Heribert Meisel

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Heribert Meisel comments on a sporting event (1949)

Heribert Meisel (born October 15, 1920 in Baden near Vienna , † October 31, 1966 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sports journalist . On August 24, 1963, he hosted the first edition of the ZDF program the current sport studio .

Life

Even as a high school student, it is reported, he wrote his first sports reports for a soldiers' newspaper. Meisel's journalistic career began in 1945 with the Salzkammergut newspaper . From 1946 he was at the US-controlled radio station Rot-Weiß-Rot , where he originally reported temporarily from a bike race and used the opportunity to draw attention to himself. After the station was dissolved in 1955, he joined the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, which at one time still operated as the Austrian Broadcasting System , as a sports commentator. From 1954 until his death he was also head of the sports department of the courier and sports commentator at Austrian radio. Between 1952 and 1961 he had four minor roles in feature films, mainly as a reporter.

In 1954, Meisel, assisted by Edi Finger , reported for Austria about the soccer world championship in Switzerland, where he lived in the same hotel as the two years older German Herbert Zimmermann from the NWDR . After the German semi-final 6: 1 against Austria, but before the final, Zimmermann said that a very special game "Germany against the rest of the world" was due soon. “When I heard that, I couldn't stay in the hotel any longer,” reported Meisel. "I moved out ...".

In October 1961, on the occasion of a 2-1 victory in an international match against Hungary in Vienna, Meisel invented the triple “goal-goal-goal” reputation that has been typical of Austria since then. In the television sector, Meisel ushered in a new era on Monday evening with his innovative program Sportstammtisch on March 4, 1963, and in the same year was also the first presenter of the program The current sports studio of the Second German Television . Meisel's last big report was the coverage of the match against England on the Wembley Stadium , which Austria won 3-2 on October 20, 1965, which was once regarded as sacred .

Heribert Meisel most recently suffered from bone cancer , but continued to write his newspaper columns from the hospital bed. As he was increasingly under the influence of heavy morphine to relieve his pain during the course of his illness, his texts became more cryptic and could no longer be printed. Editor-in-chief Hugo Portisch wanted to avoid that his worthy colleague might one day open the newspaper and notice the absence of his column, and therefore had a few courier copies printed every day , which were only delivered to the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital . So the sports reporter could read his comments until the last day of his life.

Heribert Meisel died on October 31, 1966 at the age of only 46; he was buried for rest on November 7, 1966 in the parish cemetery in Baden .

1967 since 1958 for which was national television acting Kurt Jeschko (1919-1973) chief commentator . He became head of the chisel at Sport Stammtisch ajar, newly created fortnightly format In sports Casino .

Heribert Meisel's radio broadcasts of football games achieved cult status in his home country thanks to the cabaret-ready, but technically quite appropriate commentary style . Meisel's long-time colleague Edi Finger (1924–1989) continued to use his style after his early death, albeit a bit more hearty, and set himself a monument with the legendary report on the miracle of Cordoba .

In 2006, Heribert-Meisel-Gasse was named after him in the so-called football district of Floridsdorf (21st Viennese district) in Vienna .

Honors

On September 8, 1966, Minister of Education Dr. Theodor Piffl-Percevic presented the "Golden Merit of the Republic of Austria", which was awarded to him on July 14, 1966 by Federal President Franz Jonas .

Non-fiction books (selection)

  • -, Ernst Mühlberger, Kurt Dobbratz: That was Oslo (1952)
  • Goal! Goal! Goo! Experiences of a sports reporter (1954; second edition 1959)
  • Olympia 1960. The youth of the world in Rome and Squaw Valley . A full report (1960)
  • Sports cannons ruffled and drawn (1961)
  • Football 1962 (1962)
  • -, Hans-Jürgen Winkler: Olympia 1964. The youth of the world in Innsbruck and Tokyo. A complete report with contributions from well-known sports and picture reporters (1964)
  • -, Hans-Jürgen Winkler: Soccer 66th World Championship, Bundesliga, European Cups. With contributions by well-known sports journalists (1966)

Filmography

  • 1952: April 1, 2000 (feature film)
  • 1954: Way into the Past (feature film)
  • 1958: people, meters and seconds (documentary, director)
  • 1958: Inside! Soccer - World Cup 1958 (Documentary, Commentator)
  • 1959: People on the Track (short documentary, director)
  • 1960: people, hopes, medals (documentary about the 1960 Winter Olympics, director)
  • 1961: A star falls from the sky (feature film)
  • 1965: The white intoxication then and now (documentary about skiing, speaker)

Sound carrier

  • Star reporter Heribert Meisel and the football fans - attention, shot and ... goal! (LP)
  • Hubert von Goisern has processed excerpts from the radio broadcast of the World Cup 1954 quarter-final victory against Switzerland in his song Rotz und Wasser into a posthumous duet by Heribert Meisels with Hubert von Goisern's accordion and band (CD S'Nix )
  • That was Heribert Meisel . (Sound carrier; record). Amadeo, s. ls a., OBV .

Quotes

  • "The anger in the stomach is not the worst doping in sport."
  • “The Probst is in good hands with Liebrich as if he were a baby and Liebrich was his mother.” (Radio commentary on the World Cup semi-final on June 30, 1954 in Basel between Germany and Austria).

literature

  • Meisel, Heribert . Tagblattarchiv. (Press reviews). Vienna 1950–64, OBV .
  • Thomas Karny: "Are you glad you stayed at home?": Heribert Meisel (1920–1966) . In: Matthias Marschik (Hrsg.), Rudolf Müllner (Hrsg.): “Are you happy that you stayed at home”. Mediatization of sport in Austria . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-716-1 , pp. 248-257.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel , 29/1954, p. 26.
  2. ↑ Column 5, fourth larger block: "On television: regular sports table" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 24, 1963, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ Heribert Meisel died . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 3, 1966, p. 16 , middle right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ From January 16, 1967: "In the TV-Sportcasino" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 16, 1966, p. 12 , top right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ^ "Golden Merit Mark for Heribert Meisel" in "Volkszeitung Kärnten" No. 206 of September 9, 1966, page 12, POS. Column 2
  6. ↑ Heribert Meisel's color film report People Hopes Medals . (Pictorial representation). Publishing house Gustav Kübart, Vienna 1960.
  7. ↑ The white intoxication then and now . (Pictorial representation). Sn, s. l. 1960.
  8. ↑ Thomas Karny : “Toooor! Toooor for Austria! ” . In: wienerzeitung.at , October 28, 2006, accessed on January 6, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Meisel, Heribert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden near Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1966
Place of death Vienna