Karl-Bernd Skamper

Karl-Bernd Skamper (born April 30, 1936 in Cologne ) is a German sports journalist .

Career

Karl-Bernd Skamper is the son of Bernhard Skamper and Elisabeth Skamper, née Dahlen.

After graduating from high school at the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Cologne in 1956, Skamper worked in the sports department of the West German Broadcasting Corporation . In 1960 he moved to the daily newspaper Der Mittag in Düsseldorf , for which he headed the reporting team at the Olympic Games in Rome that same year . From 1962 until his retirement in 1996 he was head of sports at Deutsche Welle in Cologne, initially for radio and from 1994 also for television.

Since 1980 Skamper represented the ARD in matters of sport at the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ) in Geneva . From 1990 to 1996 he headed the sports radio working group there. In 1990 the then President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Juan Antonio Samaranch , appointed him to the radio / TV commission of the IOC, of ​​which he was a member until 1998.

Services

As a reporter, Skamper reported on a total of twelve Olympic summer and winter games, six soccer world championships and many world and European championships in swimming, cycling, judo and fencing.

Awards

• In 1984 Karl-Bernd Skamper was awarded the Silver Ball by the National Olympic Committee for Germany for the best radio report from the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. It was the final fight in judo , which the German Frank Wieneke won against the Englishman Neil Adams .

• In 1985, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker awarded him the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .