 votes.

After the 1964 season, Kilius and Bäumler ended their amateur careers and switched to professional athletes , so from then on they earned money with their appearances at ice shows and in feature films. The fact that the couple had already signed contracts before the Innsbruck Winter Games was considered a potential violation of the amateur paragraphs of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and led to a smoldering conflict with the officials. At the request of the German NOK President Willi Daume , Kilius and Bäumler returned the silver medal they had won in Innsbruck to the IOC in 1966 in order not to harm Munich's bid for the 1972 Olympic Games . More than two decades later, the IOC determined that there had been no violation of the amateur guidelines on the part of Kilius / Bäumler. The couple received a re-minting of the medals in 1987.

Appearances in Eisrevuen (1964 to 1982)

After their careers in competitive sports ended together, Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler performed together in ice shows until the early 1980s, with Kilius taking several breaks and Bäumler running with other partners during this time. Kilius and Bäumler had their first engagement in the winter of 1964/65 with the Wiener Eisrevue , from the following season they toured Europe with Holiday on Ice . From 1969 onwards, the couple played for several years in operettas by the German Ice Theater - including Im Weißen Rössl and Die Meridian Witwe - whose management Bäumler also took over for a short time. In the mid-1970s he returned to Holiday on Ice with Kilius and ended his ice skating career in 1982 at the age of 40.

Pop singer

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Beautiful strange girl
  DE 3 06/01/1964 (13 weeks)
Honeymoon in St. Tropez
  DE 2 06/01/1964 (17 weeks)
But my heart is alone
  DE 16 10/01/1964 (8 weeks)
Sorry little baby
  DE 7th 04/01/1965 (12 weeks)
Once there is a reunion
  DE 19th 09/15/1965 (6 weeks)
You are my talisman
  DE 29 January 15, 1966 (7 weeks)

After Marika Kilius' record success with When the Cowboys dream , the record company CBS Records - the German offshoot of the US label Columbia - also signed a record deal with Bäumler in the spring of 1964. In April 1964, the first single was released with the A-side Wunderschönes Stremdes Mädchen . Within a short time, the title shot up in the charts and reached number one on Deutschlandfunk , Bayerischer Rundfunk and Radio Luxemburg . In the hit parade of the music magazine Musikmarkt , the title reached third place. At the same time, CBS released a duet record with Marika Kilius, whose A-side Honeymoon in St. Tropez also landed in second place at Musikmarkt. With Sorry Little Baby , Bäumler had another Top 10 title in 1965 (7th place), which also earned him the Bronze Lion from Radio Luxembourg . There he was also engaged as a speaker at the time. By 1966 he had placed himself in the charts with a total of six titles. In 1968 his contract with CBS expired, after which Bäumler only released two more records with Elite Spezial in 1976. With the title “ Magic out of the cylinder” he reached number 21 in the airplay hit parade . A total of 15 single records were produced with Bäumler between 1964 and 1976, two of them together with Marika Kilius.

Actor and TV presenter

Bäumler took on his first roles as an actor in 1964 in the ice revue film The Great Freestyle , in which he - at the side of Marika Kilius - played himself and which was awarded the Golden Screen for three million visitors. Three years later, Kilius and Bäumler played together again in the sequel Das große Glück .

Because Bäumler's distinct Bavarian language was difficult to understand for viewers and had to be dubbed in his first films, he took private language and acting lessons in the mid-1960s (parallel to his appearances on Holiday on Ice ). In 1968 he got his first engagement as a stage actor at the Heidelberg Theater Tangente , where he appeared with Edith Hancke and Waltraut Haas . Between 1965 and 1974 Bäumler played in twelve entertainment films (see filmography ) and in the television series Salto Mortale . In the following decades he was part of various theater ensembles, his last role he took on in 2017 in the play "Kerle im Herbst" in the comedy in the Bayerischer Hof .

From the mid-1980s, Bäumler was the presenter of various quiz programs, including The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree (1984–1987), That Were Hits (1986–1994), and Was If (1987–1989) on ZDF . From 1990 to 1993 he hosted at RTL plus the quiz show Risky! . In October 2006 he was a member of the jury on the RTL show Dancing on Ice together with his former partner Marika Kilius .

Personal

Hans-Jürgen Bäumler 2011

Hans-Jürgen Bäumler's ice skating career was largely determined by the ambitions of his mother Anni Bäumler, to whom he attributed an essential part of his success: "I only became world champion because my mother Anni had this ambition, I didn't." Having to become a successful figure skater, he suffered. Anni Bäumler moved with her son after his primary school years from his hometown Dachau to Garmisch-Partenkirchen . As an adolescent he had little contact with his father, who lived in Dachau.

In 1974 Bäumler married a teacher with whom he has two sons. The couple live on the Côte d'Azur near Nice .

Public image and appreciation

The ice skating couple Kilius / Bäumler enjoyed great popularity among the German public. Both were considered "the first German sports stars on the boulevard after the Second World War" and were featured on the front page of Bravo . The rainbow press - such as Das Neue Blatt - portrayed Kilius and Bäumler as "Ice Princess" and "Ice Prince" and accompanied their private lives in the form of an "endless fairy tale" with emotional, sometimes constructed headlines. The fact that the athletes described as the “dream couple” did not become a couple in real life met with great disappointment among their supporters. In his early appearances as an actor, filmmakers designed the image of the humble young man for Bäumler. Despite his media presence in various functions, he retained the attribution as "Ice Prince": This status was still considered "Bäumler's great capital". Later journalistic portraits certified Bäumler that he was "calm and completely at peace" and that he was "at peace with himself and his life"

Kilius and Bäumler's art-skating style was described as particularly demanding in the artistry. As a separate jumping element, the couple developed the cartwheel figure resembling a wheel flip, in which the runner is supported by the partner. In 1963, sports journalists awarded Bäumler the Golden Ribbon of the Sports Press , and he is also the recipient of the Silver Laurel Leaf . Together with Marika Kilius, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports in 2011, where he was the first male figure skater. On this occasion, the sports journalist Roland Zorn attested Kilius and Bäumler that they had "in their element [attracted] dreams and projections that went far beyond their perception as top athletes" and that through their appearances in the Federal Republic of the 1960s they had become a " Brand term “in figure skating.

Results in figure skating

Single run

Competition / year 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
World championships 12. 14th
European championships 14th 6th 8th.
German championships 4th 3. 2. 3. 3.

Pair skating

(with Marika Kilius )

Competition / year 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964
winter Olympics 2. 2.
World championships 6th 2. 3. 1. 1.
European championships 5. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1.
German championships 1. 1. 2. 2. 2. 1. 1.

Singles discography

published From page Cat.No.
1964 Beautiful strange girl / One tear in a thousand CBS 1451
1964 Honeymoon in St. Tropez / Only the moon is to blame
(& M. Kilius)		 CBS 1458
1964 But my heart is alone / My love is way too big CBS 1480
1964 Sorry little baby / secret love CBS 1703
1965 There's a reunion once / tomorrow already CBS 2105
1965 You are my talisman / yesterday, today, tomorrow CBS 2130
1965 When young people go shopping / Gaucho musician
(& M. Kilius)		 CBS 2131
1966 I think you are wonderful / The streets of this city CBS 2289
1967 She just cries for you / It's so nice to go with you CBS 2879
1967 The day love came / Let me dream CBS 2310
1968 Marionettes / you are nobody CBS 2534
1968 Life lies ahead of us / So long, good-bye CBS 2688
1968 She only cries for you / It's nice to go with you CBS 2879
1976 Magic out of the cylinder / on a rocking horse Elite Sp. 60030
1976 Lieutenant of the Hussars / When two people are happy Elite Sp. 60033

