Oskar Wark

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September 2008: Oskar Wark in Frankfurt am Main.

Oskar Wark (born May 22, 1934 in Düsseldorf , † July 31, 2009 in Wiesbaden ) was a German television sports reporter and journalist.

Since ZDF started broadcasting in 1963, Oskar Wark was a member of the ZDF sports editorial team together with Wolfram Esser , Dieter Kürten , Karl Senne and Wim Thoelke . In 1966 he was a co-presenter in the first ZDF sports report.

He reported on numerous Olympic Games as well as football world and European championships. In 1988 he was team principal of ZDF at the Olympic Games in Seoul , 1992 in Barcelona and 1996 in Atlanta ; also at the soccer world championships 1986 in Mexico and 1994 in the USA. After the European Football Championship in England in 1996 , he retired as ZDF program director.

Wark lived with his family in Hattenheim in the Rheingau . As a supporter of Borussia Mönchengladbach , he published Die Fohlen 11, a book about the football club , in 1970 . His son Thomas also became a sports reporter for ZDF. Oskar Wark died at the age of 75 as a result of a heart attack.

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  1. ↑ cf. Wolfram Esser died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 19, 1993, Sport, p. 25
  2. ↑ At the age of 75 - ZDF sports reporter Oskar Wark is dead ( Memento from August 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) RP-Online.de from August 1, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Wark, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television sports reporter and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2009
Place of death Wiesbaden