Sasha State

Sascha Staat (born January 22, 1980 in Solingen ) is a German sports journalist , presenter and author .

Life

Sascha Staat grew up in the blade city of Solingen, where he returned in 2009 after working in Genoa , Rome , Innsbruck and Nuremberg . He mainly reports on handball and football , especially in the form of podcasts , but also on ice hockey and baseball .

State took its first journalistic steps at Radio RSG , a local radio station in North Rhine-Westphalia . The program Overtime, which could be heard until 2003, was distributed online in the early 2000s as a podcast.

Since May 2016 he has been working as a freelance sports journalist without exception. In the same year he was awarded the Herbert Zimmermann Prize by the Association of German Sports Journalists .

As a handball expert, he works at DAZN and has commented on games in the handball Bundesliga in the past . He is the voice of the BVB podcast of Ruhr Nachrichten and a freelance writer for Deutschlandfunk . He is best known for his handball podcast Kreis Ab .

Awards

Herbert Zimmermann Prize 2015 for Kreis Ab , episode 94

Works

111 reasons to love baseball . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-94266-559-9
Borussia Dortmund for smart asses . Klartext, Essen 2019. ISBN 978-3-8375-2166-5

Web links

Official website

Individual evidence

^ Sascha State - Sports journalist. In: www.saschastaat.de. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
↑ Georg Amend: "I was, so to speak, the first of those without a chance". In: Rheinische Presse. March 24, 2016, accessed July 22, 2019 .
↑ All award winners 2015. In: www.sportjournalist.de. Verband Deutscher Sportjournalisten eV, March 21, 2016, accessed on July 22, 2019 .
^ Sascha Staat: EM baseball event for insiders. In: Deutschlandfunk. July 14, 2019, accessed July 23, 2019 .
↑ Kreis Ab - The Podcast. In: Kreisab.blogspot.com. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	State, Sascha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author and sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 22, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH	Solingen

[arbeit-1] Sascha State - Sports journalist. In: www.saschastaat.de. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .

[preis-2] Georg Amend: "I was, so to speak, the first of those without a chance". In: Rheinische Presse. March 24, 2016, accessed July 22, 2019 .

[auszeichnung-3] All award winners 2015. In: www.sportjournalist.de. Verband Deutscher Sportjournalisten eV, March 21, 2016, accessed on July 22, 2019 .

[4] Sascha Staat: EM baseball event for insiders. In: Deutschlandfunk. July 14, 2019, accessed July 23, 2019 .

[5] Kreis Ab - The Podcast. In: Kreisab.blogspot.com. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .