Tom Bartels

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Tom Bartels (2018)

Thomas "Tom" Bartels (born September 13, 1965 in Celle ) is a German television presenter , sports commentator and reporter .

Life

After graduating from high school in Melle in 1985 and training as a banker , Bartels studied at the German Sport University Cologne (focus: journalism ). Tom Bartels was a fan of the sport from childhood . His greatest talents were in ball sports, especially soccer . He began his television career as an employee in the sports department of Westdeutscher Rundfunk .

In 1996 Bartels moved to the private broadcaster RTL , where he was employed as a reporter for the Champions League games until 2000. After RTL secured the broadcast rights for the UEFA Champions League again in 2001 , he replaced Marcel Reif , who had meanwhile switched to Premiere , as a live reporter. From 2000 he also commented on RTL ski jumping broadcasts.

From 2003 he worked for the pay TV broadcaster Premiere as a commentator and reporter for the Bundesliga and UEFA Champions League games. In 2006, Bartels commented on games in the World Cup for RTL.

After the 2006 World Cup, he switched to Südwestrundfunk , where he comments on Bundesliga games in the sports show and international matches for the national soccer team, but is also used in other sports such as ski jumping or the European swimming championships . Since 2008 Bartels has been the presenter of the SWR show Sport in the Third .

On December 30, 2008, he hosted a television program for the first time. Bartels presented the broadcast Germany's largest memory test on ARD . The show, produced by Johannes B. Kerner , was seen by 6.04 million people.

In 2012 Tom Bartels moderated the football match Fortuna Düsseldorf - Hertha BSC , which was broadcast live on ARD as part of the relegation to the German Bundesliga, on May 15, 2012 , which became well known due to a storm about one minute before the end of stoppage time. This exceptional situation was also reflected in Tom Bartel's role as a commentator.

At the European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland in 2008 , he commented on the final between Germany and Spain on June 29 in Vienna (0: 1) for ARD .

Since January 2011 he has been part of the moderation team for the sports program Floodlight on SWR .

At the European Football Championship in 2012 , he commented on June 14, 2012, among other things, the group game Spain against Ireland. When the Irish fell 0-4 in the 85th minute, 20,000 Irish fans began singing the song " Fields of Athenry " . Tom Bartels stopped commenting on the game and listened to the Irish fan chant for several minutes in silence. This enabled the audience to have one of the most emotional highlights of the 2012 European Football Championship and received great praise across Germany for it.

At the soccer World Cup in 2014 he was part of the ARD commentator team and commented on the final between Germany and Argentina .

The following comment by Bartels achieved lasting fame while scoring the winning goal:

"Schürrle ... It arrives. Do it! Do it! He makes it! Mario Götze! ... That's crazy! ... And there came a moment for Mario Götze, nothing else matters. Crazy! ... The Federal President is standing, the Chancellor ... The next wild card for Germany: Helmut Rahn, Gerd Müller, Andi Brehme, Mario Götze. "

- Tom Bartels, July 13, 2014, Maracanã

On November 13, 2015, Bartels commented on the friendly match between the French and German national football teams at the Stade de France in Paris for ARD . Terrorist attacks occurred in the city during the game . Detonations of bombs detonated in the vicinity of the stadium could be clearly heard during the first half within the arena and also in the broadcast. As more and more information about the extent of the attacks became known in the course of the second half, Bartels was forced to comment on an increasingly unimportant football game and at the same time to inform the audience about the disaster of the evening. Bartels struggled to maintain his composure, but in retrospect called the situation "perverted" and himself overwhelmed.

He also commented on games for ARD at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In the second group game of the German team against Sweden, in which Toni Kroos scored the 2-1 winning goal for Germany in stoppage time and thus saved the team from a possible premature elimination, Bartels caused a stir with his emotional comment:

"Kroos! He makes the gate! ... Toni Kroos, 2: 1. I can't believe it! Hold me tight ... And he'll make everything right again, Toni Kroos. Sink the thing, 2: 1, sink Sweden, I can't believe it! "

- Tom Bartels, June 23, 2018, Sochi Olympic Stadium

Tom Bartels has two sons and lives with his partner in Cologne. He was an active soccer player at TuRa Grönenberg Melle .

Awards and honors

Works

Participation in video games

Web links

Commons : Tom Bartels  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Well-known students and alumni of the German Sport University Cologne. Website of the German Sport University Cologne
  2. ↑ Tom Bartels has a show premiere in the first. In : quotemeter.de
  3. ↑ Football commentator Tom Bartels: The coming man , on faz.et, June 3, 2008. Accessed June 26, 2018.
  4. ↑ Bartels presents sports magazine. In : quotemeter.de
  5. ↑ The Irish sing - commentator Bartels is silent. YouTube video, accessed June 1, 2014.
  6. ↑ Irish provide a magical EM moment ( memento from June 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: T-Online.de , June 15, 2012.
  7. ↑ Who is the best EM commentator? In: T-Online.de , June 18, 2012, accessed on June 21, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Make it! Do it! He does it! ” In: rp-online.de , July 14, 2014. Accessed on July 14, 2014.
  9. ↑ https://www.bundesliga.com/de/bundesliga/news/mach-ihn-mach-ihn-er-macht-ihn-mario-goetzeeeeeeee-ein-jahr-nach-dem-wm-finale-2014.jsp "Make it! Make it! He makes it! Mario Götzeeeeeeee!" ], on bundesliga.com, on July 23, 2015.
  10. ↑ "The situation was perverse". In: rp-online.de , November 16, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  11. ↑ Prize winners. In: deutscher-fernsehpreis.de. Retrieved October 3, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Bartels, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartels, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German presenter and sports reporter
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle