Sammy Drechsel

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Sammy Drechsel (left) with Manfred Bloedorn, NDR

Sammy Drechsel (born April 25, 1925 in Berlin , † January 19, 1986 in Munich ; real name Karl-Heinz Kamke ) was a German journalist , director and sports reporter .

biography

Drechsel was already enthusiastic about soccer as a boy and played center forward at Berliner SV 92 , with which he won the Berlin youth championship. After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he became a trainee with sports reporter Rolf Wernicke . During the Second World War he himself worked as a sports reporter for various radio stations, including Radio Berlin . After the war he went to RIAS , where he wrote time and sensational reports until 1950.

Pennant FC Schmiere

From 1950 until his death Drechsel was a sports reporter for Bayerischer Rundfunk (radio). He always moderated the sports section in the afternoon monthly children's program on Bavarian television, Sport-Spiel-Tension . The ambitious amateur footballer also founded the football club FC Schmiere in 1956 , which he chaired and which usually played for charitable purposes with numerous celebrities. Drechsel himself played 963 times for the club and scored 1,500 goals. He was a reporter at numerous major sporting events. At the Football World Cup in 1966 he commented on the semi-finals between Germany and the Soviet Union for ARD, which the German national team won 2-1.

In 1956, Drechsel and Dieter Hildebrandt founded the Munich Lach- und Schießgesellschaft , of which he was the director and director. Drechsel was considered a jack of all trades and also led the studio direction for Hildebrandt's TV formats Notes from the Province and Windshield Wipers . He also became known through his youth book Elf Freunde muss sein , published in 1955 , which was also published as an audio book, spoken by his companion Hildebrandt.

Drechsel had one last short appearance on television in the series Kir Royal (1986) by Helmut Dietl . The recordings were made shortly before he died of complications from cancer. He had been married to Irene Koss since 1962 . The couple's grave is on the north cemetery in Munich (Wall grave No. 244 on the right).

Directorial work

  • 1954: The world is playing football (Football World Cup 1954 - Federal Republic of Germany)
  • 1957: Because you don't have to do what you do
  • 1958: Put yourself in if you can
  • 1958: In the same scrap and rut
  • 1958: Football World Cup 1958 film
  • 1958: A little music of power
  • 1959: Waiting for level
  • 1959: The Paralysis of the Shrew
  • 1960: Tour de Trance
  • 1961: Choose the one who lies
  • 1962: survive
  • 1963: Shut up the press
  • 1964: Crisis slalom
  • 1966: Two girls from the Red Star
  • 1970: With timpani and plaques
  • 1970: spiral of happiness
  • 1973–79: Notes from the Province
  • 1980–82: windshield wipers

Film appearances

Web links

Commons : Sammy Drechsel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sammy Drechsel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ The FC Schmiere in numbers in sueddeutsche.de of December 7, 2006, accessed on August 26, 2010.
  3. ↑ SR2 Zeitzeichen from December 12, 2016
  4. ↑ Died: Sammy Drechsel, 60 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1986, pp. 212 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Drechsel, Sammy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kamke, Karl-Heinz (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and sports reporter
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1986
Place of death Munich