Klaus-Jürgen Alde

Klaus-Jürgen Alde (born April 27, 1949 ) is a sports reporter for MDR radio and is one of the longest-serving sports reporters in Germany.

Life

Alde began his career as a sports reporter for Radio DDR I , where he had been active at least since the early 1980s . During this time, he reported on numerous swimming championships and championships, winter sports and the 1988 Summer Olympics . At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , he acted as the presenter of an hour-long live broadcast and interviewed all GDR medal winners . At the 1988 Summer Olympics , Alde u. a. Kristin Otto's Olympic victory over 50 m freestyle for Radio DDR. During this time Alde was also chairman of the GDR Association of Sports Journalists. He moderated sports programs and morning magazines for GDR radio .

In 1990 Alde moved to Leipzig together with Hubert Knobloch and Thomas Schwarz , initially to Sachsenradio , later to MDR info . Since 1992 Alde has worked as a reporter and moderator for MDR info. During this time, as a live reporter for ARD radio, he reported on almost all swimming world championships and championships since 1990, biathlon and numerous Olympic winter and summer games, including numerous titles won by Franziska van Almsick.

His live report on Britta Steffen's Olympic victory in 2008 is legendary .

In addition, Alde impressed with his "Peking duck a la Alde" - a radio format with which he provided numerous entertaining observations from the Olympic city of Beijing and which was broadcast daily on various ARD radio waves.

Alde is the winner of the Biathlon Award 2008 (Media Award).

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he was program director for ARD radio.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biathlon WC Oberhof: Awards ceremonially presented. biathlon-online.de, January 11, 2009, accessed on September 11, 2012 .