Manfred Breuckmann

Manfred "Manni" Breuckmann (born June 11, 1951 in Datteln ) is a German radio presenter and sports reporter .

Manni Breuckmann at the City Festival Hamm (2010)

At an event by Radio-Emscher-Lippe (2000)

Life

Education and career

In 1969, Breuckmann graduated from high school for boys and girls in Datteln. After that he studied from 1969 to 1975 at the Universities of Bochum and Marburg law . After the first state examination in law , he completed the legal preparatory service from 1975 to 1978 , which he completed with the second state examination. During his studies, Breuckmann began to comment on football matches on the radio and after graduating he worked for three years as an official at the Federal Government 's Press and Information Office.

Its first broadcast was in 1972 the regional league game between SG Wattenscheid 09 and VfR Neuss . Manfred Breuckmann had been permanently employed at WDR since 1982 and, in addition to his great passion, sport , was also responsible for North Rhine-Westphalia's state politics for 13 years . He also worked temporarily as a court reporter. He became known nationwide for his lively football reports from the West in the ARD Bundesliga conference . Breuckmann is also known to football fans from the Sunday program Doppelpass on Sport1 , where he occasionally visits as a panelist.

In the radio program WDR 2 he moderated the programs Morgenmagazin , Westzeit and Mittagsmagazin as well as from March 1, 2005 Between Rhine and Weser , which was the only program broadcast from the WDR Studio Dortmund , which Breuckmann baptized as the studio on the edge of the forest because it actually lies in a wood. In addition, until the end of the 2008/2009 season, he tapped the results of the upcoming Bundesliga match against a listener in the Friday column “Manni against the rest of the world”.

Together with Jürgen Hilger-Höltgen , Breuckmann annually commented on the Düsseldorf Rose Monday procession . In 2008 he announced his withdrawal from the carnival during the broadcast. He also published the detective novel Rote Karte für Fries in 1988 and his youth biography in 2006, My life as a young daredevil . In 2000 he sang a rock song called I'm Your Radio . Most recently, Manni Breuckmann was an ambassador for the 2006 World Cup for people with disabilities in Germany.

After the career

In December 2008, he ended his radio career for the time being, and went into partial retirement . "I limit myself to the statement that this is more than retirees," said Breuckmann in the TV show Bettgeschichten . He told the Westdeutsche Zeitung that saying goodbye to the football reports was particularly difficult for him, but that he had broadcast so many important and significant games that there was no more potential for improvement. During the so-called passive phase of partial retirement, Breuckmann was not allowed to do any reporting. WDR-2 broadcaster Angelica Netz said that the broadcaster had to adhere to legal requirements. His last appearance for WDR at the Bundesliga conference was on December 13, 2008 when VfL Bochum played against 1. FC Köln , and his last presentation on WDR 2 was on December 15 in the program Between Rhine and Weser . From August 5, 2011 to May 11, 2013, he commented on games from the west for football radio 90elf , in particular the games of Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund.

Together with fellow commentator Frank Buschmann , Breuckmann worked on the soundtracking of the computer games FIFA 11 , FIFA 12 , FIFA 13 , FIFA 14 and FIFA 15 on PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 , Xbox 360 , Xbox One and PC.

The advisory board “Lifetime Achievement Moderation” at the German Radio Prize awarded Breuckmann a special prize in 2011. He is an appointed member of the German Academy for Football Culture and has been a member of the jury for the “Football Say of the Year” award at the German Football Culture Prize since 2011 .

On November 29, 2019, Breuckmann commented on the game FC Schalke 04 against 1. FC Union Berlin for DAZN . DAZN owns the broadcasting rights for the Friday games.

Personal

Breuckmann played a guest role in the feature film Soccer is Our Life (2000), a radio commentator who reported on various home games of FC Schalke 04 from the press stand of the Gelsenkirchen Park Stadium .

Breuckmann is an avowed supporter of football in the Ruhr area, but according to his own statement, not a “ fan ” of a particular club. Fans often assume that he is a supporter of the opposing club. In an interview with Fanzine Schalke Unser in February 1999, he said that Rudi Assauer , the (then) manager of FC Schalke 04, dubbed him “BVB ass”, while fans of Borussia Dortmund gave him blue and white underwear ( the club colors of FC Schalke 04) would assume. He went on to say that as a youth he was a fan of FC Schalke 04. The Ruhr area clubs are particularly close to his heart , in addition to a small weakness for Fortuna Düsseldorf . In an interview with the newspaper Die Welt in December 2007, he said that in his youth he had seen many Schalke home games in the Glückauf-Kampfbahn . At that time the basis for his favoring FC Schalke 04 was laid. Of the clubs in the Ruhr area, he prefers this club, he "has a weakness for Schalke". However, he also likes the other clubs in the area, and he is "not fanatical, so not a fan either".

On April 28, 2008 Breuckmann was honored as a citizen of the Ruhr area by the Pro Ruhrgebiet association .

Breuckmann has lived in Düsseldorf since 1975.

Awards

• 2008 citizen of the Ruhr area
• 2011 German Radio Prize (Special Awards from the Advisory Board)

Fonts

• Red card for fries. Revier-Krimi, Hermann-Josef-Emons-Verlag , Cologne 1988, ISBN 978-3924491147
• My life as a young daredevil ( autobiography ). Eichborn Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-8218-5618-6
• 50 legendary scenes from German football. Football stars tell. Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-9380-6033-9
• Football summit. Manni Breuckmann, Harald Schmidt, Uli Hoeneß and Claudia Roth talk about a minor matter. Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-86489-032-1
• Schnee am Ballermann: A Mallorca thriller. Westend Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3864890765

Web links

Commons : Manfred Breuckmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of Manfred Breuckmann
• Interview with Manni Breuckmann on schwatzgelb.de
• Interview with Manfred Breuckmann on Planet Interview
• Manfred Breuckmann in a different way: in conversation with Pastor Hermann Adam "150 years of Eben-Ezer: Grateful service to God's creatures"
• Manni Breuckmann (Original Podcast)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Note in interview, in: Extrazeit, Passenger Magazine of the NWL, Issue 1/2016, p. 11
2. ^ "Reviersport" from December 12, 2008
3. ↑ "Westmarkt" from June 3, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ "Bed stories" from October 29, 2010
5. ↑ Westdeutsche Zeitung of June 3, 2008
6. ^ WAZ Online May 16, 2008
7. ↑ elfgegenelf.de of July 28, 2011
8. ↑ Breuckmann is also mourning 90 eleven . RP Online , May 17, 2013.
9. ↑ "FIFA 11 - Change of Commentators", play3.de , June 29, 2010.
10. ↑ Information on the website of the German Radio Prize (accessed on September 9, 2011).
11. ↑ https://www.fussball-kultur.org/adresse/address/manfred-manni-breuckmann
12. ^ "Manfred Manni Breuckmann" German Academy for Football Culture
13. ↑ Manni Breuckmann comments on Schalke game on DAZN
14. ↑ Fanzine Schalke Unser , issue 21, February 1999
15. ^ "Die Welt" of December 20, 2007