Marco Heinsohn

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Marco Heinsohn (born December 26, 1969 in Hamburg ; † February 16, 2019 ) was a German television presenter, speaker, journalist and media coach.

Career

Heinsohn grew up in Wedel and graduated from high school there in 1989. After training as a bank clerk at Hamburger Sparkasse , he ventured into the media landscape in 1992 ( OK Radio ). After a short time, Heinsohn switched to Radio Hamburg , where he completed an internship from 1994 to 1996 . In the following years he worked there as an editor, speaker and moderator. His Boris Becker imitations, which he later recorded for Radio ffn and Antenne Bayern, were particularly popular with the listeners .

From 1997 Heinsohn was in television. After a short interlude for a national reporter magazine, he presented the regional news for Sat.1 in the program 17:30 live for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein . From 1998 he worked as a freelancer. Since then he has moderated for German sports television , today Sport1 , (2000/2001: InTeam - Das Fußballbundesligamagazin and Das DSF-Interview ), Sat.1 (1998 to 2001: 5:30 p.m. live for Berlin and Brandenburg and, alternatively, the news in Breakfast TV) and Radio ffn (1998 to 2001 Die Feierabendshow ). From 2001 to 2010 he alternately presented the Sat.1 regional windows 5:30 pm live for Lower Saxony and Bremen and 5:30 pm live for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein ; from May 2010 he was in front of the camera for 17:30 Sat.1 Regional for Lower Saxony and Bremen .

Marco Heinsohn died in mid-February 2019 as a result of colon cancer . He leaves behind his wife and two daughters.

further activities

Heinsohn lived out his enthusiasm for sports as the hall spokesman at O 2 World Hamburg , where he hosted the home games of the HSV Hamburg handball club from 2007 to 2013 . Since 2007 he has worked as a lecturer for the Academy for Journalism in Hamburg, where he taught television volunteers the basics of moderation.

Heinsohn was a freelance coach and trainer with a focus on “scoring with the audience”. From 2013 he worked with the adventurer and speaker Joachim Franz from Wolfsburg, with whom he offered the seminar "Roll Out Your Life".

Individual evidence

  1. Sat.1 says goodbye to long-time moderator t-online.de, accessed on February 18, 2019
  2. Frederik Ahrens: Mourning Marco Heinsohn - Popular TV presenter dies at the age of 49. Hamburger Morgenpost, accessed on February 17, 2019.