Reinhold Beckmann
Reinhold Beckmann ( born February 23, 1956 in Twist rings ) is a German football commentator, television presenter and singer.
Life
Professional
After his graduation in Syke, stay in America and community service Beckmann did an apprenticeship as a radio, television and video technicians. He then studied in Cologne German, theater, film and television studies. The study he finished without a university degree.
He began his television career in 1980 as a freelancer at the WDR, for which he provided input for the program Current hour. He belonged to the television crew that accompanied Udo Lindenberg to his concert in the Palace of the Republic on 25 October 1983. In addition he has created later with Falko Korth documentation. From 1985, he also commented on sports broadcasts the WDR. He also hosted several entertainment programs for the NDR and together with Helge Schneider the shipment off- show at the WDR television.
Beckmann joined in 1990 by ARD to premiere, where he became head of the sports department. From 1992 he was also employed at Sat.1 as sporting director and was ran by the designed and hosted by him sports and ranissimo known. For both of these formats, he was awarded the Golden Camera, the Bavarian Television Award and the Golden Romy (Austrian Television Award ). He was program director at SAT.1 1993.
In 1998 he came back to ARD, where he has since been heard as a commentator of football broadcasts of UEFA Cup and international matches and to see a Bundesliga moderator in the sports show. He also was a reporter of many large sporting events such as the European Football Championship 2004. He commented on the transfer of the final match of the Football World Cup 2006 for ARD. For the ARD he moderated beyond the entertainment show Guinness - The Show of World Records, he has since 1999 - also in German - his own talk show Beckmann.
In 2008, he hosted the game show How German are you really? , Which was originally to be moderated by Jörg Pilawa who fell ill.
In the 2013 movie premiered his last race, he played himself, in his talk show Beckmann he had the Olympic champion Paul Averhoff (Dieter Hallervorden ) as a guest.
Private
Beckmann is Catholic, married and has two children with his wife (b. 1993 and 1997 ). The family lives in Hamburg. Beckmann, who was himself once footballing active and took up to two inserts in the Niedersachsen- selection, is a club member of FC St. Pauli. Reinhold Beckmann is committed to a number of social projects; he publicly supported the German Cancer Aid in their health policy concerns.
Beckmann founded in 1999 with friends in Hamburg launched the " nest eV ", which has since cares about young people in disadvantaged districts of Hamburg. Since 2005, Beckmann invites every year as the "Day of Legends" a. About 50 football " legends " such as Paul Breitner, Klaus Fischer, Uli Hoeness and Dieter Horst Hrubesch, Felix Magath, Andreas Möller, Uwe Seeler and Rudi Voeller played or play in Hamburg Millertor stadium for a good cause. All proceeds go to " Nestwerk e.V. ".
Awards
- 2005 Beckmann was awarded the Peter von Zahn - Memorial Award as part of the price of the CDU Hamburg Hamburg citizens and was honored by TV Hamburg due to its social commitment as "Hamburger of the year".
- 2007 - German Television Award in the category Best moderation information for the interview with Bert Dietz of 21 May 2007
- 2008 - Federal Cross of Merit
- 2008 Beckmann received from the children's laughter CHILD - Award 2008 prize for the establishment and operation of Nestwerk eV.
- 2011 Steiger Award
- 2013 Honorary lock keepers the city of Hamburg
Criticism
In an episode of the talk show Beckmann, the moderator took along with Nina Ruge against Norbert Blum positions counted from sections of the German press as a very positive attitude towards the private insurance industry. Beckmann previously worked among others as a testimonial for the WWK Insurance Group from 2006.