He finds it easy to talk about football. Even less so about your own family history, which was marked by the Holocaust. Sports reporter Marcel Reif about his moving speech before the German Bundestag, which he wrote in just one night.
Herr Reif, You have stood in front of the microphone as a reporter for more than four decades and covered major sporting events for television. What was it like for you to give a speech to the German Bundestag?
Walking these ten meters to the lectern in the Bundestag and then seeing all the faces, the assembled parliament in front of you – that is something very special. All that professional experience is of no use to you. I was very nervous.
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