Ulrich Potofski

Ulrich Potofski (2014)

Ulrich "Ulli" Potofski (born July 7, 1952 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German sports moderator .

Career

After graduating from secondary school , Potofski trained as a cook . He began his journalistic career in 1970 at Radio Luxemburg . In the 1970s he was also active as a puppeteer , pop singer and disc jockey . In 1979 he went to WDR radio as a sports reporter and in 1984 to RTL plus , where he was head of sports until 1992. In addition, he moderated the television program Anpfiff from 1988 to 1992 . In 1989 Potofski received a Bambi . When the kick-off was stopped, he stayed as a sports reporter at RTL and mainly reported on tennis and ski jumping . In 1993 Potofski ran the RTL program Ein Tag Like No Other for a few months , and from 1998 to 2002 he hosted the program Auf Schalke on DSF .

Until mid-2006 Potofski moderated the sports section on RTL aktuell on weekends and from November 2004 to May 2005 he hosted the DSF program Kreisklasse . At the same time he also became the program manager and moderator for the digital equestrian specialty channel Raze. He also commented from 1998 together with Wolfram Kons the Domino Day on RTL. Since 2006 he has been commenting on games in the 2nd Bundesliga and the DFB Cup for the pay TV channel Sky ( premiered until 2009 ) . From January 13, 2011 he moderated, first with Esther Sedlaczek and later with Christina Rann, the matchday preview Mein Stadion - The Sky Bundesliga preview; the format ended in 2015. On each Monday, Potofski presented events in North Rhine-Westphalian amateur sports on NRW.TV.

In January 2007 he founded the company Napasai Media together with the TV journalist Alexander von der Groeben , which develops and sells audio books and advertising films, among other things. He was a commentator in the 10th season of the German version of Big Brother . From May 2011 he also worked for the call-in game show GallopStars TV , which ran during the night in RTL's commercials . In response to criticism of such engagements, he replied that as a freelance journalist he could not always choose his jobs. In January 2013 he received the MIRA Award for Best Sports Commentator 2012 .

From March to April 2016 he took part in the 9th season of the dance show Let's Dance . Together with his dance partner Kathrin Menzinger , he retired after the first round, but came back to the show after an injury to the participant Franziska Traub . In the ninth show, after having had fans for a long time despite his poor dance skills, he was finally elected from the show.

He moderates irregularly on the Cologne race days from the parade ring . Here he gives tips on the upcoming race and then interviews the winning team.

Since 2017 he has moderated the night show "Night Call" on the internet livestream broadcaster Muxx TV .

Trivia

• In 1969, Potofski published the hit single Ich kann ein nie vorübergeh'n an girl under the stage name Ulli Mario .
• In July 1994 he won as a member of the group All for All with the song Steig again on the ZDF hit parade .
• In November 2008 and September 2009 he was a participant in the cooking show The Perfect Celebrity Dinner .
• Potofski is a supporter of FC Schalke 04 .
• In 2002 he was named glasses wearer of the year .

Fonts

Potofski and young actor Patrick Mölleken recording the radio play Knappenkids - Crew in Danger (2008)

Ulli Potofski wrote some youth football novels in the publishing group Random House in cbj Verlag Kempen appeared publisher in omnibus and BVK:

• Locke stays on the ball, cbj, 2004, ISBN 978-3-57012-787-2
• Locke storms off, omnibus TB, 2006, ISBN 978-3-57021-864-8
• Locke Attacks, cbj, 2008, ISBN 978-3-57013-011-7
• Locke and the Voodoo Magic, BVK Buch Verlag Kempen, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86740-193-7
• The big soccer box (2010)
• Locke and the Zickengang, BVK Buch Verlag Kempen, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86740-290-3
• Locke's match plan - professional footballer, BVK Buch Verlag Kempen, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86740-460-0
• Locke and the magical soccer shoes, BVK Buch Verlag Kempen, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86740-737-3
• Reading exchange knowledge "Football", BVK Buch Verlag Kempen, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86740-814-1
• (with Wolfgang Bosbach ) 52 - one year two lives, L100 Verlag, Kempen, 2020, ISBN 978-3-947984-06-0

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Potofski  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ulrich Potofski in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ulli-Potofski-Production website
• Napasai Media website
• Literature by and about Ulrich Potofski in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulli Potofski: Sports expert wants to moderate culture magazine in Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from July 5, 2012.
2. ↑ Christoph Borschel: "Let's Dance". Ulli Potofski is out - and lets his tears run free. Express.de . May 14, 2016, accessed May 14, 2016.
3. ↑ Profile of Ulli Potofski on VOX.de.
4. ↑ 5 questions to: Ulli Potofski fanzeit.de, 23 September 2014.
5. ↑ Ulli Potofski: Eyeglass wearer of the year 2002 euro-focus.de, February 6, 2002.