Waldemar Hartmann

Waldemar " Waldi " Hartmann ( born March 10, 1948 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a German journalist, presenter and sports reporter.

Life

Hartmann was born the son of a janitor and a maid in 1948 in Nuremberg. At eighteen, he left his parents and his three siblings to work as a disc jockey in Augsburg. This body was conveyed to him by the then-unknown Roy Black, whom he knew through a common appearance of his school band. The activities in Augsburg, he broke off a lesson as an insurance salesman. His journalistic career began in 1970 with an internship at the weekly tabloid Swabian New Press in Augsburg. In addition, he also wrote for the Augsburger Allgemeine Reports as a freelancer. Opened in 1971 Hartmann the pub " Waldis Club" in Augsburg, in which soon included football players to its regular guests. There he met Kurt Hogl, the then head of the department Bavaria Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Hartmann moved to to go as a freelancer to Munich and to moderate where radio broadcasts. Hartmann settled for this step and sold the pub. In addition to the work he was often in the "Old Simpl " to be found, where many employees of the Bavarian Radio stayed regularly. He was Rundschau presenter through a meeting with Felix H. Heath Berger in 1976. Even as a sports presenter, Hartmann was the mid-eighties working. During the football World Cup in Italy in 1990, he hosted the daily noon broadcast ARD. At the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer (1994) and the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney (2000 ), he was employed as a moderator. He then headed the editorial team sport of the Bavarian Radio, where he worked as a freelancer again after some time.

During the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Hartmann moderated together with Harald Schmidt the Late Night Show with Olympic Waldi & Harry. This collaboration took place during the football World Cup in 2006 a new edition with Waldis WM club and continued in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Hartmann moderated to 2008, occasionally the program focus sport of Bayerischer Rundfunk and was common among internationals or cup matches in football as interview partners for ARD operates. So it was "tradition" that after a football game as a reporter on the football field was on his way to the attained mastery of FC Bayern Munich and there that received by players of FC Bayern München " white beer shower ", ie with wheat beer - often with plain water - was showered from correspondingly large -scale wheat beer glasses. He was also a columnist for the Sunday newspaper look and author of Golf Magazine golf, in addition to Günter Netzer co-editor of the book " World Cup 1930-2002 ".

In January 2009, he signed a one-year contract with the MDR as Boxmoderator. On September 5, 2012, the contract with the ARD was disbanded at the end of 2012, by mutual consent.

Living in Chur Hartmann is married for the third time and has two children from previous marriages.

Reception

As a characteristic of Hartmann applies a jovial interview style and the lack of journalistic distance in his conversations with athletes. Because he frequently the Du- used salutation, he describes himself as " Duz - machine ," he maintain this for 20 years as a character.

High notoriety reached an interview, in which Hartmann on September 6, 2003 was a conversation partner of the then team manager Rudi Völler and became the target of his outburst as a result of the tie against Iceland in qualifying for Euro 2004. Voeller, who felt the performance analysis of the commentators Günter Netzer and Gerhard Delling as unjustified, attacked in the course of the interview also Hartmann with the accusation that he had " drunk three wheat beer " and could thus quite " loose" negative report on the German team. The Paulaner Brewery grabbed the much-publicized incident shortly thereafter in an advertisement for white beer on and committed Hartmann as a longstanding testimonial for TV commercials.

In the Moderation of Valuev 's World Cup campaign on 20 January 2007 in Basel Hartmann told the heavyweight boxer Jürgen Blin live before 7.43 million viewers mistaken for dead

In the celebrity edition of the RTL - game show Millionaire? on November 21, 2013 Hartmann was involved in a football question, which of the footballing nations Brazil, Germany, Argentina, France have never won a World Cup in their own country as Telefonjoker and gave a wrong answer. Although Germany 1974 World Cup in their own country was, Hartmann claimed the opposite, pointing to his book Third half time in which one could read this. For this he earned amazement, but also criticism from the media and many fans. Jokingly, the term Waldi gate was coined by the press.

Writings

• Born to be Waldi - Live from the Studio of life, Heyne, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-60141-3
• Popular Bayern errors: An Encyclopedia, edition q in be.bra -Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86124-647-3.
• Third half time - a balance sheet, Heyne, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-16921-0.