Sabine Töpperwien
Sabine Töpperwien (born October 6, 1960 in Seesen am Harz ) is a German sports journalist .
Life
Sabine Töpperwien was born as the daughter of a tanner and grew up in Osterode am Harz . Töpperwien studied in to 1985 Göttingen and social sciences. a. with Peter Krohn . She wrote her thesis in sports science with Arnd Krüger . As a table tennis player , she played with ASC 1846 Göttingen in the 2nd Bundesliga in the early 1980s . She came to sports journalism through her family; her brother Rolf Töpperwien was already a soccer reporter for ZDF . During her studies, she worked as a freelancer for the Göttinger Tageblatt before she began a traineeship at the NDR after graduating .
In 1989, she was the WDR fixed and was the first woman to regularly in the German Bundesliga Conference of the Bundesliga reported on the radio - is now Martina Knief from the Hessian Radio also be heard regularly. Töpperwien was the first woman to comment on a football broadcast with an appearance at the first live broadcast of the women's international match, the EM semi-final against Italy in 1989 .
Since 2001 she has been the sports director of WDR 2 , the radio station that is in charge of broadcasting the Bundesliga soccer league, where she can still be heard as a reporter on radio broadcasts. Since the soccer World Cup in the USA in 1994 , she has worked as a radio journalist for all major soccer events.
She experienced a high point of her career in 1997 when she and Manfred Breuckmann commented on the second UEFA Cup final between Inter Milan and FC Schalke 04 .
In addition to football , she reported on eight Olympic Games , especially the figure skating competitions in winter sports .
Web links
- Gabriela Herpell: Through the fight to the game , Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, issue 25, 2011
- Beate Strobel: "But you are a woman!" , Interview in Focus , June 18, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ How do you look, Ms. Töpperwien? medium magazin, March 2012, accessed on February 16, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Töpperwien, Sabine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sports journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seesen am Harz |