Matthias Christian Brügelmann

Matthias Christian Brügelmann (* 1972 in Cologne ), son of Karin and Hans Brügelmann , is a German sports journalist. He has been married to Miriam Brügelmann since 2002 and has two children.

life and career

Brügelmann grew up on Lake Constance . His family later moved to Bremen . He began playing football at the age of seven as a goalkeeper and striker for the F-youth team at SV Brinkum. In the E-youth he switched to TSV-Leeste, with whom he became champion in the Bremen city performance class in 1991. He finished his active career in 1996 with the 2nd men of SC Weyhe in the regional league.

At the age of ten he decided to become a sports reporter. He wrote his first reports at the age of 16 for the regional section Stuhr-Weyhe of the WESER-KURIER in Bremen.

After graduating from high school, community service and an incomplete degree at the University of Oldenburg , he graduated from the Axel Springer Journalism School in Hamburg. He then became a member of the central sports department of the Bild newspaper . In 2004 he was promoted to sports director of Bild und Bild am Sonntag and since 2007 he has been a member of the Bild editor-in-chief. At the beginning of March 2011, Matthias Brügelmann took over the editor-in-chief of Sport Bild , at the beginning of 2014 he became the deputy editor-in-chief of BILD. In September 2017 Brügelmann was appointed editor-in-chief of the new sports competence center of the "Bild" group with responsibility for all sports topics in their print and digital media.