Anna von Boetticher

Anna von Boetticher (* 1970 in Munich ) is a German athlete and German record holder in apnea diving .

Family and education

After high school she studied theater studies , comparative literature and Spanish in Munich and then went to London to the auction house Christie's art history study. There she worked in a gallery before moving to Berlin in 2006 and opening a bookstore there.

Success in apnea diving

Anna von Boetticher took a diving course at the age of 17, but only came into contact with apnea diving in 2007 at a weekend workshop at a marine base in England. In April 2007 she completed a vacation course in Dahab, Egypt . Within six months she then set 3 German records, in Constant weight with fins (CWT; constant weight with fins), Constant weight no fins (CNF; constant weight without fins) and in “Free Immersion” (FIM) and caught up with the 4th AIDA (Association Internationale pour le Développement de l'Apnée) Individual World Cup in depth in Sharm el -Sheikh in the discipline of constant weight without fins surprisingly the bronze medal.

On August 21, 2009 she set the current German record in Static (STA) in Aarhus and held her breath for 6:12 minutes. At the 3rd Mediterranean Freediving World Cup, Anna von Boetticher was the first German woman to reach the 100 meter depth mark in the Variable Weight (VWT) discipline in October 2010 .

After she and her trainer and diving partner Andrea Zuccari were the first European to set a new world record in the Tandem No Limits (125 meters) discipline in June 2011 , she tried the existing world record in Variable Weight in July in Sharm el-Sheikh ( VWT, 126 meters) and let himself be pulled 130 meters into the depth, but passed out during the ascent process at a depth of 30 meters.

At the AIDA Individual Deep World Championships in Kalamata / Greece in September 2011, she again won the bronze medal in Free Immersion , again with a German record (71 meters).

Twelve days before the AIDA Individual Deep World Championship in September 2013, it had to be sewn after a cut on the foot, so it initially competed in free immersion without training and won the bronze medal for the third time at 73 meters. Then she decided to compete in the Constant weight with fins (CWT) as planned and took 5th place with 81 meters, setting her own German record.

Anna von Boetticher currently holds the German record in six out of eight apnea disciplines in the pool and sea. In total, it has set 27 German records so far.

Instructor in the Bundeswehr

In 2015, the Bundeswehr approached her to use her knowledge in training combat swimmers . With her experience, she trained combat swimmers to recognize the signs of fainting when freediving. In the Bundeswehr it was later used in mine and swimming diving courses, in submarine rescue and other diving areas of the Navy.

Others

When filming the film Das Mädchen auf dem Meeresgrund about diving pioneer Hans Hass , actress Yvonne Catterfeld was doubled in 2010 by Anna von Boetticher in the underwater stunt scenes.

Publications

• In depth: How I looked for my limits and found opportunities. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2019. ISBN 978-3-864-93070-6

Web links

• Homepage Anna von Boetticher
• Interview with Anna von Boetticher. In: Sebastian Eder: Rescue operation in Thailand: “That has to be thought through very well, otherwise there will be deaths” , in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 4th, 2018
• Interview with Anna von Boetticher. In: Sebastian Eder: Diving under icebergs , in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 7, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anna von Boetticher. Ullstein Verlag , accessed on January 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Portrait of Anna von Boetticher, November 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ "Success or excuses - but not both". In: Magath & Football. December 8, 2015, accessed on July 30, 2017 : "I was born in Munich." 
4. ↑ Apnea diving - just hold your breath . In: Spiegel Online , October 13, 2010.
5. ↑ Apnea - Variable weight. ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. unterwasserwelt.de. 
6. ↑ Breathless in the depths . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 12, 2011.
7. ↑ Germany's most successful freediver takes bronze again . unterwasser.de.
8. ↑ German records. ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AIDA Germany.  
9. ↑ Sebastian Eder, Henning Bode: That little breathing. FAZ, April 26, 2017, accessed on May 6, 2016 . 
10. ↑ "I am Yvonne Catterfeld's double diving", BILD from December 9, 2011