Fritz von Thurn und Taxis
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| Born | 22 June 1950 Linz, Upper Austria, Allied-occupied Austria | ||||
| Spouse | Beata Béry | ||||
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| House | Thurn and Taxis | ||||
| Father | Prince Johann von Nepomuk von Thurn und Taxis | ||||
| Mother | Princess Maria Julia von Lobkowicz | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||
Fritz von Thurn und Taxis (born Friedrich Leonhard Ignatius Josef Maria Lamoral Balthasar Thurn and Taxis[citation needed] [full German name: Friedrich Leonhard Ignatius Josef Maria Lamoral Balthasar Thurn und Taxis][citation needed] on 22 June 1950 in Linz, Upper Austria, Allied-occupied Austria[citation needed]) is an Austrian journalist and a member of the Bohemian line of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis. He became well known as a longtime sportscaster on the Bayerisches Fernsehen television channel. Since 1993, Thurn und Taxis has been a football commentator on the pay television channel Sky Deutschland.
Life and career
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Thurn und Taxis was the third child and second son of Prince Johann von Nepomuk von Thurn und Taxis and his wife, Princess Maria Julia von Lobkowicz.[citation needed]
His journalistic career began in 1971 with the Bayerischen Rundfunk. There, Thurn und Taxis worked in both television and in radio programs as a sports reporter and commentator and reported on several Olympic Games, football, skiing, and Ice Hockey World Championships events.
In honor of his years of reporting on the Ice Hockey World Championships, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) awarded Thurn und Taxis with an IIHF gold medal. Later, he hosted the sports magazine show Blickpunkt Sport on Bayerischen Rundfunk and moderated the Sportschau on ARD. Beginning in August 1993, Thurn und Taxis began hosting live Fußball-Bundesliga matches on the Munich-based pay television channel Sky Deutschland.
Marriage
Thurn und Taxis married morganatically to Beata Béry, daughter of Laszlo Béry and his wife Countess Paula Apponyi de Nagy-Appony,[citation needed] on 4 June 1977 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.[citation needed]
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References
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- Use dmy dates from September 2011
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Princes of Thurn and Taxis
- People from Linz
- Association football commentators
- Austrian journalists
- Sports journalists
- German journalists
- German male journalists
- German sports journalists
- Ice hockey commentators
- Austrian Roman Catholics
- German Roman Catholics
- German male writers
- Bayerischer Rundfunk people