Education
University of Mainz.
commentator journalist university professor
University of Mainz.
Marcel Reif (* 27 November 1949 in Wałbrzych) is a Swiss television sport journalist. 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 programms on German broadcasters RTL and ZDF. After leaving RTL in 1999, he joined Sky Deutschland, which at that time was Premiere. Reif has been the head of the commentator staff for many years.
He lives in Zurich, Switzerland and has three children. In 2013 he acquired Swiss citizenship and dispensed off his German one.