Marcel Reif
| Marcel Reif | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 27, 1949 Wałbrzych, Poland |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1972–present |
Marcel Reif (* 27 November 1949 in Wałbrzych) is a Swiss television sport journalist.
Life
Marcel Reif was born in Wałbrzych, Silesia (formerly Waldenburg), four years after the area was transferred to Poland from Germany following World War II. In 1956 his family moved to Tel Aviv; his father was a Polish Jew, while his mother was a German Catholic. Reif only learned to speak German at the age of eight, after his family moved again to Kaiserslautern.
Reif has been working for many years in German television as a journalist for sport programms on German broadcasters RTL and ZDF. After leaving RTL in 1999, he joined Sky Deutschland, which at that time was Premiere. Reif has been the head of the commentator staff for many years. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland and has three children. He married twice. In 2013 he acquired Swiss citizenship and dispensed of his German one.
Awards
- 2003: Adolf-Grimme-Preis
- 2002: Deutscher Fernsehpreis
External links
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Wikiquote has quotations related to: Marcel Reif |
- Official Website
- Literature by and about Marcel Reif in the German National Library catalogue
- Der Damit-kann-ich-leben-Mann (German), Die Zeit, 13 March 2003