Ines Geipel
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Ines Geipel (born 1960) is a German academic and former athlete. She is professor of verse language at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts (Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch) in Berlin, where she teaches a course in contemporary puppetry.[1]
She was born in 1960 in Dresden in the then East Germany. She was a competitive athlete there before escaping to the West in 1989. After her escape, she was expelled from the SED, of which she had previously been a party member.[citation needed] She studied sociology and philosophy in Darmstadt.[2]

As an athlete she was a victim of doping in East Germany, and she was president from 2013 to 2018 of the group Help for Victims of Doping (Doping-Opfer-Hilfe).[3] She was a co-plaintiff in the 2000 trial of Manfred Ewald and Manfred Höppner.
In 2019 she was the subject of an episode of the BBC series HARDtalk, interviewed by Stephen Sackur.[4]
Awards
[edit | edit source]In 2011 Geipel was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Cross of Merit) for her writing and political engagement.[1] and in 2020 the Lessing Prize for Criticism.[5]
Selected publications
[edit | edit source]- Geipel, Ines:(August 2024) Fabelland: Der Osten, der Westen, der Zorn und das Glück[6]
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- Originally published as Umkämpfte Zone. Mein Bruder, der Osten und der Hass (2019)
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- Originally published as Schöner Neuer Himmel. Aus dem Militärlabor des Ostens (2022)
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website
- Ines Geipel at World Athletics website
- Ines Geipel at IMDb
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- 1960 births
- Living people
- East German women long jumpers
- East German women sprinters
- Academic staff of the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts
- Athletes from Dresden
- Defecting sportspeople from East Germany
- East German emigrants to West Germany
- Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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- German long jumper stubs