Hans-Jürgen Bäumler

Hans -Jürgen Baumler ( born January 28, 1942 in Dachau ) is a former German figure skater and current actor. After his career as an athlete, he was also a pop singer and moderator.

Life

Figure skaters

In a single run managed Baeumler 1956-1959 on the podium at the German championships. He was at that time the third-best figure skaters behind German Manfred Schnelldorfer and Tilo Gutzeit. Baumler took from 1956 to 1958 at the European Championships in part. His best result was sixth place in 1957. Moreover, he played two World Championships in the individual race. In 1956 he finished 12th place and in 1958 the 14th Place.

The sports legend Hans -Jürgen Baumler was, however, pair skating at the side of Marika Kilius. With her he was in the years 1958, 1959, 1963 and 1964 German champion in pair skating. From 1959 to 1964 she became European champion six times in a row. Their first World Cup medal they won in 1959 in Colorado Springs with silver behind the Canadians Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul. 1960 in Vancouver, they won the bronze medal. 1963 in Cortina d' Ampezzo and 1964 in Dortmund were Kilius and Baumler world champion. Together, they run two Olympic Games. Both in 1960 in Squaw Valley, as well as in 1964 in Innsbruck, they won the silver medal, just behind Wagner and Paul, then behind Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov from the Soviet Union. Them the medal in 1964 but was withdrawn after it was announced that they had signed a professional contract with Holiday on Ice before the Olympics. Then they gave the 1964 Medals 1966 to the IOC back. 1987 but they got back the medals from the International Olympic Committee and have been fully rehabilitated. Since then they are officially run by the International Skating Union ( ISU ) as the Olympic silver medalist in 1964.

From 1964 Marika Kilius and Hans -Jürgen Baumler first appeared at the Vienna Ice Revue and finally at Holiday on Ice.

Figure Skating results

Single run

Pair of running

( with Marika Kilius )

Crooner

After the success of plate with Marika Kilius If the Cowboys dream closed the German -American record company CBS in the spring of 1964 and a record deal with Baumler. In April 1964, the first single was released with the A-side Beautiful strange girl. Within a short time the title shot on the charts and reached up both in Germany Funk, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Radio Luxembourg at square one. In the hit parade of music trade magazine music market in the title reached the third place. At the same time brought out a duet CBS plate with Marika Kilius whose A-side honeymoon also landed in St. Tropez in the music market in second place. With Sorry Little Baby Baeumler In 1965 another top 10 title ( position 7 ), which also earned him a Bronze Lion from Radio Luxembourg. There he was engaged at this time as spokesman. By 1966 he had placed a total of six titles in the charts. 1968 his contract ran out at CBS, then brought Baeumler only in 1976 two more plates at elite special out. With the title of magic from the cylinder he reached in the airplay charts Place Overall, 21 were produced with Baeumler 1964-1976 15 single plates, two of them together with Marika Kilius.

Single - Discography

Movie and TV

In 1964 Hans Jürgen Baumler was also known as an actor. In addition to his feature films, he made the " ice - operetta" known. Here he was in the operetta The White Horse Inn, 1970 in Mask in blue and 1971 in purchase to see you in 1969 a colorful balloon. Was successful and the television series somersault. In 12 feature films he was a partner among others by Paul Hörbiger, Johanna Matz, Terence Hill, Heinz Erhardt, Uschi Glas, Theo Lingen and Gunther Philipp. The Revue film The Great freestyle got as an award the " Golden Screen ". In September 2011, he had also made ​​an appearance in the soap opera Verbotene Liebe in which he plays the role of a business partner Ansgar von Lahnstein, which is embodied by Wolfram Grandezka.

Theater

His training as an actor and voice training in Munich, followed 1968, the first engagement at Heidelberg Theatre " tangent " with Edith Hancke and Waltraud Haas. In many leading roles he was then in Austria, Switzerland and Germany on the stage. Plays the last time: Will you love me even tomorrow morning, it was not the Fifth, it was the Ninth, means stay for breakfast, A starfish in the garden, hands off my woman and the classic art?.

Presenter

From the mid- 1970s he was a presenter of various quiz shows, including The apple does not fall far from the tree (1984-1987 ), that were hits and what if in the ZDF. From 1990 to 1993 he hosted the quiz show on RTL plus Risky! . In October 2006, he was together with his former partner Marika Kilius the jury in the RTL show Dancing on Ice.

Family

He is since 1974 married to Marina, a teacher by profession. They now live on the Côte d' Azur in Nice. The couple has two sons.

Honors and Awards

Hans -Jürgen Baumler was awarded the Silver Laurel leaf. The Berliner Sport Press awarded him the " Golden Ribbon of the sporting press ." In 2011 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German sport.

Filmography

Theater

  • 2011: Tender Machos
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