Robert Lembke's assistant Jutta Lamprecht was a guest at the Lenggrieser Narrative Café and chatted about Lembke and her exciting time on television.
Lenggries – “Which little pig would you like?” Most people immediately associate this saying with Robert Lembke.
He was the moderator of the quiz show "What am I?".
However, it is less known that he was also responsible for the television broadcast of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
In the Lenggrieser Narrative Café, his assistant at the time, Jutta Lamprecht, gave us the inside scoop on those times.
Robert Lembke's assistant Jutta Lamprecht as "the string puller in the background"
Lamprecht, who lives in Rottach-Egern, describes herself as "pulling the strings in the background" during the radio broadcast of the Olympic Games in Munich.
"We had many meetings and conferences and received guests from all over the world," said Lamprecht.
Before she became Lembke's assistant, she worked in the press department at Gloria Film Distribution, then at ZDF in Unterföhring.
She began working with Lembke a few years before the Games.
"It was around 1969 or 1970," she recalled.
At first she worked in downtown Munich, later on the site of today's central university sports facility (ZHS), where the international television and radio center was then located.
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In the arms of the Prince Consort
The now 86-year-old can still remember a special moment during her time there: “Once I had to see a minister.
So I ran down the stairs and ended up in a man's arms.
He hasn't let go of me.
That's when I saw: It was the Queen's Prince Consort." Lamprecht didn't quite know how to address him, so Philip replied: "No problem, then we'll just do the whole thing again.
But we haven't," reported Lamprecht with a laugh.
Lembke could be moody, snappy and unfair
But she also had a lot to tell about Robert Lembke.
"He was highly intelligent," said Lamprecht.
"But he could also be moody, snappy and very unfair." One morning, like every day, she brought him coffee.
Lembke found the coffee too strong that day, even though it was the same machine and the same amount of coffee powder as always.
The next day Lamprecht just brought him a glass of water with a single coffee bean in it.
The woman from Rottach also had a lot to say about Lembke's show "Was bin ich?"
For example, that the show was very important to Lembke.
"The Emperor of China could have come - 'What am I?'
had to walk."
"What am I?": Was the show agreed beforehand?
His dog "Jacky" was often on the show.
"Lembke always left treats to the camera so that the dog could look in," revealed Lamprecht.
One listener wanted to know whether “What am I?” had been agreed beforehand.
Lamprecht smiled.
"No," she said, but couldn't really convince the audience.
Not everything is perfect on TV either
Although Lembke was married, he "didn't make use of his family," Lamprecht said.
"My whole picture is shaking," admitted a listener who had probably remembered Lembke as a likeable show host.
"You can see that things aren't always perfect with the people on TV either," summed up the organizer of the narrative café, Barbara von Uthmann.
The next storytelling café
will take place on Wednesday, February 8th, at 9.30 a.m. in the Lenggries parish hall.
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