“With his reports he wrote German sports historyinspired people for decades and became the Role model for subsequent generations of journalists. Ernst Huberty brought football into our living rooms in his very specific, sovereign way,” said Herbert Hainer, President of FC Bayern Munich.
1982 came the deep fall for Huberty: Because of one expense affair he became as WDR sports director dismissed and relegated to the third program. Others would have been bitter, but not him. Ten years later he said in retrospect: “The bottom line is that in my life I learned a lot and that I had to change completely, (had to) do a completely different job in this house, and it was very good for me, it was very important for my whole life.”
Up to the age of 87 he also trained moderators. Oliver Welke described an almost unbelievable event in a WDR homage to Huberty’s ninetieth: “I once had a coaching appointment with him and he was a little bit late, which is very unusual because Ernst Huberty is always super punctual. Me noticed that the room suddenly smelled a bit of smoke, and then he said in his perfect way that he had to apologize, he smelled a bit of smoke, his house burned down yesterday.” Together with his wife Inge he was just able to save himself. But that was natural no reason for him to cancel the appointment.
whether he fear of death Huberty was asked in 2017 in the WDR film by the former “Sportschau” boss and current DFB media director Steffen Simon. “Not really,” was the laconic reply. Perhaps, thanks to modern medicine, he will live a little longer. “We’ll see.” Then to correct yourself: “Not me. You’ll see.”
