Michael Drevenstedt

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Michael Drevenstedt (* 1961 ) is a German sports reporter .

Career

Sports

Michael Drevenstedt started fencing as a boy . From 1971 to 1981 he was active for SC Leipzig . He attended the children's and youth sports school in Leipzig, was vice-GDR champion and national team squad. After graduating from school, he learned to be a car mechanic .

music

From 1981 to 1982 Drevenstedt sang in his first band "Ziegenstall". From 1983 to 1984 he played New Wave with the "Jet-Band", followed by an intermezzo with "RuckZuck". Then he became the singer of the band "Graaf". Michael Drevenstedt was successful with "Mama" at the Goldener Rathausmann Schlager Festival in Dresden in 1987: He won the "Goldener Rathausmann", the special award from the Central Council of the FDJ and the press award. In the 1990s, he briefly joined Karussell .

Other musical stations have been “Willis Show Band”, “Puzzle” and the “MDR life Band”. In 2013 he supported Kim Wilde with “Yoko” . Currently (2017) he is working on a new program with a guitarist.

MDR radio and television

Drevenstedt got the opportunity to start radio. In the Sachsenradio in Leipzig's Funkhaus Springerstraße he was one of the first at the driver's desk. He later became the flagship of MDR Life , which later became MDR Jump . At the end of 30 Drevenstedt was able to switch to MDR television and works as a sports presenter for the news program MDR Aktuell, for “Sport im Osten” and for reporting on the Olympic Games, for example.

He comments on ski jumping, Nordic combined, modern pentathlon and is known nationwide as a sports reporter. He was also active as an ARD fencing reporter in Athens, Beijing, London and Rio.

Private

Drevenstedt is at home in Püchau , a district of makers since 1994 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.yokopop.de/?page_id=46
  2. ↑ Birgit Frank: Olympic Commentators: Marginal Reporters in the Spotlight. In: Spiegel Online . August 17, 2008, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ https://www.rbb-online.de/unternehmen/presse/presseinformationen/programm/2016/11/presseheft-wintersport201617.file.html/Wintersport2016_17.pdf , page 5
  4. ↑ Haig Latchinian: At home in the world - at home in Püchau. The 55-year-old Michael Drevenstedt from Püchau bei Wurzen is an all-rounder: The former national fencing team has been singing in various bands since his youth, won numerous music awards, was a radio presenter for a long time and became known nationwide as a television man. He prefers to moderate - so what? Fencing! Online and full-page newspaper article. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung, Muldental edition, February 1, 2017, page 31
  5. ↑ http://michaeldrevenstedt.de/bio/
personal data
SURNAME Drevenstedt, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports reporter
DATE OF BIRTH 1961