Peter Grube

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Peter Grube (2nd from right): German Television Award 2012

Peter Grube (born April 22, 1958 in Aachen ) is a German sports presenter and Olympic commentator.

Professional background

Peter Grube studied art history, journalism, political science and education in Mainz and Münster. (MA)

Since 1981 he has worked as a freelancer in the sports department of the West German Broadcasting Corporation. Peter Grube has been a live commentator at both the Summer and Winter Olympics in Atlanta since 1996. When Grube was honored for his rousing commentary on the longest tobogganing event ever broadcast on German public television, the reason given was that he understood it, “the runs of women riders from the back field, whose names hardly anyone had heard before, like that entertaining and exciting to comment that the ratings were increasing from minute to minute. Reporting of a very special kind. ”On January 4, 2014, however, Grube caused a scandal with a linguistic derailment when he said in a report about Russian toboggan women that they had trained“ to the point of gassing ”. The next day he apologized: "I used a completely idiotic formulation - politically and historically certainly completely wrong."

Awards

In 2005 the Bobsleigh and Sleigh Association for Germany awarded him the Richard Hartmann Prize for special reporting .

In 1999 Peter Grube was awarded the annual media prize "The Silver Horse" by the German Riding and Driving Association (DRFV) for outstanding and extraordinary achievements in the various media areas in connection with equestrian sport.

Furthermore, he received the bronze badge of honor from the International Luge Federation in 2008 in recognition of the luge broadcasts.

In 2012, Peter Grube was nominated for the German Television Prize together with Ralf Scholt, Wilfried Hark and Philipp Sohmer for the live broadcasts of the Summer Olympics on ARD and ZDF .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the Bobsleigh and Sleigh Association Germany ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bsd-portal.de
  2. ^ Jüdische Allgemeine, January 6, 2014
  3. ↑ Peter Grube - biography . Website of the German Television Award. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Pit, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports presenter and Olympic commentator
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen