Horst Bräunlich

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Horst Bräunlich (born September 18, 1927 in Meerane ; † December 13, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German sports journalist.

GDR tour 1952, on the right Horst Bräunlich

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Braunlich went to school in Meerane. Like his entire Abitur class, he registered for anti-aircraft service at the end of 1943 . In 1945 American soldiers captured him near Ludwigshafen . He was handed over to French captivity and during this time worked for a French farmer in Sankt Lucien les Gorze and in a steel mill in Longwy.

Back in Germany in 1948, he made up his Abitur and began studying journalism at Leipzig University. Erik Neutsch also studied in his seminar . He was a passionate cyclist and took part in the 1952 GDR Tour , Around Berlin and other GDR road races. The active sports career he ended after a serious fall in "Around Berlin" in 1953. That year he began as a sports reporter for the broadcast of the GDR at the transmitter Radio DDR I .

As a sports reporter from the 1950s to 1980s, he accompanied the International Peace Ride , Europe-wide road bike races, the Four Hills Tournament and many other sporting events. In 1968 he was also used as a sports journalist for the Olympic Games in Mexico . For his editorial work on the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , he was awarded the GDR Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. He also became known for his Saturday sports summaries on the GDR radio. From the mid-1960s he was deputy editor-in-chief, which he remained until the end of the GDR. He remained loyal to broadcasting until 1992. He was well acquainted with Heinz Florian Oertel .

Interview Horst Bräunlich with Täve Schur 1964

In December 2017 he died at the age of 90 in Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. DRA Info Audio - ESD May 19, 1974 DRA B B012736407 6'30 Babelsberg 2022662001
  2. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung from December 16, 2017.