Harry Valérien (4 November 1923 in

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– 12 October 2012 in

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) was a German sports journalist.

Life

Valérien was the first sport presenter for the television show

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on German broadcaster

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. For forty years he covered the

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in Germany. His sport topics were swimming, golf and winter sports. Valérien was married and had two daughters.zeit.de:''Abschied von Mister Sportstudio'' (german language)
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Works

* (together with Christian Zentner): ''Olympia ’68'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1968) * (together with Christian Zentner): ''Fußball ’70'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1970) * ''Olympia München 1972. München, Kiel, Sapporo'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1982) * ''Fußball 74 – Weltmeisterschaft'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1974) * (together with Christian Zentner): ''Olympia 1976. Montreal, Innsbruck'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1985) * ''Fußball 78 – Weltmeisterschaft Argentinien'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1978) * ''Fußball ’80 – Europameisterschaft, Europapokale, Bundesliga'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1980) * ''Olympia ’80. Moskau und Lake Placid'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1982) * (together with Christian Zentner): ''Fußball ’82. XII. Weltmeisterschaft vom 13. Juni bis 11. Juli 1982 in Spanien'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1984) * (together with Christian Zentner): ''Fußball ’84. V. Europameisterschaft vom 12. bis 27. Juni 1984 in Frankreich. Bundesliga-Pokale'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1986) * (together with Christian Zentner): ''Olympia ’84. Los Angeles, Sarajevo'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1986) * ''Harry Valériens Sport-Reporte. Bilder, Ereignisse, Dokumente'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1985) * ''Fußball ’86. Weltmeisterschaft in Mexiko'', (1986) * (together with Christian Zentner): ''Fußball-EM ’88 Deutschland. VIII. Fußball-Europameisterschaft von 10. bis 25. Juni 1988'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1988) * (together with Christian Zentner): ''Olympia 1988. Seoul, Calgary'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1988) * ''Golf, Faszination eines Weltsports'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1989) * (together with Christian Zentner): ''Fußball-WM '90 Italien'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1990) * ''Olympia '92. Die Winterspiele Albertville'': Südwest Verlag, Munich (1992) * ''Lillehammer '94. Das Olympiabuch'': Sportverlag, Berlin (1994) * ''USA '94'': Sportverlag, Berlin (1994) * ''Atlanta. Das Olympiabuch 1996'': Sportverlag, Berlin (1996)

Awards

* 1965, 1976 and 1988:

Goldene Kamera The Goldene Kamera ("Golden Camera") is an annual German film and television award, awarded by the Funke Mediengruppe. The award show is usually held in early February in Hamburg, but has also taken place in Berlin in the past. The gold-plat ...

* 1972, 1979 and 1990: Goldener Bambi * 1981:

Goldener Gong ''Gong'' is a German radio and (today, primarily) television listings magazine owned and published by the German media conglomerate Funke Mediengruppe. An extract from the magazine, was featured in the secondary school early 90s German textbook ...

* 1988:

Telestar The Telestar was a former German television award, created by Das Erste and ZDF. It was succeeded in 1999 by the Deutscher Fernsehpreis The Deutscher Fernsehpreis (''German Television Award'') is an annual German award for television programmin ...

* 2004:

Bayerischer Fernsehpreis Bayerischer Fernsehpreis (the Bavarian TV award) is an award presented by the government of Bavaria, Germany since 1989. The prize symbol is the "Blue Panther", a figure from the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory. The prize money is €10,000 (Spe ...

External links

spiegel.de:''Harry Valérien an Herzversagen gestorben''
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Valerien, Harry German sports journalists German sports broadcasters German male journalists German television presenters Journalists from Munich 1923 births 2012 deaths ZDF people