Ellen Müller Prize

Ellen Price (1936) (left)

Ellen Müller-Preis (* May 6, 1912 in Berlin as Ellen Preis ; † November 18, 2007 in Vienna - Lainz ) was an Austrian foil fencer and Olympic champion at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles .

Life

The daughter of a Styrian grew up in Berlin, where she initially worked as an athlete . It was only at the age of 18, after moving to Vienna, that she began taking fencing lessons from her aunt Wilhelmine Werdnik. After only six months she became Austrian champion and the following year she was third at the European Championships in Vienna.

The German-Austrian dual citizen initially applied to the German association to participate in the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, which she rejected. So she traveled to the USA with the Austrian team . There she succeeded in winning the gold medal with the final victory over Judy Guinness ( United Kingdom ). However, she owed her victory to the fairness of her opponent, who corrected two wrong decisions by the referees to her disadvantage.

In 1936 in Berlin and in 1948 in London , Müller-Preis was able to achieve third place in each case. There were also three world championships and numerous national titles. In 1956, at the age of 44, she qualified for the finals at the Olympic Games in Melbourne .

After completing her active career, Müller Prize was a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and taught historical fencing and stage fencing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and at the Vienna Burgtheater . Müller-Preis succumbed to kidney failure at the age of 95 in the Lainz Hospital in Vienna. She was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

successes

• Gold medal in the 1932 Olympics
• Bronze medal at the 1936 and 1948 Olympics
• World champion : 1947 , 1949 and 1950

Awards (excerpt)

• 1957: Silver medal for services to the Republic of Austria

literature

• Ellen Price: Olympic victory , Vienna: Payer, 1936

Web links

Commons : Ellen Price  - Collection of Images

• Entry on the Ellen Müller Prize in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Literature by and about the Ellen Müller Prize in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kurier: "The Ellen Müller Prize is dead" ( Memento from November 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), November 19, 2007
• Ellen Müller Prize in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• History of the fencing world championships (women's foil) from sport-komplett.de

Individual evidence

1. Jump up ↑ Sport Fencing: History of the UFC. Union Fechtclub Wien, accessed on May 23, 2014 . 
2. ↑ The 10 most sporting gestures. The Guardian , March 29, 2009, accessed April 26, 2014 .