Jochen Sprentzel

Jochen Sprentzel (born August 5, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German (sports) journalist and was a television presenter at Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB).

Career

Sprentzel studied journalism , sociology and political science in Graz , Austria and at the Free University of Berlin . During his studies he made his first sports reports, from 1969 he started working as a freelancer at the SFB . As a reporter, he worked for current editorial offices, political formats, the Berliner Abendschau and especially as a sports journalist. In the 1970s he worked as a live reporter at many major events, such as the visits to Berlin by US President Jimmy Carter or the Queen .

Since 1970 he has appeared on ARD as a sports reporter and as a live commentator on German championships, European championships and world championships, as well as at the Olympic Games . His specialties were rowing and canoeing as well as ice hockey. At the end of the 1980s he occasionally moderated the Berliner Abendschau, including on November 9, 1989. Sprentzel was one of the first journalists to report on Günter Schabowski's press conference on the fall of the Berlin Wall . In 2008 he was in Beijing , China for the ARD for the 15th time at the Olympic Games. From 1979 to 2005 he also headed the sports department at the SFB and RBB. In this position he "discovered" the journalist Anne Will , who was doing an internship at the SFB.