Kurt Brumme (moderator)

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Kurt Brumme (born February 4, 1923 in Cologne ; † May 9, 2005 there ) was a German sports presenter in radio and later at WDR radio as the sports department head.

Life

He became known through the program Sport und Musik , which broadcast the Bundesliga games on Saturday afternoons. He moderated it from 1963 to 1988, after 41 years at WDR he retired.

Starting in 1947, Brumme was one of the first radio journalists to work after the Second World War , initially for the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation . When it was split up in 1955, it stayed with WDR.

Among other things, he was a reporter for the German national soccer team's first international match after the war against Switzerland. At the subsequent World Cup in 1954 in Switzerland, he commented on the semi-final match between the German team and Austria. On May 18, 1960, he broadcast the final for the European Cup ( UEFA Champions League since 1994/95 ) between Real Madrid and Eintracht Frankfurt (7: 3) from Hampden Park in Glasgow for WDR . With 127,126 spectators, this game had the largest backdrop in the history of European club football. In addition, Brumme was in action at the 1962 World Cup final between Brazil and Czechoslovakia 3-1 (1-1) in Santiago de Chile . He also reported on the first European Cup victory of a German soccer team (Borussia Dortmund - FC Liverpool 1966 2: 1 (0: 0; 1: 1 a.s.) in Glasgow's Hampden Park as well as the legendary cup final between 1. FC Cologne and Borussia Mönchengladbach from the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion in 1973 (1: 2 a.d.) . Between 1963 and 1988 he was head of the sports department at WDR radio and invented the Bundesliga conference , which is still produced today by West German radio.

The US boxing world champion Muhammad Ali was impressed by the boxing reports and called Kurt Brumme "the Voice of Germany". He then gave him a pair of signed boxing gloves .

His radio report of the “game of the century ”, in which Italy defeated Germany 4-3 after extra time in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, is also unforgettable .

Kurt Brumme died in 2005 at the age of 82 and was buried in the cemetery in the Lövenich district of Cologne (Corridor 1, No. 147/148).

radio play

Kurt Brumme and Hermann Pfeiffer wrote the radio play They never come back , which NWDR Hamburg produced and broadcast for the first time on June 5, 1952. It is about the fact that world boxing champions who lost their title could never regain it.

Both authors were also directly involved in the production, Brumme as the speaker (sports reporter) and Pfeiffer as the director.

The speakers included:

Awards

Web links

  • Biography in the portal Rheinische Geschichte

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ulrich S. Soénius (ed.), Jürgen Wilhelm (ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 .
  2. ↑ knerger.de: Kurt Brumme's grave
  3. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 103, June 5, 1973.
  4. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Grumble, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports presenter on the radio
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 2005
Place of death Cologne