Oliver Forster

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Oliver Forster (2019)

Oliver Forster (born March 22, 1968 in Pforzheim ) is a German TV sports commentator and presenter as well as stadium announcer for the German national soccer team who lives in Munich .

After graduating from high school, he studied political science and education at the University of Stuttgart .

Professional background

From 1988 to 1989 Forster was an intern and editorial staff at Bürgerradio Stuttgart, then a trainee until 1991, later editorial head of the sports department at Stadtradio 107.7 Stuttgart . Until 2001 he was the head of the sports department at Radio / Tele FFH in Frankfurt am Main .

From 2000 to 2006 he worked as a commentator and presenter for Premiere and as an editor for German sports television (DSF). From July 2006 to July 2007 he held the same position at Arena . At the 2008 European Football Championship, he commented on various games for Eurosport . From 2009 to 2013 he was total for the soccer channel LIGA! active. Between 2013 and 2017 Forster was a regular highlight commentator for the Bundesliga at Bild.de and Sport1 TV. Forster has continued this activity in the Sport 1 / DAZN combination since the beginning of the 2017–2021 rights period. At Sport 1, Forster also comments on many of the high-reach live games and works as an expert on the shows Fantalk and PUR Lunchtime, among others. At DAZN Forster is currently commenting on matches in the Champions League & Europa League, as well as top international games.

Professional focus

Hit radio FFH

From December 1, 1992 to January 31, 2001, Oliver Forster headed the sports department at Radio / Tele FFH . He was responsible for the organizational planning of reporting on major events, including soccer world championships and the Olympic Games .

Forster reported live from the soccer world championships in 1994 and 1998, from the European championships in 1996 and 2000 as well as numerous other national and international sporting events. During this time he commented on over 80 international football matches, several Champions League finals , DFB Cup finals and well over 200 Bundesliga games.

Premiere television

Forster was one of the founding members of the Bundesliga soccer conference at Premiere, which was awarded the German Television Prize in March 2003 . Since July 2000 he has been involved in the development of the project, has been involved in the implementation since the first Bundesliga match of the 2000/2001 season and has since commented on games in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga and the Champions League. He was also one of the live commentators for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea.

arena

From June 1, 2006 to July 31, 2007, Forster then worked as a moderator and commentator for the pay TV channel Arena . Arena was the exclusive rights holder for the live broadcast of the games of the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga in the 2006/2007 season. Forster was honored with the Herbert Award in Hamburg in 2007 for outstanding reporting in the Bundesliga conference.

LIGA total!

At the beginning of the 2009 season, Forster commented on the Bundesliga channel LIGA total! Top games in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga for the entire duration of the rights. Forster worked in a team with Johannes B. Kerner, Frank Buschmann, etc. In this phase Forster was also back in action for Sport 1.

Sport 1 / BILD / DAZN

From 2013, Forster was a commentator on the Bundesliga highlight coverage at Sport 1 and BILD.de. At Sport 1 in parallel as a commentator in the Bundesliga, the Europa League and in various other formats. Currently since 2017 in the combination Sport 1 / DAZN. At Sport 1, Forster comments live on the absolute top games in the national and international arena, also for the first time in the DFB Cup, and is an expert in various talk formats. At DAZN Forster is active as a live commentator in the Champions & Europa League as well as in top international games. Oliver Forster was nominated for the German Sports Journalist Award (Best Commentator) in 2019.

Others

Forster grew up in Mühlacker-Enzberg in Swabia and played football and tennis in his youth. In a video interview with Pz-News, he said that when he was a boy on vacation in Italy, he started speaking High German at the push of a button. Possibly this is due to the influence of songs by Peter Maffay that he began to hear at that time.

Forster has been the stadium spokesman for the German national soccer team since 2016. Oliver Forster also moderates major events for various companies such as Continental , Würth and Panini . He was also the voice of the Frankfurt SkyArena kick-off event for the 2006 soccer World Cup. He also realizes TV campaigns and TV and radio commercials, for example for Coca-Cola .

From June 15, 2013, Forster was to become the new head of media and public relations at Eintracht Frankfurt . In addition to coordinating the press work of the professional football area, his tasks a. the editorial management of the moving image offer from Eintracht Frankfurt should belong. However, the contract that had already been concluded was terminated a few days before the agreed start of work.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ O. Forster becomes head of media and public relations  ( 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. , accessed on April 6, 2013 from eintracht.de@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.eintracht.de  
  2. ^ Ingo Durstewitz: Veh brings Forster to his knees , Frankfurter Rundschau, June 10, 2013

3. "Anyone who hears me knows: This is the Forster", Pforzheimer Zeitung, October 16, 2019

4. Interview with PZ-News, October 2019: https://www.pz-news.de/videogalerie_video,-Fussball-Kommentator-Oliver-Forster-im-Interview-_videoid,12055.html

personal data
SURNAME Forster, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports commentator and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim