Heinz Maegerlein
Heinz Maegerlein (born December 27, 1911 in Leipzig , † October 25, 1998 in Graefelfing ) was a German sports journalist , radio reporter and television presenter .
Life
At his father's request , Maegerlein enrolled at the University of Leipzig to study German , history and sports. While still a student, he commented on a field handball game between Leipzig and Minden for Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG in 1931 . In 1936 he was hired as a stadium announcer for the apparatus gymnastics competitions at the Summer Olympics in Berlin , and a year later he got a job as a sports reporter for the Reich broadcaster Leipzig . As a lieutenant in the propaganda company , he reported from the Eastern Front during the Second World War , for example from the Battle of Wroclaw in March 1945 .
After the end of the war, Maegerlein worked as a freelancer before he became an editor at Münchner Merkur and finally switched to Bayerischer Rundfunk . In 1954 he participated in the first Eurovision broadcast, a coverage of the Wimbledon Championships . From 1958 until his retirement in 1976 he headed the sports (television) department of Bavarian Broadcasting. In the course of his career, he reported on a total of 16 Olympic Games and numerous European and World Championships and covered a wide variety of sports - among other things, he also provided reports on international tennis tournaments and major athletics competitions.
He was particularly known for his committed comments on figure skating and alpine ski races , which he presented in a flowery language - sometimes a little too enthusiastic, dissolute and like a teacher. His otherwise precise reporting was usually characterized by a high level of specialist knowledge and general education. Among other things, he remembered a sentence that he uttered during a ski race in 1959: "Thousands stood on the slopes and slopes." The sentence "And now the women are unwinding their 100 meters breasts" also comes from him, spoken at the broadcast of a swimming competition.
After the Summer Olympics in Mexico City in 1968 , Maegerlein faced criticism from both viewers and those responsible for ARD . The accusation arose that he talked too much. In addition, its omnipresent television presence at sporting events prevents the rise of young journalists. Although he retained his functions for nine years, he rarely appeared as a reporter in front of the camera.
Maegerlein became even more popular than his work as a sports reporter as the presenter of the television quiz ' Would you have known? ' Which was broadcast between 1958 and 1969 . , in which he helped his candidates with difficult questions from the classic educational canon to relatively modest prizes. The maximum price for multiple wins on the show was a BMW Isetta .
In retirement, Maegerlein published several sports books, made a few films and gave lectures in which he criticized the effects of the increasing commercialization of competitive sports.
Maegerlein died in 1998 at the age of 86 years and was in the cemetery of Gräfelfing , Munich County buried.
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz Maegerlein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Signed autograph card
- steffi-line.de: data on Heinz Maegerlein
- Article on Deutschlandfunk.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Heinz Maegerlein
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maegerlein, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sports journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1998 |
| Place of death | Graefelfing |