Anita Haacke

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Anita Haacke - married Brauns - (born May 4, 1932 in Berlin ) is a German table tennis player with her top performance in the 1950s. She took part in a European and a world championship.

Career

Haacke played for the TTC Blau-Gold Berlin club , with whose women's team she reached the final of the German championship five times, namely in 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957 and 1960. These finals were lost. The team came third in the championship five times. In the individual competitions of the National German Championships Haacke came second in doubles in 1952 with Uschi von Puttkamer and in 1960 with Edith Lersow . She reached the semi-finals in 1959 in mixed with Toni Breumair and in 1965 in doubles with Edith Steinke . Eight times she lost a final at the championships of the Berlin TT Association, but was ten times Berlin champion in doubles and once in mixed doubles and was twice able to win the Berlin ranking list. At the North German Singles Championships, she twice won the championship title in doubles: 1960/61 with Edith Lersow and 1962/63 with Edith Steinke.

In 1959 Haacke was nominated for the individual competitions of the World Cup in Dortmund. Here she lost in the singles in the first round against Irena Kwiatkowska (Poland). The doubles with Ulla Paulsen lost to Canadians Joan Jessop / Muriel Whait after a bye in the second round. In mixed with Toni Breumair , she was eliminated in the initial round.

Haacke also took part in the individual competitions at the European Championships in Berlin in 1962 . After a victory over Loukia Scrivanou (Greece) she had to bow to the later European champion Agnes Simon in the singles . The doubles with Edith Steinke defeated Loukia Scrivanou / Emilia Scrivanou (Greece) and Hanna Haering / Inge Natterer (Germany), but then lost to the Germans Oda Mielenhausen / Ilse Lantermann in the quarter-finals . With Lothar Franke in mixed, it was the end of the line in the first round against Lajos Antal / Monique Jaquet (Switzerland).

Haacke later competed in senior tournaments. Here she was finally granted two DM titles in doubles: 1980 in age group over 40 with Edith Lersow and 1989 in age group over 50 with Martha Willke .

Functional activities

Haacke was the ladies' manager of the Berlin Table Tennis Association and a member of the "Competitive Sports" and "Women's Sports" committees in the Berlin State Sports Association.

Private

Anita Haacke is married to the former league table tennis player and sports journalist Karl-Friedrich Brauns. She lives in Berlin.

Results from the ITTF database

Association competition year place country singles Double Mixed team
FRG  European Championship  1962  Berlin  FRG    Quarter finals 
FRG  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG  last 128  Scratched  last 128 

swell

  • Anita Brauns 65 , DTS magazine , 1997/5 p. 37

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Korsch: Festschrift 1927 - 1977. A chronicle of the Berlin Table Tennis Association , Berlin 1977, pp. 53–56
  2. ↑ Anita Haacke results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 4, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Haacke, Anita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brauns, Anita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin