Speaker Claudia Neumann

Claudia Neumann is a journalist and commentator with passion and expertise. She has been the female TV voice of soccer for more than 30 years.

She was born into soccer. Growing up as a "classic 9" on the football pitches with the boys - socialized as a footballer with the world champion team '74.

At the beginning of the 90s, while studying German and sports, she entered the TV business at the then innovative private television station. Claudia Neumann quickly established herself as a recognized soccer reporter and commentator on "ran", the legendary SAT.1 soccer show.

Claudia Neumann Lecture topics

- As the first woman in a male domain - How I learned to take life sportily

- The soccer revolution: Diversity in soccer, structural grievances and the development of women's football

- Ethics and values in sport: what we can learn as a society from basic values such as team spirit and fair play in sporting competition

- The role and responsibility of the media in increasingly overheated sports reporting

After switching to ZDF at the end of the 1990s, the Rhinelander rose to become the first female live soccer commentator and has also reported from all the World and European Championships since '94. Tennis in the days of Boris Becker and Steffi Graf and cycling in the days of Jan Ullrich's team were also her profession for many years.

Claudia Neumann: "The soccer revolution - diversity in soccer, structural grievances and the development of women's football."

With the introduction of the now common "social media" escort service, Claudia Neumann became the personified spearhead in discussions about how misogynistic the mechanisms in the supposedly male domain of soccer still are today, and how modern Germany actually is in the area of diversity.

Initially rather grudgingly, but now with a lot of energy and full conviction, Claudia Neumann has accepted the role model role assigned to her and has been fighting with great commitment for more women in all areas of soccer ever since. Because it is necessary, because soccer must also reflect society much more appropriately.

From then on, the journalist has also increasingly addressed these issues in her TV work with films and documentaries. As a member of the "fussballkannmehr" initiative, she is also involved in this area as well as in all socially relevant soccer topics.

As an experienced and opinionated journalist, Claudia Neumann is a sought-after speaker, presenter and discussion guest on numerous social transfer topics that sport offers. Gender equality and the appropriate advancement of women are important challenges of our time, and Claudia Neumann is a strong advocate for them.