Cologne (dpa) - The voice is completely unchanged.Although she does not say "a evening everyone", she is immediately recognizable without the well -known formula.Heribert Faßbender was one of the most busy sports reporters, first on the radio and then on TV for more than 40 years.On Sunday (30.May) he turns 80 years old.
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Faßbender, born in Ratingen near Düsseldorf in 1941, initially studied law in Cologne and Munich and passed the first state examination at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court.He came to sports journalism in 1962 as follows: In the event of a military exercise as an adjutant of a general, he sat on the WDR starter reporter Kurt Brumme after the Dortmund sports press festival - in uniform.The cast: "Mr. Leutnant, you have a big flap, don't you want to start with us?"
His first report Schalke against the 1.FC Köln still in the Oberliga West he still has in mind."At that time you had to climb over a shaky ladder on the roof of the Glückauf-Kampfbahn.There was a microphone in front.I still know the course of the game like today, "he recalls."Schalke dominated, but Cologne shot through Hans Schäfer in the 88.Minute the 1-0."He accompanied the Bundesliga from the first matchday in August 1963, initially parallel to the studies.
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At the World Cup from 1974 and 1978 he transferred the final on the radio and at the 1998 World Cup on television.The '74 final against the Netherlands was the game of the games, especially because he managed to describe the processes in front of Gerd Müller's winning goal in the radio synchronously."Kurt Brumme had always blurred us: You can tell what you want, but if the ball comes near the penalty area, you have to switch to game signs.Because there is nothing more embarrassing than when the spectators scream "gate" and the reporter is not yet so far."The television then required a completely different discipline again:" You shouldn't talk to the picture."
In 1982 he was the successor to Ernst Huberty's sports director of the WDR and "Mister Sportschau".It was still the golden times when they were between 18 on Saturdays.00 and 19.00 o'clock for the sake of sky was not allowed to call.Up to 15 million viewers switched on every time, which are not included in the GDR.Fassbender moderated the "Sportschau" almost 400 times.
At the time, every person interested in football knew the man with the dark beard, in polo shirt and jacket.He had come up with the welcome formula "'N evening everyone" as head of the WDR state studio Düsseldorf, where he moderated a quarter-hour program about state politics, "Blickpunkt Düsseldorf".The Rhenish "'N evening together" was a tick too casual, so he chose "a evening everyone"."Astonishing reactions came immediately.For some reason it was something that was sticking."
The screen presence brought him great popularity - but also ridicule."You have to accept that in the job," he says.There were always critical letters and newspaper articles, but "but I haven't been mobbed on the street or in the stadium" ".Today's colleagues would have to endure a lot more in the age of social networks.
From his long sports commentator life, Faßbender can give the best of the best, because then players and reporters had a much narrower relationship than today.Perhaps the best is the story of BVB scorer Lothar Emmerich (1941-2003), who accompanied him in 1966 a day before the European Cup game against Atletico Madrid in the training train in the Prado.He had seen how Faßbender got into the taxi and asked if he could ride along.At first he read the "kicker" there, but then the paintings by Francisco de Goya had captured him: "Datt is incredible, datt is now 'the fourth hall from the Goya!".And then very devout: "Watt the boys had to paint earlier!"
With the live commentary from the final party of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Faßbender said goodbye to the TV microphone.In 2006, as an ARD team boss, he headed the transfer from the World Cup.After his retirement, he was involved in the Bayer Leverkusen shareholder committee and at the Board of Trustees of the Sports Foundation North Rhine-Westphalia.In the meantime he has discovered golf games, and he also maintains contacts with old study friends, former football greats and former Olympic athletes.It is still recognized, even if the penny does not necessarily fall immediately."We know it somewhere," it says.And next: "'N evening everyone!"
