Werner Hansch

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Werner Hansch (born  August 16, 1938 in Recklinghausen ) is a German sports reporter .

Youth and Studies

After graduating from high school, he began studying law and modern history with the aim of becoming a diplomat. He studied history from 1958 to 1961 at the University of Münster and two semesters in Berlin. Hansch broke off his studies at the age of 22 in the fifth semester when both parents died within four weeks. He then worked temporarily in underground mining like his father . After a short time he began studying pedagogy and then worked as a teacher from 1965 to 1968. From 1972 to 1976, Hansch completed a degree in sociology and political science at the Ruhr University in Bochum , which he graduated with honors as a social scientist.

Activity as a sports journalist

Hansch came to the Recklinghausen racecourse through a friend to do press work. Because of an illness of the spokesman for the racetrack, he commented on the races and was very well received by his listeners. In 1973 he represented the prevented stadium announcer of FC Schalke 04 and was promptly his successor until 1978. At his first home game at Schalke , he announced the Schalke goalkeeper Norbert Nigbur "... with the starting number one", which earned him a lot of laughs, but also criticism.

Due to his casual and colloquial comments, Hansch quickly found a lot of recognition among listeners and colleagues. The WDR hired him in November 1978 as a radio sports reporter, where he was responsible for football and all equestrian sports. The first football game he commented on for WDR was the encounter between Preußen Münster and Bayer Leverkusen on November 4, 1978 in the Preußenstadion .

In December 1990, Hansch became a television reporter for the ARD sports show . In August 1992 he switched to Sat.1 , where he commented on games in the Bundesliga , the Champions League and the UEFA Cup until summer 2006 . The following year, Hansch worked as a sports journalist for the pay TV broadcaster Arena . He was also a commentator on the video game series FIFA .

In 2009, Hansch hosted the sports game show WipeOut together with Matthias Opdenhövel and Charlotte Engelhardt - Don't cry, run! on Pro7.

Others

In February 2020 it became known that the CDU politician Wolfgang Bosbach filed a complaint against his friend Hansch because he had only repaid part of an interest-free loan of 5000 euros. Hansch had told Bosbach that he had been involved in a car accident under the influence of alcohol, had settled the matter without the police and would need the money to settle the consequences of the accident. Although Hansch then paid the balance, the Dortmund public prosecutor continued to investigate . It turned out that the accident in question never happened.

In August 2020, Hansch will take part in Celebrity Big Brother as the oldest candidate in history . In the August 13 broadcast, Hansch stated that he had been addicted to gambling for a long time and that he felt the need to warn others about the dangers of gambling addiction and the seduction of sports betting providers. According to his own statements, he is currently undergoing therapy and has not participated in a game for several months.

literature

  • Sascha Fligge: Hansch im Glück in: ... the boss continues to play in heaven. Football stories from the Ruhr area , edited by Hermann Beckfeld. Verlag Henselowsky Boschmann, Bottrop 2006, ISBN 3-922750-62-1 .
  • Werner Hansch in collaboration with Uli Hesse: "... Everything else is Schnulli-Bulli!" My crazy reporter life . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-7307-0135-5 .

Awards

In autumn 1997 Werner Hansch was awarded the Golden Lion by RTL and the Telestar by ARD / ZDF .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Werner Hansch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b http://www.westline.de/fussball/sc-preussen-muenster/werner-hansch-und-seine-rueckkehr-nach-muenster
  2. ^ WH: Werner Hansch - Vita. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
  3. ^ Marie Ahlers: Scandal about Werner Hansch: Was Wolfgang Bosbach even allowed to lend him the money? Ruhrnachrichten, February 14, 2020, accessed on August 13, 2020 .