Heinz Florian Oertel

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Heinz Florian Oertel (left) in 1967 with GDR cyclist Günter Hoffmann
Heinz Florian Oertel (right) with the future cycling world champion Bernhard Eckstein , 1959
Heinz-Florian Oertel as a radio reporter at the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952
Heinz Florian Oertel (3rd from right) voted TV Favorite of the Year in 1988

Heinz Florian Oertel (born December 11, 1927 in Cottbus ) is a former German reporter , presenter and actor . For decades he worked as a sports commentator on radio and television in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and was extremely popular with listeners and viewers.

Life

Heinz Florian Oertel, who was actively involved in football and athletics as a teenager , escaped participation in military service in the last days of the Second World War through a voluntary engagement in the Navy , as extensive training was necessary before deployment. He fell into British-Canadian captivity in Schleswig-Holstein and returned to his hometown Cottbus via Franconia . In June 1946 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in Franconia and then the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in Cottbus .

After initially working as an actor and assistant director at the Cottbus Theater from 1946 and completing a short training course to become a teacher for German and sports at an institute for teacher training in 1948 , he worked for GDR radio from 1949 to 1991 and from 1955 for German television (ab 1972 television of the GDR ). Beginning with the 1952 Summer Games in Helsinki , he reported on 17 Olympic Games and eight football world championships as well as regularly from world and European championships in figure skating .

He moderated or invented many TV programs, such as Schlager from Berlin (1962), Schlager einer kleine Stadt (1964–1967, e.g. from Radeberg , Tangermünde , Bad Kösen and Sohland an der Spree ), Schlager from a large city ( 1968–1971, e.g. from Warsaw , Budapest , Moscow , Berlin , Dresden , Krakow , Karl-Marx-Stadt and Prague ), Ein Kessel Buntes , portrait by telephone or Sport aktuell (GDR) . In the second-to-last-named show, he chatted live for 45 minutes from 1969 in 254 episodes each , with additional questions from viewer calls during the show, with prominent GDR citizens, especially athletes, artists and scientists. One of his most famous regular radio broadcasts was Hehehe - Sport an der Spree on Berlin radio . He also wrote columns for the Lausitzer Rundschau for around 40 years and for the Berliner Zeitung for 25 years .

In 1981 he was at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig with a thesis research on the need for work as a speaking sportscaster on radio and television of the GDR special activities qualities and personality characteristics to Dr. rer. pole. PhD. In the 1980s he taught at the journalism section in Leipzig. After 1990 he worked for Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB) and Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and moderated galas and other public events. In the 1990s he also worked as a lecturer in the field of rhetoric at the Free University of Berlin and as a lecturer at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen for sports and journalism .

The Ministry for State Security (MfS) led Oertel as a social security employee (GMS) under the code name "Heinz".

Heinz Florian Oertel is married and has a son and two daughters. He lives in Berlin-Schönholz . His daughter Annette Reber worked as a dramaturge and director at the Deutsches Theater and at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin.

reception

The reasons for the popularity of Heinz Florian Oertel with the listeners and viewers were and are his distinctive specialist and detailed knowledge and above all the style of his reporting. In addition to a documentation of the sporting events marked by personal enthusiasm, this also included a detailed description of the external circumstances such as the weather , the mood on site or the clothing, gestures and facial expressions of the athletes , instead of a sober representation . This was of particular importance for listeners and viewers, especially in the first decades of his career, when radio and later black and white television dominated.

Heinz Florian Oertel was voted TV favorite of the year on television in the GDR 17 times. One of the most famous moments of his career as a sports reporter was the exclamation “Dear young fathers or prospective fathers, have courage! Call your newcomers today Waldemar! Waldemar is here! ”, With which he commented on the second Olympic marathon victory of GDR runner Waldemar Cierpinski at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow on August 1, 1980 during live television coverage .

Awards (selection)

Works

  • Around the world with the sports microphone. Sports publishing house, Berlin 1958.
  • Always on the go. Sports publishing house, Berlin 1966.
  • Reports - highlights of sport experienced with Heinz Florian Oertel. Long-playing record, Litera 8 60 088, VEB Deutsche Schallplatten 1966.
  • 30 years like a sprint. Sports publishing house, Berlin 1984.
  • High time. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-360-00914-2 .
  • Reports - Unforgettable things from 40 years. CD. Verlag Das Neue Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-360-01005-1 .
  • Playback time. Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-360-00897-9 .
  • Thank God. No more chatterbox. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-360-01297-5 .
  • Ugh devil. About the repressed and the forgotten. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-360-01966-0 .
  • A life dedicated to sport. Jan Hofer in conversation with Heinz Florian Oertel . Das Neue Leben, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-360-02148-9 .
  • When you stand up, the bow becomes deeper . New Life, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-355-01865-4 .

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinz Florian Oertel  - Collection of images
Wikiquote: Heinz Florian Oertel  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stasi: "The source is reliable" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1999 ( online - Nov. 15, 1999 ).
personal data
SURNAME Oertel, Heinz Florian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oertel, Heinz-Florian; Oertel, Heinz F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports reporter and moderator
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus