Marcel Reif

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Marcel Reif (2019)

Marcel Reif (* 27. November 1949 as Marc Nathan frost in Wałbrzych , Poland ) is a Swiss sports journalist and - commentator , of his former German citizenship has passed, 2013.

Life

Frost mother was a Silesian , German-born Catholic , his father Polish Jew . His paternal grandfather was a furniture manufacturer near Lemberg , probably Reif's father was saved from the National Socialists by Berthold Beitz when Beitz got him straight from the train to the concentration camp at the Boryslav train station . Many of Reif's relatives - u. a. his grandfather - were killed in the Holocaust. As a result of the newly emerging anti-Semitism in Poland, his family emigrated with him from Poland to Israel in 1956 . In Jaffa , Reif attended the Collège des Frères , run by Belgian monks .

When Reif was eight years old, his family moved from Tel Aviv to Kaiserslautern because his father had found a job with the Kaiserslautern Military Community of the US armed forces . He was now beginning to learn German . As a teenager he played a. a. at 1. FC Kaiserslautern football (central defense, later attacking midfield).

Professional career

After graduating from high school in Heidelberg , Reif began studying journalism , political science and American studies at the University of Mainz , which he gave up without a degree. In addition to his studies, he worked from 1972 as a freelancer in the political editorial department of ZDF and soon became a reporter for the programs heute und heute-journal . From 1981 to 1983 he worked in the ZDF office in London and switched to the sports department in 1984. In his early days in the ZDF sports department as a reporter and commentator, he reported on football and ice hockey and initially worked as an assistant to commentator Dieter Kürten . In 1991, Reif was editor-in-chief for Sport-Spiegel. His last job for ZDF was commenting on the final of the 1994 World Cup .

From the 1994/1995 season he worked for RTL . He was chief commentator for football matches and commented on UEFA Champions League games in the program Anpfiff . From 1996 to 1997 he was also head of the sports division at RTL, and from 1997 to 1998 he was again chief commentator in football at RTL. After RTL had surprisingly lost the broadcast rights to the Champions League to TM3 in 1999, Reif switched to the station Premiere, today's Sky Deutschland . Until the end of 2013 he wrote a weekly column for the Berliner Tagesspiegel am Sonntag .

On January 15, 2016, Reif confirmed to the Süddeutsche Zeitung that he would not extend his contract with Sky Deutschland, which expired at the end of the season. He ended his career as a commentator with the 2016 UEFA Champions League final . Wolff-Christoph Fuss became his successor.

In June 2016 he was seen on Sat.1 alongside presenter Frank Buschmann as an expert for the 2016 European Championship . In the summer of 2017 it was announced that Reif will be commenting on the Champions League games on the Swiss pay TV broadcaster Teleclub from the 2018/19 season .

Since the summer of 2016 Reif is one of the experts in the Sport1 - football - talk show -two .

Appearance in Madrid

Günther Jauch (l.) And Marcel Reif (r.) At Maischberger (2019)

His moderation with Günther Jauch from “ Torfall von Madrid ” in the Champions League game Real Madrid against Borussia Dortmund on April 1, 1998 in Madrid is well known. The start of the game was delayed by 76 minutes because a goal fell and had to be replaced. The two bridged the waiting time with anecdotes and graphic descriptions. Quote: "Never before would a goal have done a game as good as it does today". In 1998, Reif and Jauch were awarded the Bavarian Television Prize for this improvised moderation .

Lecturer, awards

From 1995 to 2002 he was a lecturer at the institutes for journalism at the German Sport University Cologne and the Technical University of Munich . Reif received the German Television Prize in 2002 , the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2003 for his coverage of the football World Cup in 2002 for the television station Premiere, the Radio Regenbogen Award as a media man in 2014 and the Emperor Augustus Order of the Trier Carnival Association (ATK) in 2015 for his social commitment in Africa.

Private

Reif, who moved to Switzerland in 1997, lives in Rüschlikon near Zurich . In 2013 he received Swiss citizenship and voluntarily gave up his German citizenship : “It quickly became clear to me: If I become Swiss, then I will do it properly. This is the center of my life, I never want to leave here ”.

He has a son with his first wife, Ria. In his second marriage, Reif was married to the 21 years younger Swiss sports editor Sandra Weder from 1999 to 2006 and has two sons with her. Since April 2010 he has been married to the Munich medical professor Marion Kiechle , who was Bavarian State Minister for Science and Art in 2018.

Others

Reif met Berthold Beitz , his father's savior, only once a few years before his death, after he had previously contacted him in writing. When Beitz died on Sylt in July 2013 - shortly before his 100th birthday - Reif happened to be vacationing in a neighboring house. Reif wrote an obituary for Beitz in the mirror .

Since 2012, Reif has appeared in the ZDF quiz show Der Quiz-Champion as an expert in the sports category.

In 2019 he made a guest appearance on the comedy television series Jerks. where he played himself.

Marcel Reif has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the DFL Foundation since 2017 . In 2019 he was appointed chairman of the board of trustees.

Fonts

literature

Web links

Commons : Marcel Reif  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Marcel Reif  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Auschwitz - too monstrous for a talk show. In: welt.de , February 6, 2012
  2. ^ Statement by Reif in the ZDF show Markus Lanz (TV show) on July 24, 2013
  3. ↑ Cf. Reif in the biographical documentation Lebenslinien : Marcel Reif Väter und Söhne, Bayerisches Fernsehen, July 7, 2014, URL: https://programm.ard.de/?sendung=2810717641544233 [2. July 2014]
  4. ^ Collège des Frères de Jaffa. French Embassy in Israel
  5. ↑ Martin Schneider is assistant to ZDF reporter Bela Rethy. He helps him during the game "It's a dream job". In: berliner-zeitung.de , June 12, 2004, accessed on July 18, 2016
  6. ↑ Alexander Gorkow: Marcel Reif stops at Sky. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 15, 2016. Accessed January 29, 2016.
  7. ↑ With Marcel Reif as an expert. In: ran.de. Retrieved June 1, 2016 .
  8. ↑ TV comeback: Marcel Reif again comments on games in the premier class, in Express, June 29, 2017, http://www.express.de/sport/fussball/tv-comeback-marcel-reif-kommentiert-wieder-spiele- in-the-royal-class-27879986 .
  9. ↑ That's why Marcel Reif goes for a one-two. reviersport.de, August 15, 2016, accessed on September 10, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Marcel Reif - CHECK24 expert one-two: Marcel Reif. sport1.de, April 30, 2018, accessed on September 10, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Interview with Marcel Reif: Jauch saved me from media suicide. In: Welt Online , accessed on August 30, 2008 - including video with excerpts from the Madrid report
  12. ↑ Trier carnivalists honor football commentator Marcel Reif. In: Trierischer Volksfreund . November 18, 2014, accessed June 19, 2016.
  13. ↑ Rüschlikon municipality, municipal assembly: application for naturalization by Reif Marcel (German citizen), p. 11 ( PDF file; 4.0 MB )
  14. ↑ Günther Jauch broadcast on March 10, 2013 on ARD
  15. ↑ Yannick Nock: TV legend Marcel Reif returns his German passport. In: Sunday , March 16, 2013
  16. ↑ Marcel Reif really private: Did you know? That's why the sports commentator is no longer German. In: news.de . April 5, 2018. Retrieved November 17, 2018.
  17. ↑ Marcel Reif: "Marriage was a natural consequence". In: Bunte . April 28, 2010, accessed June 19, 2016.
  18. ^ Obituary by Marcel Reif for Berthold Beitz: In deepest darkness . In: Der Spiegel No. 32/2013, p. 77.
  19. ↑ Marcel Reif. DFL Foundation, accessed on January 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ripe, Marcel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reif, Marc Nathan (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss television journalist and sports commentator
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Wałbrzych