René Hiepen

René Albert Hiepen (born May 15, 1966 in Wegberg ) is a German presenter , reporter and producer .

Earlier career

René Hiepen started his journalistic career at an early age at the Rheinische Post in Mönchengladbach, for which he mainly reported on Borussia Mönchengladbach . As a freelancer , he also worked for various nationwide radio stations such as Antenne Bayern , and gained his first experience as a live reporter in the Bundesliga and European Cup.

Television career

Hiepen started his TV career on RTL and Premiere . As the youngest German live reporter, he commented on live games in the Champions League for RTL at the age of 27. Hiepen worked for the pay TV broadcaster for a total of eight years . In 1999 he switched to tm3 , which had secured the exclusive rights to the Champions League for four and four years. However, Rupert Murdoch sold the rights after a year and the sports department was dissolved. Hiepen then moved to ZDF in the summer of 2000 , where he worked as a sports presenter until the end of October 2006. During his time at ZDF, Hiepen was a presenter at two soccer world championships , including the final of the 2002 World Cup , and three Olympic Games (2002, 2004 and 2006). In addition to Johannes B. Kerner and Michael Steinbrecher , he was a regular presenter for live soccer broadcasts on ZDF.

He has received several awards for his emotional live commentary on the Olympic hockey final in Athens. In addition, he made a name for himself as a boxing commentator and presenter and commented, among other things, on the fight between Lennox Lewis and Vitali Klitschko on June 21, 2003. In winter, Hiepen presented as a presenter for five years with expert Armin Bittner alpine skiing competitions, as well as speed skating decisions at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

After the 2006 World Cup, Hiepen stopped working for ZDF after announcing his departure for personal reasons on a live boxing show. This was preceded by massive reporting in the tabloid media, according to which Hiepen is said to have quarreled with two Porsche managers at an internal company event.

In 2010, Hiepen designed a new form of infotainment live reporting for the Berlin Marathon. Since then he has been responsible for the global TV broadcast of the BMW Berlin Marathon as the responsible producer. For n-tv , he has also been commenting on the race alongside the former long-distance runner Martin Grüning since 2010 . In 2012 the Berlin Marathon was broadcast in 194 countries. In 2012, Hiepen produced a 45-minute report Backstage BMW Berlin Marathon , which shows the running spectacle behind the scenes. He also organizes the RTL donation marathon season with prominent figures.

further activities

With powerplay medienholding AG in 2009, Hiepen produced the autobiography Meine 15 Runden by boxer Graciano Rocchigiani , and in 2011 the club history 4 stars 111 years for FC Bayern Munich .

In 2012, Hiepen played a news reporter in Til Schweiger's film Guardian Angel . He also produced the helicopter footage of Berlin for this film and was responsible for the numerous news sequences in the film.

In 2013, Hiepen and powerplay medienholding AG produced the film Wembley - Football is coming hoam for Warner Bros. , the story of FC Bayern Munich's Champions League victory .

Also with powerplay medienholding AG and in cooperation with Fohlen.TV , Hiepen produced the film Die Elf vom Niederrhein - Auf, auf, auf in the Champions League in 2015 , in which he followed the path from Borussia Mönchengladbach under Lucien Favre from near-relegation in 2011 to for direct Champions League qualification 2015.

In the summer of 2018, Hiepen was program director responsible for the "European Mile" at Berlin's Breitscheidplatz at the 2018 European Athletics Championships .

Others

In January 1986, at the age of 19, Hiepen volunteered for the French Foreign Legion , from which he deserted in June of the same year. Since Hiepen had to expect a prison sentence on entry to France because of the arrest warrant issued against him , he avoided crossing the border for years.

Hiepen took part in several sporting competitions initiated by Stefan Raab , such as the Wok World Championships or the stock car race . He is also a passionate marathon runner and golfer. With his charity Run for Kids , he collected donations with his running commitment and mainly supported children suffering from leukemia.

In October 2006, after the boxing match between Alexander Dimitrenko and Gonzalo Omar Basilie, which was broadcast live on ZDF, Hiepen announced his resignation as ZDF presenter. He missed the support of editor-in-chief Nikolaus Brender after he was accused of being involved in a fight at a party.

Awards

For a two-hour documentary about the boxer Mike Tyson with the title My Life - The Longest Fight , Hiepen was honored with the Golden Cable , a German TV innovation award. Filmmakers Guido Knopp and Lars von Trier were also nominated .

In 2004 he received the Herbert Award for his live report on the Olympic victory of the German women's hockey team . As a live soccer reporter, he won the silver award in the same year. 5000 German top athletes voted on the winners for this prize.

In November 2013 René Hiepen was awarded the Video Champion of the Year 2013 for the DVD / BluRay production Mia san Champions with the included film about FC Bayern Munich Wembley - Football is coming hoam .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Ruzas: Germany: Der Schubser des Legionärs aD In: Focus Online . November 6, 2006, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ http://bmw.runnersworld.de/laufsportnews/11  ( 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.  
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2012 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. 
4. ↑ http://www.buecher.de/shop/boxer/rocky-meine-15-runden/rocchigiani-graciano/products_products/detail/prod_id/22842231/
5. ↑ http://s351604712.online.de/fcbayern/
6. ↑ Summer fairy tale reloaded: Bayern-Triumph comes to the Augsburger Allgemeine cinema , July 26, 2013, accessed on July 27, 2013.
7. ↑ Trailer: "The Elf from the Lower Rhine - Up, Up, Up in the Champions League" ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Sportnachrichten.TV, July 6, 2015, accessed on July 6, 2015. 
8. ↑ European Mile: The great athletics festival in the City-West! In: Leichtathleik.de , accessed on November 19, 2018.
9. ↑ The accounting of the Foreign Legionnaire ( Memento of the original from May 31, 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. stern.de, November 6, 2006, accessed May 30, 2014. 
10. ^ Escape from the Foreign Legion bild.de, November 8, 2007, accessed on May 30, 2014.
11. ↑ Reference: Hiepen shoots against ZDF. In: dwdl.de , November 6, 2006.