Deceased Ulli Potofski: His last hours were so dramatic

The death of sports moderator legend Ulrich “Ulli” Potofski (1952-2025) shocked the German football and sports world. The magazine “Bunte” has now met Potofski’s partner, who reveals details about the last hours of the popular football commentator.

Potofski died on August 2 at the age of 73 from the consequences of leukemia. His partner Nadja Bogdanovic, with whom he had been in a relationship for eleven years, said he visited him three times on his last day of death in the hospital. “At that time he already had bad fever,” she recalls.

In the evening, at 8:30 p.m., Potofski then told her “she should go now, I would also need sleep. He would contact me again later”. A next meeting was planned for the afternoon of the following day. Bogdanovic remembers: “When I was at home, his last message came: ‘Fever unchanged’. Shortly after midnight, an employee of the clinic called me and said that Ulli died two hours ago.” His partner then immediately went back to the hospital to say goodbye.

The lifelong Schalke fan and born Gelsenkirchener are now being buried on the Schalke fan field in his hometown. It is a “community grave field in the Beckhausen-Sutum cemetery, just a few hundred meters from the Veltins Arena,” it says. King blue fans are given the opportunity to “remain connected to their heart association”.

This heart’s desire of the Potofski, who was collected through the “Schalke Markt” foundation, could be made possible during his death, “.