Marcel Reif

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Marcel Reif
Reif in 2019
Born	(1949-11-27) 27 November 1949 (age 71) Wałbrzych, Silesia, Poland
Citizenship	Switzerland
Occupation	Journalist, commentator
Years active	1972–present
Website	marcelreif.com

Marcel Reif (born 27 November 1949) is a Swiss television sport journalist and commentator

Biograpy[]

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 Zürich, 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[]

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, Die Zeit, 13 March 2003 (in German)

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