Filmography

literature

  • Heino Knopp: Kilius / Bäumler: dream couple on the ice. Copress-Verlag, Munich 1964.
  • Heinz Maegerlein : Triumph on the ice: Sjoukje Dijkstra, Marika Kilius, Hansjürgen Bäumler, Manfred Schnelldorfer. Bartels & Wernitz, Berlin / Munich 1964.
  • Roderich Menzel : World champion on the ice: Kilius / Bäumler. Franz Schneider Verlag, Munich 1963.
  • Hans-Jürgen Bäumler , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 43/2006 of October 28, 2006, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Hans-Jürgen Bäumler , in Internationales Sportarchiv 11/1999 from March 8, 1999, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Hans-Jürgen Bäumler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roderich Menzel: World champion on the ice: Kilius / Bäumler. Franz Schneider Verlag 1963, p. 43.
  2. ↑ Heino Knopp: Kilius / Bäumler: dream couple on the ice. Copress-Verlag 1964, p. 94./Roderich Menzel: World champions on the ice: Kilius / Bäumler. Franz Schneider Verlag 1963, p. 44.
  3. ↑ Heino Knopp: Kilius / Bäumler: dream couple on the ice. Copress-Verlag 1964, p. 22f.
  4. ^ Roderich Menzel: World champion on the ice: Kilius / Bäumler. Franz Schneider Verlag 1963, p. 59./Heino Knopp: Kilius / Bäumler: Dream couple on the ice. Copress-Verlag 1964, p. 101.
  5. ↑ Marika Kilius: Pirouettes of Life. Integral 2013, p. 119. “We were sure that we would be 'on it' this time in Prague. That's part of ice skating. You have to serve yourself up. "
  6. ↑ Marika Kilius: Pirouettes of Life. Integral 2013, p. 120f.
  7. ↑ Hans Jürgen Bäumler: "I had a fantastic time". In: Augsburger Allgemeine. January 30, 2009.
  8. ↑ Postcards with the image of Kilius / Bäumler and the inscription “Die Olympiasieger von 1964” had already been printed, cf. Roderich Menzel: World champion on the ice: Kilius / Bäumler. Franz Schneider Verlag 1963, p. 130.
  9. ^ Roderich Menzel: World champion on the ice: Kilius / Bäumler. Franz Schneider Verlag 1963, pp. 130f.
  10. ↑ Marika Kilius: Pirouettes of Life. Integral 2013, pp. 141–144.
  11. ↑ Heino Knopp: Kilius / Bäumler: dream couple on the ice. Copress-Verlag 1964, p. 208.
  12. ↑ Erich Kamper / Herbert Soucek: Olympic Heroes. Portraits and anecdotes from 1896 to today. Spiridon 1991. p. 143.
  13. ↑ Marika Kilius: Pirouettes of Life. Integral 2013, p. 233.
  14. ↑ a b Hans-Jürgen Bäumler in the Munzinger archive , accessed on July 7, 2020 ( beginning of article freely available)
  15. ↑ On the vita of his website (accessed on July 7, 2020) , Bäumler himself mentions the year 1982 for the end of his sporting career : "Since the television program" Wetten dass ...? " with Frank Elstner in 1982 his ice skates are hanging on the famous nail. ”For the last joint appearance with Marika Kilius there is the information in 1981, cf. Deadline: February 27, 1964 - Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler become world champions in figure skating on wdr.de. February 27, 2004. Kilius states in her autobiography, "In 1983 [Bäumlers] and [their] ways parted", cf. Marika Kilius: Pirouettes of Life. Integral 2013, p. 233.
  16. ↑ Search result for "Hans-Jürgen Bäumler" on officialcharts.de. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
  17. ^ Frank Laufenberg: Rock & Pop Lexicon. Econ 1998, Volume 1, p. 105, ISBN 3-612-26206-8 .
  18. ↑ Günter Ehnert (Ed.): Hit balance sheet German Chart Singles 1956-1980. Taurus Press, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 .
  19. ↑ The big freestyle on goldene-leinwand.de. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  20. ^ Declaration of love to Berlin. In: The world. February 25, 2003.
  21. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Finger: Hans-Jürgen Bäumler - the singing ice prince on swr.de. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  22. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Bäumler - biography on muenchner-tournee.de. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  23. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Bäumler at Fernsehserien.de. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  24. ↑ wunschliste.de Those were hits on wunschliste.de. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
  25. ↑ What if ...? at Fernsehserien.de. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  26. ↑ Ice Prince reaches retirement age. In: Nordwest Zeitung. January 27, 2007.
  27. ↑ dpa : Ice Prince Hans-Jürgen Bäumler suffered from the strong mother. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. April 28, 2012.
  28. ↑ Birgit Frank: "I am in Dachau regularly". In: Münchner Merkur. May 3, 2009.
  29. ^ Declaration of love to Berlin. In: The world. February 25, 2003.
  30. ↑ a b Portrait, dates and biography of Hans-Jürgen Bäumler in the Hall of Fame of German Sports . Retrieved June 24, 2020.
  31. ↑ Eduard Hoffmann: A dream couple on the ice. Deutschlandfunk. February 28, 2013.
  32. ^ Walter Nutz: Trivial literature and popular culture. Springer Fachmedien 1999. pp. 32–34. The communication scientist and trivial literature researcher Walter Nutz introduces the term "endless fairy tale" using the example of Kilius and Bäumler: "At the end of the 50s and beginning of the 60s, the figure skating couple" dream couple "Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Baumler belonged to the repertoire of endless fairy tales."
  33. ↑ Daniela Schulz: When the music plays. The German hit film from the 1950s to 1970s. Transcript 2012. p. 179. As evidence for this, the German scholar Schulz cites sentences by Bäumler, which Bäumler utters (playing himself) in “Das große Glück”: “I am not a star” and “I am not a singer, I am at best a singing ice skater ”.
  34. ↑ Daniela Schulz: When the music plays. The German hit film from the 1950s to 1970s. Transcript 2012. p. 179.
  35. ↑ Kristiane Schengbier: Playing through life. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. January 27, 2009.
  36. ↑ Peter Schmidt: What does ... Hans-Jürgen Bäumler actually do? In: Forum. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  37. ↑ Adviser to the Bolshoi . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1968, p. 114 ( online ).
  38. ^ Roderich Menzel: World champion on the ice: Kilius / Bäumler. Franz Schneider Verlag 1963, p. 139.
personal data
SURNAME Bäumler, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Dachau , Bavaria