Willy Bogner, Jr.
Wilhelm Hermann Björn ( " Willy " ) Bogner junior ( born January 23, 1942 in Munich ) is a former German ski racer, filmmaker, designer, owner of the clothing company Willy Bogner GmbH & Co. KGaA and the son of Willy Bogner Senior.
Skiing
Bogner was in the 1960s, Germany's best ski racers. In 1960 he won surprisingly the Lauberhorn race. At the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley, he led after the first passage in the slalom, but could not withstand the pressure and dropped in the second round of. In downhill skiing, he was ninth.
In 1962 at the World Championships in Chamonix the sixth rank in the combination and at the World Student Championships double win in slalom and combined. 1964 Bogner finished at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck again to ninth place in downhill skiing. In the same year he won a departure of the 3- Tre race in Madonna di Campiglio. At the 1966 World Championships in Portillo Bogner finished fourth in the slalom and fifth in the combination. Between 1960 and 1966 he won five German championships in downhill, slalom (2) and combination (2 ).
After his career as a ski racer, Bogner dedicated to the fashion and worked in the company of his father Willy Bogner Senior, of which he took over after his father's death in 1977. To date, Bogner equips the German alpine ski team and the German team at the Olympic Winter Games.
Film and Television
As a filmmaker, he made a name for himself and turned some sports movies. In 1969 he was the first time for Eon Productions Ltd.. in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's worked as a ski cameraman. The ski action scenes of the film distributed by United Artists were given ( among other things drove on special skis backwards with the camera in front of the ski-lovers Bogner ago ) due to technical innovations and their unconventional use of wide acclaim. In other Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only and in the face of death, he directed the recordings of Skifahrsequenzen. In 1985 he was awarded the Bambi 1986 the Bavarian Film Award for his film Fire and Ice.
On April 12, 1964 a group of 14 world-class skiers triggered under the leadership of Bogner at the filming of a produced by him ski film in the Engadine Val Selin below the Trai fluorine, an avalanche of whose air pressure caused the departure of a second avalanche from the opposite slope. Several members of the group were buried. Bogner's former girlfriend Barbi Henneberger and the American Wallace " Bud " Werner were found dead. Since the group had been repeatedly warned of the high risk of avalanches, Bogner was sentenced to a two-month conditional jail sentence for manslaughter.
On 15 and 16 December 2006, Bogner operated as a co- presenter at TV Total Parallel Slalom of the TV station ProSieben. 2006, the Bavarian sports award, he was awarded in the category of high-performance athletes Plus.
On November 6, 2009, the shareholders of the Munich bid committee decided in 2018 GmbH for the candidacy to alignment of the Winter Olympic Games in 2018, to call him November 15, 2009 as additional managing director and also as Chairman of the Board. For health reasons, he resigned this office on September 6, 2010.
Private
On December 15, 1972 Bogner married Brazilian model Sônia Ribeiro, a sister of the actress Florinda Bolkan. The couple adopted two Brazilian children, Florinda and Bernhard. On 1 October 2005, Bernhard seventeen years old took his own life.
Filmography as director, screenwriter and producer
Awards
- Bambi (1985 )
- Bavarian Film Award (1987 )
- Fashion Award of the City of Munich (1994 )
- Federal Cross of Merit (1996 )
- Brand of the Century (2007)
- Woodrow Wilson Award ( 2008)
- Bavarian Order of Merit (2008)
- Induction into the Hall of Fame of German sport (2013 )
TV - Portrait
- Willy Bogner - multiply the smile in the world; in the series "Heads in Bavaria "; Duration: 45 minutes; by Jochen Richter, Bayerisches Fernsehen 2006.