Kurt Zurfluh

Kurt Zurfluh (* 4. October 1949 in Lucerne ; † 15. April 2017 in Cienfuegos , Cuba ) was a Swiss television and radio presenter .

life and career

Kurt Zurfluh (right) in an interview with bobsleigh pilot Beat Hefti (2012)

Zurfluh grew up in Brunnen SZ . The trained publishing clerk began his work in 1970 as editor and presenter of the program Regionaljournal Zentralschweiz on the Swiss radio DRS . He worked as a sports reporter for radio and Swiss television and as a presenter of programs such as Sportpanorama or Sport aktuell and presented various folk music programs . At times he was an external presenter for the television show Wetten, dass ..? . From 1996 to 2012 he was the moderator and editor of the folk music show Hopp de Bäse! active; After 270 broadcasts, he retired in July 2012. In 2014 he made a comeback at the central Swiss television broadcaster Tele 1 , where he hosted the show on the go for two years . He was a long-time columnist for the newspaper Zentralschweiz am Sonntag .

Most recently he lived with his partner in Weggis . He died of acute heart failure and pulmonary embolism on a trip to Cuba at the age of 67 .

Web links

• Farewell to radio and television legend Kurt Zurfluh , April 17, 2017.
• Switzerland mourns Kurt Zurfluh. with video glanz & gloria Spezial from April 17, 2017 (53 min).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anita Plozza: Sad birthday in a familiar circle. In: blick.ch from April 23, 2017.
2. ↑ Kurt Zurfluh ( memento of April 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on Swiss television (archive version).
3. ↑ That was Zurfluh's biggest TV moment. In: tagblatt.ch of April 17, 2017.
4. ↑ Kurt Zurfluh on parting: "There will be tears." ( Memento from April 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: glanz & gloria from June 29, 2012.
5. ↑ ^{a b} TV and radio presenter Kurt Zurfluh is dead. In: NZZ.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 17, 2017, accessed on April 18, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Insights. ( Memento from April 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Luzerner Zeitung (online) from April 16, 2017.
7. ↑ René Hildbrand: Farewell to a wonderful friend. In: persoenlich.com, accessed April 19, 2017.