Marcel Reif

Marcel Reif
Marcel Reif
Born	27 November 1949; Wałbrzych, Poland
Occupation	Journalist
Years active	1972–present

Marcel Reif (born 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 programs on German broadcasters RTL and ZDF. After leaving RTL in 1999, he joined Sky Deutschland, which at that time was called 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 with his German one.

Awards

2003: Adolf-Grimme-Preis
2002: Deutscher Fernsehpreis

External links

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

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