Jan Hiermeyer
Jan Hiermeyer (born January 19, 1929 - † July 5, 2014 in Frauenfeld ) was a Swiss sports reporter , television presenter and country musician .
Career
Jan Hiermeyer has been a well-known sports commentator for Swiss radio and television since the 1950s and, in his youth, he was also a goalkeeper in the National League for Young Fellows Zurich and FC Schaffhausen .
The trained radio electrician initially worked for the radio. In 1954, the Schaffhausen resident became the first and only sports reporter to join Swiss television, which was still a trial run at the time. From 1958 to 1962 he was the first sports director for television in German and Rhaeto-Romanic Switzerland.
He took on the presentation of many weekly broadcasts such as Sport on the weekend (broadcast from 1961–1993, Hiermeyer was almost always part of the moderation team), Sportecho (introduced in 1965, later replaced by other background magazines) or the Sportpanorama program (launched in 1977), as well as special programs like the last time during the ice hockey world championship in Switzerland in 1990. Hiermeyer was always a moderator and reporter.
As a live commentator, he specialized in football , ice hockey , figure skating , bobsleigh and rowing (with around 30 reports from the International Rotsee Regatta in Lucerne).
Jan Hiermeyer commented on eight Olympic Winter Games on site: 1956, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, and 1988: Hiermeyer was the only representative of his station in 1956, later in Grenoble in 1968 and then in Sapporo in 1972 as a three with Karl Erb and Martin Furgler , in 1988 from Calgary, eight live reporters reported for the television of German-speaking Switzerland.
A highlight was the free skating in the ice dancing by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean at the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo, which received nine times in artistic merit by the jury of nine, the maximum score. Out of respect for the performance and harmony of Torvill / Dean, Jan Hiermeyer deliberately remained silent during her entire dance and musical presentation.
Jan Hiermeyer also commented on site at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and was a regular home studio moderator at major sporting events.
Jan Hiermeyer reported for television the opening game at the soccer world championship in 1966, 1978, and 1986, as well as the final game at the soccer world championship 1974 between the Federal Republic of Germany and Holland. He was already in action as a live reporter during the World Cup in Switzerland in 1954, and reported the three games of the Swiss national team at the 1966 World Cup in England, which meant the Confederates' last qualification for a World Cup final for 28 years.
In addition, Hiermeyer commented on numerous other international matches, e.g. B. the playoff for the 1962 World Cup finals, Switzerland versus Sweden, played in Berlin in 1961, which Switzerland won against the then reigning vice world champion, or Switzerland's legendary victory against England in the World Cup qualification under coach Paul Wolfisberg in Basel 1981, many European Cup (final) games and Swiss Cup finals, e.g. B. the Cup final of 1975, FC Basel against FC Winterthur (video excerpt from the original report), or the Cup final of 1985, FC Aarau versus Neuchâtel Xamax (video excerpt from the original report with the decisive goal).
For around twenty years he was the Swiss presenter for the international game show Games without Borders . After retiring from Swiss television, he devoted himself particularly to country music; he also worked for Radio Munot for a while.
Discography
- A Man and his Passion , 1989
- Made in Nashville , 1991
- Train Songs , 1997
- Dreams ..... sometimes come true , 2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ TV legend Jan Hiermeyer is dead , SRF from July 9, 2014
- ↑ Jan Hiermeyer (†): This is how the last Swiss TV legend died
- ↑ Torvill / Dean: The Perfect Dance, Olympic Winter Games 1984 , original excerpt from the direct report from 1984 in Sarajevo
- ↑ Swiss Cup Final 1975: Basel - Winterthur 2: 1 after extra time , original excerpt from the direct report from 1975
- ^ Swiss Cup final 1985: Aarau - Xamax 1-0 , original excerpt from the direct report from 1985
- ↑ Career ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: whoswho.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hiermeyer, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss sports reporter and television presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1929 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th July 2014 |
| Place of death | Frauenfeld |