Tom Scheunemann
Tom Scheunemann (born May 12, 1968 in Berlin ) is a German sports reporter .
Private
Growing up as the son of a cycling coach , he didn't find his way to cycling, but became a speed skater . His good performance enabled him to be accepted into the children's and youth sports school (KJS) "Ernst Grube" at the Turn- und Sportclub Berlin (TSC Berlin), where the later famous cyclists Erik Zabel , Jens Voigt and Jan Schaffrath von Scheunemann's father also trained at the same time were. In 1984 Scheunemann left the KJS and opted for a career in merchant shipping. At the Deutsche Seereederei Rostock (DSR) he aspired to become a nautical officer. He wanted to become a “sea captain”. 5 years later, the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification turned his life around.
After 1990
Tom Scheunemann first switched to radio in 1991. Susanne Matthiesen, the editor-in-chief of the news broadcaster Inforadio 101 in Berlin, gave him the chance for an internship, and later he got a traineeship as an editor for news, current affairs and sports. Successful years as a news anchor and sports reporter at Inforadio and Berliner Rundfunk followed.
In 1993 Scheunemann switched from radio to television, initially to the first German private regional broadcaster 1A Fernsehen Berlin / Brandenburg . There he was sports editor and was appointed sports director of the station in 1994 by editor-in-chief Michael Stellmacher.
In 1996 he accepted the offer of the German TV channel Sat.1 and joined as an editor, filmmaker, and later as a reporter and presenter in the ran-editors to ran
In 2008 Tom Scheunemann moved to the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk MDR in Leipzig.
Work
He commented on and hosted soccer games on the Sat.1 program ran and soccer games in the UEFA Champions League for Sat.1 and Sat.1 - breakfast television . He was also responsible for moderating the Ice Hockey World Championship for Sat.1 and, from 1999 to 2004, the DEL live broadcasts and ice hockey playoffs for Premiere . In the 2006/2007 season he moderated and commented for Arena TV , a subsidiary of Unity Media , the games of the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga and moderated the bobsleigh and skeleton broadcasts at the World Cups and the World Cup in St. Moritz .
From 1996 to 2009 Tom Scheunemann worked for ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG in Hamburg, Munich and Berlin and has been a reporter for the DFB national team since 2005. For the ProSiebenSat.1-Media AG programs, such as N24 and Sat.1, Pro7 and Kabel1-News, he reported live from the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the 2008 European Championship in Austria / Switzerland.
In 2007 Scheunemann took for Arena TV at the Wok World Championship of Stefan Raab part. He also comments on football games in the 3rd division for Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk . Since 2009 Tom Scheunemann has moderated the sports program “Sport im Osten”, “mdr-aktuell” and “mdr um 11” on Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk.
In November 2008 Scheunemann founded the Art and Friends agency. He supports young artists of modern painting. In July 2009 he founded the online industry service www.bulinews.de . The BuLinews GmbH supplies the football fans in Germany for free with the news of the day specifically about their favorite club.
He saw his first Olympic Games in 2002 as a reporter for Premiere in Salt Lake City. There he was responsible for the competitions in ice hockey and speed skating. The Summer Games in Athens followed in 2004, and in 2006 he was in Turin again for ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.
In January 2010 Tom Scheunemann was appointed to the ARD Olympic team for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver / Canada, where he commented on the games of the Olympic ice hockey tournament as an ARD reporter.
In 2011 Tom Scheunemann was a reporter and presenter in ARD winter sports programs (Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Cup), as well as at the biggest equestrian event of the year, the World Cup finals in Leipzig and at the Ice Hockey World Championship in Slovakia. In 2012 he will be present again as a moderator at the bobsleigh and skeleton tracks.
Scheunemann received the TV award of the VDS (Association of German Sports Journalists) in 2016 for his TV report “The Pechstein Case”.
In 2018 he again commented on the Olympic ice hockey tournament for ARD and accompanied the DEB selection as a reporter on their historic win of the Olympic silver medal in Pyeongchang.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Scheunemann. In: Sport in the East: Moderation. MDR , June 22, 2011, accessed February 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Nancy Forner: Sports journalist Tom Scheunemann starts BuLinews.de. Verlag Werben & Sell , July 3, 2009, accessed February 17, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barn man, Tom |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sports reporter and media entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |