Overview

• About 100 to 150 mourners attended the urn ceremony at Friedhof Beckhausen‑Sutum near the Veltins‑Arena.
• The service began at 11:04 in a nod to Schalke 04, with the club hymn played inside and the Steigerlied sung at the graveside.
• Clemens Tönnies delivered a personal eulogy, calling Potofski a “Herzblutjournalist” and mourning the loss of a close friend.
• Attendees included Hans‑Joachim Watzke, Frank Baumann, Olaf Thon, Gerald Asamoah, Werner Hansch, Ulrike von der Groeben, Ulrich Klose and Esther Sedlaczek.
• Potofski’s ashes were interred in a blue‑white football‑shaped urn, as the Stiftung Schalker Markt’s fundraising enabled the Fan‑Feld burial honoring his decades in broadcasting from RTL’s Anpfiff to Sky.